Tell Bought By Many Pet Insurance about your pets’ biggest mishaps - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

[AmeliaMumsnet]

Having a pet is like having an extra member of the family; they can be a huge source of joy and comfort, but they’re also a lot of responsibility. Pet Insurance company, Bought By Many, want to hear about some of the smaller mishaps your pets may have had; those moments that remind you just how much they need you to take care of them.

Here’s what Bought By Many have to say: “We know pets can be mischievous and get themselves into sticky situations, so we’ve launched pet insurance with features no other provider offers. You can choose between policies that will never go up in price, give you money back if you don’t need to claim or cover your pet’s pre-existing medical conditions. Bought By Many is free to join, and 290,000+ people already have!!”

So, to get your hands on a £300 voucher, tell Bought By Many about the mishaps your pets have had - the funnier the better! If your labrador has ever broken into the dog treats cupboard, or your bird has fallen off its perch, or your cat misjudged a leap from one sofa to the next, post on the thread with your stories and you’ll be entered into a prize draw for a £300 voucher of your choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

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We used to have a dog that would eat anything... Including knickers. Which would pass though undigested. It was disgusting and embarrassing!

We used to live in a first floor flat. In summer, we'd open the windows and the cats would delicately climb out onto the windowsill and sit happily watching the world go by. Until one day I noticed Kuro scrabbling frantically before plummeting to the ground, an expression of panic on her wee furry face. In all, the pair of them fell out of the window three times each before we moved.

As a pup learning (in 5 minutes of our backs being turned) how to climb on to the high bay window and teething on my husbands brand new expensive game controller put up therefor safe keeping!

My mum, not too wisely, bought me a semi-wild yearling colt when I was 13, thinking naively that we could 'grow up together'
On Christmas Day he jumped into next doors field and had it away with the neighbours mare. My parents spend 6 hours trying to catch him, mush to the dismay of my grandmother who wanted to go to church, and I think my dad polished off a bottle or two of whisky in the process.
The next day they called in someone with a horsebox to entice him in with some food - all was going well until the Boxing Day hunt went by and he jumped out and joined them fr 6 hours. We eventually got him back the next day, as someone 6 miles away had caught him and put him in a stable.
Quite an eventful festive season that year

My cat is not the brightest spark - and climb things and forgets how to get down, including internal doors and the extractor unit.

She also loves cuddles, and I have to wedge the bathroom door shut when I'm in the bath, else she'll climb on my chest and snuggle up, with her tail (at the very least) in the warm water. When it's time to get out she is outraged that she is all wet.

Toddler style if it's tea time in her mind but not mine, she'll start pulling tissues out of the box and leaves of the (only remaining) houseplant or fading cut flowers. It's like a mini toddler tantrum, except if she eats much tissue or leaves she is sick... much less cute. A friend's boy cat has had surgery not once but twice for swallowing earplugs. By comparison, tissues and a bit of cat sick seem pretty minor.

I met DH a week after I got my cat who was then juat a kitten. Roll on a few months we were living together. My future DH was checking out a light fitting in the bathroom and the daft cat jumped up and got stuck in a cavity in the wall. She wouldn't come down and was up there for two days. I slept in the bath and tried to coax her down. I even called the fire brigade who poked her with a stick. Eventually DH, exhausted from the incessant caterwauling, (she is incredibly loud) got so fed up he cut a hole in the ceiling and she hopped down and shot outdoors to do a poo. It was a very expensive little mistake as he had to get the ceiling replaced.

Dsis and I were playing with my guinea pig one evening. I left her with him, and when I came back he was surrounded by scraps of paper. Quite normal, he liked messing around with paper. But when I was putting him back in his hutch, and tidying away the mess...ohhhhhh shit.

At school the following day:

"Sorry, Miss, my guinea pig ate my homework."

She didn't believe me.

My collie cross had to be rescued by the coastguard/cliff rescue after getting stuck whilst we were on the beach in a cove on the Isle of Man, and she climbed up the cliff.
We didn't even realise until we went to start the walk back up and she wouldn't move. I tried cajoling, telling her off, offering treats, but she wouldn't budge.
I was sure she'd try to follow us when we left as it was a good 30 min walk uphill back to the car but she was still in exactly the same place when dh returned with the cliff rescue team over an hour later. They just walked up to her but did use ropes and harnesses to get back down.

My cat Juke decided he would like to join the roofers doing my shed. All fine except when he jumped up he jumped directly into a pot of black bitumen. He then tried to clean himself which got it all over his face.

Ended up in an emergency vet trip (would have to happen on a Sunday) and an erm completely shaved pussy. Poor guy.

My Mum's dogs had puppies and she kept one. Several years later, the father dog died and Mum buried him at a local beauty spot, in some trees where he loved to be.

A year after his death, we took mother and son for a memorial walk in the woods.

