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-My cat, a fearsome inveterate hunter, came in the living room to pridefully show me his prey: a sock.

-To go outside, my cat prefers to meow at the door that doesn't have a cat flap rather than go through the one that does.

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[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

My cat rolls off the back of the couch quite often when he sleeps. Usually he rolls onto the seat cushions, but it's hilarious when he goes backward and falls into the stuff we have behind the couch. For reference, we use the couch to help separate the living room and the kitchen, and we keep our cans of soda against the couch. Poor cat falls into them, we laugh, and the he walks around all embarrassed and pissed. Never hurt, though.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

I dunno about funniest cause I have a terrible memory. But the other day my dog escaped out of the side gate. We didn't notice for half and hour. When we went looking for him in the backyard, we found her patiently waiting to be left back in through the gate she escaped from.

I looked on the cameras and saw that in that entire time. She just walked to the front patio and sat with her teddy bear in her mouth, just looking around. Then turned around and walked back to the gate to be let in.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

My dog has woken up from his own farts and gotten angry at his butt for making a smell.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

My grandparents dog used to do that.

Fart while sleeping then wake up all freaked out like, “Whatthefuckwasthathowdarethey!” and fart away scared.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Also, sometimes they jump on the couch and do a fart-off.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Best cat, rest her, loved me and only me.

I have an identical twin.

I would usually sit in a specific seat in the living room, and she'd sit on me.

If twin sat there, she'd curl up on twin.

One day I walk in, see this, and go "oh, abandoning me for twin?"

And she looks at me

Then looks up at twin with this look of "you TRICKED me" it was really funny

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

These dogs are super fast runners and quite good jumpers. If they want, they can easily jump most fences. Yet a row of empty bottles and glass jars is enough for them to not cross the 'imaginary line' I set up to keep them out of the kitchen

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's because sighthounds have teeny tiny dried up corn kernels for brains :)

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This true. When going for a pee, they spend more time deciding what way they need to turn in order to lift a leg they still haven't decided on, than actually pee..!

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cute! I wonder if they think they're just being respectful

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I really doubt it, having lived with them for many many years...

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

My wife and I bought a house about 6 years ago. The previous tenants were going to do a lease to own situation that fell through. When they left the house, they cut all of the power and left it vacant for a couple of months. After we made our offer, I was walking through the house and opened the refrigerator and was presented with about 40 lbs of spoiled meat that was abandoned. The smell was awful and no matter what I did for cleaning, the fridge was never going to bounce back. Due to timing, we moved in before we could address the fridge, so it was still there when we brought our dogs in for the first time. Brutus walked up to the fridge, smelled it, and peed on it. We all just laughed because he was right. He has only had one accident in the house over the past 7 years, and this wasn't it. We bought a new fridge the next night. Maybe not the funniest thing of all the things our dogs have done, but one of my favorites.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Years ago, I had an open pizza box sitting on a table. The cat decided to walk over and get some pizza, but he stepped confidently from a chair onto the unsupported lid of the pizza box and fell through to the floor.

In and of itself, it's not particularly humorous, but when I add in the way he looked around to see if anyone noticed and tried to pretend that was what he wanted to do, it gives me a chuckle.

That was long ago, and we don't have cats now. We have guinea pigs. I taught the guinea pigs to spin in a circle once to get a treat. Now if I'm taking too long giving them their treat, they just start spinning non-stop.

They also chew the bars of their pens. I think they think it gets us to feed them faster (it doesn't). One of them will get so involved in chewing the bars that I she forgets why she's doing it and doesn't come to eat when the food is available. We have to gently poke her in the nose until she stops chewing and realizes that there's food.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My old greyhound was not very bright at all, but he often had a Cunning Plan.

Example: On a walk near home he found a forbidden item. He knew I'd take it off him but he wanted to keep it. Cunning Plan time. He ran home, knowing I would never keep up. In your face, slow poke! I strolled back and there he was, waiting to be let in the gate. The look on his face was priceless, lol.

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was the Forbidden Item?

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A live hedgehog. He was obsessed with them. They would roll up tight to protect themselves and he'd grab them, prickles and all. To get them off him was a real pain, literally. What worked best was holding his head so tight he couldn't move, and repeatedly pinching his nose until he dropped the poor creature. We both caught ringworm, a variety unique to hedgehogs.

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Makes sense; apparently hedgehogs have a very interesting smell. I caught a fox sniffing and generally bothering one on my walk home a few nights ago

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When she was much smaller, my pooch jumped the kid gate when we opened the treat bag in another room and sat in front of us waiting for treat. That's when we realized her staying in our yard was not because she was stuck, but because she liked us.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

My dog, who's now 8, is very much smart enough to escape the yard. Every time I repair her escape route, she invents a new one. And every single time she gets out, after an exhaustive romp around the neighborhood, she always plops herself down on the driveway waiting for one of us to get home. I'm convinced she has discovered the purpose of our cameras, because all of her escapes in the last few years have been exclusively just out of view of the cameras.

So yeah, she isn't breaking out of the yard to bail, it's a multifaceted game of her breaking the rules, taking herself on a walk, and then being proud of herself for outsmarting us. But she doesn't stray too far, because she still wants her dinner and couch cuddle time.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

My mini schnauzer pretended her back legs stopped working for attention one time. It was funny once I realized she was tricking me

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

My dog used to bark at jets.