Talk about your pets - share funny/cute stories, discuss care and husbandry, ponder the lives of your animal companions

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Now that's a fun thread! I've always had dogs, currently own 3 and I have countless stories of fun and dumb shit they did while leaving a smile on my face.
I once bought a bag of dried meat sausages (Drentse Kosterworst my beloved) and left them on the counter before I left the home. When I returned from work I saw that my dog has moved the chair from the dining table to the kitchen counter and ate all the sausages! Mind you, she's a tiny but smart Maltezer mix. Ofcourse this meat thief was all shy and and wore her guilt in such obvious fashion, while my other dog was pointing with her nose at the chair like "I didn't do nuffin'".
 
I will share some anecdotes of my pets someday but for today I just wanted to remind everyone that some white nationalists who were trying to start up a homeschool program were phone booked by sharing pictures of their dog and sharing it's real name, which was then cross referenced against Pennsylvania State animal registration records.
 
My youngest cat was in heat a week ago. Its impossible to get a any time soon spay appointment around here.

I put an extra litter box and food. Water, snacks in a bedroom just so I dont have to hear the howling.

She shit in every corner of the room like a ghetto cat pentagram.
 
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I have 5 dogs and 5 cats but this guy is definitely the one who made my his person. My friend rescued him and his orphaned litter, he was hand reared thus very people oriented. He will be 2 come July but super chill, he gets the occasional zoomies but bc he’s an absolute unit (Maine coon sized) he sounds like a horse lmao. Anyway, just wanted to show off my big beautiful bb boy lol
 
mikomikonurse dijo:
it’s funny to hear you all describe your pets personalities, they really do all have their own unique personalities just like people do.

Here is my snapping turtle:
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He’s so extremely chill. I have box turtles too but his personality is very different. Very social with me in a way I wouldn’t expect from a turtle. Maybe because he knows I saved him. I found him in a dire situation hit in the face by a car in the middle of the road. His beak was broken off and he’s blind in one eye. I decided to keep him permanently because he is disabled now and also we have a bond and I’ve come to love him.
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This past winter I came across a ~25lb snapping turtle in the middle of a windy backroad where there's a bunch of farms n shit. Stopped my car, snatched him up and helped him cross over into the creek. Felt good helpin' out a bro.
 
vinrock dijo:
This past winter I came across a ~25lb snapping turtle in the middle of a windy backroad where there's a bunch of farms n shit. Stopped my car, snatched him up and helped him cross over into the creek. Felt good helpin' out a bro.
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You are a real one. Thank you for helping a bro out. I’m always watching out for turts on the roads, they need nice people to look out for them. It’s not their fault humans built a road in their habitat. So many people just drive past them or over them. The little ones can be hard to see if you’re not looking out for them
 
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I have three cats, just got two dogs from the pound, and a neighbour gave us six chickens and a rooster.

we started with a cat when my eldest was in kindergarten, and I’m super pissed at the pound in my hometown. They said he was a 10 month old kitten, he was 3 months of that, and already neutered (you should wait until they are over 5 months otherwise they can fail to grow and develop properly).
He’s a a massive jerk and the beat emotional support animal in this house. He bites when he gets pet too much, but if my kids are crying he will come to them and crawl into their laps. He loved his whole life as an apartment kitty but now we have a farm and he’s hunting mice and I’m really happy for him.

Before we bought the farm my kids’ best friend had kittens and we brought two kittens and my grumpy cat on the road trip to the new house (19’000 km trip in one car with two adults, two kids, and three cats)

Now the kittens are about 9 months, the brother is neutered and is learning how to be a farm cat, the sister is TINY and will probably stay an indoor cat.

In February we picked up to puppies from the pound in the new town. Mystery mix, but one of them is for sure cane corso with what could be GSD, and the other one is some sort of Merle Aussie shepherd mixed with mastiff or malinois.

They’re really good dogs, the corso is super stubborn and the Aussie is hyper active but they are good with the cats and kids and I’m the one training and dealing with them daily.

The chickens are chickens, the rooster chases my eldest but otherwise is fine
 
I have multiple cats, but there's one in particular. He's got some hormone inbalance after getting fixed, so he's a big boy, and the vet said it's more muscle than fat, but still: big, fatty cat. But this isn't about how big and loud he is, or how he's a big sweetie who tries to "pet" us back (he gently pats our arms while kneading, it's very cute). It's about his title.

He's the bed shitter.

It started when he was about 2, and there was a huge storm coming inland. I was lying on our bed, and my husband was in the kitchen, talking to my mom about storm prep. Fatty scuttles in, as he does, and jumped on the bed, next to my head. AND THEN IMMEDIATELY STARTED DUMPING ASS. JUST RIGHT NEXT TO ME, WHOLE, HUMAN-SIZED TURD.

