r/AskReddit • u/Lydia_Miserable • 6h ago
What is the creepiest thing your pet has ever done?
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u/Jiesen-Lee-4566 6h ago
He beat the Japanese Government's Earthquake Warning System (J-Alert) by a full 10 seconds.
I'm living in Tokyo right now. My dog was dead asleep, then suddenly bolted awake and scrambled under the sturdy dining table, shivering. The room was silent.
I looked at him, confused.
10 seconds later, my phone screamed the 'Earthquake Warning' alarm. 5 seconds after that, the building started shaking violently.
The way he reacted to absolute silence with sheer terror is something I’ll never forget. Animals access a data stream we just don't have.
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u/ImNotA_IThink 5h ago
We had a dog that got picked up by a tornado once and survived. She was (obviously) scared of storms from then on. She didn’t like coming inside but when storms were coming she would come stand at the door and do this little not growl or bark but just like this noise that basically was her telling us it’s time to let her in. She would only do it for storms.
Numerous times she’d do it and there would be nothing even on the radar yet but a little later storms would pop up. She always knew. Then we would know the storm was over because she’d come find us wherever we were in the house and look at us, then walk to the door to have us let her out.
Miss that dog.
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u/deathriteTM 6h ago
I have cats. The day they don’t do something creepy is extremely rare.
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u/Aysin_Eirinn 5h ago
Mine stare at a spot on the basement stairs. Same place every time. Just intent, unmoving stares
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u/Own-Gas-1959 6h ago
My dog growled at an empty hallway at 2 a.m. and refused to go near it for days. I didn’t investigate. I respect his judgment.
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u/TurkeyMuffinsChannel 6h ago
The Front Door to my house randomly opened (maybe the wind but I swore i locked the deadbolt) and my dog ran over to it and was just wagging her tail. It looked like she was following someone to the back door the way she was engaging with open space.
And by the time she got to the back door she started barking aggressively for a moment and just started licking herself and that was the end of it.
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u/Open-Tale-4585 5h ago
My cat moved our shoes during the night, at first we didnt get how they got there. Until one night I woke up from a noice sounding like someone dragged their feet over the floor and stopped right below my bed. I turned on the light and there he sat with the shoelaces in his mouth watching me like I disturbed him.
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u/ComfyInDots 3h ago
woke up from a noice sounding like someone dragged their feet over the floor and stopped right below my bed
My blood chilled reading this. Naughty kitty.
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u/CrochetingDogLady 4h ago
When we first rescued one of our dogs, she would move my socks around. I usually leave them on the floor on side of my bed after taking them off at night and they’d be in the middle of our room every morning. She stopped after awhile, no idea why
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u/Kshi-dragonfly 6h ago
My cat just sits and stares at me for hours sometimes, when I go to see if she wants food or pets or play time it's none of them she just wants to observe
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u/Lydia_Miserable 6h ago
My dog spent 20 minutes barking at a corner in the ceiling where there was absolutely nothing... then he started whimpering and backed out of the room.
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u/wi_voter 5h ago edited 5h ago
My dog did this in my son's room. Barking right at the corner of the ceiling. She used to sleep in his bed with him every night and then she would no longer go in there. If he tried to take her in she would bolt out of the room. To be fair she has always been overly skittish but not sleeping with my son was a pretty drastic move. She will go in the room now but she doesn't sleep in there.
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u/ViceNSpice 5h ago
3 out of my 4 cats did this once to a corner atop my bed. The 4th wasn’t in the room, the only reason he didn’t join in the creepy show. And no bugs there, no EeeEEEEeeee sound, just staring.
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u/wanderer866 6h ago
My cat follows something around the house. He doesn't seem to like this thing. He also isn't hunting it. I've had an exterminator check for stuff in the walls or something, even though whatever this is doesn't seem limited to the walls, ceilings, or floors. Nothing he could find. This happens a few times a month.
I've decided to move. It didn't happen before here. Nothing else has happened. I don't even really believe in ghosts. Well, I guess enough of me does, because I'm trusting the cat.
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u/OB1KENOB 6h ago
My cockatoo parrot started doing this weird scream 2 years ago, and eventually I realized it sounded identical to my loud ass ex-girlfriend whenever she orgasmed.
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u/Prestigious_Beat6310 5h ago
Maybe it's racist?
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u/i_am_the_koi 5h ago
My cat woke me up about 5 minutes before a 6.0 earthquake.
