Annoying things your pets do!

[itsywincydog]

Just pondering this subject whilst filling up a Tupperware container with water in our en-suite because our dog won't drink from any other bowl or in any other room.
What annoying things do your pets do?
Another drink related one, our old dog would jump up at the bathroom basin as he preferred fresh water and whinge until we turned the tap on for him.

I've somehow managed to get in a stupid routine where I have to put DCat down for his naps

Mine did that, always ended up in the bathroom yowling at the wall. Also had to drink from a plastic jug in the bath. They definitely have their own characteristics x

My British shorthair ignores us and will not be touched for 90% of the day. In the early hours of the morning she will prance up and down my pillow, nuzzling my face or neck and fight to rub her cheeks against my hands which I'm hiding underneath my pillow. She's not hungry. Just bored and in need of attention.

My Maine coon gets into bed with me and will take up most of the foot space or get between me and DH. He takes up a crazy amount of space wherever he lands. I'm so honoured I end up curled in a little ball so I don't disturb him.

Ddog has to be sat next to me, always.
Sleeps next to me in a super king bed so I'm always on the edge.
Stares intently and taps me with her paw when she wants something, if it's food/treats she licks her lips.
Drops a ball at my feet constantly, if I don't pick it she'll whine.
If anyone touches me she goes for them (luckily she's a little dog).
Follows me to the toilet and sits watching me.
Wakes me up most nights to go out for wee then doesn't go (has a wee before we go to bed)
She's also scared of the dark and scared of the sky

I lost my old girl about 3 mths ago at the good age of 18yrs - you really do miss everything you find annoying. Please give your girl a hug from me in Millies memory x

Old lab starts whingeing for her nightly biscuit around 10pm. Farts. Stares and taps me with her paw when she wants something. Screams with joy right in my ear when the dinner bowl is put down. Moans and groans whenever I'm on the phone, either because I'm rubbing her belly, or because I've stopped. Eats unspeakable long dead things, which she pukes up later, or it affects the other end. 🤮

Her daughter always shoves a nose under a hand, regardless of wineglasses, etc. Sneaks bits of wood and bark from the woodpile into the house. Rolls in fox musk and worse.🤢

Young shepherd can open certain doors. Unless watched, is a food thief. Eats shit 🤮

Dog will hear you coming downstairs and immediately go and sit in your seat. He’s a terror. Other dog licks obsessively, I can’t find anything wrong with his paw so now he’s wearing the helmet of shame and believes he can’t walk whilst wearing it. He also does this:

My rottie seems to think she is a tiny puppy and sits on my lap. She weighs almost 5 stone 😂

My rottie is also aeroplane/helicopter obsessed and chases them and barks. This has become even worse since we had 7 metre bifolds installed!!! 🙈

My two do that all the time! I'm a side sleeper and usually wake some time during the night to find one or other of them there. Sometimes it's one on my ribs and the other on my hip. That's 9kg of cats altogether.

DCat 1 is forever pinching DCat 2's food. DCat 2 doesn't care, but they're on separate diets and DCat 1 isn't supposed to eat anything but her anallergenic food.

She also has a thing for covering their water bowl with carpet. Walks past it and scrape, scrape, scrape. It's always full of fluff and bits of litter when I change it in the morning.

She's an adorable cat, though! Very sweet and affectionate even if she is a villain.

Sorry to hear of your loss @Unicorn34, I’ll give our DCat a gentle squeeze and chin tickle from you. Ours is a “Molly” so similar to your Millie.

@itsgoingtobeabumpyride is she a Pom sounds like my dog

Like a pp ,my dog will find the small piece of carpet we have to vom/ have explosive diarrhoea on, usually at about 4 in the morning. The wooden flooring we had put down solely because of the dog, which I absolutely hate gets purposely ignored. I now wake up with the Spidey senses through the night to try and catch him if he has an upset tummy, worse than having a baby.🤢

Steals shoes and slippers and won't give them back. When he remembers he has contraband in his bed and anyone moves, he desperately pushes past at high speed to get there first. I've found bras and socks in the front garden before now.

Eats any cakes/biscuits left unattended, literally within seconds.

Despite hard flooring nearly all through the downstairs, he brings all bones and sausages etc into the living room, to chew on the cream carpets.

Our little darling rolls in the litter tray when it’s just been changed, and heads to my bed where she parks herself in the middle of it after some cursory attempts to get her poopy feet all over my blanket. She also likes to go into a room directly adjacent to a human and cry heartrendingly as if she hasn’t seen a person for months. I forgive her of course but I remain amazed at the capacity of tiny cats to occupy the biggest of beds.

We also had a lovely horse who was very food-oriented and we kept her at home in a box overlooking our patio. When we ate in the summer months outside, she would appear and make her hungry face, which was basically lowering her head and staring at us with hope and plaintiveness, fixedly, for up to an hour. She was not very hungry because she was slightly overweight for most of her life.

Barks every time she anticipates a change. For example, if the car indicators make the clicky sound and she thinks we are going to pull in. Or if we put on shoes. Barks her head off.

Guess the breed 😂

I only have to appear in socks and he goes crazy with anticipation.

Does your dog breed rhyme with snorder snolly?

I’m sorry @SisterHyster but I burst out laughing at that. Such simplicity, such brilliance.

Don’t want to be too identifying by just mentioning the breed.

Of course @SisterHyster. I think I’ve correctly identified it as Alsatian?

No idea how you got that, they are clearly a chihuahua.

@SisterHyster of course! How did I not get that. So obvious. I’ll be back when I’ve finished being punched in the face by my cat, whose breed name rhymes with Svengal.

My dog has appointed herself the Bedtime Monitor for the two of us. Once she’s decided it’s bedtime she will sit on the landing halfway up the stairs and woof gently (but persistently) at me until I finally give in and go upstairs. She drinks from the loo as if it’s her own personal drinking fountain (and to be fair, it is a better height and volume for her, and it saves me having to fill her bowl so often), and rips cushions apart if I leave the house without her (I’ve had so many behaviourists and trainers for her separation anxiety that I’ve lost count, but to no avail 🙄) It’s a good job I love her very much, but I still mutter “Battersea” at her sometimes…