To ask for your lovely, quirky or heartwarming animal/pet stories?

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Because it's nice, and January is boring

I have a recently acquired cat who we were supposed to have as a foster, as she'd been left on the shelf for so long the shelter was worried she wouldn't be able to cope with family/house life any longer. She's black and white, and well out of kitten-hood, so not an easy rehome. And apparently she couldn't care less about the potentials who came to see her so she wasn't making it easy.

Prepared a quiet room for her to de stress in when she arrived. Wasn't interested. Jumped up on the sofa, curled up purring and fell asleep. Followed me upstairs that night and slept on my bed. Loves home so much that she point-blank refuses to go outside. Sweetest, most chilled out cat ever.

Decided we were keeping her within about two hours.

Now spends most of her days like this. Usually gets the net curtain (not my decor ) on two ears so she looks like a little bride.

Had a huge loopy rabbit once that was convinced he was a dog. Might have grown up with them- we found him as a stray hopping along a country lane. Would beg under the table, run up to the door when you came in to run around your feet and jump up and lick you when you sat down. Best thing was he gave proper cuddles. He'd just snuggle in to you. Sadly we only had him a year and he died (never knew how old he was) but he was very special.

living in SW London last year I had friendly parakeets up at the window every day begging for nuts. They were bloody noisy but so funny.

Can anyone else share?

My little cat fell in the bath with me when she was a kitten. She fell onto my stomach so didn't get totally drenched, but instead of the mad kitten attack I was expecting she just sat there and cried until I picked her up and put her on my towel! She sometimes comes in for a bath with me even now!

When my now 4 year old pooch was a puppy and my old Lab was alive, they went in cahoots for their supper.

I had left a leg of lamb out to defrost, on the high window sill, so out of reach..... that day I had someone helping in the garden. Went to get the meat later, and it was gone. Thought I was going nuts and looked back in the freezer, fridge, but nowhere to be found.

Go and ask the old man if he knows where the meat has gone (perhaps he put it somewhere??) to which he does a hand gesture of 'gone'. His English wasn't very good, but established that the Lab stood under the windowsill, pup jumped on his back and was able to reach the meat that way. I found the plastic bag in was in, in the pool a few days later.

I asked the old man why he didn't stop them. In broken English he just said...'they are just too clever'.

Laugh now about it. Didn't that day though.

Wet kitty! That's funny. Some breeds apparently are fine with water!

Sorry about your lamb murpheys but that does indeed sound incredibly impressive! Naughty labs!

One of my cats has been known to go paddling when I've been running a bath. He'll also get in the shower with me and rub himself up against my legs, completely oblivious to the water raining down on him. He's not the brightest, but is a squidgy teddy bear of a cat. He's also a git that scrabbles at my legs when he's hungry.

My dog can be a stubborn nightmare at times, for example she will want to go for a walk so you get ready, put your shoes on, stand by the front door and call her and she refuses to come! I've found if I say "ok, you stay here" and then leave the house for 2 minutes, she'll be waiting by the front door when I come back, ready to go. What she wants though is the attention and to be wrestled off the sofa!

When it snowed recently and then iced over, she knew I was struggling a bit on the ice. She walked really slow and kept looking up at me is if to check I was ok. Was very sweet!