My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
Wife taught our dog to crawl.
She was trying to teach the dog to lay down and stay while she backed away with the treat. Our dog figured that if she kept her belly on the floor and crawled over to the treat it should be fine…
So my wife said “Good crawl!”, and kept working on it with the dog. Now the dog crawls on command.
I taught my pet rock to “stay” in 1988.
It hasn’t moved since.
I like you.
Thank you Mr. Wright.
Comedian Steven Wright, for anyone who’s unfamiliar with him, you should check him out
We put a battery powered doorbell on the door outside. My puppy Veronica quickly caught on but mostly rang it when excited rather than when she needed to go out.
But about six months ago it kicked in what it’s for and she’ll surprise us by going across the house to hit the bell and tell us she means business.
So it wasn’t exactly accidental but took a year.
Yeah, the doggy door bell turned into the “Attention” bell instead of the “Outside” bell for a while for us.
Then when she realized we made her go out every time, she stopped using it and went back to a little wuffle.
“After you”.
My dog would walk right on my heels and nearly trip me. Taught her “after you” kind of accidentally and now she goes ahead a distance and then waits for me if I’m not fast enough.
My cat has learned how… delicious? ear wax is. I was itching my ear once, she started licking my finger, and now if I even raise my right hand near my head she flips out and runs up into my space just in case it’s ear wax time.
Note I don’t actually have a ton of ear wax or feed it to her, but something about my finger after I scratch my ear just drives her crazy.
Seriously though my ears are clean 😂
Cats love ear wax. With one of my cats we get wax out of her ear and let her lick it. I think it’s the protein.
Cat seems to like strong body smells, we had an amazing cat when I grew up, completely black, short but very compact fur, with tuffs of hair on her ears, she was a mix between a siamese, norwegian forrest cat and swedish farm cat, she was an amazing huntress as well she caught a lot of annoying fieldfares snd mice, even came home with the tail of a squirrel once…
Anyway, she really liked the smell of my toenails and would even lick the clippings.
I wonder why…
She also LOVED my moms home made apple pie, she could resist meat, fish chicken and other stuff like that being left out, but apple pie… she just would not care and go straight for it, even if we were in the same room and she knew she wasn’t allowed on the table, that was the one thing she was obsessed with…
Cats are a mystery!
My cats all CROWD me when I file my nails…
Cats are sensitive to a protein in our earwax so they find it appealing. I had a cat so obsessed he would hunt down my ear plugs (I had to put child locks on the bedside table drawers). Occasionally the earplugs would fall out in the middle of the night. One morning they both fell out and I grabbed one and thought I may have accidentally dropped the other. My cat raced in out of nowhere and I chased him away but I couldn’t find the plug. Fast forward twenty four hours later and I found a full ear plug in a pile of vomit. Thank goodness he was ok, but that damn cat zoomed in and swallowed that earplug whole in a millisecond and it makes me laugh thinking about it to this day.
Dang! So it’s not just my dorks, good to know
My wired iPhone earbuds vanished one day.
A few weeks later, one of my cats went under the bed. I jokingly told him, “hey, bring my headphones out, will ya?” In front of my partner.
Seconds later, I heard the distinct klak klak and he brought them out.
If my partner wasn’t there to see it, NO ONE WOULD EVER BELIEVE THIS STORY (even me)
“Car” When we are walking in our neighborhood (there are no sidewalks) I’ll say “car” and he’ll move into the grass area when a vehicle approaches.
there are no sidewalks
What a world.
Border Collie — go get mom. She’d go and find the now ex-wife.
And “Attack!” She’d just stand there and bark like mad.
The dog was sweet; and your biggest problem was she roll on her back and pee on the both of you.
It wasn’t a command, but I distinctively remember the first time my cat growled at me for picking him up and I set him down immediately. Now it’s his way of telling me to let him down whenever. So I guess he taught me the command instead!
It’s nice to know when your pets are unhappy - they deserve respect too. However, my stupid dog growls when he’s unhappy and being picked up but also when he’s very happy being dried after a wet walk. So. Yeah. Not super helpful
Yes! He’s really built up his confidence saying no. He’ll even gently kick my hand off if he doesn’t want to be picked up when he’s laying down. I think it really builds up trust as well. He may be a little grumpy but he’s wonderful.
My cat once hurt their foot and was limping so I gave them some treats and food.
They now limp around with their front paw raised anytime they want food.
Is your cat called Susan?
No but that’s exactly the same thing she does haha
I train my cat to speak. I wish I knew it was forbidden cursed knowledge. She dose not shut up. If it’s 10am and im late on breakfas, she will meow non stop.
I can’t sleep in anymore.
Get an autofeeder. Saved me sleep.
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There’s a couple of bits that get stuck that my tuxedo cat gets when she puts her paw up the slot.
My cat and I slow blink at each other a lot. She usually wants to eat breakfast on the catio, but it’s not fully screened in yet, so I would prefer she ate inside as it attracts other cats and sometimes ravens. I stand in the doorway and ask her to come in, but if she slow blinks and then keeps her eyes closed while still pointing her face at me I know she’s not coming in. That’s my signal to put down the damn cat food woman, it’s al fresco today!
Did I teach her “eyes closed for outside breakfast” or did she teach me “give up when I squinch my eyes closed at you”?
That slow blink givin me life
It’s how you knowwww she loves you
My dog responds to swear words by doing the kinds stuff you see emotional support dogs do in videos- press on your chest, give you kisses, nuzzle your face, etc.
Except she’s small, blind, and a bit… intense, so she kinda launches into you if you’re sitting, with some intense affection.
IDK why. I guess we don’t swear very often, ao when we do, its special, and we swear with enough gusto for her to think we’re very, very upset.
My cat Siegfrieda thinks that “bitte” (please) means “free petting”. That’s because I usually tell her bitte when she’s taking too long to obey the command. For example…
- Zizi! Komm nach Hause! (Zizi, come home!)
- [Siegfrieda ignores me to chase the shadow of a butterfly]
- Frieda, komm nach Hause. Bitte. (Frieda, come home. Please.
- Prrrwwwwn? [runs in my direction]
Ich liebe deine Katze!
What a wonderful kitty.
My Chihuahua mix is a very eager lapdog, couch potato, and bedbug. However if she is in any of those places and I say, ‘excuse me,’ or, ‘I gotta get up,’ then she knows it’s time for her to move and gets out of the way for me.
My dog is like that. She lays in my spot in the bed until I’m ready to get in, and then I tell her “scooch” and she moves to her spot. When we cuddle in the morning, she knows that, “ok/alright,” means it’s time to get up and go pee.
I tell my beagle he is in the way constantly because he likes to steal my spots on the recliner or bed. He always moves, but looks upset about it
For a while he learned that “this is the last one” meant we were about to stop playing fetch and he’d pretend to have noticed something odd or been distracted to avoid bringing the ball back and having it taken away. We worked through that one with some treats, so now “this is the last one” means “treat upcoming”.
We air dry our clothes on a balcony he doesn’t often get to access and he gets to walk out with us when we’re doing that and bark at birds and neighboring cats (which is why he isn’t allowed out there all the time). He’s learned to set up camp next to the door when he hears the washing machine beep after a wash cycle. Also when he sees us grab the container we use for the laundry, in case we’re about to go pick up a dry load.
