Stupid pet trix

[FutrCRNA]

I'm sitting here watching my dog try to eat the wall (don't ask...) and thinking that this puppy isn't going to turn out to be the brightest bulb in the box. :hmmmm2:

Now I know I can't possibly have the world's goofiest dog, so please share the stupidest "pet trick" your pet has ever done. (Yes, husbands count as pets... )

[trp100329]

My dog is a boxer, so he's pretty goofy. The funniest thing he does is fart, look around at his tail with a puzzled expression on his wrinkly face, and then move away from the area he's just polluted. It's hilarious.

He also rolls over on his back with all four feet in the air and his tongue hanging out and just stays like that - sometimes he'll fall asleep in that position. A total goof.

I also have a cat that turns up her nose at fish (won't touch shrimp or tuna) but cries and begs for doritos or cheese-flavored potato chips. How weird is that?

So, you're not alone in the goofy pet department - and I haven't even started on the husband and kids!

Terri

[MmacFN]

we have 4 kitties.

While im not really a cat person my wife loves them and i have grow quite fond of them.

2 of them are siamese with loads of personality. When im at the desk one reached up a paw hooks it around my arm and tries to pull it down to his head to pet him. Wacko kitty.

One of the other non siamese is so dumb when shes scared she hides under a blanket. Whats funny is when you lift the blanket she looks totally bewildered as to how you found her and quickly stuffs her head under the blanket again remaining very still. We call her the retard kitty.

The girl siamese will stretch out on her back with all 4 paws in the air and look at you meowing. very odd.

[LouCRNA]

Hmm...I don't really have any stupid pet tricks per se, but I have a disgusting pet trick I'll tell you.

A couple of years ago, my son had a small gecko that died, and he was really bereaved over the loss. So, I decided to take him to the pet store, and I bought him two female hamsters - both female because I didn't want a basement full of baby hamsters, and I was told by the pet store clerk that two females would cohabitate peacefully in the same hamster home. The pet store clerk was WRONG, at least about these hamsters. A couple of days after we got them, I went to my son's room to make sure they had fresh food and water, and found that one hamster had cannabilized the other. Not only that, but she had hollowed out that hamster's body, and was nesting in it.

I got rid of that scary-ass hamster that day.

Lou

[NursePink]

Hmm...I don't really have any stupid pet tricks per se, but I have a disgusting pet trick I'll tell you.

A couple of years ago, my son had a small gecko that died, and he was really bereaved over the loss. So, I decided to take him to the pet store, and I bought him two female hamsters - both female because I didn't want a basement full of baby hamsters, and I was told by the pet store clerk that two females would cohabitate peacefully in the same hamster home. The pet store clerk was WRONG, at least about these hamsters. A couple of days after we got them, I went to my son's room to make sure they had fresh food and water, and found that one hamster had cannabilized the other. Not only that, but she had hollowed out that hamster's body, and was nesting in it.

I got rid of that scary-ass hamster that day.

Lou

OMG!!!!!!!!! That's almost traumatic. haha

[RAYMAN]

Hmm...I don't really have any stupid pet tricks per se, but I have a disgusting pet trick I'll tell you.

A couple of years ago, my son had a small gecko that died, and he was really bereaved over the loss. So, I decided to take him to the pet store, and I bought him two female hamsters - both female because I didn't want a basement full of baby hamsters, and I was told by the pet store clerk that two females would cohabitate peacefully in the same hamster home. The pet store clerk was WRONG, at least about these hamsters. A couple of days after we got them, I went to my son's room to make sure they had fresh food and water, and found that one hamster had cannabilized the other. Not only that, but she had hollowed out that hamster's body, and was nesting in it.

I got rid of that scary-ass hamster that day.

Lou

Sceery!!! I feel a Stephen King book coming on.

[TranMan]

Hmm...I don't really have any stupid pet tricks per se, but I have a disgusting pet trick I'll tell you.

A couple of years ago, my son had a small gecko that died, and he was really bereaved over the loss. So, I decided to take him to the pet store, and I bought him two female hamsters - both female because I didn't want a basement full of baby hamsters, and I was told by the pet store clerk that two females would cohabitate peacefully in the same hamster home. The pet store clerk was WRONG, at least about these hamsters. A couple of days after we got them, I went to my son's room to make sure they had fresh food and water, and found that one hamster had cannabilized the other. Not only that, but she had hollowed out that hamster's body, and was nesting in it.

I got rid of that scary-ass hamster that day.

Lou

Well he wasn't wrong about the co-habitation half of it. It just wasn't peaceful I'm sure..
BTW, was she twice her size afterwards? Just curious...

[trp100329]

Okay, the demon-hamster thing is just scary! I'd have gotten rid of it, too.

Terri

[LouCRNA]

LOL you guys...

Was I just a total buzzkill on the stupid pet tricks thread cause of the evil hamster thing? Sorry....

[gobucks1013]

I have a dumb dog story that will take our minds off Lou's freaky hamster.

It pertains to my boston terrier, Stella. Three years ago, just before x-mas, I decided to go do some shoppingin the evening. I gave Stella a Cheweez rawhide before I left to keep her happy for a couple hours while I was gone. Instead of chewing it bit by bit, she has this habit of chewing all around the entire piece until it is totally soft and soggy, then she eats the whole thing all at once. She has had these chews before and it has never been a problem.

Well, when I got back from shopping a couple hours later, I walked in my house and there were about a dozen or more piles of foamy dog puke all throughout my house. I was like "what the f*ck?!"
I found Stella cowering cuz she knew she was in trouble and I noticed she started retching and snorting. I put 2 and 2 together and I figured the cheweez must have been what made her puke. I thought, "Well maybe she tried to eat it before it was totally soft enough and that thing got stuck in her stomach and she's puking because of it." I figured once it totally softened up, it would get digested and we'd be done with it. All night long she was retching and snorting on and off. She never puked anymore, but you could tell something wasn't right.

The next morning I woke up, Stella was still snorting and stuff, so I tried to feed her some canned food and gave her a little water. She gobbled it down and less than a minute later, out it all came. So I called the emergency vet clinic, took her in and they did abdominal and chest xrays. Sure enough, on the chest xray there was a big blob of cheweez stuck about 2/3 of the way down her esophagus. The vet proceeded to tell me they would have to put her under anesthesia and do an endoscopy to remove it. As part of the informed consent for the procedure they started talking to me about possible perforation, the possible need for a doggy PEG tube, blah blah blah. I was very upset and crying b/c if those things were to happen I knew I would have to euthanize her, but I agreed to have the endoscopy done. Stella did fine and they ended up pulling the giant chunk of rawhide out w/o incident. When it was all said and done, it cost me $1500 and lot of worry over my dog. The vet said in 23 years of being a vet, he has never had a dog get rawhide stuck anywhere in it's body. I guess there's a $1500 first for everything, right?