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Why was your pet an arsehole today?

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VioletsandDill · 12/07/2025 23:57

My cat just jumped up on and plonked himself in the middle of our Scrabble game, cleaned his nethers for a bit, then jumped back down, knocking the letters about. Good job he's cute.

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VioletsandDill · 13/07/2025 21:57

JoshLymanSwagger · 13/07/2025 20:39

@VioletsandDill Surely he's just helping with the gardening? 😹

He did unearth a rather large bindweed root, which I have spent years trying to banish - so I'm grateful for that!

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mumtumok · 13/07/2025 21:58

My bitch squatted and pissed on my freshly washed carpet

Toemonster · 13/07/2025 22:00

My darling dog woke me up at 530 this morning on my only day off work , wanting to go a walk , 😦

FlayOtters · 13/07/2025 22:05

Gretchen Wieners (cat) brought in a live bat and placed it on my son's Bluey teddy.... where it has latched on with a vice like grip so I've had to go and stick Bluey in a tree in hopes the bat will sod off by morning...

cakewitch · 13/07/2025 22:17

Mine tried to kill "Senor" .. our resident frog in our wildlife pond.. then refused to come down because he was sulking about it when the husband shouted him because there was a big rat in the garden that needed dispatching. Hes an arsehole. A lovely one, yes, but still..

CrushingOnRubies · 13/07/2025 22:25

Dumbitdown · 13/07/2025 21:52

My cat knocked the kitchen tap on while I was at work. She must have knocked the cloth into the sink at the same time, which blocked the drain. Entire ground floor was under water by the time I got back from work, at 10pm.

Can't be annoyed at her though, even though the dishwasher and robot are both kaput...

What a lovely thing that must have been to discover after a tiring hot day at work.

Adenomyosis123 · 13/07/2025 22:30

Meowing and pawing at me since 4.30am. Several attempts to jump on my stomach (I'm 3 days post surgery). Complaining because dinner was served 3 mins late.

He is a notoriously rude cat. Have had friends and family visiting all weekend and they are all accustomed to him ignoring any attempts to engage and he has perfected selective deafness.

Yet he is the love of my life.

thecatsneedfeeding · 13/07/2025 22:35

Despite having a ginormous bed the sodding cat chooses to sleep on my pillow. Then gets pissed off and starts hissing at me when I dare shove her off because actually I might want to sleep in my own bloody bed.

afaloren · 13/07/2025 23:27

My cats wouldn’t sit in the mini deckchair I bought them and my dog came trundling through the garden with a dead magpie in his mouth.

Shmoigel · 13/07/2025 23:30

Yes my labradoodle nicked an entire cooked chicken breast off my plate

BobLobla · 13/07/2025 23:44

These make me feel slightly less malevolent towards puppy 8m. He dived straight into my new water feature that I’d protected to make puppy-proof which I obviously had failed at, then dug a hole with his wet paws then ran all over the new garden cushions with his now muddy paws. Destroyed 2 plastic plant pots. Dug up a monstera. Went back to the water feature, ran off with the solar water fountain and let me chase him round the garden having a lovely old time. Hmm

fireplaceember · 13/07/2025 23:55

I wanted to change the bedding but fat cat refused to get up until TWO PM Confused
then refused to leave me alone despite the fact he hates outside so he sat with me glaring

Why was your pet an arsehole today?
LadyJaneGrey18 · 13/07/2025 23:58

iamnotalemon · 13/07/2025 15:21

Waking me up at 6am and then when I’m wide awake, going back to sleep!

This.. every single day until I’m so sleep deprived I seriously consider rehoming her .I can’t take it anymore .

ninjahamster · 14/07/2025 00:05

The Cat left half a mouse on the floor and I trod on it in bare feet.
The Dog woke me up multiple times overnight as she was too hot and needed to paddle in her paddling pool and sleep outside,
The Dog then heard neighbour open his patio doors at 8am and insisted she needed to go out as she knows said neighbour will give her a treat over the fence.
Unfortunately being Sunday, she then remembered he was home every 15 mins and whined at the back door in the hope I would let her out to bark for treats again. I did not.
Really wish he had never started this by giving her treats!

abracadabra1980 · 14/07/2025 00:12

HangingOver · 13/07/2025 00:55

My Podenco has slept all day because it's so hot then noisily demanded walks and play from 8pm - 1am.

