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.

My dog sleeps all day and then spends all night chomping on his pig's ear. Then, when he has had enough, I can hear him clip-clopping over the lino to his water bowl. The sounds he makes while drinking: slurp, slurp. He is only a chihuahua, but I have heard big dogs make less noise. Next comes the kibble bowl, and if he has eaten that day's allowance, he will spend ages moving the bowl, banging it against the skirting board, etc. I am glad when he decides to go back to bed and sleep!

It warmer now, so my fox terrier scratches at the door to go and sit on HER sun lounger in the sun. But she likes you to be pottering around the kitchen and not shut the door.(but I can't leave it open because the cat will treat the bird feeder as an AI buffet.) So she scratches to come in, but not at the door you are closest to. So in she comes and it starts again. And she has to be escorted down stairs past the cat, who to be fair, will ambush her.

I have a nearly 2 year old golden retriever. I would list his most annoying habits but he’s current sat on my right arm so I can only type left handed. In fact, I say sitting, but he’s actually leaning on me with his back legs dangling on the floor and he’s propped himself up by digging his elbows into my torso. That isn’t even his most annoying habit. That has to be the humping of the sofa cushions and the lunging whilst on a lead even though I use a gentle leader. Then there’s the fussiness about food that makes me wonder whether I actually bought a rather large golden cat rather than a dog. The barking at 💁🏻 I don’t know but it’s loud.

then he looks at me with his big brown eyes because I’m eating cheese ans he wants it and I feel all those annoying sentimental # on Instagram. Yea he’s on there too courtesy of child number 2 🙄 so his bad habits are “content” now 😂

Oh yeah, the licking…the incessant licking. Wouldn’t change him for the world as he is my world. And he doesn’t roll his eyes at me when I ask him to load the dishwasher or do the laundry or pick up after himself. I mean he does none of it, but I love him

DDog is a royal nuisance. She barks at Owl & Fox sounds on TV - I can’t watch Midsommer Murders anymore because every evening scene involves Owl and Fox cries.
She is very jealous when I show the cat any affection and barks.
She tries to lick off any body lotion or hand cream. I don’t like dog lick.

When I’m eating, my green cheeked conure (little parrot) wants a bit. He gets in between me and whatever I’m having and tries to get some. If it’s safe for him, I give him some and he sort of beaks it a bit, then tosses it away and goes in for some more. I think he’s just chewing the juice out of it or something but it’s so bloody messy! And it feels like he’s not even eating it just playing with it! And it’s my food ffs!

My dear greyhound - robbing bread from my shopping bag.
As she got older, peeing indoors and just being full of sass.

She crossed the bridge in Jan this year. Her most annoying habit was not living long enough.

My cat has sex with my duvet every morning.

Sometimes while I'm still in the bed.

Ah, sin biscuits.

She dreams too loudly

When I come in, she won't leave me alone until I've made a fuss of her. She appears to have finally started following me upstairs instead of sitting at the bottom of the stairs and whining (she is allowed upstairs)

My cat, wants me to stand and watch him eat from his bowl and say what a good boy.
Uses his scratching post then has a sly go at the settee watching me going mad.
Sits in the garden looking all innocent then as you go past runs and slaps your legs.
At night uses me as a springboard to jump from the bed to the windowsill.

i had a cat who would scratch one bit of the bedroom wallpaper when I was sleeping but with his head turned to watch me as he did it. He knew it would wake me and I would take him downstairs. He was happy then because he didn't like the dark and wouldn't go down on his own.

My lab likes to carry socks. He will pick them up from bedrooms, the laundry basket even the clean ones from a drawer. They're often discarded in the garden. It means we frequently have to wear odd socks.

We also have a food thief conure. He will happily land on plates and help himself. The evil git also likes to bite bare toes. If he sees a toe he will run across the floor to attack. Absolutely terrifying.

My adorable and much loved cat cannot stay in the same place to be sick - runs round the house and voms in several locations.
All of the preferred locations are carpeted.

My cat does it pre poo. It’s called “running up a poo” 🤣

I am now firmly in hapless fuck territory having blown money on bulk buying expensive food for DCat, only for her to firmly reject it like I’m trying to poison her. She’d literally hoovered up the trial pack the day before!
she has a habit of waking DS1 up early by licking his bedroom walls and furniture very loudly. He said it’s like someone’s doing some sanding in his room, and he only realises it’s the cat when he hears her purring her goofy head off while licking the headboard 🙄
she also likes to lick the kitchen bin and the patio doors.

The Long Wheelbase Hound has taken to asking (with the magic asking paw, which is adorable as fuck and hard to resist, he just holds his paw up and tilts his head a bit) to drink out of my tooth mug when I am on the loo.

Apparently bathroom tap water is much nicer than the daily cleaned and refilled washing up bowl of water downstairs.

The Deliquent Frilly Wolf is in spring Squirrel Mode which means we MUST lie by the door, door open, waiting for a squirrel to pass so she can run out and shout at it. Whilst we all freeze.

My cat sits IN the litter tray but somehow manages to poo over the side of it onto the floor (we put those training mats down to catch it these days). Good thing he's fluffy and cute...

My cute mini dachshund is a sun seeker and very loving. But.... when someone is at the door/ near our house/ motorbike drives past, she loses her tiny mind and barks none stop. She's well trained in every other area, I think this is a breed thing.

Boy cat is getting old and likes yowling. At night. A lot. (He is healthy but vet thinks cognitive decline). Girl cat scratches the fucking furniture.

Same with mine - as soon as she knows I am changing the tray, she will sit and watch me and as soon as it’s finished she’ll be on there taking a massive dump. Whatever time of day.

MaleCat:
Walk over to the end of the sofa, scratch it
"Leave the sofa alone"
MaleCat bristles and twitches the fur on his back. Walks round the coffee table , back over to the sofa , scratches it
"Leave.The.Sofa.ALONE"
MaleCat proves that he is Half Goldfish by repeating the act .
Then I'll up the ante and bite DD's feet
"Leave my feet alone you little sod"
Walks over to the sofa.....

FemaleCat :
I need to use the tray. There it is . Ohhhh carpet...puppy pads
She has been to the Vet , she has a lovely clean tray . She just pees outside of it .

<Sigh>

You are very very brave having a white duvet

My pony loves to throw anything that is left on or over his stable door onto the floor. Rug? Floor. Coat? Floor. Brand new saddle (just after I got him and hadn't fully clocked his antics)? Yep. Floor.

Occasionally if he is busy eating his haynet I will chance leaving my coat or something over his door while I pop and do or get something. Even if I'm gone 30 seconds, it's on the floor when I get back.

He has to have his feed very "soupy" and he loves to wipe his nose in your hair when he has finished. That's a habit I could live without!

13 year old cat scratching furniture, carpet and curtains. He does bring our family a great deal of happiness though.

Mine insists on being 'on me' early morning. I am currently typing with her curled up on one arm (she is small). It's fine most of the time but I do need the occasional coff or a pee and she hangs on to me like her life depends on it.

I wouldn't care but if there is a man around, any man, then she blanks me.

When my carer arrives we have a chat about what needs doing and she will be on his knee as he sits down and she gives me look of pure, "This is my favourite human, you were just a stop gap"