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What is the worst thing your pet has done?

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TruiColours · 20/11/2020 01:27

whither that be a current pet or a previous one

i would say

peeing on my brothers bed.

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Bummsbet · 22/11/2020 18:11

My cat jumped over me, slipped and did a little bit of a wee. As well as scratching me. Think she was on her way to the loo.

joystir59 · 22/11/2020 18:12

Bit my elderly mil on her hand.

Kakiweewee · 22/11/2020 18:19

I've had Ghost, my cat, for about four weeks now. So far the worst experience was cat sick, diarrhoea and hairballs. But that was right at the start and I think she may have food intolerances, so mostly my fault.

It's been magic seeing a pretty neglected cat learn to trust me and become more kitten like as time goes on. I can even forgive the 11pm to midnight zoomies she gets because seeing her play after knowing how she grew up in an overcrowded, cat flu infested hoarder house is just so very satisfying.

IHaveBrilloHair · 22/11/2020 18:24

One of mine sits out the back of my house almost taunting the dogs, (shared garden)
She seems to find herself hilarious when the dogs go mad but can't get her.
A few years ago I had a horrid neighbour with horrid kids and a dog they let loose out there, said cat went right up to it, hissed at it and swiped it's face.
I laughed.

Allthenumbers · 22/11/2020 18:30

My cat has bought in two live mice which I have then rescued and released! Not easy!

She wakes me up around 4 ish every day so I can open the door for her so she doesn’t have to use her cat flap. She does this by miaowing loudly next to me, scratching the head board by my head and if that fails she goes to miaow on the landing. She knows I’ll get up then cos I don’t want her to wake the kids.

She has pretty much destroyed our curtains and sofas.

But I love her, I love her, I love her! She slept on my feet last night!

BrandyMandy · 22/11/2020 19:02

My dog wet herself on the bed once. Not really her fault as there was bloody fireworks going off and she's petrified of them.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/11/2020 19:10

With our late ddog2, it comes down to a choice of two - the time she found half a dead, very runny and rotten seal wedged into the rocks at the beach, and rolled in it - she smelt appalling - so bad even our Labrador didn’t want to sit near her in the way home, and it took three full washes to get her smelling OK.

Or the time she came upstairs in the morning, cuddled up next to me on the bed, and threw up copiously on my shoulder and the pillows. That was a fun clear up session.

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 22/11/2020 20:00

Stolen a walking stick. Lady set it down to stroke her and this was clearly an invitation to play. Luckily she had dogs herself and found it hilarious.

minou123 · 22/11/2020 21:44

@IHaveBrilloHair

One of mine sits out the back of my house almost taunting the dogs, (shared garden) She seems to find herself hilarious when the dogs go mad but can't get her. A few years ago I had a horrid neighbour with horrid kids and a dog they let loose out there, said cat went right up to it, hissed at it and swiped it's face. I laughed.
Right, me and you must have the same cat IHaveBrilloHair because my cat does exactly the same Grin

Except in my case, my neighbour with the dogs, is lovely. She is fully aware of my cat purposely winding up her dogs.
One day she accidentally opened her door and her dogs gave chase.
But, once she caught up with them, she found her dogs had managed to corner my cat.

Except....they were all frozen in place, wondering what to do. She said they all looked at her like "well, what are we meant to do?".

Everyone went home in one piece. Grin

Mydogisagentleman · 23/11/2020 09:40

Previous dog peed himself when we went through a car wash.
Current dog passed solids when an electrician came to the house.
He is a really nice man, nothing bad has ever happened to the dog he is loved and cared for.
He just took a fright at Pat and pood. It started off solidly and got more fluid as the poo went on.
He then decided he quite liked him and wagged diarrhoea all over the kitchen

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 23/11/2020 09:51

I had once made a very time-consuming salmon mousse when 2 couples were coming for dinner.

I put it on the table - all beautifully decorated with slices of lemon and cucumber - went to call everyone to the table, returned to find that Ddog had taken a not-so-delicate slurp out of one side.

Glad to say, cue much hilarity - guests were non-fussy dog lovers, so were quite happy to eat it, after I’d sliced off a good margin round the slurped section.

A former dog, when we were living in the Middle East, once rolled in the remains of a dead turtle on the beach. The stink was unbelievable - like the worst of rotting meat and rotting fish combined. We had to make him run behind the car on the way home - luckily it wasn’t far on a dirt track.
He was short haired but it still took I don’t know how many baths, including a final one in Brut shampoo, bought in desperation for the purpose! - to get rid of the stink.

Spudlet · 23/11/2020 09:51

Omg I’d forgotten my old dog - he took a rather small lady for a ride! He was a big lab and as a youngster, his favourite game was running between people’s legs. She was a very small lady... you see where this is going 😳

Fortunately she also had labradors and found it hilarious 😂

Joswis · 23/11/2020 09:53

Swallowed my sewing needle at 2am. £1000 emergency vet bill.

