Catdog And Dogcat.. And A Family Of Nuts

[Killashandra]

So, a little lighter subject for animal lovers...

My little family is to say it nicely are a mixed bag of nuts!! Husband is cashew. Daughter is pistachio and I'm Brazil. Each of us suit our respective nuts and my daughter and I frequently commentate about what kind of nut she'll has a nut like us in it.. courtesy of Austin 'danger' Powers..

In any case with the nuts already in the family our animals seem to share the same traits...

Cat thinks she's a dog, and likes walks and playing ball.. she won't bring it back but she loves chasing it. She will even howl at the window if no one takes notice of her..

The Dog thinks she's a cat.. and grooms herself like a cat. She hunts down pray like a cat.. not that she's ever actually caught anything but it's hilarious watching her stalk a pigeon. . She paws and makes a nest for bed.. and just lately she has taken upon herself a litter of pillow pets.. yes pillow pets... she has cleaned each one and organizes them in the pile and sleeps with them... it has tired her out on a few occasions specially when I make a pillow pet lick her... LMAO she will start the process over again and then lays in her bed exhausted.. I know she's exhausted becasue I like to annoy her a biff little things at her. Like tiny bits of paper rolled into a ball or a single sock.. she doesn't move.. :bored:
Not to mention the dog is a anxious little thing who loves being with her family and freaks out like me when some new or unexpected comes along.. actually much the same as our daughter lol
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So how many others here have confused pets who seem to fit into the family with all our eccentricites?

Please share your experiences I'd love to read them!

Killa:hug:

 

[anthony]

I like it... we're definitely in the house of crazy nuts here too.

 

[cat-lady]

I often say that my cat Mcgee is a wild guy. He is a huge muscular beefy cat with an incredibly high squeaky voice. He gets very bored and hyper and then he will get a look on his face like that old photo of salvidor dali. Then he will meow at corners and try to climb the walls. He get about half way up just off of the momentum as he does a kind of swimming motion. He is frightened of people in hats. I think he thinks they're some kind of hammer-head creature. He also has developed a phobia of the scouring pad I leave by the sink. He decided it was suspicious one day. I guess it was rough or made a scratchy sound when he batted at it. Then he jumped about 6 feet in the air backwards. He is extremely sweet and loving and all this makes just even more lovable.

 

[Astrid_Shadow]

We have a cat who thinks hes the boss, he knocks things over all the time and slaps our big dog around. Poor girl shes always being slapped for nothing. We also have two dogs a small poodle whos gonna be 12 years old he still to this day, has a bad habit of humping our bigger dog. Im surprised he can even get it up anymore but he still manages. Our big dog thinks shes a lap dog and will jump on the couch to cuddle you. The little poodle will snap at you whenever he has a chance. The animals in my house are weird.

 

[gealach]

My cat thought she was a dog!!!!! She chased cars down the road (when she got out), would roll on her back with all paws in the air, would play fetch (sort of), and would run to the door and growl whenever someone rang the doorbell. I swear, she would have barked like a dog if she could have figured out how.

My parakeet thinks I'm a weird looking featherless bird and tries to feed me. She must think my egg was dropped :hilarious::roflmao:

 

[Killashandra]

I just love the endless entertainment they provide for us..

 

[mamachick]

I have a senior chocolate lab who is now 10 yrs old. I only planned on having him, but when he was 3, a tiny 4 wk old lab mix had a broken leg and the shelter was going to amputate. Well she got her forever home and our vet saved her leg and she is fine. She was babied and carried around and protective from the big brut for a time....She became the Alpha dog here. Im sure she was abused by a breeder and thats how the leg was broke. She was completely shy and distrusting...she would hide sometimes and didn't make eye contact well. So thats the background...not as sad as it sounds though.

So the chocolate king was de-throned by this little wirey thing but acts like his wife. She won't bark to go out and pee....I watch her nudge him and he barks. They use to spoon when they slept but now he is a senior, and she is of menopausal age. They both sleep in my room and when they come up, she blocks him and the door....woof woof.....you can't come in...and he patiently waits for me to call her off, even though she is 20 lbs less and gentle and dainty, she gives him a run for it.

She is still a chewer and can't be trusted with a sock or anything lying around...so far no surgeries but has eaten many things.
He on the other hand wouldn't destroy anything, but is a real player. He will look around and grab anything such as a shoe or sunglasses, very gently and the tail wags...like look what I got and you can't catch me as he runs...just a game. Once I had a twenty dollar bill out for the pizza delivery and he grabbed it off the coffee table and ran...under the dining room table where I couldn't get him. I know...I should be much more firm with them...but they are so funny, like a couple mischievous kids.

If ever the gate was left unlatched, he would run, and she would come and bark for me, as to tell me...he's gone...he's gone..But she wouldn't leave the yard. Until a couple years ago when I let them out and got some coffee....then I heard someone trying to get in my from door...it was him. They had been in the backyard 20 minutes and probably both took off...but he came back to the front door and it took and hour to find her...She is all Blonde...lost on a street blocks away...scared to get in a strangers car when spotted.

He regularly figures stuff out, like the gates that keep them from parts of the house--have had to add extra parts so humans can't open either. He knows how to get ice out of ice maker on refrigerator door. He also opens back door with round knob that has to be pulled in, then the storm door is a cinch. He lets them out when the meter man comes. I saw a guy jump my fence to get out. It wasn't funny at the time....
No cats but 2 Nutty Dogs!

We get the strangest looks when we go to Dairy Queen for ice cream. Don't all dogs get cones at Dairy Queen in the summer?

 

[jaccat]

I had a cat who would grunt, burp, and do really stinky farts. I could never decide if he thought he was a dog, or a grumpy old man.;)

 

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There used to be a cartoon called Catdog :)