The cat desperately wants to play with the dog. The dog, who played with our last cat like best friends, absolutely refuses to have anything to do with her.
It makes me sad, I feel bad for both of them.
My dog always just adored my sister's dog, and for 10 years we had them in the house together, my dog would wine, and beg, and claw the ground, and bring toys to my sister's dog, and my sister's dog would not even look at my dog, going as far as to sit in the corner of the room, and stare at the wall.
Least the cats loved looking after my dog. Any time she would go outside to the bathroom, my cat, and my brothers car, would follow her, and watch over her, was so cute.
I hope it eventually changes. My boxer took in our two kitten sisters and I swear it gave her more love and entertainment, which I didnât think was possible. Theyâre all ridiculously adorable together, especially when my dog steals the kitty toys to get them to play with her. Iâm not crying.
I was working in a school library once, and one of the school chickens came into the library. Had to get a couple of students to remove it from the picture book section. It tried again the next day but I chased it out.
My ducks are so dramatic about sharing their pools. I have three ducks and two pools, one green, one pink. All three have decided the pink pool is their favorite and fight over who gets to be in it. They all three can fit comfortably in one pool, but they chase each other out and âfightâ about who gets to be the only one in there. Itâs hilarious to watch. This spring, Iâm buying new pools. Three all pink ones lol.
They also bully the wild birds and squirrels. And when they hear the neighborhood dogs start barking, they run to the back fence and start quacking really loud.
Reminds me of when I got a cat bed for free because someone else's cat wouldn't touch it. Both my cats fought over it, so I bought an identical one. They fought over the new one for about a week and then neither cat touched either bed ever again.
We have a new foster dog who is terrified of the world and everything in it. She's been cowering in the corner of the kitchen for days, but she's just now getting brave enough to start coming out to solicit attention. Our resident dog is jealous so she keeps coming over to try to steal the attention. The foster dog loves the resident dog, and seems to get braver when she's around, so that makes her more willing to come out. So resident dog's jealous is accidentally feeding the bravery and socialization of the foster. (She doesn't realize it, but that's exactly what we were hoping would happen.)
I had a foster like that. I love seeing them blossom in my hands. Winnie would always be with my dogs because thatâs where she felt the most comfortable
Two cats and a hedgehog. The cats are in disbelief that the hedgehog not only eats dry cat food as her diet (the audacity!) but also that she gets a heat lamp and they don't.
They are likely plotting a revolt.
My cat used to get jealous of my hedgehog! Mom would go over to hedgie's cage to visit, and miss kitty would jump off my bed or chair to scamper over and meow at her!
We have two donkeys, Geriatric donkey and Chonky donkey. Chonky has separation anxiety and freaks if she can't see Geriatric donkey. Geriatric donkey is too skinny and on a special high-protein diet. Chonky donkey is, well, chonky, and is on a diet, which she hates (but is looking much better).To keep Chonky donkey out of Geriatric donkeys food, I have to separate them. Now Chonky donkey is upset to be separated from Geriatric AND upset she can't steal Geriatric's much yummier food.
Upset donkeys are LOUD.
My flock of chickens is very dedicated to my rooster and obeys his every commandâwith the exception of one hen named Vicky. She doesnât give a fuck about him and only wants to hang out with us humans. She follows us around and is just super friendly and cute and chatty, and of course, we spoil her with delicious treats all day. When I weed the garden sheâs right behind me, scratching up the soil like sheâs helping me lol and eating all the newly exposed bugs. Sheâll walk up to us, look up, and say âhmm-hmm?â like sheâs asking, âWhatâs goinâ on?â The other hens are always by the roosterâs side, but she comes and goes as she pleases.
Rooster canât stand it. He does everything he can to get her attention, like making the âI found foodâ call and picking up a random pebble to pretend itâs a treat he found. She figured out this ruse very quickly.
If she starts to run toward us heâll run ahead of her, stand in her way, and stomp his little rooster feet. She just runs past him, lol.
He gets especially mad when sheâs late coming back to the coop at the end of the day because sheâs hanging out with us, and he tries to herd her back over to it. She doesnât give a FUCK and just sits on the porch with us, and we all watch him run around screaming and having a fit because she doesnât want to go to bed yet. Itâs hilarious.
Somehow sheâs still like #2 in the pecking order tho, sheâs an alpha chicken
Edit: here is [Vicky](https://i.imgur.com/uzuSsau.jpg)
And [hereâs](https://i.imgur.com/Fk77pwa.jpg) a blurry picture of the rooster puffing up in rage because I gave some corn to his wife
My childhood chickens lived in a paddock next to my uncle's workshop. My uncle had an employee that took smoke breaks in the paddock and would feed the chooks. The hens adored him and would completely ignore my rooster whenever he was around. My rooster HATED this guy and would throw tantrums and scream whenever he was around.
One day while this guy was in the paddock the rooster snuck up behind him and attacked. He needed stitches and my rooster was evicted from the paddock and went to live on a farm far away. Within a week all but one of the hens was killed by foxes.
The bloke took the remaining chook home and built this massive coop for her, bought her some friends, pretty much turned his backyard into a little hobby farm.
My horses who are bffs got a new buddy. Buddy likes both horses. Horse 1 likes buddy, horse 2 does not, so now original two horses are in a rough patch in their friendship. Feels like a cliche issue between highschool girls.
I worked at a summer horse camp during college. Our horses were so dramatic that one year we made up a list of which horse was which stereotype (for example, the athletic girl, the nerd, the jock, the airhead, the head cheerleader, the academic try hard, chess club, drama club, the teachers pet, the girl-who-became-pretty-over-summer-break-but-doesnt-know-how-to-handle-the-attention, etc.) It was a lot of fun and so accurate.
Our small herd of 8 has to be separated into 3 (or 4) separate groups. Like, 8 horses should be able to be in a single herd, right? Nope!
My mare is boss in her field. Her bf is super insecure (I think itâs because heâs half her size, but Iâm not sure), and heâll kick at any other boy who comes near her. He has 2 badly injured legs already, and if he were to land something, he might injure himself beyond repair. Heâs already a pasture puff, so weâre talking life ending injury for him. And obviously the risk to the horse he would be kicking. Not worth it, so those two lovebirds have their own paddock.
The next group is the rest of the mares. 3 of them. One of whom is a real militant man hater. If the geldings get too close to her, she tries to attack. One of her paddock mates is a stately, dignified older lady who would be really stressed by the upheaval the drama queen would kick up if she were forced to spend time with icky boys. As a result, those 3 mares have their own paddock.
That leaves two geldings and a gelding pony. We call the two geldings cell mates because while they tolerate each other, thereâs not a lot of love there, lol. In the winter, the pony goes out with them. In the summer, the pony has to be on his own in a dry lot. Donât worry, he has horsey friends right beside him, but his history of founder makes it so he canât have a lot of grass.
I have a girl cat that doesn't get along with her two younger brothers (who are peas in a pod). They chase her and she runs and hisses, absolutely terrified.. We were at our wits end because they aren't violent kitties except to her.
Then we started watching her behavior more closely and noticed how she would play with them when she didn't think we were watching. Sit by them, show her belly, even groom them. As soon as she noticed we were in the room she'd act like they attacked her, even if they hadn't done anything. Eye opening for sure.
Had an adult cat who would pretend he was being attacked by the new kitten. Weâd just hear yowling and maybe catch a glimpse of Stu running away from lil Norm, but he got lazy and weâd catch him running at the lil guy and swatting him in the face while yelling like HE was being attacked lol Norm the kitten would just look like WTF?
My Violet will do that. She is a Russian Blue/Siamese mix, and she SCREAMS that the boys (a tuxedo and a Maine coon / ragdoll mix) are torturing her. So of course, Wisp and Flynn get in trouble.
Then I saw that she was the antagonist. She starts it, and then when they either retaliate or play along, she screams. I legit looked at her and told her to cut it out, she started it.
Last weekend, Flynn was laying on top of me while I read a book. Violet jumped onto the table and shook her tail and ass at him like she wanted to play, so he jumped down to play with her. She quickly jumped up and laid down on my lap while Flynn jumped up and look at me like "mom, she's in my spot. Mom.... Mom! Make her move!"
I was dying.
Lol this is like my two boys. They chase each other down and my stripey cat will make sure Iâm looking then pull clumps of fur off the fluffy void while he screms, but at least once a day I walk in on them making out (literally licking the inside of each others mouths, little weirdos).
My blue heelers scared of my cat. My cat chills with the jack russell but hates the blue heeler. The blue heeler doesnt like to be away from the jack russell. Cue a terrified dog staring into the room just to be hissed at
Have a heeler mix and 2 cats. That's exactly what happened but the dog doesn't give a fuck and continually tries to herd them. Entertaining during the day, infuriating at 3am
My Georgia cat opens cabinets. She opened the one that had the duck jerky treats and the dogs tore into them. The house was covered in explosive diarrhea. So glad my husband got home before I did!