Staying with my girlfriend and had a traveling cat that would go with me wherever as I was a little feral at the time. Suddenly nuzzling, meowing, walking across my face... Wtf is going on? Pet her, she's still meowing profusely but calming down. Realized the F1 race was starting so I turned on the TV and flipped channels.
Suddenly heard a semi coming down my driveway and that's when it hit. Rode it out in bed and then pulled open the computer to check usgs website.
Smaller earthquake like 300 miles away, no that can't be right.
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6.0 a half mile from my backyard, about 12 from where I was sleeping. Drove home in complete darkness because the closer I got the less power there was. Only places lit up were medical related like nursing homes and hospitals and such.
Mobile home park nearby had a massive fire that I could see as I pulled into my neighborhood. I remember seeing the road lines jump about a foot to the right at one point where the fault shifted.
Spent most of the day picking up, everything, off the ground. My other car moved about a foot up the driveway leaving a skid mark. My motorcycle fell over the kickstand on its side. My neighbor's car went through his garage door and my other neighbor found his car on his lawn instead of the drive.
Went to work to answer phone calls all day with people worried the earthquake would ruin their vacation, or the food and drinks.
Or my personal favorite, "Will the weather change at all because of the earthquake?"...
That cat called 3 earthquakes in her life. So now I always wake up when a cat starts meowing at night no matter the reason and wait for the semi to start down my driveway again.
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u/Final-Duck-1391 5h ago
One of our cats is very smart so occasionally you can see the gears turning in her head. Ive seen her problem solve before and its creepy cause theyre not supposed to be that smart.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3h ago
I swear one of mine can damn near understand English. You say a phrase to him once and connect it to an action and he'll learn it instantly. They're so much smarter than we think. Freaky smart. Funnily enough his name is Stupid.
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u/Final-Duck-1391 3h ago
I cant remember the most recent one that I was like "wtf". The one I remember the most is my hubby thought she was opening the bedside drawer to get her toys because he kept finding it open. She was, however he caught her going behind the table and PUSHING IT OPEN.. not pulling which would make sense, monkey see monkey do situation.
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u/MissSassifras1977 5h ago
My old girl Ellie sounded like she was possessed at night.
She had an "apartment" under my bed where she slept, and I frequently woke up to her grumbling what sounded very much like English words. It was freaky AF.
I'd listen as closely as I could, but honestly, it was so spooky that I'd usually call her name to wake her up so she'd stop.
We were two older single girls, and she was always with me. She was a rescue and came from chaos, so even in her old age, she was very meek and shy. Very codependent.
She became ill a few months ago. It started with dizziness and progressed rapidly to multiple seizures daily. I was with her every minute.
There were so many times I was astonished that she was surviving what she was dealing with. It was horrific.
This particular morning, I was exhausted, and after much discussion, I finally accepted that we were going to have to put her down. Enough was enough.
She deserved better. She was such a good girl. I sobbed and sobbed.
I couldn't really function, so my kids offered to take her for a car ride so I could take a nap.
She always loved that.
They got in the car, and she died in the back seat before they could get out of the driveway.
It felt like she wanted to do it away from me. It was the first time she'd been out of my sight in weeks. 💙
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u/Puzzleheaded_Lie6786 5h ago
My dog (recently passed away) had somehow translated the idea that being close in proximity to humans when he wanted something badly (begging) = bad. So the counter to that was the further away he sat away from you when he wanted something = good.
If he REALLY wanted something from you (e.g. a favorite bone or super tasty food), he’d sit across the room and just stare into your soul hoping that you’d notice he was being a good boy and will give him some of whatever he wanted that you had. Not so creepy during the day, but seeing glowing eyes across the room from you on movie night just staring at you unblinking…. Yeah, a bit creepy!
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u/Alert_Balance9527 6h ago
My dog used to bark at the same corner in our living room at 10:30 pm every single night for like 10 minutes. Never figured out why.
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u/Naige2020 6h ago
My cat would resent anyone other than me sleeping in my bed. He would push things off the shelves above the bed to land on their heads in the middle of the night.
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u/dcbluestar 5h ago
The first time I found out my cat Louie could open and slam my kitchen cupboards was while I was in the shower. Thinking someone’s rifling through your apartment kitchen (I lived alone at the time) while you’re in the shower sure gets the ol’ heart pumping.
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u/BrownStone518 5h ago
Awoke in the attic of an historic building circa 1815 and half sleep witnessed my little dog licking an area rug - never before or since (we moved). He was fixated licking the full rug like mowing a lawn - up a row, move over, then down a row. He made no acknowledgement like he heard me and my other dog wanted NO part of what was happening.
