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Aibu to ask for your stories on when your Dog/Cat hasn't behaved please?!

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pinkpetal2 · 28/08/2020 13:38

Having a crap day today and was reading a story about a dog who has no behaviour skills and takes itself for a walk. And I just wondered if anyone else has a story on when their pet has just not behaved at all. I love naughty pets Grin

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EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 29/08/2020 14:14

Stayed at my sisters to look after her weimaraner - took him for a walk on the common, in a wooded area I kept calling him & he wouldn't come; a strange couple started talking to him.... then me.... Five minutes of strange conversation later, I finally spot the one I'm looking after hiding behind a bush watching. Little sod - I'm sure he was laughing. (Weimaraners are all pretty much the same beautiful grey colour, so hard to tell apart).
Same weekend, we did lots of long walks, one afternoon a neighbour pops round to see if we'd like to go for a walk with her and her weimaraner - yes, dog champing at the bit, very excited to go out again. Next day my sister returned, and he suddenly develops a really stagey "look what she's done to me limp".

My cat when she wants attention sits by bedside cabinet when she wants attention (also does it in the lounge if that's where I am) and gently edges cups or glasses off with tiny little taps, watching all the time to make sure I know exactly what she is doing, and get up and serve her breakfast/midnight snacks/whatever she's taken it into her head she wants.

Mellonsprite · 29/08/2020 14:17

My cat very carefully nibbled a defrosting turkey on the kitchen counter (which had been covered up!) just before Xmas, we didn’t realise until my son noticed puncture marks in the wrapping.
I think I did a ‘would you still eat this’ thread about it at the time! We did end up buying another but the cat had another go at the left overs which were trebled wrapped in cling film, tin foil and a tea towel.

RedHelenB · 29/08/2020 14:19

My ddog loves to run out the front door when he has the opportunity and frolic with the other dogs . He has got a lot better at not doing it ,but sometimes the temptation is too much and it does make him happy!!

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 29/08/2020 14:24

Mellonsprite - reminded of a cat we had growing up. The house next door was split into flats, mostly accessed by a huge external iron staircase and balconies.
Late on Christmas Eve, cat arrived home and proudly presented us with a pheasant that someone had hung outside to - do whatever you hang pheasants up for.
There were about 20 flats, so no idea whose it was - and in those days, everything used to close on Christmas day - no handy Tesco Express to get something to replace it.

Brigante9 · 29/08/2020 15:06

Jumped the 6ft fence to the neighbour’s garden, saw him waving her tortoise round in his mouth. I sneaked round to get him, tortoise was upside down waving its little legs. I righted him.

Sent him for his ball in the woods, he came back with a tiny baby bunny. It was obviously beyond help, so I dispatched it then the dog swallowed it. People walking towards me were like ‘WTF?!’

Came home to find him just standing on the kitchen table. I have no idea why. Regularly came home to dog beds destroyed on the patio. I think he pulled them out of the dog flap.

The cat once brought home a whole roast chicken. God knows how he got it over the fence. Another time, it was a packet of bacon. Shameful. He used to bring frogs into the house, didn’t hurt them, just patted them to make them jump and yowled in delight.

Current dogs like to stare at the frogs in the pond. I caught one licking a frog’s nose this year.

pinkpetal2 · 29/08/2020 17:35

@Brigante9 Omg what a murderer 😂😂😂

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MaddeningtheUnhelpful · 29/08/2020 17:37

Gave my dog a bit of the head from hubbys pint of guiness (on my finger) in a pub garden one. Full on loved it jumped up onto the table and guzzled a lot of it down Smile miss her crazy antics now, she's poirly and timid now

nosswith · 29/08/2020 17:41

My knowledge of birds stems solely from those brought in by the cat we had when I was a child.

longwayoff · 29/08/2020 17:44

Mine dog's lead slipped from my hand half an hour ago when I was opening the front door and he galloped off. Busy main road, no road sense. Corralled by passing motorists and neighbours, thank you all. Lunatic. Am very cross but relieved he's not under a truck.

catgirl1976 · 29/08/2020 17:55

My cat pissed in my Mulberry coach. And looked me dead in the eye whilst he did it.

pinkpetal2 · 29/08/2020 18:38

@SaveloyDip I love him 😂

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wigglerose · 29/08/2020 18:40

We were staying at a friends house. Dog drank stale ditch water before we could stop her.... then shat all over their kitchen. This was after she'd nicked all of their dog's toys and put them in a pile and laid next to them. Their dog was too much of a wimp to nick them back.

Dog hates cars with their engines on and lights on that are stationary. She barks and barks and barks at them. Helpful when I'm walking her at 6:30am in the winter....

Serena1977 · 29/08/2020 18:44

My cat when he was a kitten before his vaccinations jumped out of an upstairs window, found him having a great time playing in the garden.

Also, same cat did a big wee on my cooker hob!

SaveloyDip · 29/08/2020 18:54

@pinkpetal2 he was the best dog ever.

