To ask, what are your pets’ most annoying habits?

[JMSA]

We all love our pets, of course. But what do they do that bugs you?

Dog (male, nearly 11 years old): licks my dressing gown and pillowcase. So I took off my dressing gown earlier and laid it on the sofa. By the time I came back, he had licked it all around the collar and hood. Whenever I make my bed, I have to pull the quilt over the pillowcases, otherwise they’d be licked and sodden. So he basically likes to lick where my body has been! Adore him to pieces, but it’s annoying and gross.

Cat (1 1/2 year old rescue, have had her for 6 months): this habit really gets my goat! She will miaow at the back door. Obvious answer is to let her out, right? So I’ll do that but she’s not remotely interested in going out and will move away from the back door as I approach it. When she goes outside, she miaows to be let back in one minute later (no exaggeration). It’s Scotland, so unfortunately too cold just to leave the door open for her to come and go.
I love her and she’s incredibly sweet, but I will never understand cats.

Snakes! As soon as you clean out their tank and put them back, 90% of the time they imediately take a massive shit in it. Some go the extra mile and do it in their water dish. I've got 11 of them, so it is very much happening with atleast half of them every clean out day.

@AlmostAJillSandwich Same at my cat. As soon as I change the litter he will christen it before I’ve even tidied up

DDog barks at the foxes … hence in awake now 😵‍💫

Alice has bladder issues and has to go for a wee every night at 3am. Hence this post.

I have a toddler that hates having his coat put on. So I have to get down on the floor and basically wrestle it onto him (gently of course). Every time I do this the dog thinks we’re on the floor for family hug time and comes over and licks me and toddler and just generally gets in the way. He is a large, 90 lbs golden retriever so he really does get in the way and it’s nearly impossible to get the coat on when he does this. He’s a lovely dog but this drives me mad.

My dog licks and lip smacks. She can go most of the day without doing it but at 9pm when we're trying to watch a drama or something, that's when she starts. I've wondered whether she wants attention or is tired, bored or hungry but we've tried dealing with each of those and it hasn't changed. She just started doing it one day, it's become a habit and now we're stuck with it (because she's old and sick).
I've used headphones but that's no good if we want to watch something together. We've only got one reception room and one telly so can't get away from it.
It's infuriating when she's looking right at you and licking her bed for no reason. She's bloody adorable the rest of the time, little cow!
Oh apart from when she's farting but that's another story, did I mention we only have one room and can't escape? 😂

My cat and the new food prank. You know the one:
Cat: what's this?
Hapless Fuck: it's new food. Do you like it?
Cat: Yum. This is lovely.
Hapless Fuck goes to supermarket and buys a massive box of new food. Next meal time:
Cat: Wtf is this shit? No way am I eating this.

My cat is 16 or 17. She is small and has convinced several neighbours she is a poor starving kitten.

It was particularly hard to explain to the neighbour who didn't speak English.

My dog, as soon as he realises a walk is imminent, will start to bark manically. It makes getting leads on really stressful. Once on a walk, if I stop to talk to anyone, he will bark. If I stop to get him back on his lead (his recall is excellent), he will bark again, like the lead means a new walk… WE ARE ALREADY ON A WALK!!!

I love him to bits, but the barking drives me potty!

In his (and my) defence, he was around eight when we got him, and I’m not sure he’d ever been walked.

My dog tries to sneakily lick my clothing and it winds me up. I’ll go to pat her head before leaving and she has this sly little head tilt and then suddenly her tongue is on the sleeve of my cashmere jumper. Aghhhh! She also does the lip smacking thing. I ignore it for a few minutes and then tell her to either get a drink or knock it off.

My cat will wait until I’ve laid my phone down and am ready to drift off before absolutely mugging me for attention. Purring like crazy, rubbing on my pillow, meowing when I don’t pet her. I feel terribly guilty for ignoring her even though she does this nearly every single night.

One of my horses will suck up a massive mouthful of water and hold it in her mouth before dropping it unexpectedly down the back of your shirt. It’s about a whole bottle worth of water. She thinks it’s hilarious. The same horse is also an expert at plucking phones out of back pockets and tossing them. Another one of them is such a dimwit that he constantly gets cast. He just lies down in a corner to roll and then gets himself stuck because he forgets he’s huge. Then he has to lie there upside down until someone realises and throws a rope around his legs to haul him back over. His record is three times in one morning. Absolute idiot.

