Pets Behaving Badly!
Hi everyone who reads this; I hope you are as well as you can be. We all love our pets and say nice things about them, but occasionally pets can behave badly (yes, they can) and I thought it would be fun if you could share any stories about pets behaving badly? Over to you…
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@Steve_in_The_City ,Here’s a start: Two years ago, I visited my mum after her neighbors raised concerns about her well-being. She was showing early signs of dementia and had forgotten to feed her dogs. Feeling sorry for them, my wife and I stepped in to help.One of the dogs was chained in its kennel because it had a habit of chasing chickens. As I went to lay down the food plate, in just a split second, it lunged and slit my wrist open. Because of my neuropathy, I couldn’t react quickly or run, so I ended up getting bitten higher up on my wrist too. Blood was gushing everywhere-I needed stitches, a month-long course of rabies shots, and a booster (even though the dog was vaccinated).Lesson learned! The poor thing didn’t recognise me, probably because of my walking stick and wonky gait. And of course, it was starving. But ever since then, I’ve had a serious dog phobia. Moral of the story: never fully trust even your own pets! 🙄🙄
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That reminds me of a sheep dog. I was as all dressed up going out, went to a friend's house, the dog who was soft as brush usually, decided to jump on me on the sofa, I ended up lying down trying to get him to stop, as he kept trying to lick my face, my friend was stood laughing unable to help. Took about a good 15 minutes, in which I looked like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, all jewellery had pinged off. So embarrassing.
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What a brilliant idea @Steve_in_The_City. Unfortunately I don't have any pets 😩 but I will be enjoying the stories shared here! 🤗
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Hi @noonebelieves Thanks for sharing. The moral of your story is quite true. I am sorry you got bitten though. I was terrified of dogs when I was a kid, but now they are sort of my best friends - so maybe you could forgive and understand the errant dog that that did the dirty on you?! We have no control over what they are going to do at times!
Hi @Sandy_123 That is comical! I have been the recipient of a randy dog, and it is not fun! My little Yorkie attacked my brother, just don't ask!
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@Sandy_123 P.S. Never wear your best black clothes when you are dressing up to go out and handle flour at the same time. It simply doesn't work…
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@Steve_in_The_City .. thank you . Yes, definitely forgiven but the phobia keeps lingering .. unable to shred it off 😰😰
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Hi @noonebelieves I can fully understand your phobia of dogs because when I was a lad I was terrified of them. It is a difficult phobia to "shrug off". No phobias are actually easy to "shrug off". But I am wishing you well and trust that one day you will find that dogs are your pal.
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Nala, one of my guinea pigs, is obsessed with knocking things over. It is not recommended to leave a cup of tea/glass of water on the floor as it will be pushed over. Then she’ll look up at me to tell me ‘oh, it’s fell over, nothing to do with me…’
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Hi @Hopeless I think Nala just sounds lovely., and it is not his/her fault - he or she just wouldn't be that badly behaved! on purpose. I had a kitten, Sam, and you know what havoc kittens create. He ran up the curtains one day and the curtains fell down! I am not the most domesticated person, so finding the curtains on the floor wasn't fun (but I got over it)..
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This is Nala - she says she’s completely innocent 😇
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@Hopeless That is terrific and she is completely innocent of any wrongdoing! It is a lovely picture, Thanks, Steve.
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One of my cats loves dried meal worms which I keep in the cupboard for the birds, when the cupboard hasn't been shut properly, he got in and clawed holes in the bag to get them. Before I had the catio , I caught him helping himself to the meal worms from the bird feeder
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@Santosha12 Thank you for your input and your pictures. I had an unwanted Yorkshire Terrible ; a rescue dog I was seriously frightened of. Being bitten didn't even come into the equation.. Yet eventually I made friends with her and she couldn't have been a better dog, except with strangers! I told people not to stroke her but they wouldn't listen so all Hell let loose!
@Andi66 Expecting your cat to be well behaved is something you won' t achieve!!!
