Strange things your pets do.

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I have some friends that have a pet rabbit that chases and plays with a ball...if you're sitting in a chair it likes to hop up into your lap...

 

[TomSeller]

My dog sits on her hind legs with her front paws up when she wants to see over tall grass

 

[sseelhoff]

My dog sits on her hind legs with her front paws up when she wants to see over tall grass

Our JRT does that too. We call it "Prairie Doggin."

 

[k0ua]

we inherited a cat a few years ago that is a bit independent, until
his food bowl is running low or getting stale (won't eat the last bits either)

his oddity is we can't get him to drink water out of anything but a dripping
bathroom sink. no bowls, no small water dispensers for hamsters, nothing
but a sink. we do catch him dipping down into the toilet if we forget to
leave one dripping for him for a long period of time.

We have one cat that will drink out of a dripping bathroom faucet but she will also drink out of a bowl. She was taught by her predecessor, who was taught by his. The other indoor cat just looks at you like you are stupid if you turn on the water. I think it is learned/taught behavior, but maybe some can figure it out for themselves. Also none of the cats we have now will open dresser drawers, but a previous cat would often do it and then crawl in the sock drawer, and he was taught by a previous cat. But Dillon (last male sink drinker) did not pass on the drawer opening trick to anyone. It was pretty funny to watch them lay down and work a corner of a drawer with one paw until they got a gap, and then he would stand on his hind legs and use both front paws to pull the drawer open enough to crawl in it.

 

[8N Ren]

Our JRT does that too. We call it "Prairie Doggin."

LOL our lil girl does that too, Carmela, she half papillon and half chihuahua. She does it when she wants rubs or whatever your eating. I have to post a pic one of these days.

 

[TomSeller]

Our JRT does that too. We call it "Prairie Doggin."

Mine also sits on her hind legs beggin' when I am at the checkout line at Home Depot. I think she figured she gets more treats that way.

 

[Bird]

Dee, the Chihuahua, loves to go in my old Ranger pickup, but when it's just her and me, as soon as we start, she lays down in the floor on the passenger side with her head stuck under the seat. And when we stop, she promptly jumps up in the seat. I've never understood why she wants her head under the seat. And if I leave her in the truck while I go in a store (which I rarely do because most of the time it's too hot in Texas), she'll be laying over there with her head under the seat when I come back. But if my wife is with us, then Dee wants to ride sitting up in her lap.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We had a Boston Terrier named Mr. Muggs...he liked to play tether ball by himself. He would knock the ball around the pole and learned how to jump up, grab the ball and hold on. He eventually fatigued the pole at the point where in went into the cement and it broke off.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

one of our cats brings a three foot piece of rope up from the basement all the time. another brings up cat balls and place them on the top step.

 

[MossRoad]

We had a border collie mix that would get in the bathtub and put her head behind the shower curtain anytime there was thunder.

If she was outside at night and heard an owl, she would run up to the back door, sit down, put her head against the door and close her eyes until we let her in.

She was a chicken.

On the other hand, if a group of children were playing in the yard, she'd run up and bark at all of them, run circles around us while nipping at our heels until we were all in a group, then lay there with her head down until one of us moved, then she'd start over again...... I think she thought we were sheep!