PET peeves

[Never2Bknown]

My sweet (sometimes, anyway) little kitty, Rosewood, has an extremely annoying tendency to chew on plastic. She knows darn well that it annoys me, too!!! I could swear she does it just to get on my nerves sometimes... She especially likes chewing on plastic bags just when I get into bed and get all comfortable, so that I have to get up and go take it from her.

Another thing Rosewood likes to do is wake me 2 or 3 times at night so that I can pet her. First, she walks all over my face. If I don't react to that, she'll start licking my nose. And if she STILL doesn't get a reaction from me, she starts licking my mouth. That never fails to work. Then, she proceeds to start drooling in happiness and slobbers all over my face and neck for around ten minutes, when she finally gets enough petting and goes to wreak havoc someplace else.

My second cat, Sasha, is sweet gray ball of fluff who starts purring if you just say her name. However, she is also a very, very STRONG ball of fluff who enjoys headbutting people ecstatically whenever she is petted. One morning, when I was still lying in bed half asleep and was not expecting anything, she came up to me and affectionately headbutted me as hard she possibly could directly in the gut, winding me completely. Then she couldn't understand why I was rather disinclined to pet her at that moment...

Beneath all her sweetness, Sasha also has a devilish streak. She LOVES knocking things over. I have seen her--many times, actually--purposely go out of her way to knock things over. Sasha is the reason I am always, always, very good about put the covers back on my fish food containers. And why I don't leave things as dangerous as cups of water--or, heaven forbid, juice of any kind--lying around. More than anything, I think she enjoys watching things "explode" when they hit the ground--she's always so dissappointed when it doesn't work with my fishfood anymore. My brother also found out about her little "streak" the hard way--he unwisely left a glass of water on the head of his bed. He got quite the rude awakening when it crashed down on him in the middle of the night.

Anyway, those are some of my pet peeves--what do your pets do to make you cranky?

 

[cichlidmommy]

My bird Bubba loves to chew on the tray on his cage. He doesn't do it to the point where he eats the plastic, he just grabs it, and pulls his beak off of it, making a noise.

Also, where his cage is, he has a back wall and a side wall. I have them covered with towels. He will pull the towel through the cage bars, and shred it. He gets it so tangled up, that I have to cut it to get it off of the cage.

My other bird JoJo, he is notorious for taking him morning pooh in his water dish. It never fails. Even if I move the dish somewhere else in the cage, he will still pooh in it. Then, when I change the water, he takes a bath in it, so immediately I have to change it again. He's a smart one!

 

[Storm]

I usually let my white dove out every day while I'm doing work at my computer. She has recently developed the habit of perching herself on my right shoulder. She pecks at my ear as if she's cleaning me and while it's very sweet, I must admit, it also reaches the point of driving you nuts. She also pecks at my hair and I can hear her almost gagging on it. I found her outside of the school where I work a little over two years ago. She was just a baby with really short tail feathers.
Here's hoping I get that digital camera for Christmas. That way, I can post some photos. (Of her and my fish friends)

 

[NinjaSmurf]

When my cat Ghost was a kitten he liked to sleep on my legs, which wouldn't have been a problem except he was a very big kitten and had this painfully annoying habit of attacking my legs with tooth and nail every time I dared to move them. One of his sisters with a very rough tongue once woke me up by licking my eyelids, it felt like some evil elf with snadpaper trying to grind out my eyes.

That was a few years back, now the only thing that drives me nuts is my brothers cat who climbs in bed with me and wants rubbed up before I even get the sheets pulled up on me, and who likes to lay right in the middle of the kitchen behind our legs when we're cooking at the stove.

 

[Earthgirl]

Hey Never2BKnown, I like your idea!
Even though our pets are our family, they can be pests just like the rest of the family

My prince Diablo, my kitty, has thins wonderful ablility of announcing that is 3 am, 4 am and so on, until you tell him politely (cause if you yell, he gets louder) that enough is enough he will continue with the hours.

The other thing that bothers me is the other prince of our house, the dog, is the Poop! Like seriously, who poops that amount in a day!
Thanks for letting me vent.... Feel much better!

 

[purple_drazi]

Enzo, one of our siamese cats, has a thing for chewing on clothes in plastic bags. If I put clothes away in storage in a plastic bag I'll find them full of little teethy marks when I get them out the next season.
I've thrown away more clothes full of holes that were perfectly good when they went into the bag than I care to think of.
Enzo!! Cut! It! Out!

now I put everything in boxes. but you should see him sneaking through everyone's closets looking for bags...

(Any other Reboot fans here?)

 

[Never2Bknown]

I remember once I had carefully packed all my camping gear for a canoe trip in a large plastic trash bag so I could just pick it up and go in the morning. Well, in the morning, when I tried to pick it up, the entire contents of the bag crashed out onto the floor. Apparently Rosewood had found it and had busily worked throughout the night to create a nice big hole right in the bottom of the bag. I was not happy.

 

[Puffer_freak]

N2BK annoys me because she wont give me her toad!

 

[plecoperson]

My budgie sometimes hides in the darkest place she can find when she is out of her cage (usually in a little corner of the computer table) or under the computer able so I have to dig her out again. and she screeches morning noon and night.

my dog will roll onto his back with all four legs in the air and release the noxious fumes out of his gut... its disgusting. then he wags his tail to waft the smell about.

 

[SailfinGirl]

Rosewood sounds adorable! Have you got a piccy of her?

 

[Never2Bknown]

Rosewood

and here's a sketch of her

and Puffer_Freak--

TOADY MINE!!!!!

 

[Link]

I dunno where to start

Maddison, one of my female cats likes to sit on your lap and as we call it have a 'kitten cuddle'. But for Maddie thats not enough. She loves to suckle on your jumper or t-shirt and claw at your stomach or chest while she's doing it. You then get covered in drool.
Jana, my black female cat is somehow related to the devil. She knows when she's allowed upstairs and when she's not. She also has tha ability to open doors. Once the door is open she makes a break for it and hides under the bed so you cant get her. This normally happens when I'm late for work.
When I'm not at home the cats have access to the kitchen and dining room only as Lexx is fond of using his bladder to mark territory, Gage loves to stratch stuff and Kyra takes position on 'Kyra's mat' under the front door so you trip over her when you come in.

Calla, my Umbrella Cockatoo likes to escape from the swing feeder holes in her cage and go walkabout. Normally this involves stealing things like forks and spoons and Poultry my Buff Orpinton hen like to use the kitchen work top as a place to roost in the summer when its hot.

An average day in my house

 

[Matty]

my cat Margo is fat

My other cat Sarah lies on my chest while im sleeping until I wake up cuz I can't breathe

 

[Puffer_freak]

Rosewood

and here's a sketch of her

and Puffer_Freak--

TOADY MINE!!!!!

Really good drawing, but SNIFFLE SNIFFLE at the last bit. I don't think I can possibly be your friend!

J/K lol!


TOADIE!!!!!

More pictures of him...pwease, now I'll stop cluttering this thread!

lol!

 

[Never2Bknown]

I only have one picture of him so far; he's doubled in size since it was taken. But I can try to get a few more pictures of him for you.