Delinquents, all of them.

Our dog asking to go outside every 30 mins in the evening. Not because she wants a wee but simply because she wants to catch a glimpse of the fox that goes through our garden. Partner decided the ideal solution would be to put a magnetic catch on the counter so that the back door can then remain open for her to come and go as she pleases so we regularly get blasts of Antarctic air through the house in the winter.

We've got her one of those steps onto the sofa as she's got a dodgy cruciate ligament that we feel could 'go' any day and she's very compliant and will crawl up and down it slowly to get onto the sofa. But she insists on hurling herself a good 6ft off the sofa at the speed of light when she sees the postman walk down the road.

She sheds hair like you wouldn't believe. Just one lap of the lounge with the Dyson and it needs emptying.

Despite all this we love her to bits. Meet Summer, 12.

🤣🤣🤣

Ddog1 licks dps side of the bed if the quilt isn't covering it and leaves great big wet patches

Ddog2 will jump on the bed and "dig" on my shoulders if he feels I have overslept my alarm, it's handy if I do miss it but he hasn't got the hang if days off yet

Dcat1 screams in your face for attention then bites you, he's ginger

Eats things that aren't food. Hair, bits of tree, a smorgasbord of delights on the ground on a walk. Wrestling some strangers used tissue out of his mouth is so infuriating. You have to watch him like a hawk, he's so quick!

My cat is a hair puller, he grabs a mouthful and pulls it until I get out of bed to feed him.
He yowls for my husband to carry him down the stairs as if his legs have stopped working.
He sings the song of his people at high volume every single night when we go to bed.
He's the most perfect angel baby to ever live.

My ddog will jump in your seat as soon as you leave it! I'm guessing this is common, things is, I don't have the heart to tell him to move, I'll sit next to him or on the floor! (...and he's thinking what a mug 😆)

Snores like a freight train, the noise goes right through me.
Sometimes I feel he does it on purpose.

Barking at cats/ squirrels/ foxes. I love him so much though.

DCat1 eats anything remotely stringy. Turns her nose up at roast chicken or a bowl of tuna but leave out a hair tie, a bit of ribbon, or DD’s brand new leotard with shoe string straps, and she thinks its feast time. (Lucky the straps were too long anyway as she took around 5cms off one side 🤦🏻‍♀️)

My male Maine Coon thinks 4.30am is a good time for breakfast. His meows are loud. So he and his half sister are confined to downstairs overnight (they have run of livingroom, kitchen and dining area with cat flap to outside).
The female is not a big eater but a couple hours after her dinner she will sit at the very edge of the island and meow at us in the livingroom (she can see our feet from there). These pathetic little ‘I’m starving and the kibble has been out for an hour so is stale’ meows. Cute but annoying.

My cat will wee on any fabric items left on the floor - clothes, some curtains waiting to be put up and bathroom mats.

I think it’s because he’s particularly neurotic and is still stressed at moving house 4 months ago. I love him to bits and it has cured my floordrobe habit, but I wish he’d just STOP PISSING ON MY THINGS!!

I think we actually share the same cat 😬🤨

Mine is like this. We have a vet at the end of the road. People keep scooping her up and taking her there cos they think she's a stray!

He wakes me up at 4am and if there's no 'space' on the king size bed he paws me until I move out of his spot on the bed. There's only me and his sister on the bed so masses of space but he has to have his spot.

Love all these.
When my dog has a ball, he likes to pretend that he has to dig all around it in order to secure it. He will purposely drop the ball and tear with his teeth at the surrounding vegetation.
In the garden, this wrecks the lawn. Out on walks, he finds dense patches of undergrowth and tears away at the vegetation in a frenzy, as if the ball were a rabbit in a hole, that he couldn't quite reach.
Our local woods have very steep hillsides, and I practically have to abseil to approach him in order to terminate the game. Once I reach him, he miraculously discovers that he can pick up the ball with ease, and dodges over to a new spot to start all over again.