The son came round the corner, tail wagging furiously, proud as punch with his dad's back leg firmly clenched in his jaws.

Awful! But very funny.

My mum's kitten fell in the toilet & couldn't get out, I only found him in time as I popped for a wee (didn't wee!) We had to rush him to the vets for a night on a warm mat. Expensive lesson in leaving the seat down!

I don't like when cats sit on dinning tables or kitchen worktops and here we go! My 5 month old kitten Tigger ignores my rules...

No idea where to start.

We have cats. Four at the moment but we had another two previously

One ate the pork chops left out to defrost. He didn't move for the entire day afterwards.

One was a serial cupboard raider and we would get up to find chewed cat food sachets on the kitchen floor. He would also get his own out when I had the food bowls out.

One of the current ones is a demon at catching flies. She is also really good at falling off furniture and regularly crashes into stuff in her hot pursuit.

We had a visit from the very serious teachers at my son's soon to be primary school which they always did to welcome the child in their own environment and to answer any parents questions. One squatted down next to ds who was stood drawing at the coffee table. Our cat jumped into the table and proceeded to lick his lipstick Willy accompanied by loud chomping noises. It was funny and moryifying all at once

I never realised just how much of a cat's bulk is its fur until my first cat jumped into a full bath and ended up looking like a scrawny hamster .

My first cat also managed to get into a fight with a fox a week after we got her, losing both fangs, puncturing a leg and ripping one of her ears so it ended up as big V for the rest of her life. Luckily we'd bought insurance the day she came home otherwise she'd have cost us nearly £1000 on her first weekend .

My current cat is regularly shut in cupboards because she'll open the door and slink inside then my husband will constantly be shutting any doors that are open.

OMG - I got two Bengal kittens recently who cause nothing but devastation! We have had chipped kitchen tiles and counter top due to boy kitten climbing onto high ledges and dropping things off the side. All plants have had to be removed too. I have had to put an anti-kitty device on the kitchen tap because they know how to turn it on! Despite their crazy behaviour, I wouldn't be without the terrors though. They are nothing on par with what my two DDs have done in their 4 and 6 years!! lol

At PIL's house we had 4 dogs from different parts of the family there. They all wanted to mark over each other's markings. It was like a conga line! Unfortunately our dog decided to re-sniff the marking pile just as the next member of the line came along, cocked his leg and peed on her head.

When our cat had kittens we gave it a lovely crate we had in the garage to relax in with her kittens. I think t was some sort of food crate and there were small holes all around it. It had an old flannelette sheet as a lining that draped over the edges. On returning home one day we found that the sheet had fallen into the crate and one of the kittens was staring at us with its head stuck in one of the holes!! It took quite a bit of careful cutting of plastic to release it. Time to chuck the crate!

my cat tried my elderflower presse - not impressed by the taste!

Our first cat was a bit traumatised the weekend we got her and on the Monday morning when we left for work she escaped and spent ages running round the garden before we finally got her back indoors. When we got back home in the evening we couldn't find her anywhere...until we went into the kitchen and somehow she'd jumped up onto the top of the high cupboards and was sleeping behind a biscuit tin. She wasn't too keen on coming down though so we had to use a step ladder (and gardening gloves to save our hands from her razor-sharp claws ).

We used to have a budgie who wasn't very good at flying. He would fly towards the door of his cage, only to crash-land on the edge of its roof. He would often crash into curtains and furniture too.

Our 4 week old, minuscule, baby rabbits got wedged/snug between some old pieces of turf.
When it was time to put them away, I lifted the turf and the soil fell on top of them.
They were literally buried alive. I had to frantically dig them out, one by one.

The icing. The gorgeous - still - wet - and - sticky chocolate icing I'd left to set on the kitchen counter.

Cue me finding out for the first time since bringing her home a few weeks prior that the new kitten could jump onto said kitchen counter.

I only found this out when I saw in true comic strip style, the chocolate paw prints leading across the kitchen floor and onto the sofa......

My bedlington terrier has disgraced himself many times. We used to live on a busy road with a pets at home on the other side. One day he escaped out of the garden and I was running round the houses like a mad thing looking for him when my phone rang. It was pets at home asking if I'd lost my dog! He had crossed 4 lanes of traffic and my heart was in my mouth! I was heavily pregnant at the time and I'm convinced that bit of exercise engaged the baby and he was born a few days later on his due date.
When we moved house the movers pulled out our sofa and the dog had eaten the entire back. It must have taken him years. We had no idea!
Finally we were on holiday at the coast and came across a dead seal on the beach. Before we could stop him the dog grabbed a bit and ran off. He wouldn't let us near him until he had crunched it up. He is so disgusting!

Oh and how could I forget his most embarrassing crime. We were on a walk and we were only just trusting him without a lead. Suddenly he bolted off and JUMPED straight into a baby's pram. I have no idea what possessed him. Luckily the mum was really good about it