I lived on a small holding of about 20 acres and unfortunately he ran off one night when he was let out to pee (not by me I always went with him). He often would try play with the wild foxes in the next field and I think he must have ran out onto the lane and was hit by a car.

When I brought his body back home from the vets, (the driver of the car had thankfully taken him), to bury him, a fox came and sat about 50ft away down the field and watched while I dug his grave and buried him. The fox left after I had placed rocks on the top of the grave.

Quite easily the strangest and most heartbreaking thing I have ever, ever witnessed!

Mooey89 · 29/08/2020 18:57

When I was younger our dog (also called badger! A black and white collie) ate the Christmas turkey! Before dinner! Luckily I’m a veggie so the nut roast was fine 😂

TheNoodlesIncident · 29/08/2020 19:03

@SparkyTheCat DCat#2 does 'performance meowing' when I'm on videocalls. Luckily work are relaxed about pets and kids joining in! Something about videocalls just seems to set her off

Our cat is similar, but she specialises in smelly toilet visits when DH is on conference calls with work. Unfortunately her litter tray is in the garden room where DH chose to sit. His fault frankly, and if she decides not to "flush" (cover the poo with litter) when he's on calls she's probably telling him something and he should take heed!

She also turned up at the back door, pawing at the glass to let us know she wanted in. DH opened the door, she slipped in and trotted in a springy way that made DH instantly suspicious. He noticed she wasn't miaowing as much as usual, bent down to peer at her and noticed that a) she was looking decidedly shifty and b) one of her whiskers looked much thicker, more substantial than usual. At that moment she opened her mouth and spat out the mouse she had smuggled in, which ran off to find something to hide under.

Fortunately the damp but unharmed rodent victim was swiftly caught and conveyed back outside, but I can't help think our cat is getting vexed that every time she catches a mouse, she isn't allowed to bring it in to play with, and is now looking for a crafty method of disguising said victims.

Matilda15 · 29/08/2020 19:04

Came home from work and found my tiny Pomeranian asleep in the fruit bowl on the breakfast table. I usually only work part time but if I have a longer day we have a dog walker in so she’s not left. I can only assume the dog walker had left the chair out slightly and she’d managed to get up on the table and got too scared to get down so curled up and gone to sleep! But not before taking a delicate bite out of every piece of fruit in there!

When she was a puppy DP had taken her out for an early morning walk to a nearby field where we were practicing recall etc. Anyway she took off after a pigeon and he couldn’t find her anywhere. Looked for about 15 minutes before giving up and running home to get me to come and look as well, he arrived back home desperately out of breath and panicking about how to tell me he’d lost her only to find her sitting on the doorstep waiting for him and looking at him like he was the idiot 😂

mbosnz · 29/08/2020 19:04

My lavender oriental was a psychotic homicidal kitty cat.

Once, when we were staying at then, Df's, she got startled by the family's dogs, and clawed and jumped up the back of DF's father, later to be my fil, and sat there, her tail bushed out, her back arched, hissing, spitting and caterwauling - on top of his bald head. With her claws dug in, and blood pissing out. He was so stunned he stood there for several seconds, in the midst of all this, the dogs barking, the cat awailing, until I managed to pluck her off his head.

He always hated me and that cat. I bloody loved that cat.

This same cat, the vet went to take her temperature, she twisted around, slapped at his face with her paws, and sent his glasses flying clear across the room.

She always went walkabout when we shifted house. It was one way to get to know the neighbours. We walked up this driveway to the surefire signs that they'd met my cat. You know, looking a bit shell shocked, a bit embarrassed that they'd obviously been intimidated by a cat, very glad to see us, no please, go right on in to the raging feline ball of homicidal fury that has somehow taken up residence in our house. Go into the house (of course it would be the poshest, with the very nicest coffee), speak firmly to her, she trots out from under the table, explaining to me in her nice voice just what a misunderstanding there had been, she'd quite thought she'd been kidnapped, I clipped her leash on, and off we trotted, having made our apologies and said our thank yous. I just about lapsed into hysterical giggles, as I looked back, and there's the whole family, still just standing there, looking after us in stunned silence. . .

pinkpetal2 · 29/08/2020 19:20

@SaveloyDip Oh my that is heartbreaking I'm so sorry he passed. He sounds like he had a brilliant personality Thanks

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Oldraver · 29/08/2020 19:25

Many many years ago we lived in a Married Quater that was originally furnished. As we got our own stuf we sent stuff back. I returned a dressing table, quite a big thing and we were on the secon floor so three men turned up..

Tole then where it was and let them carry on, only for one guy to come and said there was a problem. Walked into the bedroom to find everyone staring silently at a cat poo in the middle of the table

Cat had never done anyhting like that before

GlitteryUnicornSparkles · 29/08/2020 19:37

I went to a dog show a few years back that entailed camping, the weather was glorious. I decided to restrict my dogs movement by tethering her to a ground stake outside designed to hold dogs. I woke in the morning to her having pulled it out of the ground and her stomach looking massive. Turns out she’d broken into every tent on the site and eaten all the other dogs food! 🤦‍♀️ Needless to say she had a dicky tummy for the next couple of days the greedy mare and I’ve never used a stake since!