As anyone would, I yelled, "FATTY WHAT THE FUCK!"
My husband came in to ask me to not yell, when he also saw our cat was still pushing out logs, and yelled, "FATTY WHAT THE FUCK!"
My mom then came in, saw what had happened, and just laughed at us.

My husband later apologized, because he understood.

We think the pressure shift from the storm rolling in just actually scared him shitless, and we've called him the bed shitter ever since.
 
vinrock dijo:
This past winter I came across a ~25lb snapping turtle in the middle of a windy backroad where there's a bunch of farms n shit. Stopped my car, snatched him up and helped him cross over into the creek. Felt good helpin' out a bro.
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I spotted a dusty turtle on the roadside while driving to a Dr appointment. It was a reasonably busy road and my pattern recognition just told me that oddly round stone was out of place, so I zoomed to the nearest place I could pull over and ran back to grab it just in case it was actually a living thing, and sure enough it was. Drove him to the next block where there was a creek I could release him by, and then had to awkwardly explain to the medical receptionist why I was slightly late and incredibly out of breath.
 
My cat got out yesterday. She is not allowed outside. But when it gets warm she tries to door dash. She ran down the alley of an empty house. Someone is keeping it clean and trimming grass so I don't think it's fully abandoned. But no one lives there as far as I know. So I went down the alley into the yard and there's no back of the house. It looks like the kitchen/attached shed partially collapsed and it was haphazardly boarded up. There's a tunnel from the warped floor big enough for a small child to go through. Of course the cat runs right in there to explore. I went to get a flashlight but by the time I got back she was crawling out of the hole so I grabbed her and immediately gave her a flea and tick treatment.

I had no idea that house was so bad. No wonder there's critters back there all the time. It's probably a raccoon motel.

Overwritten Tapes dijo:
My youngest cat was in heat a week ago. Its impossible to get a any time soon spay appointment around here.

I put an extra litter box and food. Water, snacks in a bedroom just so I dont have to hear the howling.

She shit in every corner of the room like a ghetto cat pentagram.
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It's harder to get an appointment once kitten season starts. You just have to wait it out. Hopefully you won't have prospective suitors spraying their pissograms all over outside.
 
Embark recently informed me that my dog has an older sister halfway across the country. Whatever that's worth. I tried telling her but she didn't care.
 
Not my pet. Is that ok?

Was walking down a sidewalk this morning and a Gen Z chick was sitting on the curb looking at her phone. A red cord led away from her.

My eye followed the red cord to a red harness improbably strapped to a cat. How the hell did THAT happen?

The cat, ostensibly being taken out for a walk, was belly down on the asphalt, soaking up the heat. Arthritis, maybe? Definite Not Going For A Walk pose.

Its tail end was pointed at the Gen Z chick in a message that read, "I am ignoring you. Feel humbled."

Its face end was positioned to watch off-the-leash squirrels in the park across the street.

A crow 10 feet up on a tree branch was making a special noise at the cat. Like, "Cute harness, wusssssssy."

What a good day to be alive.
 
Of my multiple cats, there is one that is truly and wholy "mine" and I call him my son. His mom made me watch her give birth, and she would run to find me whenever I left her side that day...but I'm kinda glad, in a way, because I don't know if I would've had the same bond without that. (She's a weird little cat, but she clearly loves my husband more so I'm not talking about her (bitch)).

He sleeps in bed with my husband and I every night, almost all night (unless it's cold, then it's all night). My husband and I use separate blankets, and my cat navigates this by sleeping between us, stretched out at my side like a snuggly hotdog. He'll use his head like a shovel, and dig under my blankets to cuddle up against me. If he's unsatisfied by something he'll stand up, and lean against me. If I don't fix whatever is bothering him in time (usually he just wants his head uncovered), he'll get out from the blankets, and go back to sleeping between us. But if he's happy, he'll get between my arm and my side, and he'll groom my hand until he lets out the final big sigh and going to sleep.

If my husband rolls too close to him, he bites. He doesn't bite very hard, I'm told, but it's enough to wake my husband. Probably because he's biting my husband's butt.

and one time I almost stole my neighbor's cat, because it was the spitting image of my son. he even sat down and looked at me like I was retarded, in the same way my cat-son does.
 
We got my mum a cat after my dad passed away (and i lost our ginger girl who attached herself to my mum) this cat is like velcro she is literally the definition of a love bug. Adopted rescue cat, she's just a void of love. Dribbles when she's happy loves lap time 24/7 you will never meet a more cuddly cat.

She's attached herself to me and the hubby specifically, to the point if I'm sitting down she'll come and just jam her whole head into my face and dribble in my ears. I love her dearly and love cuddling her belly fat and primordial pouch it's like touching the softest velvet i can't explain it, this cat literally gives no fucks i'll just grab her belly fat and rub it gently. Happy as a pig in shit.

Loves her walks to, we put her in a cat harness and take her for outside time on lead, easiest cat i've ever trained to walk a on lead.
 
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