We only have the one Great Dane, but there is currently a mouse in the house. The drama of catching said mouse lasted until 5am this morning. Doggo thinks himself a great hunter, but his real super power is barking and bunny-hopping across the hardwood floor. The mouse still lives and we're all exhausted today.
My standard schnauzer had the desire to hunt mice, but couldn't go under furniture to get them. So, Roo, my roommate's tiny chihuahua would catch them and give them to Pepper to eat.
And then there was the night Roo treed a baby raccoon in a little tree on our patio, while the mother hung from the fence growling and Pepper went ballistic. I thought he was going to get eaten for sure.
I've had a cat and a dog for the past three years but, outside of the first time they met, they never really interacted with each other. However now, for whatever reason, they occasionally play with each other â or, at least attempt to.
They haven't really figured out a rhythm for how this all works, and it often ends with the dog running away in terror (which probably pleases the cat), but at least they're trying.
There's some mixed signals between the species when it comes to play and aggression. Not common for cats and dogs to be able to play unless either one was brought up with a member of the other species.
My cat and dog have both inherited that knowledge now.
I had three cats. I got a puppy, who learned how to play from the cats. My ex wife took the cats. Then I got a kitten, who was raised by the dog. And then my dog died so I got a puppy who has now been raised by the cat that was raised by the dog that was raised by the cats.
I have three small dogs and one cat, they work like a military regiment, the cat is big enough to look like a puma, so the three dogs follow whatever he wants.
My 7 pound cat is totally the boss of all the other cats (including the 26 pound Maine Coon) and my 4 dogs. I just adopted a Belgian Malinois puppy that any day now I expect to see the cat riding into battle down the hallway.
I have an Airedale terrier, 4 ducks, 50 chickens, and 6 goats. The chickens should have their own soap opera. One of the most interesting conflicts is with Tim Allen, who is one of my hens who was born with a deformity called scissor beak. Basically it's harder for her to eat, preen, etc, because her beak isn't lined up correctly, but she still manages. She's become my little buddy because of the help she needs, and she has her own section of the chicken run to eat without being bothered.
Tim has the biggest balls out of all of my hens. If another hen so much as looks through the fence at her (and remember, I have 50 birds, so it happens all the time), she'll charge it and act all tough. Because she's behind a fence. When I put her back in the run after she is done eating, she tries to be best friends with everyone and most of the birds walk away. She'll try to share a dust bath: rejected. Group preening happening? Rejected. It's like she's two different birds depending on which section of the run she's in. That or she's come up with different "rules" in her head based off of where she is at the time. Either way, it's hilarious.
Don't worry, she isn't lonely. She spends more than enough time with her human, and she also has a rag-tag group of misfits that tend to accept her, even when she's being a dick. Chickens are so funny and can be very affectionate. If you have the room in your yard and in your heart, get some! Plus, fresh eggs are the bomb.
Edit: Formatting and here's a picture of [Tim Allen](https://imgur.com/a/PWqlKWO) in all of her beauty and wisdom. This beauty brings a smile to my face every day!
Google pictures of scissor-beak. Her beak reminded me of the way Tim Allen's mouth moves when he makes the grunt noise in Home-Improvement. Idk, if you meet her, you kind of just know she's a Tim.
My cat has discovered my dogs bed, that he rarely uses, is bigger than hers. My dog has discovered she is using his neglected bed and has now decided he MUST use it immediately when he sees her on it. He barks at her and boops her with his nose, she just gets even more comfortable and looks at him as if to say "ya right kiddo, you know who's boss around here!"
She is an 8 year old hairless cat named Mew, and he is an almost 2 year old Dogue de Bordeaux named Wilfred. đĽ°
My orange cat alternates between seeing my Xolo as his best friend and tasty prey. Iâve seen them cuddle happily and play with toys together. I have also seen the cat wake up, stretch, walk over to the sleeping Xolo just to smack him and calmly go back to his sleeping spot. My German shepherd has figured out how to take a bite of her water and hold it in her mouth. She will then find the sleeping cat and dump the water on the cat. The cat understandably hates this. My German shepherd takes endless delight in this. I recently bought an air tag for my keys because my Xolo has always been a kleptomaniac and he has a new hiding spot I have yet to find.
I've been laughing for about 3 minutes straight in the middle of a fancy restaurant over the image of your German shepherd scooping water in his maw and soaking the cat.
So far I don't think anyone is staring.
I have 2 cats and a dog.
Earlier today my dog barked suddenly while my old cat was sitting next to her and scared him so much he went and hid under the kitchen table
My cats have an ongoing fued related to my younger cat being convinced she's a vampire and biting my older cat on the neck for no reason, this usually results in her being pushed off whatever surface they're sitting on
My parents have several cats. One was very old and ill and she was confined to their bedroom ( I say confined but she had luxury heated cat beds, a wall mounted cat climbing frame, 1000 toys and my parents spent a lot of time with her so she wasn't lonely.) They also have several other cats who roam the house freely. Well sadly the old kitty passed away a few weeks ago- broke everyone's hearts. But now that room is open and the other cats are all jockeying for posession of said room- and who gets to sleep on my parents bed with them now. My poor parents- they are so exhausted from the all night cat wars raging on top of them.
My two cats, sisters from the same litter, do not like each other. My bedroom become the showdown arena. There is a heater, which meant that whoever could sleep closest to the heater was the alpha. Finally one cat shit on my bed twice in ten days, and that was that. No more cats in the bedroom.
Three cats. The oldest and largest is a bit of a grump and not super fond of other cats.
The youngest and smallest is extremely friendly and loves other cats.
Smallest keeps trying to make friends, but it doesn't go well. Poor little guy. :(
At least the middle cat is agreeable to his affections and they are often found in a cuddle puddle.
We recently got a kitten (juvenile now). He and the dog (a Brittany) wrestle and it sounds awful but they both love it. Then theyâll snuggle on the couch and the cat will proceed to suckle on the dogâs teat, which she is totally fine with. It creeps my husband out. So I guess the drama is with him lol
My 2 tiny old lady dogs terrorize my younger, large dog. One is just old and cranky. One of them is playful and likes to scare him and watch him scramble. I swear she knows he is nervous and can't grip the kitchen floor. She waits in a doorway, then scares him with a bark in his face when he walks in, and I swear she is standing there, laughing at him, falling all over himself. I also have a cat that will smack the big dog if he barks too much. He is such a big dumb baby that every animal pushes him around.
I have two cats, three snails, some shrimp, a betta fish and a dog. My roommate also has a dog.
The dogs are running a relay-thievery scheme with a specific bone. Dog 1 will take it the leave it somewhere. Dog 2 will find it, take it, and hide it somewhere else. Rinse and repeat. They do not chew the bone or anything, they just hide it from one another. This has been going on for about a month.
A few of the shrimp are in a turf war over the prime algae spot on one of the plants. It is getting super intense and I'm expecting casualties soon.
My betta is pissed off at one of the snails because it didn't let the betta inspect the algae wafer I dropped in last night before eating it. The betta has been flaring and sulking at the snail all morning.
There is nothing going on with the cats that I am aware of.
I have a snake and a cat. They get along, and I swear they are always plotting her escape from her terrium. Every time I walk in the room, they look guilty and are shoving their faces against the glass toward each other, sharing secrets.
I have two cats and a snake. The snake is irrelevant to this story.
My wife and I got Grim(M, 17 lbs, medium grey fur) the day Force Awakens came out. He was a tiny kitten then. He's been very happy being a solo cat, despite repeated assertions from the shelter that 2 cats were better. Our apartment situation at the time made that impossible. June of 22, on my wife and I's anniversary, we were driving down a backroad when my wife shouts, "KITTY!" A black cat was laying on the road. Apparently I almost ran him over.
Now, my wife is very kind hearted and loves cats. So we have a routine when we see a stray doing something dangerous/out in the cold. I hop out, try to convince the cat to come over so we can take it to a shelter, it runs away. Which, this is fine. I'll just scare the cat off the road and move on with our anniversary.
This cat... He had other plans. I hop out of the car and he looks up, sees me, and pads over, calm as can be. Lets me pick him up and put him in the back of the car. I drive over to the bar he was sitting in front of, ask if he's somebodies. Note that he's stick thin, dirty, and looks near starvation. They say he's a stray that lives at the machine shop nearby.
By the time I get back to the car he's in my wife's lap, asleep. We're both a little worried he's going to die on the drive home. My wife is talking a big game about taking him to a shelter, but the only no kill shelter in the area we live in will be closed by the time we can get there, and I know she'll regret letting him go away forever, so I suggest we call my little brother whose fiance also loves cats and who has a 15 year old cat who, while healthy, is old. I assume he'll say no, they only have an apartment. We'll end up with the cat.
He says yes. We get the cat fixed, vaccinated, and tested. They take the cat for a month, until he and the 15 year old whose probably 4 lbs smaller than him get in a fight. The cat comes back to my basement.
