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To ask what the worst thing your pet has done?

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GoosetheCat · 27/03/2019 11:24

I got in this morning after doing the weekly shop to find my fur brat has chewed the zip off one of my sofa cushions and ripped out all the stuffing 🙈

And she greeted me at the door, proud as punch and wagging tail, the little shit 😂 I have yet to tell DP.

What's the worst thing your fur brats has done?

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vampirethriller · 27/03/2019 11:48

My Jack Russell weed on a Chihuahua in the park. On purpose.

lidoshuffle · 27/03/2019 11:48

Chewed up my late mum's real gold watch that she got for her 21st present. It had survived being bombed out in the blitz Sad

Werkit · 27/03/2019 11:48

One of my cats pulls sealant off anywhere she can find it. She doesn’t eat it, it’s never sticking up and enticing her, she just has a personal vendetta against sealant.

One of my other cats is the worst cat, though. She misses no opportunity to be a dickhead. Stealing cables and hiding them, stealing my kids toys (and hiding those too), she stands on your chest when you try to watch TV, does high speed parkour then leaps onto you from a height, climbs into bins and empties them (just for her own amusement, apparently - she rarely finds food in the bins she can access!), destroys toilet rolls (even when they’re still in the packets)...

Cats are tiny psychopaths and I love them for it.

Brilliantidiot · 27/03/2019 11:51

Stole a large bar of dairy milk, which only became apparent when dog was projectile vomiting chocolate onto the grey carpet. Did this a lot while I phoned emergency vets etc. Then coated the inside of my brother's car with the same.
Greeted vet with a waggy tail and not so much as raised bp. Bloods and tests normal, vet amazed that she literally suffered no ill effects at all. Expensive bar of chocolate.
Was very relieved, even when I discovered she'd pinched it out of a cupboard that she'd learned to open and I now have to have child locks on everything.
Love her though.

Woolly17 · 27/03/2019 11:52

The boy cat (who has a number of issues) has:
Peed on my husband (I was pregnant and he was v hungover)
Ate a long deceased bird and threw up and then had the squits (I am a dab hand at washing the cat now)
Gets stuck in the same garage repeatedly
(this neighbour is often away so I have to break in... Fortunately the neighbour likes cats and is understanding)

But he's also the gentlest cat I've known and he loves our toddler (he likes to sleep next to her bed, he comes to her for pats and follows her around outside like a dog)

CocoCharlie83 · 27/03/2019 11:52

I have a house cat who has never been outside and one day my DP came home and got into a bath, while she was in there I went looking for cat with treats in hand which she usually runs out for and couldn't find her. So we thought she got out when my DP came home.

Queue mass panic, had neighbours out looking and checking CCTV, missing cat posts on facebook, me breaking into adjacent building site to search and general hysteria.

Then we eventually found her still in the house. She had somehow managed to open a stiff drawer on a chest of drawers, climb into it and then close id fully behind her. Gave us the fright of our lives.

madcatladyforever · 27/03/2019 11:53

DCat shit on my bed recently, has destroyed the stair carpet all the way uo so badly I don't know why I just don't just take the stringy remains away and throw then in a skip, ignores the still pristine scratching post and digs up the carpet in front of it, has detroyed two IKEA sofas by peeing down the back - you can never get rid of that smell.
She is 16 but really! At least she has grown out of peeing on the sofas.
She has also bitten all of my friends as she is strictly a one woman cat to the point where she has to be locked in my bedroom when friends come over.
But other than that she is sweet and loving.

Prequelle · 27/03/2019 11:54

One ate 200 quid in cash

One had a poo in the bathroom and hid it by putting dirty clothes on the top

One ran off and had a lovely time cavorting round town, letting me get within a foot of her before galloping off again. I had to go home and leave the door open. She came back 30 mins later

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GoosetheCat · 27/03/2019 11:54

@woolly17 I read that as your cat was hungover, not your husband! 😂 I had to re-read it twice!

