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Wow - this could get long because I think my cats are super quirky - but maybe I'll find out they are normal.

chicken is an 18 pound boy cat - he has asthma & has to take Claritin or prescribed drugs from the vet on a daily basis. We got an air purifier about a month ago & have only had to give him meds once. We also believe he knows his colors because if he is hunting & I say "you know mommy loves the pink mouse" he will bring me a pink mouse. The fact that the 18lb male cat prefers the pink mice is funny all in itself. He will also bring me my fuzzy slippers, but not on command although I am working on it.

Bijoux is my gray calico female & is Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde - she either loves us & wants to be around us all the time or hates us & wants to bite & hisses at us. We can never tell which so petting her is always a gamble.

Zeus is my little baby kitten & she was a runt. Her tail is broken in 2 places, which makes her perfect to me (only a mother could love). She is EXTREMELY needy & will sit on my shoulder like a parrot.

And our sea monkeys - collectively named Nimrod for boys & Heriomine for girls - are quirky in that they are sea monkeys & we have them. We are in our 30s (or does that make us quirky?).

That was fun!



-- Edited by laken1 at 18:55, 2005-10-26

LMonet wrote:

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greet Dad when he comes home around 6.  Everyday.  He gets really upset if Dad isn't home by 6!

FH can't bring me flowers because he finds them and plucks them out of the vase one by one until they're all gone!

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Mine too - but just the big one! Actually was my husband's cat before I came along so I guess that makes sense.

And Christine - don't you love the kitty kisses???

My cat and my dog are very silly and quirky. The funniest thing is their morning routine.

They wake up at 5:30 every morning with my mom and go with her outside to get the newspaper. They play with each other (read: my cat sits on the arm of the couch while my dog walks by and swats her on the nose... over and over again) until 6:00 when she leaves for work and my dad gets up. He lets the dog out to do her business and feeds them both, as the cat follows behind him, meowing... he calls him The Inspector. Winnie (dog) scratches at the door and my dad and Meowie (cat) let her in. My dad makes his lunch as the animals watch, and then he gives the dog a slice of turkey. He picks Meowie up off the table (where he watches from) and brings him back downstairs to his food bowl with his little piece of turkey... that way, Winnie can't eat his share. After he's done, Meowie goes upstairs to watch my dad leave. He and Winnie sit on the love seat in front of the front window (and if my parents knew this, they'd flip ) as he drives away, and then they both sleep there until about 10:30 or so. Then they go off to do their own things.

my big fat kitty Boen, (18 lbs) tries to open door knobs. He stands up on his hind feet, grasps the door knob in either paw and turns. If he only had some leverage he could totally do it!! He also does this other thing when he's locked out of a room. He'll stick both paws under the door, grasp the door in his paws, and then shake it back and forth until we think the door's about to come off its hinges!!

Zipper, our other cat, will have conversations with you. She'll make this little chirping noise, and if you do it back to her, she'll do it again, and so on and so forth. It's kinda fun to have little chats with her. I always wonder what she's saying though, and what she thinks we're saying back to her

Our new puppy, Laney, sleeps with us sometimes, and wraps herself around one of us. The first night we had her, I woke up in the middle of the night and she was spooning with my boyfriend! Head on the same pillow as him, one "arm" slung over his shoulder, it was the cutest thing ever!!

My mom's dog, Lily, is certifiable! 

Example #1:

She barks like a crazy beast at new objects in a room (but not necessarily as soon as they are put in the room, sometimes it takes her a while to notice them, but when she does, it's a bark fest).  When I was moving in, I had put my keyboard stand in it's box and propped it against the wall in the office.  It was there for a few days and all of a sudden Lily noticed it and was convinced that it was going to get her and went into attack mode, barkly wildly and shrieking. Another time, I was going through my closet and had a big, black trash bag out.  The dog was in the room with me the whole time, but it took her about 20 minutes to notice the ominous bag. When she did, she went lunging at it, barking and growling.    She does this for the most random things, too--grocery bags, candles, a stack of papers, lamps, Christmas trees. She's nuts!

Example #2:

She also hates my printer.  If she is downstairs and hears me turn it on, she starts to bark and growl and I can hear her tearing through the house and up the steps to the office to attack the printer.  She gets right up at it (standing on her hind legs) and barks like a banshee.  And then she gets beside herself as it spits out paper and tries to grab the paper and shred it.  Once, the paper came flying out of the printer and she had it shredded in about 5 seconds.  So much for that copy of my resume.  If she can't get the paper coming out of the printer, she goes for something at nose level for her and tries to shred that. It's like she's so disturb that she has to vent her frustrations by shredding. She does this to a lesser extreme with the VCR/DVD player. She gets right up at it and barks when it turns on, rewinds, etc.  No shredding, though.

Example #3:

She'll be laying down, calmly in her bed, and then suddenly she'll jump up and start chasing her tail for about a minute. Then she'll go lay back down.