This made me laugh. Mine have been out at the oddest of times for us, too. Definitely livelier at night as they’ve been so lethargic during the day. I hose them down beforehand. I’ve quite enjoyed shaking up the routine a bit as it stops the pestering of me at the usual times for a walk, dinner or a bloody carrot. Carrot time is 1.05pm, every, single, day.

Crispynoodle · 14/07/2025 01:17

She climbed on the roof then pitifully meowed because she couldn’t get down

JoshLymanSwagger · 14/07/2025 07:10

Girl cat used to jump down from the fence using the wheelie bin as a "step" iyswim...
Until one day DH left the lid open because the bin was stinky.
We only knew because she'd shredded the bin sack and smelled of manky bananas 😹🙄

CoubousAndTourmalet · 14/07/2025 11:35

My dog woke me up before 4am this morning, just so she could go outside and say hello to the hedgehog. This is the third time in the last week or so😬 I give her the benefit of the doubt, in case she needs a wee, but no, just hedgehog greeting 😩

ChiefCakeTestertoMaryBerry · 14/07/2025 11:57

My cat has been fine today but at the weekend he decided he couldn’t wait any longer for his breakfast and walked all over me and woke me up at 5:30.

AddictedToBooks · 14/07/2025 12:14

My bonkers Border Collie decided sit next to the cat (literally on top of him) and proceeded to fart loudly in a series of peeps and poops noises and with each one, the cat looked increasingly furious and then he sniffed the cat's arse as if to say "Was that you?" - the cat was apoplectic with feline rage!

Then my boy decided to take a 5L plastic bottle out of the recycling bin (that hadn't been crushed) and he proceeded to take it into EVERY room of the house and in each room and on the landing, he crunched said bottle with great gusto creating as much noise as possible.

Then to finish his mad half hour, he lay on his back on the sofa, growling and groaning and sneezing to himself, then flipped himself round and began launching the seat pads off the sofa with his head and paws, whilst play-growling...............all before 8am!!

He then fell fast asleep with a happy expression on his face - he's not even a puppy, he's 10 years old, but I adore him, so he gets away with it all.

daddysgirlnot · 14/07/2025 14:32

We rescued a geriatric cocker spaniel. She’s blind & deaf and pees all over the house. Anyway, today she got lost in our (very small) garden coz she lost her bearings. Sat on her ass and barked repeatedly until I tapped her head & then followed me to the back door which was 4ft away. Promptly peed in the kitchen.

BobLobla · 25/07/2025 14:17

Will be contributing to this thread on a regular basis I imagine. Yesterday 8m old puppy took a lovely new pen my friend gave me for my birthday off the table and chewed it in half. Later climbed up the pots I’d put up as barriers to my new solar fountain and this time was able to destroy it (I got it back off him last time).

Puppy training continues on Monday…. <tries to assemble a patient face>

murasaki · 25/07/2025 14:40

Todays effort from bastard cat was to be sick on the rubber mat outside the back door. I had an armful of washing, didn't see it, skidded, and fell on my arse on the ridge of the door frame. I can barely sit down. During this, he was watching me from the garden table.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 25/07/2025 14:45

My cat lives for the pleasure of inconveniencing me.

I've been sorting some craft stuff out and have it on the bed. She came up and started making a big fuss about how she wanted to sit right there, exactly where the stuff was.
I know my place. I just moved it.
At which point she went over to it to do the exact same thing.

Long story short, she booted me and my stuff off the bed entirely so she could starfish in the middle of it.

ghostyslovesheets · 25/07/2025 14:49

My oldest ginger (obviously he’s ginger) both vomited and shat in my bedroom in the time it took me to go and buy bread - the window was open (my bedroom window is basically the cat flap) but he just thought ‘nah’

he does have a sensitive tummy but FFS

my little mini vax is the best thing I have ever bought!