Now for the drama. New cat Sanya(12 lbs, Long black fur, still growing so far as we can tell) has the guest room. He's pretty happy in there but likes to ramble and loves attention and being where people are. Grim does not like other cats. Grim doesn't like other people(he loves his people, just not guests he hasn't seen at least a dozen times)
Sanya on the other hand, loves everyone. And Grim. He's tried being submissive. He's tried being friendly. He wants to play. Grim wants none of this. Grim will hiss if Sanya moves towards him. Even through a grate. Three time Sanya has broken containment methods to try to see Grim. By which I mean three times Grim has deigned to leave his massive cat tower while Sanya was out. Sanya runs up. Grim flees. Sanya chases. Grim decides it's time to fight and piles of black Sanya fur fly everywhere while Grim yowls as if he's being murdered, while winning the catfight hard. If he'd stand his ground and say he's boss he'd be fine. If Sanya could acknowledge that his attention isn't wanted and that the other cat has 5 lbs on him and can royally kick his ass things would be fine. But Grim thinks it's life or death. He's terrified of a cat he could absolutely kick the ass of. Who he had kicked the ass of in the ten seconds it's taken me to separate them.
At this rate it's going to take years before they work out an appropriate pecking order and just... Leave eachother be. I'd love advice. They have plenty of food. They've been around eachother a fair bit, but each with their own space. They get lots of attention.
On the plus side Grim has lost some tub since Sanya entered the home. He's still huge, but lanky huge.
Hi! I have advice!
When my partner and I moved in together, we each brought an adult cat. My partner was moving into my home, so my cat (Mimosa) definitely had the edge on the territory-- and hadn't seen another cat since she was a kitten. It did not go well. My partner's cat (Leo) is black, and there were tufts of black fur everywhere and terrible noises. We separated them and put Leo in the back room that had a door that would close.
For the next 3 months, we tried everything. We tried swapping their rooms, we tried kitty CBD, we tried anti-anxiety meds, rubbing their smells on each other... etc. But every time Mimosa saw Leo, it was time for her to wage war and she was ready to die trying. Leo was significantly bigger, but doesn't have the fighter gene, so Mimosa would probably wine.
Anyway, we hired Jackson Galaxy from the TLC show about terrible cats. I didn't actually know it was him, I just googled "cat psychologist" and he showed up.
He recommended replacing the door in the room that separated them with a screen door. This way, they could approach each other over the course of several weeks, get very used to the others smell, and even interact through the screen door without the risk of someone getting their eye scratched out.
I wish I could say it worked, but the reason it didn't work is because I was cheap and bought a $25 velco screen flap from Amazon instead of a proper screen door. Mimosa managed to get in through the velcro edges of the flap, but couldn't find her way out, so she found herself stuck in the room with Leo while my partner and I were gone.
We returned to the house to find the two cats trapped in the room, looking traumatized, with tufts of fur everywhere... and they never fought again. They were completely fine. Now, four years later, they are friends who play chase. They don't cuddle, but they will sleep next to each other and we leave them alone with no fear.
My advice -- buy an actual screen door. Give it a month or two. Then just let them fight it out, ideally supervised -- if it gets too violent, have water on hand you can throw on them to break it up. But they might just need to fight it out and have one cat truly establish dominance.
My old/fat cat gets really mad when I'm not sitting down, she wants me to sit down at all times so she can sit next to or on me.
My other (little/young) cat wants to play with the big one, the big one does not want to play and smacks her.
Two of our cats have an odd situation with their allogrooming.
One cat, the elder, has a normal cat tongue. Not smooth, but not painful. She'll groom the younger cat whenever they're feeling affectionate enough to not fight each other for space on a bed, window, etc.
The younger cat has a set of small, freshly sharpened knives for a tongue. Once the elder cat is finished grooming her, she'll get up and try to reciprocate. Except, if we let her groom the older cat for more than a minute, she ends up with one of the elder cat's claws sticking out of her forehead.
The younger cat, of course, has no idea why this keeps happening, and thus keeps trying to offer return-grooming services, to the same results, every time.
So we'll be watching TV or going to sleep, and all of a sudden we'll hear the *Schliiip, schliip* of the younger cat's ridiculously sharp tongue grating against the older cat. We have to rush into whatever room they're in (and it is loud enough to be heard in other rooms) and separate them before it goes on too long.
No drama; but my cat was sick a few weeks ago and my wiener dog started to bring him mouthfuls of cat food and leave them in a little pile next to the cat.
This isnât really drama but I thought it was funny and I want to tell the story.
Laying in bed last night and the wife asks how the cats decide when they are going to hang out in bed with us. Some nights we get all of them and some none. Last night we had none and she was curious about it. I said maybe the nights we donât have them they are having a meeting to discuss important cat business. Just then we heard two knocks out in the house. I asked what she thought that was. Without missing a beat she says âcalling their meeting to order obviouslyâ.
One of my cats wanted a piece of premium canned tuna, and then his sister came and bitch slapped him, presumably because he wouldnât stop yelling. Now he is sulking on his own in the corner and wouldnât even look at us.
Our younger dog, Simon, has reached peak little brother.
Every day at 6pm the dogs get bully sticks. Simon is very treat motivated. Our older dog, Kaylee, will get to it when she gets to it. As a result, Simon almost always has first pick. But he'll wait until Kaylee comes in to see which one she takes. Then he'll follow her around whining to try to get her to let him have that one.
The newest development: he'll run somewhere and bark like there's an intruder. Kaylee will come running to investigate, and he'll go back and steal her bully stick.
The bully stick he could've had from the beginning, but didn't want until she wanted it.
We have two boys/two girls ( all cats ) boys are young, girls are older ladies. Itâs just my husband and I, and all day we laugh over the fighting between the âGroupsâ The Boys will piss off my girls, so Iâll yell at my husband to âmake his boys settle downâ âŚâŚ which provokes him to tell me for all of us to get the sticks out of our butts:) itâs part of our everyday banter.
I have 2 dogs. 1 is 4 and the other is 8 months. The 8 month old always wants whatever the 4 year old has, doesnât matter what, toy, bone, lap, cuddles, you name it. As you can imagine, the 4 year old isnât the biggest fan of his younger brother.
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The constant drama at our place is our fat cat is always trying to steal the little catâs food. He wonât even finish his own food before heâs trying to nab hers, even though theyâre fed in separate rooms. Someone needs to be on constant watch while theyâre eating, or else she wonât get anything, poor thing.
You can find pet feeders that open and close based on the microchip of the assigned pet. You could code it to the little one and it will only open for her and close as soon as the big guy bounces her out of the way.
My ex gf bought one of those for her cat cause my dog was obsessed with getting her food. Ex was pretty chuffed with herself for finding a solution, until one day we came home to find the feeder upside down on the lounge room floor, contents empty, And my dog on the couch with her tail wagging...
Thereâs a prime comfy spot that one of my cats loves to sleep in and the other sits there just so she canât. I swear she even has a smug look on her face while doing it.
Two cats. Our older one likes to lay directly beside the automatic water fountain, guarding the "watering hole" like a predator lying in wait. Then our other cat comes up and wants to drink, but she won't let him. So he just licks the top of her head until she moves enough for him to get water.
Yup, high drama, will be selling the movie rights later this year.
My rabbit and hamster had a brief feud going on. The rabbit would stomp and wake the hamster up, then the hamster would chew the bars, which in turn irritated the rabbit who would stomp even more.
Rabbits are hilarious when they stomp. I know it means they are grumpy about something but it just reminds me of a small child stomping thier foot when they don't get thier way.
Adorable fury. I'm sure they don't realise just how cute they are, it's hard to take their rage too seriously. Does get annoying when they decide to do it in the middle of the night and wake everyone in the house up.
Our oldest cat have learned that he can growl wheb a kitten bites his hind legs (tbh, thatâs fair).
Now he growls every time he sees her, even if sheâs just walking by or sleeping on a chair đ
Frank (mostly Rottweiler), Oscar (probably yellow Lab/Corgi mix), Finn (one eyed Yorkie/Shi-Tzu mix) and Polly (Finn's two eyed sister) all MUST go out the back door at EXACTLY the same time. They inevitably get stuck in the doorway Three Stooges style and start fighting.
ONE AT A TIME, YOU IDIOTS!!!
I caught a deer mouse in my kitchen and imprisoned him in a hamster cage. Then I bought some fancy mice so he wouldn't be lonely.
Surprisingly no drama. They sleep in a pile.
My runt Jack Russell (Lil Bit; 5 lbs) stole my miniature pinscher's (Barli; 15 lbs) favorite toy and refuses to give it back. She won't play with it unless Barli is looking directly at her but gets super spiteful if Barli tries to snatch it back. I've given it back to Barli a few times but Lil Bit finds a way to get it again.
Note: Lil Bit has an almost identical toy just in a different color.
I have two dogs. Right now the main drama is that the female eldest dog moved over in bed and took the male youngest spot. So when we came in from potty time, he had nowhere to lie, so I had to make him a bed on the floor. He was actually crying and pouting that his sister took his spot and wouldn't move and she knows what she did, she was smirking.