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kaitlinktm · 27/03/2019 11:54

All my pets have had their moments - sofas chewed beyond repair, new dresses shredded, curtain rails pulled out from the plaster etc - but the most ironic thing was when, in desperation, I sent for a dog training book from the then dog training expert. The dog ripped it to shreds as soon as it came through the letter box. I had to write to the person to order another one.

DennisSkinnersMolotov · 27/03/2019 11:55

Current dog ate an entire pumpkin, seeds and all.
Regularly rolls in fox shit and has to be bathed at all hours to get it off.

Previous dog (also a doberman @mydoberman) had a massive prey drive. Managed to get away from us in the forest to go after a deer. We were still searching for him with spotlights at 8pm (it was winter and pitch black). Unbeknown to us, he'd ran 4 miles as the crow flies and found one of 3 houses that had lights on. While we were searching for him in the pitch dark, he was by their open fire being fed weetabix and ham by the home owners kids while she waited for her husband to get home and take him to the vet. We got a call from the vet at 11pm.

JockMcGraw · 27/03/2019 11:56

I've got a really gorgeous larder. Wanted one for years. It's a really striking colour and is my favourite thing in the house (lame I know)

It had been installed for a full 24 hours before git cat decided to try and jump on top of it from the top of the cat tower on the other side of the room. He failed. Nice big scratch in the paint work, on one of the front panels where it's most noticeable.

Cheers buddy Angry

DennisSkinnersMolotov · 27/03/2019 11:57

Oh and the cat brought a LIVE wood pigeon in through the cat flap. I have a massive phobia of pigeons and those things are huge. I did what any sane adult would do and locked myself in the living room in hysterics and phoned my husband who was 40 miles away at work. I eventually had to climb out through the living room window.

Prequelle · 27/03/2019 11:57

He's too cute ( this is the poo hider)

BarbarianMum · 27/03/2019 11:59

Burn mark on back room carpet (due to inadvised shagging knocking over heat lamp). Insurance people laughed a lot.

Prequelle · 27/03/2019 11:59

Oops

To ask what the worst thing your pet has done?
wannabebetter · 27/03/2019 12:00

We'd just agreed sale of our cruiser and went out to lunch to celebrate, leaving DPup on board. By the time we got back she had eaten about 3' square of the carpet on said cruiser...…...

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GoosetheCat · 27/03/2019 12:01

@prequelle he's adorable! And looks completely couldn't give a shit 😂 Like butter wouldn't melt.

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FuckBrussel · 27/03/2019 12:02

Ddog, now sadly deceased, managed to pull the fixed brace out of my DD's mouth....

Earned me a lecture and a big bill from the orthodontist, that did.

maid1306 · 27/03/2019 12:04

Chewed my hearing aids 😂
So had to send my mum to take them in and explain why they needed repairing.

Our family lab when I was growing up used to hide his bones under the carpets

MrsPussinBoots · 27/03/2019 12:07

DCat woke me up once by bringing a pigeons head into my bed. Just the head.

TheFormidableMrsC · 27/03/2019 12:08

My cat came flying through the open front room window last summer, at night, with two tiny baby birds in his mouth that he had clearly just stolen from a nest. Both flew under the sofa, one died under there, the other I managed to get out and release, but doubt it would have survived, it was very small. I thought what an utterly evil bastard that cat was. It's not like he chased them, he fucking stole them from under their mother's beak. I've had several mice, one that took a week to catch and one that played dead and allowed me to pick up and put outside where it shot off very quickly. Mostly, they're left mangled on the doorstep. Yet he sits there looking all proud of himself Hmm

Springersrock · 27/03/2019 12:10

Mine rolled in a dead seal.

The smell was awful for ages.

I had to drive him home and on hot days I’m sure my car still has a slight whiff of dead seal about it.

TheFormidableMrsC · 27/03/2019 12:10

@DennisSkinnersMolotov Sorry, that made me laugh out loud!

I remember as a child feeding my neighbour's cat when they went away and it left a squirrel head and tail, plus innards, smeared across the kitchen floor, but no actual body. Evil.

EnglishRose13 · 27/03/2019 12:12

I woke up one morning and got out of my side of the bed, to be greeted by a dead bird. I rolled to the other side and there was another.

Gross.