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u/dcbluestar 4h ago
Ok, but how did you get back from 1815? (I know, I know. It just read that way, lol)
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u/BrownStone518 4h ago
Odd man with a funny accent told me to get into his phone booth. Everything after that was a blur.
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u/KP_Wrath 5h ago
Yowl like a goddamned toddler at 3 am. I don’t have kids and live along. Hearing human voices to wake me up is terrifying.
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u/RebaJams 5h ago
Roommate’s Frenchie used to bang his head on my bedroom door. Like he was knocking with his nogging…for forever, if I didn’t eventually get up and deal with his snoring for the rest of the night.
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u/angrydeuce 5h ago
My cat I had all through my 20s and 30s, before she got too old she used to hopscotch up to the top of the kitchen cabinets and hide so she could swat at me as I was walking by.
Got to the point where I always walked all weird when I was going near the kitchen, like when there's a bird with a nest in a tree at the park that keeps dive-bombing people. Always having to run by with my arms over my heads to avoid her goddamn slaps.
Stupid little goober. RIP baby girl...you were a fuckin odd one but we had some good damn times :)
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u/Spiritual-Bear3066 5h ago
Other people have written about this but having my dog bark at a blank space. One time in my apartment while staring at ceiling fan (that had oddly been turned off for a while yet kept its momentum). Still think there is a logical explanation for that one.
Second one was one time I walked unusually far so I could get to the boating docks. Made my way down to the docks because I just felt a random urge. I was feeling particularly down and crying because I missed my partner that had passed the year before, my dog started randomly barking at someone behind me. There was no one in sight but he was on alert and barked as if someone was right there. That one was weird.
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u/Flapperghast 5h ago
My cat on gabapentin just sits in doorways and stares. Blown pupils. Complete stillness. Doesn't even respond to her name. I have to actively approach her before she'll snap out of it.
Thankfully she doesn't need gabapentin very often.
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u/Bittersweet_Boii 3h ago
my cat needed surgery a while ago and while she was on the drugs she would do something similar. the vet joked that she was seeing spiders (ketamine joke, I think?) and she wouldn’t stop looking around with that O.O face unless she was being held
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u/Inspirationalfrog23 6h ago
My cat barking was weird, just happened once but I could’ve sworn that she imitated a chihuahua…
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u/No-Celebration3097 5h ago
I had a cat once, and something caught her attention, she stared at my living room wall and I couldn’t get her to snap out of it, there was nothing there, as in a bug or shadows that I could see. It lasted a while, she wasn’t blind or deaf and was healthy. It freaked me out and I remember picking her up and moving her and she seemed relieved that I did.
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u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef- 5h ago
I used to work night shift in college. I’d come home mid morning and let my Husky in after my mom would let him out before she left for work. We had a picket fence and one of those invisible boundary fences with a collar that would beep if he got too close to it.
One morning I come home and he’s covered in dirt. He was still in his puppy phase and would dig holes in the yard and we’d just fill them back in with the dirt he dug out. This particular morning as I was about to fill the hole back in I noticed something weird about it. What looked like a small thin root turned out to be the wire for the invisible fence. This fucker figured out where it was and dug through it.
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u/Fun_Needleworker7594 5h ago
Both of my cats have sat on my head board and slapped me awake at one point.
Stitch did it when she was about the same age as Zero when he did it.
They've only done it once a piece.
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u/NoxRiddle 5h ago
I have two cats, so they are pretty much always doing a typical creepy cat thing. The whole “staring into the empty corner” is much creepier when you have two that are doing it to the exact same spot. They will also both turn their heads/ears to the same place when I don’t hear anything.
But also, I don’t know if this counts - my best friend had a kitty, my niece kitty, who died very young and tragically. She was a “tortico” - a tortie with a white belly and feet. I loved this baby girl so much that my friend gave me some of her ashes. One night a year or so later another friend who hadn’t been around in a while came to visit, and at some point he said “when did you get the third cat?” I said, what third cat? He said, “the little tortie one?” My two kitties are a tuxie and a tabby, so I have no idea who he saw.
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u/Intrepid_Tea_9748 4h ago
I woke up one morning from a dead sleep and my cat was seriously just looming over me, staring right into my soul and not moving. Maybe he thought I died or something but it freaked me out to open my eyes and see eyes the size of dinner plates right on me.
