My 2 year old goldendoodle just yeeted herself off the porch for no reason and fucked up her leg. Of course the vet is booked until 11 AM tomorrow. This is the same dog that had to get bowel obstruction surgery twice in two months because she kept eating toys. She is not allowed to have toys anymore.
She’s such a goblin.
Jumped out of the fish tank.
My dog will refuse to eat. She wants treats or whatever we’re having instead. She’s stubborn and will hold out for many hours, with a full bowl of food sitting there.
Then her stomach will hurt. She will complain and want to eat grass if we let her outside. She will refuse treats. We basically need to break treats in half and touch her lips with them/put them in her mouth (she will spit them out - we don’t force-feed her). After a try or two the taste and smell get her mouth watering and she slowly will eat the treat (usually a greenie), realize it’s making her feel better, and happily chow down her food. Totally normal and fine after that. Happy and playful, normal stool, energetic (especially for her age).
We’ve talked to the vet several times about this behavior. Blood tests and X-rays all normal. We give her long walks (at least an hour, twice a day, often with neighborhood dog friends). She’s allowed on furniture and loves to snuggle, insists on pets (and gets them!)
This girl is so stubborn she can’t figure out how to solve hungry. You fool! Just eat.
I suspect someone is still sneaking food to her.
I had a cat that, when she was a kitten, tried to jump up on the toilet, but ended up in it since the lid was up. She was very, very cautious about jumping up on things after that.
Had a cat catch themselves on fire from getting too close to a candle, then proceed to sit there while on fire and do nothing. I bolted across the room, and only then did they get scared and jumped so fast that it put out the fire.
Luckily, it was just some singed tail hair and nothing serious.
Cat had a habit of licking plastic grocery bags. Didn’t care two bits for catnip, but would go gaga for plastic bags. Well, one day the goober got so into it that she got her head into a bag handle, noticed that something was off, and panicked. So you have this cat sprinting all over the house, running away from the bag that’s billowing and making scary noises just behind her… In the end she started running up the stairs, got the rest of the bag stuck under her paws, and just stood there in self-pity because she’s pinned herself down.
I’ve been told it’s because some plastic bags are produced with fish oil or tallow added. They can smell it.
My dog gets so lost in sniffing things that he walks into objects constantly. He’s walked directly into stop signs, a gas meter, people, and even walls.
The vet endoscoped 30 ponytail holders out of my cat’s stomach several months ago, and if I hadn’t banned them from the house she’d eat more. I bring in sprigs of crabgrass to appease her chompiness, they go through safely and keep her regular.
My cat routinely jumps from a table onto my hot tub lid.
One day he did it while the tub was open and we were in it. Realized his mistake way too late and tried to stop on the edge, but went face first into the water
When I had my first dog, I drove a Kia Soul and would put the back row of seats down when I took him places. Depending on the circumstances, I might let him in from the rear hatchback or one of the rear side doors. One day I called him out to the car and was standing beside the open rear passenger side door. He came tearing down the path at full speed, rounded the car and leapt-- into the closed back door. He yiped, looked at me like he was offended, then hopped in the open door.
OP, I feel you pain. My current dog ate a toy, too. Only it wasn’t his toy, and I don’t have any kids…
$4300 emergency vet visit later, my girlfriend and I are much better about cleaning up after playtime.
One morning we woke up to a complete stranger pounding on the door yelling “YOUR DOGS ON THE ROOF!!!”
She had climbed out the attic window, and fell to the roof over the first floor. I don’t know how long she was pacing the roof trying to find a way back in.
Sit at the base of the wall reaching out a paw for a fly on the ceiling 10 feet up.
My cat once slipped his head through a handle of a paper bag while sleeping on it. Then he jumped off the couch and absolute chaos ensued. He drag the bag behind him and it inflated like a parachute and making a lot of noise which totally freaked him out.
He eventually managed to rip off the handle (glad it was a paper bag) while dragging it under some furniture, but he was quite traumatized after that. Didn’t come out of his favorite hiding spot for half a day.
I had a cat which almost the same thing happened to, except with a plastic bag. For most of the rest of her life when she heard plastic crinkling she would run and hide.
That’s really funny but also sad because he was so scared
It really was both. It took me quite a few seconds to even realize what going on, suddenly there was just noise and panic in the room. By the time I was trying to help he was already under the couch and almost free.
But in hindsight it was really funny. I learned not to leave folded up bags lying on the couch though.
Whenever I’m in a particular spot in the garden, our boy cat likes to hop up on top of the recycling bin to receive scritchies. One day he tried it while I was putting recycling away. There was a crash and I looked into the bin to find him up to the neck in torn cardboard beaming rays of this-is-your-fault,-monkey at me.
We once put a Santa outfit on our yorkipoo, but it was a little too big and the hat ended up covering his eyes. He still wanted to play fetch (it’s all he ever thought about), so we threw his toy…and he ran full speed into a wall. I’d like to say he learned a lesson that day, but that dog was as dumb as he was adorable.
We watched our cat, on multiple occasions, take a piece of dry food out of his dish and play with it on the floor - batting it around and chasing it - for 10+ minutes, then eat it, then spend the next 10+ minutes looking for it. He was not the brightest.