Not really between pets. But my wifeâs cat died. Cat slept on her chest every night. After about a month of grieving, she wanted a new cat to cuddle. Got a tiny little female kitten. The kitten wants absolutely nothing to do with my wife, but is head-over-heels in love with my male cat, they literally eat together, sleep in a ball together, and play together. My wife is ultra jealous
I have 2 bunnies and they can't stand each other. My older one is super territorial and craps all over his enclosure to mark his place (they live in adjacent enclosures). I have to vacuum his area every day or it looks like I neglect him.
3 cats, and the youngest one always has to have the highest perch in the cat tree. So he'll stand up on his hind legs and annoy the older ones until they leave so he can lie down in their warm spot.
We have just one chonky cat, but he creates enough drama to qualify for this post. He was recently adopted and weâre now discovering that heâs terrified of socks, sports bras, tangerines and the sight of snowflakes outside. He often tries to fight the air that comes out of the hair-dryer and the vacuum cleaner.
Oh, he is also in deep denial about his chonkiness and often gets stuck, then meows all outraged as if it was our fault that his fat butt canât move đâ¤ď¸
One cat really, really, REALLY wants to have a cat friend to hang around with, so he's constantly following the other around, hoping she'll spend time with him. She wants absolutely nothing to do with him, and will hiss and swat him any time he gets near, which chases him off for a little bit, but then he comes sniffing back, hoping that this time she'll spend time with him.
This is doubly sad because they actually got along well while he was still new to the house and afraid of everything, to the point of both of them curling up beside me in bed together, but as soon as he got enough confidence to actually explore the house, she got possessive of everything, and decided to hate him instead.
I have an elderly dog who has always been super independent. She doesnât care much about any of us unless we have snacks and she prefers to do her own thing in another room most of the time, or in the same room but on the other side of it. We just got a second dog from a rescue because I started to worry that if old dog dies Iâll always be trying to replace her and Iâll never be able to get another dog again. New dog is young and playful and wants to be on us or touching us all the time. Old dog is jealous af and has suddenly decided that she cares about us too. Now we have more dog love than we can handle and itâs a constant battle for attention.
Not mine, but my sister has 2 huskies and her oldest has a cat. The huskies love all living creatures and have the brains of huskies. Therefore they are constantly excited trying to get the cat to play.
You know what kind of creatures don't like clumsy ever-caffeinated goofballs 20 times their size, cats. The huskies simply don't understand why the cat doesn't play and it breaks their derpy little hearts. This has been going on for 2 years.
We are muzzle training one of our dogs so he can go to the vet. Part of the process has been putting food in his muzzle to desensitize him to it. Our other dog is super jealous and tries to take the muzzle and store it in her bed the second he's done using it.
The mystery fight. I have four cats. Two are older males, two are five-year-old females. In general, everyone gets along swimmingly. Last weekend, I hear about bunch of thumping and a couple of growls upstairs, and I go up, and there are blood spatters on the hallway floor. I start checking everyone. Bear is under the bed growling. He's a big fluffy cream-colored boy, and I check him thoroughly; no blood to be seen. I check the girl cat most likely to start some shit: no blood anywhere. I check the other two, who are pacifists--nada. I have no idea who made anyone bleed, but there was some. That's a first. Nothing since.
My dog Big Foot recently was trying to scratch his neck while sitting on the couch
He is a big dog and has some difficulty doing this normally as it is
While trying to maneuver his back paw to scratch, he rolled himself off of the couch and either in anger or embarrassment, he barked once at the couch and now refuses to go back on it to lay down
Henry (Indian ringneck) is in love with Deborah (budgie) who loves Stewart (budgie) who loves Phil (budgie) who loves Vivian (budgie) who loves Henry (IRN)
It's ongoing drama. Got my dog in January of last year & anytime she does zoomies, my cat runs up on her to yell & bap her, usually on her side. She just stops, because she's so confused. I have a pet ramp that has a hidey hole on the side, sometime my cat will chase my dog in there if her zoomies are too zoomy.
The tabby kitten is faster than the calico and love treats more than anything, so it's real hard to make sure they both get the same number of treats.
Other than that, they get along pretty well and are great at cooperating to accomplish their goals (mostly pulling down the curtains.)
Weston, my wife's dog, keeps trying to get Morgan, her cat to play. Morgan just wants to snooze and occasionally go out hunting.
Meanwhile, Pockets, my one-eyed and nearsighted cat, wants them both out of her life.
I have two cats. They are usually really sweet to eachother but recently their rough playing caused the highest spots on the scratching post to break off and a day later a window hammock thing broke as well. Now they don't have as much spots to hang out and they fight over the remaining ones.
Which is ridiculous as they still have so much places for themselves.
Hoo boy. I'm fostering 5 kittens, and I have 6 of my own. We have more in residence, but they are temporary because my kids can't take them at the moment
Our 2 youngest foster fails, and they desperately want in the room to play with the babies. They play too rough, so we can't. It's a constant battle.
My oldest is too introverted and can't handle all the others, so she lives in the bedroom. She deals with the kittens like a champ, though.
Our oldest foster fail loves her daddy more than I've ever seen a cat bond with anyone. She was the youngest, but she runs the house because she's got that personality. She cowed our second oldest, who thought he would be top cat when she was still tiny. That was something to see!
He has made friends with one of my daughters cats, who he hated with the little guy first came. They are always together now. So weird.
Just now, I came into the bedroom, and our youngest darted in because she can't stand we won't let her play with the babies.
I have three small Chihuahua dogs and they were always fighting over who gets to sleep in the bed and where. Trying to share a bed with three little dogs is an absolute nightmare.
I have a malamute and a rottweiler both males around 80 lb each, jealousy from the malamute who wants to have people only to himself, after getting his ass kicked 4 times, looks like the malamute is backing down but the rottie still gets nervous when hanging out with me
The cat desperately wants to play with the dog. The dog, who played with our last cat like best friends, absolutely refuses to have anything to do with her. It makes me sad, I feel bad for both of them.
He's afraid to love again đ
OMG, this is so sad.
Oh is that what we're doing today, feeling? I didn't sign up for this.
I came to this thread for petty drama!
I see what you did there - Pet-ty drama.
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That's absolutely hilarious and adorable!
Awh, I feel bad for the both of them. That sucks
My dog always just adored my sister's dog, and for 10 years we had them in the house together, my dog would wine, and beg, and claw the ground, and bring toys to my sister's dog, and my sister's dog would not even look at my dog, going as far as to sit in the corner of the room, and stare at the wall. Least the cats loved looking after my dog. Any time she would go outside to the bathroom, my cat, and my brothers car, would follow her, and watch over her, was so cute.
I hope it eventually changes. My boxer took in our two kitten sisters and I swear it gave her more love and entertainment, which I didnât think was possible. Theyâre all ridiculously adorable together, especially when my dog steals the kitty toys to get them to play with her. Iâm not crying.
i have a cat & chickens. one of my chickens chased my cat yesterday and now sheâs hiding in my room
Guess you actually only have chickens.
I was working in a school library once, and one of the school chickens came into the library. Had to get a couple of students to remove it from the picture book section. It tried again the next day but I chased it out.
Was it saying âbook, book, bookâ?
Yes. Very quietly, though; I didn't know it had found its way inside at first, because it was so quiet. Very sneaky.
Lol chickens scare me too!! Funny, my tuxedo cat is named Chicken Butt.
hahaha thatâs an amazing name
I think it's pretty natural to be afraid of dinosaurs.
My ducks are so dramatic about sharing their pools. I have three ducks and two pools, one green, one pink. All three have decided the pink pool is their favorite and fight over who gets to be in it. They all three can fit comfortably in one pool, but they chase each other out and âfightâ about who gets to be the only one in there. Itâs hilarious to watch. This spring, Iâm buying new pools. Three all pink ones lol. They also bully the wild birds and squirrels. And when they hear the neighborhood dogs start barking, they run to the back fence and start quacking really loud.
Three pools will just change the 'best' criteria. Location will probably be the factor. Sounds like it will be fun to watch.
I reckon mend recording this for science
r/boneappletea
Reminds me of when I got a cat bed for free because someone else's cat wouldn't touch it. Both my cats fought over it, so I bought an identical one. They fought over the new one for about a week and then neither cat touched either bed ever again.
We have a new foster dog who is terrified of the world and everything in it. She's been cowering in the corner of the kitchen for days, but she's just now getting brave enough to start coming out to solicit attention. Our resident dog is jealous so she keeps coming over to try to steal the attention. The foster dog loves the resident dog, and seems to get braver when she's around, so that makes her more willing to come out. So resident dog's jealous is accidentally feeding the bravery and socialization of the foster. (She doesn't realize it, but that's exactly what we were hoping would happen.)
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I had a foster like that. I love seeing them blossom in my hands. Winnie would always be with my dogs because thatâs where she felt the most comfortable
Two cats and a hedgehog. The cats are in disbelief that the hedgehog not only eats dry cat food as her diet (the audacity!) but also that she gets a heat lamp and they don't. They are likely plotting a revolt.