Another of my dogs decided whilst I was at work one day that my house was clearly in need of updating, he helped himself to a can of bright blue paint from off the work top. He proceeded to chew it open, dip his paws and run it all over the house 😖. Fortunately I have hard floors and it all came up with a bloody good scrub!

Toothsil · 29/08/2020 19:51

Our cat has form for stealing. He's shut out of the bedroom at night (because he can't behave) but bolted in the minute DH opened the door yesterday morning, straight up onto my bedside cabinet and started removing things in his mouth, running off and depositing them in various places in the bedroom. I was just waking up and had to prise my diamond engagement ring out of his mouth before he made off with it. I then saw him disappear with my wedding ring and I heard a clink as he dumped it somewhere and I can't find it 😂 He also tried to steal DD's school cardigan while she was wearing it, and he always steals her pencil out of her hand while she's doing her homework. He's a house cat, and one day I went to collect DD from school, he was very definitely in the conservatory, I went out and locked the door behind me, turned round to start walking and he was sitting next to me on the path, ready to go 😂

LakieLady · 29/08/2020 19:55

My first lakeland terrier could climb and open doors. He could get through the teeniest gap. He chased next door's cat through the hedge, into their garden, through their kitchen and up their stairs, where it scrambled to the top of a wardrobe.

When my second lakie had her first season, he went to stay with my friend, who had 2 Tibetan terriers.

All the dogs got on well, and he was shut in the utility room with them at night when friend and her husband went to bed. They used to hang a board across the (closed) utility room door, because one of their dogs would scratch the door to fuck if there was thunder or fireworks.

My boy managed to unhook the board, which neither of hers had ever achieved. He managed to open the utility room door, which was properly shut and had a round doorknob. He opened the kitchen door, which was the same. He went up the stairs and opened their bedroom door, jumped up onto their bed and settled down for the night, as if it was his right to sleep up there with the humans rather than downstairs with the dogs.

He also shat on the bumper of a Merc in the car park of the park she took them to, whereupon she walked away and pretended he was nothing to do with her. Blush

He once peed on a policeman's boot when we were watching the Boxing Day hunt set off. He used to hate me being on the phone, and would climb up the front of the rolltop desk and run off it with it when it rang, unless I got to it first. He rolled in the stinkiest thing ever - a huge puddle of foul liquid that was seepage from a farmyard muckheap (this surpassed the stench of long-dead fish, excavated from a Cornish beach, that was his previous stinkiest thing ever). He would jump onto the lap of any stranger he liked the look of, if they happened to be sitting down and I wasn't paying attention. If allowed on women's laps, he liked to put his head between their tits and rub his forehead on their chests. Shock

But he was lovely with people, and brilliant with children, perfectly behaved around horses and cattle and altogether a delightful soul. The friend that he joined in bed described him as "The naughtiest, cleverest, funniest, sweetest dog I have ever met".

I do miss the little sod.

We still have a lakie bitch but she's 15, so not really up to naughtiness any more. But she's been a much easier dog, the only time I've ever been embarrassed by her was when she chased a pet duck that came out of a garden and crossed the footpath we were walking along. The duck was huge, and she is small, even by lakie standards, but the baggage still managed to get her gob round its neck even though she was on the tips of her paws. We couldn't catch her and she was beign dragged around by the panic-stricken duck, until the duck's owner managed to push her off with a rake.

I was mortified, apologised profusely and gave my phone number so the duck's owner could contact me and undertook to pay any vet's bills etc. She rang me that evening, to say the duck was fine, just a little shaken.

I've always kept her on the lead whenever I can see, hear or smell sheep, poultry or ducks, but like the other lakie, she's brilliant around horses and a very respectful of cattle.

Fluffingheck · 29/08/2020 19:57
  1. Doberman pinscher when I was a little girl, went out and sat at the bottom of a telegraph pile when the BT man was at the top. He daren't get down, and sat at the top while we laughed from the window. I was then sent out to retrieve him. He was bigger than me, soft as grease, and only interested in why there was a man up the pole.
  2. Cat loved tampons. Think it was the rustling sound they made. He would steal them from my bedside table drawer if it wasn't properly shut. Marched through the house with one hanging out of his mouth, in front of some bloke who'd come for an appointment with my DF. I was mortified. Blush
TheFnozwhowasmirage · 29/08/2020 22:05

I have been asked to not bring my puppy back to training classes,on two separate occasions,by two separate trainers. We were offered a refund as they felt that they could do nothing with him. He was 9 months old,and of course,the day we were asked to leave,someone I know joined the class,so my shame was witnessed.
I then paid to join a Dogs Trust class. I reasoned that as it was in a secure field and miles away,no one would know if it went tits up.I told them his history of failure and said that if they asked us to leave,it wasn't a problem,I understood. Only someone from the same village as me,not only booked onto the same class,but the same time slot as me.Hmm Thankfully it was postponed due to Covid,and I don't know if it will be rescheduled.He's still untrained,but getting better.

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