Pets and bad habits

[daveleau]

Anyone have a pet that has a really really annoying habit?

We were stupid enough to allow our cat to drink out of out bathroom faucet (we have 2 in the bathroom) and now she sits by the bathroom and cries every time we get near it. She is constantly wanting us to turn on the faucet. It's been 2 months since we turned it on and she still barks (yes our cat barks) at us to turn it on.

[Mate88]

Well, technically we dont have a cat, but considering my moms opinion, well we have a Pig! Which is me!
Always the pig (bad habit: bite my nails)

Regards

[M_Six]

Our cats like the faucet, too. But the worst is our male cat who will binge and purge, usually on the carpet (gack, gack, gack).

[NeoStarO1]

Perhaps try and retrain her. Everytime you go to the bathroom and she starts "barking" at you, pick her up and take her to the kitchen and have her watch you put water in a bowl and then place it on the floor. After a while she will hopefully learn that there is always a bowl of water in a designated spot on the floor.

Perhaps you have tried this already?
Cats are smarter than we give them credit for. They are trainable.

As for do i have a pet that has a habit that drives me nuts? Yes our dog. She is a tennis ball freak! OMG So i have to really hide them good up high or she will sit there and stare at the spot till you give it to her. Right now we have the ball taken away cuz we just recently replanted our entire front lawn and the one side small lawn and I don't want her tearing it up going after the ball. So had to hide it.

[Heavy_Equipment]

I made the mistake of brushing one of our cats...who happens to love being brushed, with my girl friends hair brush once.

Now the little bugger climbs up and cries, and tries to pull the hair brush to her everytime you use it.

[Redwolf]

Bad habit? Does that include barking when a person enters within 50 yards of the front lawn (including cars going across the street), peeing on the floors even though he knows better (he gets this guilty look when he does it too), nipping at small children (although they tend to ask for it when they get up in his face), digging up something in the backyard that smells absolutely HORRIBLE, and, oh, uhh, barking at a perosn who comes in the yard for 30 seconds REGARDLESS of who it is (even us)? Becuas if so, that would describe my little dog.

My big dog (a she) rubs her bottom on the carpet every now and then, sleeps on couches and beds, goes psycho when given a rawhide chewtoy (not the rip-it-to-peices psycho, but the possessive, compulsive, obsessive psycho, which scares me), trying to bite any dog bigger than she (16 lbs; she once tried to bite a dog bigger than I was (over 180 lbs), which was actually kind of funny when the big dog was getting growled at and just completely ignored it), having the strange tendency to jump up on people's laps when they least expect it, trying to pick a fight with the next-door neighbor's german shepard (which used to play with the little dog every now and then until we got her ), eating bugs (which is hillarious), and barking every other day for every 15 seconds for no apparent reason.

But I still love em.

[Warthog]

and she still barks (yes our cat barks)

lmao, you almost made me spit up my food

Nah, my dog is extremely obediant (because of me)...anytime it does something annoying, I tell it to different.

[cadetstimp]

Water spray bottle fixes all cat problems as long as your fair and consistent.

Might be a good time to ban all counter activity!

Does anyone else have a cat that just loves boxes? Everytime I leave one on the floor, leave a drawer open or any box like space available...BAM!....I turn around and find them in the box staring right back at me! .... weird!

[Siliconjunkie]

Originally posted by M_Six
Our cats like the faucet, too. But the worst is our male cat who will binge and purge, usually on the carpet (gack, gack, gack).

One of ours does this too. Vet says that its because the dry food swells after they eat it. But yucky either way....

[Brainchild]

I have a kitten who loves plastic bags. While the noise one little kitty can muster with a grocery bag is amazing, I'm afraid he is going to find a bad end

My little dog on the other hand OMG!
BARK BARK BARK!!! at everything that looks like it moved.Even at people she knows,the kids,cars in the street,the big dogs in back.Very annoying.
The big dogs don't bark nearly as much,and are actually a lot more mellow.This dog acts like she had 10 cups of expresso.
And she loves to chase the kitten.The kitten loves it,he starts it most of the time,but it's like Tom and Jerry.
But both are in great cardiovascualr health, so I can be asssured this will continue for a good long time


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