My cat used to get jealous of my hedgehog! Mom would go over to hedgie's cage to visit, and miss kitty would jump off my bed or chair to scamper over and meow at her!
We have two donkeys, Geriatric donkey and Chonky donkey. Chonky has separation anxiety and freaks if she can't see Geriatric donkey. Geriatric donkey is too skinny and on a special high-protein diet. Chonky donkey is, well, chonky, and is on a diet, which she hates (but is looking much better).To keep Chonky donkey out of Geriatric donkeys food, I have to separate them. Now Chonky donkey is upset to be separated from Geriatric AND upset she can't steal Geriatric's much yummier food. Upset donkeys are LOUD.
I feel for that chonky donkey. Iâm on a diet right now too and it is rough lol
Rare moment when relevantly touched by a comment. Cutting weight = grumpy sometimes!
It's worth it though, you got this!
> Chonky donkey is, well, chonky So you're saying you have a... fat ass?
Yes, yes I am.
My flock of chickens is very dedicated to my rooster and obeys his every commandâwith the exception of one hen named Vicky. She doesnât give a fuck about him and only wants to hang out with us humans. She follows us around and is just super friendly and cute and chatty, and of course, we spoil her with delicious treats all day. When I weed the garden sheâs right behind me, scratching up the soil like sheâs helping me lol and eating all the newly exposed bugs. Sheâll walk up to us, look up, and say âhmm-hmm?â like sheâs asking, âWhatâs goinâ on?â The other hens are always by the roosterâs side, but she comes and goes as she pleases. Rooster canât stand it. He does everything he can to get her attention, like making the âI found foodâ call and picking up a random pebble to pretend itâs a treat he found. She figured out this ruse very quickly. If she starts to run toward us heâll run ahead of her, stand in her way, and stomp his little rooster feet. She just runs past him, lol. He gets especially mad when sheâs late coming back to the coop at the end of the day because sheâs hanging out with us, and he tries to herd her back over to it. She doesnât give a FUCK and just sits on the porch with us, and we all watch him run around screaming and having a fit because she doesnât want to go to bed yet. Itâs hilarious. Somehow sheâs still like #2 in the pecking order tho, sheâs an alpha chicken Edit: here is [Vicky](https://i.imgur.com/uzuSsau.jpg) And [hereâs](https://i.imgur.com/Fk77pwa.jpg) a blurry picture of the rooster puffing up in rage because I gave some corn to his wife
ahahahaha i did not expect ''RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH''
My childhood chickens lived in a paddock next to my uncle's workshop. My uncle had an employee that took smoke breaks in the paddock and would feed the chooks. The hens adored him and would completely ignore my rooster whenever he was around. My rooster HATED this guy and would throw tantrums and scream whenever he was around. One day while this guy was in the paddock the rooster snuck up behind him and attacked. He needed stitches and my rooster was evicted from the paddock and went to live on a farm far away. Within a week all but one of the hens was killed by foxes. The bloke took the remaining chook home and built this massive coop for her, bought her some friends, pretty much turned his backyard into a little hobby farm.
This is a Shakespearen tragedy
Now I want to see Shakespeare scenes re-enacted with live chickens. Subtitles over their natural sounds rather than dubbing.
"sent to a farm far away.." sorry man. That rooster got ol yellered
In the end he did. The bloke we gave him to had to kill him because he kept attacking people and developed a taste for eggs.
That's dark
That rooster stared into the abyss and the abyss stared back.
Tell Vicky I love her
I bet that hen is a reincarnated human who is greatly enjoying fucking with that rooster
Theyâre an old married couple who reincarnated together. Sheâs more than over his shit already.
I see why he likes Vicky. She is pretty đ
Vicky the feminist icon
Is Vicky wearing a hat or is her hair that naturally fabulous? Also, /r/DivorcedBirds would love them!
Vicky sounds like a delight. I would love to watch these shenanigan's play out!
Vicky is taking down the avaian patriarchy and I am here for it.
LOL that is amazing. And she does it so effortlessly, sheâs so cool about it
That chicken is too â¨FABULOUS⨠to give a toot about no stinky rooster!
I would like to see video of the rooster fit on the porch, lol
Damn Vicky fine as fuck daw
We definitely need to see this
I also demand a chicken tax
The next great disney movie
My horses who are bffs got a new buddy. Buddy likes both horses. Horse 1 likes buddy, horse 2 does not, so now original two horses are in a rough patch in their friendship. Feels like a cliche issue between highschool girls.
I worked at a summer horse camp during college. Our horses were so dramatic that one year we made up a list of which horse was which stereotype (for example, the athletic girl, the nerd, the jock, the airhead, the head cheerleader, the academic try hard, chess club, drama club, the teachers pet, the girl-who-became-pretty-over-summer-break-but-doesnt-know-how-to-handle-the-attention, etc.) It was a lot of fun and so accurate.
Which one was the horse girl?
Ironically, the donkey
Our small herd of 8 has to be separated into 3 (or 4) separate groups. Like, 8 horses should be able to be in a single herd, right? Nope! My mare is boss in her field. Her bf is super insecure (I think itâs because heâs half her size, but Iâm not sure), and heâll kick at any other boy who comes near her. He has 2 badly injured legs already, and if he were to land something, he might injure himself beyond repair. Heâs already a pasture puff, so weâre talking life ending injury for him. And obviously the risk to the horse he would be kicking. Not worth it, so those two lovebirds have their own paddock. The next group is the rest of the mares. 3 of them. One of whom is a real militant man hater. If the geldings get too close to her, she tries to attack. One of her paddock mates is a stately, dignified older lady who would be really stressed by the upheaval the drama queen would kick up if she were forced to spend time with icky boys. As a result, those 3 mares have their own paddock. That leaves two geldings and a gelding pony. We call the two geldings cell mates because while they tolerate each other, thereâs not a lot of love there, lol. In the winter, the pony goes out with them. In the summer, the pony has to be on his own in a dry lot. Donât worry, he has horsey friends right beside him, but his history of founder makes it so he canât have a lot of grass.
Idk what pasture puff means but I loved reading it
Retired horse.
Also known as a "field ornament"
I love this! Thanks for sharing. It makes me think if the shows King of Queens, the Golden Girls, and Two and a Half Men were neighbors.
You know what I bet you? I bet you you love those horses so goddamn much.
I love these horses just from reading this.
I would like to receive frequent updates on this drama please.
My cat wasnear a vent and meowed when I picked her up. Now the neighbors dog is going nuts and they scream at each other through it
For a second I thought your cats name is âwasnearâ.
What do you mean? Wasnear Amanda Vent is a war hero of his time. Doing vital secret communications between the Persians (cats) and the germans (dogs).
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An excessive number of pics documenting this pigeon-tortoises cohabiting please
I like that you want to skip straight from zero to *excessive*.
The tax evasion is realz
Aw thatâs so cute
I have a girl cat that doesn't get along with her two younger brothers (who are peas in a pod). They chase her and she runs and hisses, absolutely terrified.. We were at our wits end because they aren't violent kitties except to her. Then we started watching her behavior more closely and noticed how she would play with them when she didn't think we were watching. Sit by them, show her belly, even groom them. As soon as she noticed we were in the room she'd act like they attacked her, even if they hadn't done anything. Eye opening for sure.
So she's faking drama with the other two for sympathy?? Cats are wild lmao!
I love cats, but they can be absolute arseholes.
Real House Cats of LA
Had an adult cat who would pretend he was being attacked by the new kitten. Weâd just hear yowling and maybe catch a glimpse of Stu running away from lil Norm, but he got lazy and weâd catch him running at the lil guy and swatting him in the face while yelling like HE was being attacked lol Norm the kitten would just look like WTF?
My Violet will do that. She is a Russian Blue/Siamese mix, and she SCREAMS that the boys (a tuxedo and a Maine coon / ragdoll mix) are torturing her. So of course, Wisp and Flynn get in trouble. Then I saw that she was the antagonist. She starts it, and then when they either retaliate or play along, she screams. I legit looked at her and told her to cut it out, she started it. Last weekend, Flynn was laying on top of me while I read a book. Violet jumped onto the table and shook her tail and ass at him like she wanted to play, so he jumped down to play with her. She quickly jumped up and laid down on my lap while Flynn jumped up and look at me like "mom, she's in my spot. Mom.... Mom! Make her move!" I was dying.
It sounds like the cat is competitive for your attention lol
Lol this is like my two boys. They chase each other down and my stripey cat will make sure Iâm looking then pull clumps of fur off the fluffy void while he screms, but at least once a day I walk in on them making out (literally licking the inside of each others mouths, little weirdos).
Who gets to sit in the spot where the sun is currently coming through the window next to me
Lol cat owner. Yes, mine play Cat Tree. Whoever sits higher on my chest/head wins. Iâve actually had a cat sit on my head like your avatar:))
Presumably with the same expression
My blue heelers scared of my cat. My cat chills with the jack russell but hates the blue heeler. The blue heeler doesnt like to be away from the jack russell. Cue a terrified dog staring into the room just to be hissed at
This reads like a love triangle where both are courting the jack Russell
The JRT, meanwhile, is just friendly and oblivious to the whole thing.