She still tries to eat sewing thread.

Joswis · 23/11/2020 09:55

Labrador we used to have many years ago got diarrhoea in the back of the car, half way through a very long journey. The stench...

Pinkywoo · 23/11/2020 11:57

I've posted this before but it's so bad I'll do it again, I had a crazy lurcher who loved to steal things then run so you would chase him. Once we were in the park and he stole a blind lady's white stick (the kind with a ball at the end) and legged it Blush. It took about 10 minutes and all the treats I had to get it back, fortunately she loved dogs and found it funny, I was mortified!

TheyAreMinerals · 23/11/2020 12:04

Sprayed pee all over my new teak buffet and bookcase. And books, and files of music. We poured the pee out of the drawers holding my DVDs. And the rug and anything else that might absorb it. Stressed about new cat who didn't do anything to her. Had to remind myself numerous times that I love her!

SunsetBeetch · 23/11/2020 15:15

Did a poo in the corner of the living room, and too wrapping paper off Christmas presents, and part of the cover from a hardback book (which was one of the presents) to cover it up.

(Cat, obviously.)

SunsetBeetch · 23/11/2020 15:17

*tore up, not too

apricotdreams · 23/11/2020 15:37

Pets as a child

George the tortoise. Dug his way through to next doors garden. Ate all of the cabbage hearts in his vegetable bed. Neighbours not amused Blush. He was lovely though and my cat would sit on his shell and go for a ride around the garden!

Sadly George came to a bad end ☹️

We also had a dog Gemma - a mix breed rescue. One winter George was hibernating in his box in the garage. Somehow the dog got into his box and pulled poor old George out and bit his head off. A grisly tale.

FlippinNoah · 23/11/2020 15:38

Pet rats chewed through a set of expensive curtains when I stupidly put the cage near them. They pulled the curtains through the bars and had a good ole chow down on them.

Old family dog ate a £10 note left out on side. Mum waited a few days for nature to take its course, 'retrieved' said note (was in 3 pieces), sterilised them in Milton fluid, sellotaped them back together, took to bank and told them it had 'been through the washing machine' - got a new £10 note off the bank.

Bubbletrouble43 · 23/11/2020 16:49

Used to do cleaning and errands for a lovely little old lady and sometimes took my dog round to say hi, she liked that. She kept a butter dish on the kitchen table and whilst we were occupied in other room my dog jumped up onto table and I walked in to find him having a good slurp at the slab of butter.

SunsetBeetch · 23/11/2020 17:31

@IHaveBrilloHair

One of mine sits out the back of my house almost taunting the dogs, (shared garden) She seems to find herself hilarious when the dogs go mad but can't get her. A few years ago I had a horrid neighbour with horrid kids and a dog they let loose out there, said cat went right up to it, hissed at it and swiped it's face. I laughed.
My next door neighbours' dog from a few years ago absolutely hated cats. My cat would go and drink out of her outside water bowl when he knew she was inside. And look straight at her while doing so. She'd be going crazy at the kitchen window. The neighbours found it funny, thankfully.

Once when the dog was in the back of the car, I watched the cat walk slowly and deliberately past her and into her garden; with an occasional provocative glance over his ahoulder at her. As dog barked her head off, of course.

Little devil!

plominoagain · 23/11/2020 18:36

Our girl hound was here a week , before she got out , went across the road , into a neighbour’s henhouse , stole their prize cockerel from right under the astonished woman’s nose , dragged it across the road onto our drive , and then tried to wrestle it to the ground ( it was putting up a right fight , it was almost as big as her , all feathers ) before I saw her and ran out to stop her . Whereupon she spat it out , and the bird ran away down my next door neighbours field , never to be seen again , whilst the poor owner ran up and down crying “ That’s my Marmite ! “

Had to replace him for her . Cost no small amount , and we never found the original again . Same dog stole an entire chicken off the back of the cooker . Never saw hide nor hair of that either .

Now we have spotty dog . She opened the oven door and ran away with an entire roasting chicken whilst it was still cooking . Last we saw of that was her running away down the field with its wings flapping either side of her head . Another day we had salad for dinner.

Glittertwins · 23/11/2020 18:58

Just remembered current cat's dislike of cars by soiling her carry case.
She made her distaste very clear about 1.5 miles from home with a horrendous diarrhoea attack. Fortunately the towel held most of it and the car has leather seats. Took two of us to get her clean in the shower though and DS is still traumatised by the memory of the stench!!!

Livebyfaithnotsight · 23/11/2020 19:45

The family's boxer dogs (my mums) ran across the Edgware Road and back when it was busy and nearly caused an accident . They'd escaped out of the estates electric gate 🤦🏽‍♀️