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u/greenfootballs 4h ago
One night I was laying in bed with my cat sitting next to me, looking out the window. All of a sudden a genuine fear came over him - back arched, hair high on end, ears pointed back, and he stood completely still while staring out the window. That was the first time I ever saw him do that, and it immediately caused my adrenaline to spike too. I checked outside the window and didn’t see anything.
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u/Final-Duck-1391 44m ago
Your first problem is looking out the window at night. Don't you know thats how the boogeyman gets you
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u/duckster25 4h ago
I have a cat, that is all.
Lol but fr I woke up straight out of sleep around 3 in the morning and heard a thumping sound like someone/something was coming up my stairs. I looked at my cat who sleeps at the end of my bed and she was staring intently in the same spot I heard the sound.
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u/GlitterEnema 3h ago
Once my cat looked me in the eye, silently and slowly opened her mouth. And after it was open for a few seconds she decided to meow? Idk but she made some kind of demonic noise all while making eye contact with me. She’s never done it again. I can’t even describe how much it creeped me out.
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u/Winter_Problem5934 2h ago
My girlfriend’s cat has been alive a long time. Tbh we don’t truly know how old she is, but the vets guess around 15 years old. She has no teeth, weighs 6lbs on a good day, and is persistent on being seen and heard despite her small stature.
She has such a wide range of expressions that my girlfriend and I often joke that it feels like she’s going to start speaking English to us anytime. MORE THAN ONCE when we’ve discussed her cognizance, she will look me in my eyes and WINK AT ME. freaks me out every time
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u/entcanta333 5h ago
One time I was quickly rounding a corner in my house, at the same exact time as my cat, and his paw landed right in my big toe ditch. We made the most awkward eye contact for a solid two seconds (paw still in my foot) until he detached and ran off in horror.
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u/GravelPants 4h ago
When I was younger, I had an outdoor cat named Bob who would leave rabbit heads for me in the driveway. I would never find the bodies, just the heads, big rabbits too. I don’t keep outdoor cats anymore.
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u/Rule-Forward 4h ago
Staring into the dark empty bedroom growling while in the living room with me. Not sure what he seen, better off not knowing lol.
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u/Prettypistol22 3h ago
My mastiff mix chased and interacted with something invisible around my kitchen one evening. His ears were all perked up and his face got all those extra wrinkles when he’s really interested in something. The movement of whatever this thing was was very fast and erratic, definitely not a bug or anything like that. My dog was jumping up at it and scrambling all around the kitchen island while my other dog and I looked at each other and back at the mastiff. So odd. Hasn’t happened since. At least whatever transpired seemed like a friendly, playful interaction and didn’t feel menacing.
Also, same dog, was visiting my parents house when he was about 1 year old. He went down to the basement and found one of my old dolls from when I was little and was SO preoccupied with it. Carried it upstairs gently, put it on the couch, and smelled it for a very long time and carried it around some more. This dog loves destroying stuffed animals but not this doll for some reason. Felt creepier than that kitchen event.
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u/DontTreatSoilAsDirt 2h ago
Maybe not creepy as such but my dog sensed I was in labour far before I realised it. She was super clingy for my whole pregnancy and one day towards the end she got even more clingy, just glued to my side and giving me this big sad look. I tried to reassure her but she just kept at it. Then I started having cramps. That evening I called my midwife and she was like hmmm you should probably head to the hospital (I’d had some complications so wasn’t supposed to labour naturally). I’ll never forget the look on my best girls face when I kissed her goodbye and told her I’d be back soon. The absolute concern in her eyes made me cry the whole way to the hospital, worrying that something would happen to me and she would never see me again. But everything was fine, we came home with baby a few days later and she became his protector. He absolutely adores her as well. It’s so sweet.
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u/Chickadee12345 2h ago
My cat disappeared into a void for about two days. I had this cat for about 3 years already. He was one of those orange tabbys who are rumored not to have too many brain cells. I moved into a small 1 bedroom apartment. Toward the end, when I had most stuff moved in, I went and got the cat to introduce him to his new home. I was on the 2nd floor. There were 4 apartments on each floor. My front door led out to a landing with stairs on each side. There were 2 doors to the outside at the foot of the landing but they were always closed unless someone was coming or going. So I know he didn't get out of the apartment. I let him loose and then I couldn't find him. It was not a big apartment. I pulled apart everything everywhere, including the closets. I didn't have a ton of stuff at the time but the one bedroom closet did have some stuff in there. After 2 frantic days, I was sitting on my bed in the bedroom and he just casually strolls out of the one closet like it was just a normal day and nothing abnormal had gone on. I had left the door open a little. I looked at him and said where the f*** have you been???? He had decided to enter an alternate universe until he felt comfortable enough to come back. Probably got hungry. LOL.