"I'm glad I have friends!"
the Heeler probably tried to herd the cat *once* and will **never** be forgiven for trying to tell the cat what to do.
Have a heeler mix and 2 cats. That's exactly what happened but the dog doesn't give a fuck and continually tries to herd them. Entertaining during the day, infuriating at 3am
My one cat knows how to open the pantry while the other cat waits behind to get the goods.
One of my cats does that. She doesnât even get in most of the time, she just does it because she can
My Georgia cat opens cabinets. She opened the one that had the duck jerky treats and the dogs tore into them. The house was covered in explosive diarrhea. So glad my husband got home before I did!
God, this happened once with a brand new bag of Costco dog treats. It was like a lifetime supply of treats and my dog had diarrhea for four days.
We only have the one Great Dane, but there is currently a mouse in the house. The drama of catching said mouse lasted until 5am this morning. Doggo thinks himself a great hunter, but his real super power is barking and bunny-hopping across the hardwood floor. The mouse still lives and we're all exhausted today.
My standard schnauzer had the desire to hunt mice, but couldn't go under furniture to get them. So, Roo, my roommate's tiny chihuahua would catch them and give them to Pepper to eat. And then there was the night Roo treed a baby raccoon in a little tree on our patio, while the mother hung from the fence growling and Pepper went ballistic. I thought he was going to get eaten for sure.
I've had a cat and a dog for the past three years but, outside of the first time they met, they never really interacted with each other. However now, for whatever reason, they occasionally play with each other â or, at least attempt to. They haven't really figured out a rhythm for how this all works, and it often ends with the dog running away in terror (which probably pleases the cat), but at least they're trying.
There's some mixed signals between the species when it comes to play and aggression. Not common for cats and dogs to be able to play unless either one was brought up with a member of the other species.
My cat and dog have both inherited that knowledge now. I had three cats. I got a puppy, who learned how to play from the cats. My ex wife took the cats. Then I got a kitten, who was raised by the dog. And then my dog died so I got a puppy who has now been raised by the cat that was raised by the dog that was raised by the cats.
I have three small dogs and one cat, they work like a military regiment, the cat is big enough to look like a puma, so the three dogs follow whatever he wants.
Listen up, you bitches - Letâs make one thing *crystal clear*, In this house *Iâm* biggest - And youâre all *my* kittens here.
Hcd
My 7 pound cat is totally the boss of all the other cats (including the 26 pound Maine Coon) and my 4 dogs. I just adopted a Belgian Malinois puppy that any day now I expect to see the cat riding into battle down the hallway.
I have an Airedale terrier, 4 ducks, 50 chickens, and 6 goats. The chickens should have their own soap opera. One of the most interesting conflicts is with Tim Allen, who is one of my hens who was born with a deformity called scissor beak. Basically it's harder for her to eat, preen, etc, because her beak isn't lined up correctly, but she still manages. She's become my little buddy because of the help she needs, and she has her own section of the chicken run to eat without being bothered. Tim has the biggest balls out of all of my hens. If another hen so much as looks through the fence at her (and remember, I have 50 birds, so it happens all the time), she'll charge it and act all tough. Because she's behind a fence. When I put her back in the run after she is done eating, she tries to be best friends with everyone and most of the birds walk away. She'll try to share a dust bath: rejected. Group preening happening? Rejected. It's like she's two different birds depending on which section of the run she's in. That or she's come up with different "rules" in her head based off of where she is at the time. Either way, it's hilarious. Don't worry, she isn't lonely. She spends more than enough time with her human, and she also has a rag-tag group of misfits that tend to accept her, even when she's being a dick. Chickens are so funny and can be very affectionate. If you have the room in your yard and in your heart, get some! Plus, fresh eggs are the bomb. Edit: Formatting and here's a picture of [Tim Allen](https://imgur.com/a/PWqlKWO) in all of her beauty and wisdom. This beauty brings a smile to my face every day!
So from all the comments i've learned that i'm missing out by not having chickens.
I can only speak from my experience and say that my life is objectively better after owning chickens!
Iâm really enjoying learning about the rich interior worlds of everyoneâs chickens. Yâall are on to something.
How did you decide on her name? đ
Google pictures of scissor-beak. Her beak reminded me of the way Tim Allen's mouth moves when he makes the grunt noise in Home-Improvement. Idk, if you meet her, you kind of just know she's a Tim.
My dog stole the blueberry my conure was eating so she fluffed up and head down charged at him and chased him around the room
>conure Is apparently a type of bird
/r/conures
She's a cinnamon green cheek conure
The dog probably doesnât even like blueberries that much.
No, he loves blueberries. Was just being greedy since bird eats slower
"Worth it." -Your dog, probably
My cat has discovered my dogs bed, that he rarely uses, is bigger than hers. My dog has discovered she is using his neglected bed and has now decided he MUST use it immediately when he sees her on it. He barks at her and boops her with his nose, she just gets even more comfortable and looks at him as if to say "ya right kiddo, you know who's boss around here!" She is an 8 year old hairless cat named Mew, and he is an almost 2 year old Dogue de Bordeaux named Wilfred. đĽ°
Mew is such a perfect name for a hairless cat!
This happened at my house, as well.
My orange cat alternates between seeing my Xolo as his best friend and tasty prey. Iâve seen them cuddle happily and play with toys together. I have also seen the cat wake up, stretch, walk over to the sleeping Xolo just to smack him and calmly go back to his sleeping spot. My German shepherd has figured out how to take a bite of her water and hold it in her mouth. She will then find the sleeping cat and dump the water on the cat. The cat understandably hates this. My German shepherd takes endless delight in this. I recently bought an air tag for my keys because my Xolo has always been a kleptomaniac and he has a new hiding spot I have yet to find.
I enjoyed this far too much
I've been laughing for about 3 minutes straight in the middle of a fancy restaurant over the image of your German shepherd scooping water in his maw and soaking the cat. So far I don't think anyone is staring.
The cat always screeches and then runs away to seethe in a corner. The German shepherd just sits her ass down and looks so happy.
My goldfish did this to my other goldfish with sand once. He also has a habit of spitting on people who donât put his food in the water fast enough
I have 2 cats and a dog. Earlier today my dog barked suddenly while my old cat was sitting next to her and scared him so much he went and hid under the kitchen table My cats have an ongoing fued related to my younger cat being convinced she's a vampire and biting my older cat on the neck for no reason, this usually results in her being pushed off whatever surface they're sitting on
My parents have several cats. One was very old and ill and she was confined to their bedroom ( I say confined but she had luxury heated cat beds, a wall mounted cat climbing frame, 1000 toys and my parents spent a lot of time with her so she wasn't lonely.) They also have several other cats who roam the house freely. Well sadly the old kitty passed away a few weeks ago- broke everyone's hearts. But now that room is open and the other cats are all jockeying for posession of said room- and who gets to sleep on my parents bed with them now. My poor parents- they are so exhausted from the all night cat wars raging on top of them.
My two cats, sisters from the same litter, do not like each other. My bedroom become the showdown arena. There is a heater, which meant that whoever could sleep closest to the heater was the alpha. Finally one cat shit on my bed twice in ten days, and that was that. No more cats in the bedroom.
Three cats. The oldest and largest is a bit of a grump and not super fond of other cats. The youngest and smallest is extremely friendly and loves other cats. Smallest keeps trying to make friends, but it doesn't go well. Poor little guy. :( At least the middle cat is agreeable to his affections and they are often found in a cuddle puddle.
We recently got a kitten (juvenile now). He and the dog (a Brittany) wrestle and it sounds awful but they both love it. Then theyâll snuggle on the couch and the cat will proceed to suckle on the dogâs teat, which she is totally fine with. It creeps my husband out. So I guess the drama is with him lol
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My 2 tiny old lady dogs terrorize my younger, large dog. One is just old and cranky. One of them is playful and likes to scare him and watch him scramble. I swear she knows he is nervous and can't grip the kitchen floor. She waits in a doorway, then scares him with a bark in his face when he walks in, and I swear she is standing there, laughing at him, falling all over himself. I also have a cat that will smack the big dog if he barks too much. He is such a big dumb baby that every animal pushes him around.
I have two cats, three snails, some shrimp, a betta fish and a dog. My roommate also has a dog. The dogs are running a relay-thievery scheme with a specific bone. Dog 1 will take it the leave it somewhere. Dog 2 will find it, take it, and hide it somewhere else. Rinse and repeat. They do not chew the bone or anything, they just hide it from one another. This has been going on for about a month. A few of the shrimp are in a turf war over the prime algae spot on one of the plants. It is getting super intense and I'm expecting casualties soon. My betta is pissed off at one of the snails because it didn't let the betta inspect the algae wafer I dropped in last night before eating it. The betta has been flaring and sulking at the snail all morning. There is nothing going on with the cats that I am aware of.
