What quirky behaviour does your pet have?

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We have two 10 month old kittens. One collects and brings home sticks, we have little piles of twigs everywhere! His sister keeps running off with the kitchen sponge scourers!

What quirky thing does your pet do?

Our kitten is 9 months old now and he likes to put his paw under the toilet door when anyone goes in there. It still makes me laugh every single time.

Boy cat loves to hide in the cupboard of shite where I keep the carrier bags (I'm not sure if he licks them) he also likes to wander around shouting at anybody in earshot. We're not sure why.
Girl cat likes to groom me, I become a target when I put a dressing gown on, I think she may of heard about 'the dressing gown of doom' and she thinks I need some catlove and attention. She also seems to enjoy falling off things she's fallen asleep on, think the backs of sofas, the cat tree and she once fell down the stairs, she caught her feet about halfway down, I think she must have remembered that claws aren't just for murder.

My cat eats crisps. Cheese and onion are his favourite.

My cat eats crisps too, also cheese and onion. I don't buy crisps very often but if he gets a whiff of the open bag and I'm not quick enough, his head is straight in.

Hobbes loves his pompoms (his actual pompoms were removed sometime ago).

He carries them around in his mouth, chirruping as if they are prey. Occasionally he loses one to the Robovac and I have to make more for him.

One of mine is obsessed with hair grips. She'll run after them like a dog if you throw one, if she hears the sound of one clinking one a table she will pounce. I can't keep them out in the open.

My cat can be in a deep sleep, but if I put the shreddder on, he's there. It's a big office one and he stands watching the shreds of paper fall. Barmy animal!

Oh I forgot one........ If I ever light a match, perhaps to light a candle, the cat appears from nowhere, even if sleeping, and what he wants is the spent matchstick to take away and chew on.

One of mine is a vaseline junkie 😳I keep a pot nearby all the time and use it for lip balm and also moisturising my hands. One day I noticed she seemed very keen on licking my hand, and then it progressed to the point where I only have to pick up the pot and she's stomping all over me trying to get at it. It's quite weird, fending off a 7 pound cat who wants to stick her head into a pot of vaseline...

My cat steals hair ties and ear plugs and hides them under the shoe rack.

When I started letting my rescue cats out for a long time one of them would go outside dig a hole, poo in it and cover it all up neatly. Then come straight back inside and wee in the litter tray.

My old cat LOVED really strong blue cheese. The smellier the better.

My flatmate once tried to give him some really mild cheddar and he froze, looked my flatmate dead in the eye and whacked the cheese off the counter in disgust, lol.

My previous cat Charlie was a tuxedo cat. I didn't have a cat flap so if he was out when I went out he had to stay out.

I'd come home to him sitting outside the front door like a mini fuzzy bouncer.

He also had to be the first in the house so sometimes I'd only open the door a crack and he would try to get in.

He was also an expert at sulking and had to sulk by turning his back to you which sounds like @iklboo 's cat,

He once spent ages findng a spot n the room where he could turn his back on a group of us.

My cat gets into the shower every morning with my husband. Gets soaked but doesn't seem to mind. I've had cats all my life and this is the first one who does this, in fact the only one to display any interest in water at all!
Also have a shower sharing cat.
I have a top loading washing machine that I fill and leave to soak with the lid up ...my cat sits inside it on top of the wet clothes.

One of mine, a rescue, is very much a Proper Cat. By cat standards, she has no weirdness at all - she is everything a cat should be. Friendly, confident, charismatic, highly intelligent, and death on four legs to small animals. The other is....well, she's adorable and extremely sweet. The sweetest cat in the world. But she really is quite slow, and perhaps as a consequence, extremely odd. We have a ritual called 'pop under' where she wants to come on top of me, under a blanket, but she doesn't understand that I can't lift the blanket whilst she is actively sitting on it. When she was a baby I used to do 'remedial pouncing' with her when I'd move a toy verrry verry slowly in front of her, whilst she wriggled, made noises, and made an enormous scene, until she finally jumped about 3 feet in the air and 2in forwards, slamming her front paws down somewhere in the vicinity of the toy. Actual prey would have been about 5 miles away by this point. Once we lived in a house that backed into a forest and her sister was carrying out a systematic genocide on the voles (nothing I could really do to stop her). She kept ruining the hunts with her screeching and excitement until her sister actually took pity on her and gave her a dead vole to go away and play with.
I did once ask a vet if there was anything wrong with her. There isn't. He said she was a very healthy, very happy, very sweet-natured cat. I said 'Then why is she like this?' he said 'All mammalian intelligence follows a curve of average distribution. Someone has to be at the bottom'.

I have a sock collector. For ages is I wonderehay was happening to my socks. Then pulled back to sofa to hoover and found a nest of them covered in her fur. She also needs settling to sleep even stressed, like a baby.

@iloveeverykindofcat I keep chuckling at "remedial pouncing" 😆

Mine is like that- we wave feathers and wands and there is always an elaborate pre-hunt dance. A feline haka: the butt wiggle, the fore paw jiggle, duck and peek out. After nearly 5 minutes of this, my daughter has lost interest and wandered off while kitty is still behind the curtain busy "stalking"

MIne also tends to come running when she hears the rattle and pour of small hard objects- when I measure out rice or tip peanuts into a bowl. I have no idea why she is fascinated by that sound.

One of mine loves the tumble dryer. Whenever we put it on, she stands on her back legs with her hands front paws against it and stays there for ages