Example #4:

Whenever someone is on the phone, no matter what Lily has been doing previously, she must, must, must be on the phone talker's lap.  Apparently, she feels neglected and ignored when someone is talking on the phone and of course, this is unacceptable b/c she believes that she is the center of the universe.

Example #5:

She loves to be brushed.  If you look at her and say, "Lily, where's your brush?" she starts to jump up and down and shriek and then she runs into the bathroom where the brush is kept.  Then, if you get the brush out and sit down, she throws herself across your lap so you'll brush her back. 

Example #6:

She loves 'scratchies' (having her back scratched).  When you scratch her back, her little hind legs start moving really fast and she tilts her head back and to the side.  It's hysterical.

Example #7:

She loves pillows. If she wants to lay on the pillow that you are using, she will just plop right down on it and on you. 

Example #8:

You cannot close a door on Lily, even to go to the bathroom.  If you do, she will throw herself against it and shriek, so you have to leave it ajar, so she can meander in if she so chooses.

Example #9:

Lily loves shoes and slippers!  When she steals one, she grabs and tosses her little head in the air and prances about as if she's won a prize.  Then she hides it under the bed.  She also does this with towels, underwear and socks. 

Example #10:

Speaking of towels, Lily loves wet towels.  She'll take her head and rub it all over a wet towel.

She is one neurotic beast! But she's so funny and cute!

 

-- Edited by NylaBelle at 09:23, 2005-10-27

My cat Petey is an absolute nut!

- He loves to play catch like a dog. He bring me his favorite mouse toy every night and makes me throw it for hours on end while he keeps bringing it back to me. And if I don't feel like throwing and try to ignore him, he'll take his mouse in his mouth and nudge it into my hand until I get the point!

-He gallops and seems to chase invisible objects! He runs around like a maniac and actually looks like a crazy kitty!

- He must always be picked up as soon as I get home from work. If I ignore him, he'll jump onto the nearest object (table, counter top, bookcase) and jump right into my arms.

- When I get out of the shower in the morning, he climbs onto our sink and will not let me get ready until I pet him for at least 5 minutes!

- When he meows a lot, I can talk to him and he'll keep meowing back at me like we're having a conversation!

That's all I can think of for now, but I'm sure there's more!

-- Edited by nunzi182 at 11:34, 2005-10-27

Laken1, yes, I LOVE her little kitty kisses! She's so cute!

I thought of another weird one....my cat Zoe will wait until I get out of the shower, then she'll hop in the tub and lick all of the water drops on the bottom and sides of the tub.....when I catch her doing this, I try to stop her just in case there's soap residue or something!

Also, when the sun streams in through our dining room windows, she will lick the sunny spots on the hardwood floor! It's like she's thanking the warm spot for being there so she can lay on it! So strange.....

Here's some quirks about my dog Ginger.

She likes it when I swaddle her up in a blanket and hold her like a little baby. I kid you not.

She always knows when somebody is eating at any time. It's like she has a sixth sense for food. Whenever I'm about to eat something, she'll come running out of nowhere and stare me until I give her a bite of my food.

If I leave food in my backpack, she will unzip my bag and eat the food. It can be a whole sandwich or some cookies, it doesn't matter. It's like she's always hungry, even though I know she's not. 

 

Stories like this are soo great. Pets are just amazing and it has been proven that people with pets live longer, happier, healthier lives.

We have three pets.. an Obese orange cat, named Frank, a gray and white sweet little cat with green eyes. Her name is Taylor, we call her Tay-Tay. And my baby boy, a Yorkie-poo named Ernie.

Frank sleeps a LOT, always in bed, on my husbands pillow, even if DH is sleeping on it. Every morning, DH will wake up half way down the bed with no pillow, because Frank slowly pushes him off throughout the night, until he has the entire thing.

Taylor is the sweetest thing ever. She talks Non-stop. We walk in the room and say Hi Taylor. She meows. We say How was your day? She meows. We can hold a full conversation with her. She always waits until you stop speaking to answer you. And each meow is different from the last, like she is really speaking another language. All year round, she lays on the vents in the house. Whatever room she is in, it is always too hot or too cold.. If its hot, its because she is laying on the air conditioning vent, hogging all the air.. cold? she's on the heating vent, guaranteed. If you touch her, her stomach will feel like an ice cube, or like its on fire.. I don't know how that could be comfortable.

Ernie is a little jumping bean. I think he could walk a mile on his hind legs. When I am eating something and walking around, he will follow me the whole way, never putting his front paws on the ground.

He also gives kisses with toys in his mouth. He has a stuffed monkey that he NEVER puts down. He will come over to you and jump up to your face as if he is kissing you, but he never puts down the damn toy. He like tries to shove it INSIDE your mouth.

He can not be left alone. He must be in the same room as someone at all times, or he just wimpers and cries like a baby.

Also, if he wants a treat, he knows that he will have to do a trick. So instead of waiting for a command, he will sit, give paw, lay down, and roll over before you even say anything. Like he wants to do what you want before you have to ask. It is the cutest thing.

-- Edited by JoceyBaby23 at 15:15, 2005-10-28