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Thanks @Steve_in_The_City , I wish I could shrug off my dog phobia one day to accept them as my pal….I may need a therapist though!! 😉
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Hello @noonebelieves You are talking to the right person. I earned my living as a therapist and I had to get people over all sorts of phobia including, but not exclusive of, people giggling when **** with their other half to folks thinking their ceiling was going to collapse. I truly have heard it all from a young guy whose mother was brutally murdered to an 80 year old woman who was desperate to quit smoking. I can't fathom why an 80 year old lady was passionate about quitting smoking, but I had to do the job I was paid to do.
Anyway, being frightened of dogs is something I can personally resonate with. My advice (for what it is worth) is to make friends with just one dog. Maybe a dog that is taken onto your local park? Once you make friends you will lose your phobia.
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What about a cat, my late much missed ragdoll felix must have known my ex was a wrong un
He used to pee on him whilst he slept
Lol
He deserved it too
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After a life full with many many pets, I have a load of stories, but I'll have to think of some that will be ok to share in a family environment. 😆
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Sure, @Steve_in_The_City , I shall give the dog therapy a shot.
you must have such a resilient mind dealing with a variety of people in therapy with shocking stories - “guy whose mother was brutally murdered”😰0 -
Thank you all for your replies. I knew you would have some amusing tales to relate, but I am sorry that some of you have been bitten…
I thought I had better post my own pets behaving badly experience regarding my very badly behaved Yorkie called Tina. All my other animals have been angelic and although Tina looked like an angel (she had been very selectively bred for her colour) she had the heart of the bally Devil! She was 3 years old when I was asked to give her a home. I had another dog at the time and I thought they would be good company for one another. Her elderly owners had no idea how to socialise or train a dog and she had become quite snappy and unmanageable. When she arrived at our flat she came with a beautiful lead that had never been used, a collar and a lovely basket and bedding, but no toys. If I threw a ball for her she would stand and do nothing. She didn't like going for a walk; it was an alien experience for her. It took a long while to settle her in.
Tina had the instinctive knowledge of knowing exactly when the time was right to create maximum mayhem and she never missed an opportunity to do so. Although we had a dining table we generally ate at a coffee table. It was quite long, and I always set it the same way. I would put knifes and forks at either end and along the length of the coffee table I would a pot of tea, 2 mugs, a milk jug and sugar bowl, a loaf of sliced bread, two side plates, a pot of jam and some butter on a plate (we always had bread and jam for afters). There would be a mustard pot with a spoon, a bottle of vinegar, brown and red sauce and salt and pepper mills. I had made some beef mince with onions in thick red hot gravy and very unusually I had made mashed potato. My partner was sitting in his armchair at one end of the coffee table. Tina had wedged herself between his thigh and the arm of the chair. I put his dinner down, took my plate to the other end of the coffee table, put it down and sat down in my chair.
Ian leaned forward to grab his knife and fork and has he did so Tina took one almighty leap from his chair and landed heavily straight on to his dinner plate. She was literally up to her neck in hot mashed potato and scalding gravy. The weight of her body propelled the plate forward and as it hurtled toward me everything on the table got knocked on the floor. What was breakable, broke. It was a big clean-up job afterwards. Anyway, I knew what was going to happen but it all happened so quickly I couldn't do anything about it. The plate she was skateboarding on hit my plate. My plate flipped right over and I was covered in mince and potatoes. She leapt sideways off the plate and ran into the bedroom to hide under the bed. We had black floor tiles and you could see a trail of mashed potato drippings on the floor, leading from the coffee table and to the lounge door. The plate she'd been sitting on flew sideways through the air and hit the wall. I jumped to my feet and had to pull my jeans down because the red hot gravy was soaking through the denim and it hurt! Ian and I just looked at each other and in the midst of all the chaos we burst into laughter. I guess the moral of this story is if you've got a dining table and an unpredictable pet, eat from your dining table! From that day on, we always ate on ours.
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