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

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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.

Dog will happily snooze after dinner but when we finally get to sit down to watch a bit of TV at about 9pm ALLLL the toys come out and get shoved in our lap until we give in and play. We have a little play and then she will settle down. She gets plenty of attention all day but it's her routine to have playtime before bed. We don't begrudge her it but it is annoying when you're knackered and just want to finally switch off for the day. It's like the kids are finally in bed and quiet and then the four legged child starts up!

He gets you to bend to his will and open doors that he has no intention of going though. I'd say that's quite bright. 🐢

One of my cats is fully nocturnal and will only eat her food overnight. She won't eat the hydrolysed wet food so can only have biscuits. I take the biscuits up with me overnight and a dish and she taps me on the head to be fed two or three times. Then, she decides she wants to be let out into the garden (won't use a cat flap) so I have to take her downstairs, let her out and turn her heating pad on in her cat den so she won't get cold as I won't let her back in until I get up. Her cat den is lined with real lamb skin and is nice and cosy.

Girl cat - poking and jabbing at me with her paw when I'm lying on the sofa.

Boy cat - randomly biting my elbow.

Love them both more than anything else in the world!

Oh god...we once 'took in a poor starving kitten' who wouldn't leave us alone, worried to bits about her.Knocked on maybe 20 doors before finding some very bewildered (and quite pissed off) owners who explained 'Tabitha' was nearly 16, they'd been worried sick for 2 days and can we bring her back pronto. In our defence,I was only 9 at the time and ofc my parents had no facebook lost and found groups in the late 90s.

I absolutely adore my pets but they do have habits that annoy me,

Female dog seems to do a weird smelling silent fart EVERY time she gets excited - it's like an extra alert system she has - ears go up, tail goes up and starts wagging, she gets into "beefy stance" mode and then emits the most disgusting smell that makes my eyes want to shrivel and die!

Male dog likes to bark and stand infront of me whenever I'm on the phone. He believes that I should only EVER speak to him and ONLY him.

Cat likes to scream with rage if I don't give him some goddamn Dreamies within two seconds flat of coming indoors.

My cat always acts as if she's starving even if she's been fed an hour previously. Sits in the 'loaf' position by her food bowl for ages. And don't get me started on her fussy behaviour with food. She'll quite happily eat the same food for several weeks then all of a sudden she'll act like it's disgusting. Just sniffs it and walks off.

Ha that’s cats for you!

My girl does this - omg she actually rattles the mortar between the bricks of the house!
I'm convinced that out neighbour who moved in about 18 months ago, thinks it's me snoring. She looks at me very funny sometimes - oh and thunderous farts!

She was born on a farm and I think it's messed with her head - she snores like an overexcited snorting pig and farts like a well-fed horse!

Ohh I thought mine was the only loon that did that !

He also meows for no reason, he also flops in the middle of the floor right infront of where I am about to step .
But worse of all are the 3am zoomies , he has full run of the house so he charges around yelling at anyone .
My bed has a wooden frame with a high head and foot boards so he runs a circuit > headboard > mattress > me > footboard > mattress > me > headboard.

@Shitmonger I had a horse that would swipe hoof picks out of my back pocket and fling them .
More than a dozen times he managed to hit me with it .
He was also a genius at unlocking his stable bolt even with a lead rope clipped on it.

When he escapes. Snakes don't have good recall,

My chihuahua honks like a goose when excited. It’s actually quite embarrassing.

She’s the most adorable and good natured darling tho so I forgive her.

I call it poo-phoria

The song of his people 🤣

My dog has to look out of the window for goodness knows what every time we get ready to go for a walk which she takes ages over. Once we get outside she insists on staring into our neighbours back garden for a while so we look like a pair or weirdos 🫣 She also knocks her empty water bowl around the kitchen but when I get up to get her more water she is waiting at her treat cupboard grinning at me over her shoulder, she is obsessed with her treats 😂

🤣🤣 love this

Where to begin.

DCat1 used to steal pouches of food and sneak them upstairs, where he would rip them open on my bed to eat. Usually only discovered at my bedtime and necessitating a full change of bed clothes. Same cat is rather partial to taking a shit under my desk, mere metres from a clean litter tray. Accomplished at opening doors and drawers, sneaking extra treats or gaining access to forbidden areas. Begging for fuss and then immediately biting me. I am not allowed to go to the loo without him accompanying me.

Him and DCat2 will shortly be starting their evening parlour practice. This involves tearing through the downstairs of the house, launching themselves off walls and furniturgrand knocking stuff over.

Both of them trying to kill me at any opportunity, such as when I'm walking downstairs with a bundle of laundry and unable to use the handrail.

Adorable little bastards.

Refuses to eat his food until we're ready to go out. As in coat on, boots on, his harness on and the lead in my hand. We head to the door, and he remembers he's absolutely starving and has to immediately eat all his meat and his kibble, and I just have stand there and watch. Every sodding time.

My old golden retriever used to jump in any bath he found. So if I ran a lovely relaxing bath and nipped off to get a book or glass of wine and forgot to firmly close the door, I would return to find a soaking wet yellow monster grinning at me from amid the bubbles. That dog was an absolute pain in the arse and had a thousand annoying habits, but he always looked so bloody happy it was impossible to tell him off! I miss him terribly 😢

My Labrador hates wheels so anything that goes past the house on wheels (bikes, scooters, prams, mobility scooters, wheelchairs) they get a good woofing at. She is fine outside if we see them, just if they approach the perimeter of the pride lands 🤣

she also taps the door to come in, then runs away. Every single time. If you don’t open it, she taps again and again and again until you open it. Then runs away. It is 100% the most annoying thing she or any other pet I have ever known, does.

@DeanStockwell cats..... just gotta love em!! 💖

YES! I had one cat who only liked very expensive food. The person in the pet shop gave me some free samples of different flavours of the same food. Ooh he loved them so much. So of course I spent £40 on a sack of it.

he never touched it again 😀

My cats scream at me when they can see me getting their food out. I only have 3 and 2 of them screamed 42 times in the time it took me to open 6 sachets

I can't stand it 😅 why start shouting at me when you can see I'm doing it? They only ever shout at me when I'm preparing their food

My old boy used to do the gross licking thing too, like mate keep your bloody tongue in your mouth, you rancid fleabag 😂 god I miss that dog.
My girl, ah she’s annoying as shit too. No sense of personal space, she insists on pushing her face right up as close as she can manage to mine, whenever possible.

Aww, I’ve loved reading about your beloved but highly annoying pets! Thanks for that.
A friend of mine has two cats that are not in the least bit vocal. Like, they barely miaow at all. I always tell her how lucky she is, as it’s like nails down a blackboard to me 😆

Ddog likes Yak chews. He uses them as an anxiety aid, he’ll sit on my lap and chew it, he’s so loud I can’t here the tv, so have to lift him up and put him in the dining room and close the door.