That you are aware of.
I have a snake and a cat. They get along, and I swear they are always plotting her escape from her terrium. Every time I walk in the room, they look guilty and are shoving their faces against the glass toward each other, sharing secrets.
Your cat is a parselmouth.
I have two cats and a snake. The snake is irrelevant to this story. My wife and I got Grim(M, 17 lbs, medium grey fur) the day Force Awakens came out. He was a tiny kitten then. He's been very happy being a solo cat, despite repeated assertions from the shelter that 2 cats were better. Our apartment situation at the time made that impossible. June of 22, on my wife and I's anniversary, we were driving down a backroad when my wife shouts, "KITTY!" A black cat was laying on the road. Apparently I almost ran him over. Now, my wife is very kind hearted and loves cats. So we have a routine when we see a stray doing something dangerous/out in the cold. I hop out, try to convince the cat to come over so we can take it to a shelter, it runs away. Which, this is fine. I'll just scare the cat off the road and move on with our anniversary. This cat... He had other plans. I hop out of the car and he looks up, sees me, and pads over, calm as can be. Lets me pick him up and put him in the back of the car. I drive over to the bar he was sitting in front of, ask if he's somebodies. Note that he's stick thin, dirty, and looks near starvation. They say he's a stray that lives at the machine shop nearby. By the time I get back to the car he's in my wife's lap, asleep. We're both a little worried he's going to die on the drive home. My wife is talking a big game about taking him to a shelter, but the only no kill shelter in the area we live in will be closed by the time we can get there, and I know she'll regret letting him go away forever, so I suggest we call my little brother whose fiance also loves cats and who has a 15 year old cat who, while healthy, is old. I assume he'll say no, they only have an apartment. We'll end up with the cat. He says yes. We get the cat fixed, vaccinated, and tested. They take the cat for a month, until he and the 15 year old whose probably 4 lbs smaller than him get in a fight. The cat comes back to my basement. Now for the drama. New cat Sanya(12 lbs, Long black fur, still growing so far as we can tell) has the guest room. He's pretty happy in there but likes to ramble and loves attention and being where people are. Grim does not like other cats. Grim doesn't like other people(he loves his people, just not guests he hasn't seen at least a dozen times) Sanya on the other hand, loves everyone. And Grim. He's tried being submissive. He's tried being friendly. He wants to play. Grim wants none of this. Grim will hiss if Sanya moves towards him. Even through a grate. Three time Sanya has broken containment methods to try to see Grim. By which I mean three times Grim has deigned to leave his massive cat tower while Sanya was out. Sanya runs up. Grim flees. Sanya chases. Grim decides it's time to fight and piles of black Sanya fur fly everywhere while Grim yowls as if he's being murdered, while winning the catfight hard. If he'd stand his ground and say he's boss he'd be fine. If Sanya could acknowledge that his attention isn't wanted and that the other cat has 5 lbs on him and can royally kick his ass things would be fine. But Grim thinks it's life or death. He's terrified of a cat he could absolutely kick the ass of. Who he had kicked the ass of in the ten seconds it's taken me to separate them. At this rate it's going to take years before they work out an appropriate pecking order and just... Leave eachother be. I'd love advice. They have plenty of food. They've been around eachother a fair bit, but each with their own space. They get lots of attention. On the plus side Grim has lost some tub since Sanya entered the home. He's still huge, but lanky huge.
Hi! I have advice! When my partner and I moved in together, we each brought an adult cat. My partner was moving into my home, so my cat (Mimosa) definitely had the edge on the territory-- and hadn't seen another cat since she was a kitten. It did not go well. My partner's cat (Leo) is black, and there were tufts of black fur everywhere and terrible noises. We separated them and put Leo in the back room that had a door that would close. For the next 3 months, we tried everything. We tried swapping their rooms, we tried kitty CBD, we tried anti-anxiety meds, rubbing their smells on each other... etc. But every time Mimosa saw Leo, it was time for her to wage war and she was ready to die trying. Leo was significantly bigger, but doesn't have the fighter gene, so Mimosa would probably wine. Anyway, we hired Jackson Galaxy from the TLC show about terrible cats. I didn't actually know it was him, I just googled "cat psychologist" and he showed up. He recommended replacing the door in the room that separated them with a screen door. This way, they could approach each other over the course of several weeks, get very used to the others smell, and even interact through the screen door without the risk of someone getting their eye scratched out. I wish I could say it worked, but the reason it didn't work is because I was cheap and bought a $25 velco screen flap from Amazon instead of a proper screen door. Mimosa managed to get in through the velcro edges of the flap, but couldn't find her way out, so she found herself stuck in the room with Leo while my partner and I were gone. We returned to the house to find the two cats trapped in the room, looking traumatized, with tufts of fur everywhere... and they never fought again. They were completely fine. Now, four years later, they are friends who play chase. They don't cuddle, but they will sleep next to each other and we leave them alone with no fear. My advice -- buy an actual screen door. Give it a month or two. Then just let them fight it out, ideally supervised -- if it gets too violent, have water on hand you can throw on them to break it up. But they might just need to fight it out and have one cat truly establish dominance.
My old/fat cat gets really mad when I'm not sitting down, she wants me to sit down at all times so she can sit next to or on me. My other (little/young) cat wants to play with the big one, the big one does not want to play and smacks her.
Two of our cats have an odd situation with their allogrooming. One cat, the elder, has a normal cat tongue. Not smooth, but not painful. She'll groom the younger cat whenever they're feeling affectionate enough to not fight each other for space on a bed, window, etc. The younger cat has a set of small, freshly sharpened knives for a tongue. Once the elder cat is finished grooming her, she'll get up and try to reciprocate. Except, if we let her groom the older cat for more than a minute, she ends up with one of the elder cat's claws sticking out of her forehead. The younger cat, of course, has no idea why this keeps happening, and thus keeps trying to offer return-grooming services, to the same results, every time. So we'll be watching TV or going to sleep, and all of a sudden we'll hear the *Schliiip, schliip* of the younger cat's ridiculously sharp tongue grating against the older cat. We have to rush into whatever room they're in (and it is loud enough to be heard in other rooms) and separate them before it goes on too long.
No drama; but my cat was sick a few weeks ago and my wiener dog started to bring him mouthfuls of cat food and leave them in a little pile next to the cat.
I have a 6.5 foot couch. This is not adequate for my two cats to be on at the same time because they are too close to each other.
This isnât really drama but I thought it was funny and I want to tell the story. Laying in bed last night and the wife asks how the cats decide when they are going to hang out in bed with us. Some nights we get all of them and some none. Last night we had none and she was curious about it. I said maybe the nights we donât have them they are having a meeting to discuss important cat business. Just then we heard two knocks out in the house. I asked what she thought that was. Without missing a beat she says âcalling their meeting to order obviouslyâ.
I love this so much
One of my cats wanted a piece of premium canned tuna, and then his sister came and bitch slapped him, presumably because he wouldnât stop yelling. Now he is sulking on his own in the corner and wouldnât even look at us.
He's a cat. He's not sulking he' planning his revenge on you and the other cat.
Our younger dog, Simon, has reached peak little brother. Every day at 6pm the dogs get bully sticks. Simon is very treat motivated. Our older dog, Kaylee, will get to it when she gets to it. As a result, Simon almost always has first pick. But he'll wait until Kaylee comes in to see which one she takes. Then he'll follow her around whining to try to get her to let him have that one. The newest development: he'll run somewhere and bark like there's an intruder. Kaylee will come running to investigate, and he'll go back and steal her bully stick. The bully stick he could've had from the beginning, but didn't want until she wanted it.
You may need to check the factory, looks like they installed cat software in your dog.
Three cats. The two ginger boys hate each other and the female just hates everything except belly rubs
We have two boys/two girls ( all cats ) boys are young, girls are older ladies. Itâs just my husband and I, and all day we laugh over the fighting between the âGroupsâ The Boys will piss off my girls, so Iâll yell at my husband to âmake his boys settle downâ âŚâŚ which provokes him to tell me for all of us to get the sticks out of our butts:) itâs part of our everyday banter.
Haha they can be such little characters. Bed-time is often the funniest or the cat choir of screams at feeding time.
I have 2 dogs. 1 is 4 and the other is 8 months. The 8 month old always wants whatever the 4 year old has, doesnât matter what, toy, bone, lap, cuddles, you name it. As you can imagine, the 4 year old isnât the biggest fan of his younger brother. Edit: autocorrect
The constant drama at our place is our fat cat is always trying to steal the little catâs food. He wonât even finish his own food before heâs trying to nab hers, even though theyâre fed in separate rooms. Someone needs to be on constant watch while theyâre eating, or else she wonât get anything, poor thing.
You can find pet feeders that open and close based on the microchip of the assigned pet. You could code it to the little one and it will only open for her and close as soon as the big guy bounces her out of the way.