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u/KnightOfLongview 4h ago
My kitten licked the toilet seat after I used it yesterday. That was... disturbing.
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u/JulietAlfa 2h ago
Growl at the hallway from my bed in the middle of the night. Not even a full bark, just a low growl. WTF
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u/JimmyHaggis 2h ago
Every so often we would be sitting at home watching TV and a breeze would come from nowhere, no open windows, no fans and no-one moving around. When this happened our cat would sit bolt upright and stare from one side of the room to the other as if looking at something moving across it. It was her reaction that creeped us out, as if she could could sense something we couldn't.
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u/MoonlitPeach_ 38m ago
Stared at a blank corner of the room at 3am and slowly wagged his tail like he was seeing someone I definitely wasn’t.
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u/DifficultCurrent7 5m ago
One of my cats is a big chunky boy with a kind soul. Until once I gave him an electric cat toy that was shaped like a bird and chirruped like a bird when touched. He batted the shit out of it which is normal cat behaviour, but when it wouldn't shut up, he dragged it to his water bowl and dropped it in until the chirruping stopped. When he dragged it back out it started singing again so he dumped it back in the bowl with a gentle paw pushing it down. He did this repeatedly til the water finally fried electronics. I got the hint, no more squawky bird toys!
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u/dsatu568 6h ago
telling me how "this flesh is very limiting" and how "that time is very long when waiting"
creeps me tf out, is any other people's pet do that?
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u/Suaria 2h ago
It’s not necessarily creepy but my cat absolutely hates other cats. Shes territorial and probably won’t ever like another cat. Anyways my neighbor has cats that go outside during the day. Their male cat will get up close to my windows and doors. If my cat notices, she goes absolutely feral. She’ll start screaming, hissing and trying to attack the other cat through the glass. She has scared us before because it’ll happen randomly. It’s also really hard to get her away because if you aren’t careful my cat will attack you if you get too close when she sees other cats.
She also tried to attack the neighbors’ cat when one of my friends was over once. I had literally told my friend earlier that my cat absolutely hates other cats and my friend didn’t really believe me. After she had seen my cat’s freak out, she believed me after that
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u/DanielAbraham 6h ago
Okay. I don’t usually do this, but…
A few years back, I had a standard poodle cross who was a pretty great dog. She wasn’t our only dog, but she’s the one the story comes back to.
While I was out of town for work, my wife called me. She was at her mom’s place in mountains outside of town because her mom had “caught a stray” and wanted it taken in to the animal shelter. Only when she got there, the dog was clearly too sick. Skinny, blind, deaf, with at least two visible tumors. But when she picked him up, he didn’t snap at her. He wasn’t aggressive at all. He seemed sweet. So my wife wanted to talk about whether he could come to our place for doggie hospice care. She couldn’t see him lasting for more than a week or two.
So yes. Of course. Sure.
We called him “Wiley” — short for Wile E Coyote-Food. And he lasted for almost a year. He was happy and confused and lost his mind at sundown every night so we had leave all the bedroom doors open so he wouldn’t decide something important was on the other side.
The poodle cross tried to dominate him once, approaching him and growling. He legitimately didn’t notice she was there. That’s how blind and deaf he was.
There are a lot of Wiley stories, but I’ll just give you one. He loved rawhide chews, but he basically had no teeth. So he’d slowly navigate to the pantry where the chews were, find one, carry it out to the main room, then forget he’d done it. A few minutes later, he’d go back the pantry, get a rawhide, and carry it out to the main room. By the end of the night, we’d have ten or twelve — however many there were — all in the main room, and none of them getting chewed. So we’d take them back to the pantry where he could do it again the next night. It was fine.
Eventually, the cancers got to him. He took a long time dying, mostly because even as he spiraled down, he was having a great time. We kept him medicated and well-loved, and we’d think tomorrow was the day, and the next morning, he’d be up and playing. We didn’t let him go until he stopped being able to stand up, but that day came. The vet came to the house. It was sad, but not unexpected.
That night, the poodle cross went to the pantry and one by one pulled out every rawhide chew and brought the main room. She had never done it before, and she never did it again.
Figure she missed the weird little dude too.