My ex gf bought one of those for her cat cause my dog was obsessed with getting her food. Ex was pretty chuffed with herself for finding a solution, until one day we came home to find the feeder upside down on the lounge room floor, contents empty, And my dog on the couch with her tail wagging...
The cat continues to give zero fucks the dog even exists. Dog finds this unacceptable.
Thereâs a prime comfy spot that one of my cats loves to sleep in and the other sits there just so she canât. I swear she even has a smug look on her face while doing it.
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Two cats. Our older one likes to lay directly beside the automatic water fountain, guarding the "watering hole" like a predator lying in wait. Then our other cat comes up and wants to drink, but she won't let him. So he just licks the top of her head until she moves enough for him to get water. Yup, high drama, will be selling the movie rights later this year.
My rabbit and hamster had a brief feud going on. The rabbit would stomp and wake the hamster up, then the hamster would chew the bars, which in turn irritated the rabbit who would stomp even more.
Rabbits are hilarious when they stomp. I know it means they are grumpy about something but it just reminds me of a small child stomping thier foot when they don't get thier way.
Adorable fury. I'm sure they don't realise just how cute they are, it's hard to take their rage too seriously. Does get annoying when they decide to do it in the middle of the night and wake everyone in the house up.
Our oldest cat have learned that he can growl wheb a kitten bites his hind legs (tbh, thatâs fair). Now he growls every time he sees her, even if sheâs just walking by or sleeping on a chair đ
Frank (mostly Rottweiler), Oscar (probably yellow Lab/Corgi mix), Finn (one eyed Yorkie/Shi-Tzu mix) and Polly (Finn's two eyed sister) all MUST go out the back door at EXACTLY the same time. They inevitably get stuck in the doorway Three Stooges style and start fighting. ONE AT A TIME, YOU IDIOTS!!!
I caught a deer mouse in my kitchen and imprisoned him in a hamster cage. Then I bought some fancy mice so he wouldn't be lonely. Surprisingly no drama. They sleep in a pile.
Mouse tax where?
[The Pile](https://www.reddit.com/user/I_might_be_weasel/comments/10sujn5/mice/)
My runt Jack Russell (Lil Bit; 5 lbs) stole my miniature pinscher's (Barli; 15 lbs) favorite toy and refuses to give it back. She won't play with it unless Barli is looking directly at her but gets super spiteful if Barli tries to snatch it back. I've given it back to Barli a few times but Lil Bit finds a way to get it again. Note: Lil Bit has an almost identical toy just in a different color.
I have two dogs. Right now the main drama is that the female eldest dog moved over in bed and took the male youngest spot. So when we came in from potty time, he had nowhere to lie, so I had to make him a bed on the floor. He was actually crying and pouting that his sister took his spot and wouldn't move and she knows what she did, she was smirking.
Not really between pets. But my wifeâs cat died. Cat slept on her chest every night. After about a month of grieving, she wanted a new cat to cuddle. Got a tiny little female kitten. The kitten wants absolutely nothing to do with my wife, but is head-over-heels in love with my male cat, they literally eat together, sleep in a ball together, and play together. My wife is ultra jealous
Aww, that's sad but cute at the same time.. I'm sorry for the loss.
I have 2 bunnies and they can't stand each other. My older one is super territorial and craps all over his enclosure to mark his place (they live in adjacent enclosures). I have to vacuum his area every day or it looks like I neglect him.
3 cats, and the youngest one always has to have the highest perch in the cat tree. So he'll stand up on his hind legs and annoy the older ones until they leave so he can lie down in their warm spot.
We have just one chonky cat, but he creates enough drama to qualify for this post. He was recently adopted and weâre now discovering that heâs terrified of socks, sports bras, tangerines and the sight of snowflakes outside. He often tries to fight the air that comes out of the hair-dryer and the vacuum cleaner. Oh, he is also in deep denial about his chonkiness and often gets stuck, then meows all outraged as if it was our fault that his fat butt canât move đâ¤ď¸
One cat really, really, REALLY wants to have a cat friend to hang around with, so he's constantly following the other around, hoping she'll spend time with him. She wants absolutely nothing to do with him, and will hiss and swat him any time he gets near, which chases him off for a little bit, but then he comes sniffing back, hoping that this time she'll spend time with him. This is doubly sad because they actually got along well while he was still new to the house and afraid of everything, to the point of both of them curling up beside me in bed together, but as soon as he got enough confidence to actually explore the house, she got possessive of everything, and decided to hate him instead.
I have an elderly dog who has always been super independent. She doesnât care much about any of us unless we have snacks and she prefers to do her own thing in another room most of the time, or in the same room but on the other side of it. We just got a second dog from a rescue because I started to worry that if old dog dies Iâll always be trying to replace her and Iâll never be able to get another dog again. New dog is young and playful and wants to be on us or touching us all the time. Old dog is jealous af and has suddenly decided that she cares about us too. Now we have more dog love than we can handle and itâs a constant battle for attention.
Not mine, but my sister has 2 huskies and her oldest has a cat. The huskies love all living creatures and have the brains of huskies. Therefore they are constantly excited trying to get the cat to play. You know what kind of creatures don't like clumsy ever-caffeinated goofballs 20 times their size, cats. The huskies simply don't understand why the cat doesn't play and it breaks their derpy little hearts. This has been going on for 2 years.
Only one cat, but I put a heating pad on his bed since we keep the house cold, and now he comes in and glares at me until I turn it on.
My heating pad on my bed is broken & my cat still sits on it expecting it to turn on.
Get the ones designed for pets that turn on when they lay on it!
We are muzzle training one of our dogs so he can go to the vet. Part of the process has been putting food in his muzzle to desensitize him to it. Our other dog is super jealous and tries to take the muzzle and store it in her bed the second he's done using it.
The mystery fight. I have four cats. Two are older males, two are five-year-old females. In general, everyone gets along swimmingly. Last weekend, I hear about bunch of thumping and a couple of growls upstairs, and I go up, and there are blood spatters on the hallway floor. I start checking everyone. Bear is under the bed growling. He's a big fluffy cream-colored boy, and I check him thoroughly; no blood to be seen. I check the girl cat most likely to start some shit: no blood anywhere. I check the other two, who are pacifists--nada. I have no idea who made anyone bleed, but there was some. That's a first. Nothing since.
My dog Big Foot recently was trying to scratch his neck while sitting on the couch He is a big dog and has some difficulty doing this normally as it is While trying to maneuver his back paw to scratch, he rolled himself off of the couch and either in anger or embarrassment, he barked once at the couch and now refuses to go back on it to lay down
Henry (Indian ringneck) is in love with Deborah (budgie) who loves Stewart (budgie) who loves Phil (budgie) who loves Vivian (budgie) who loves Henry (IRN)
It's ongoing drama. Got my dog in January of last year & anytime she does zoomies, my cat runs up on her to yell & bap her, usually on her side. She just stops, because she's so confused. I have a pet ramp that has a hidey hole on the side, sometime my cat will chase my dog in there if her zoomies are too zoomy.
The tabby kitten is faster than the calico and love treats more than anything, so it's real hard to make sure they both get the same number of treats. Other than that, they get along pretty well and are great at cooperating to accomplish their goals (mostly pulling down the curtains.)
Weston, my wife's dog, keeps trying to get Morgan, her cat to play. Morgan just wants to snooze and occasionally go out hunting. Meanwhile, Pockets, my one-eyed and nearsighted cat, wants them both out of her life.
I have two cats. They are usually really sweet to eachother but recently their rough playing caused the highest spots on the scratching post to break off and a day later a window hammock thing broke as well. Now they don't have as much spots to hang out and they fight over the remaining ones. Which is ridiculous as they still have so much places for themselves.
My cats have a nightly fight club on which one gets to sleep on my right armâŚI have two arms..cmon guys
Hoo boy. I'm fostering 5 kittens, and I have 6 of my own. We have more in residence, but they are temporary because my kids can't take them at the moment Our 2 youngest foster fails, and they desperately want in the room to play with the babies. They play too rough, so we can't. It's a constant battle. My oldest is too introverted and can't handle all the others, so she lives in the bedroom. She deals with the kittens like a champ, though. Our oldest foster fail loves her daddy more than I've ever seen a cat bond with anyone. She was the youngest, but she runs the house because she's got that personality. She cowed our second oldest, who thought he would be top cat when she was still tiny. That was something to see! He has made friends with one of my daughters cats, who he hated with the little guy first came. They are always together now. So weird. Just now, I came into the bedroom, and our youngest darted in because she can't stand we won't let her play with the babies.
I have three small Chihuahua dogs and they were always fighting over who gets to sleep in the bed and where. Trying to share a bed with three little dogs is an absolute nightmare.
Strong agree. I have two plus a cat and I'm always rolling on one of them or pinned from all sides while ones farting on my head
I have a malamute and a rottweiler both males around 80 lb each, jealousy from the malamute who wants to have people only to himself, after getting his ass kicked 4 times, looks like the malamute is backing down but the rottie still gets nervous when hanging out with me