BS: Our pets favorite things

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 07:54 PM

Jazz-min's theory is that EVERYTHING is a cat toy (including her peoples' ankles and knees). And Sabine is her special cat toy and Sabine doesn't like it one damned bit.

We've also entered the era of scootched up rugs. I'll walk one way through the house and straighten them, then walk back and have to do it all over again. Cat toys.

Jazz is young, of course. A year and a half to Sabine's 9. Jazz's favorite game is "chase the kitty" -- another thing Sabine doesn't like. What she doesn't know is the rules say, first Jazz chases Sabine, then Sabine chases Jazz. Repeat until Jazz is worn out. (Never.) Alas, Sabine just thinks Jazz is being aggressive. So swats her then hides under the bed. Or goes outside and won't come in if Jazz is around.

Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: mandotim
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 05:26 PM

Olly the Jack Russell terrier; squaring up to much larger dogs (and watching them run away), chasing seagulls on the beach, 'helping' in the garden, killing rats very efficiently when he gets the chance. Lying behind people on the back of the sofa and snoring softly into their ears.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 05:18 PM

For Amos Moses cat (now deceased) it was green olive juice/brine. No intrest in the olives, just the brine. It was not safe to eat them around him.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 04:26 PM

Only the shadow knows    why

Grommit always keeps the basketball from going out of bounds.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 04:22 PM

Raven the kitty has a fixation on the pink bow on my purple nightshirt with the pictures of sheep on it - but only when I'm wearing it!

Shadow kitty will rip cauliflower off the fork twixt plate and mouth if you aren't carefull...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 04:16 PM

SEamus loves soft toys. Not the ones that you can buy for dogs, but the chioldren's toys. I've just filled a bag with them at the thrift store, for $2, and he'll get a new one as soon as he destroys those that are out. We have to play tug o war with them and then he just lies and chewa them or uses them as a pillow to sleep on.

Until I stopped him he also liked purse diving and to go after the yarn that was was working on at any particular time. He still tends to have his nose into SINSULL's purse - she indulges him where I won't.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 03:45 PM

Empty 16 oz soda bottles. All the dogs
Boudicca the Cat--to tease the dogs. She half thinks she is a dog anyway.
Yentle the Cat--To sleep or pretend to sleep, and be above all the uproar. She is great at ignoring most anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 02:50 PM

YES The laser dot!

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Greg B
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 02:40 PM

Boots, the cat--- curling up near a favorite person and taking a nap,
ambushing (or being ambushed by) a favorite person, the minute the
door opens and that favorite person comes home. A good purr. And a
bite of sushi--- just a nibble. Playing with his nephew, Simba (his
'mini-me')

Peanut, the cat--- a 'night visit' to get his ears scruffled. That
and the play laser dot.

Puma, the cat--- his Mommy, or to be left alone

Simba, the cat--- playing with his uncle Boots

Oliver, the horse--- a nice shared breath, or a five-o'clock shadow,
or a roll in the muddiest mud or the dustiest dust in the pasture,
followed by a full on thoroughbred run

Jinks, the horse--- carrots, to please a person, carrots, a good practical joke involving the water trough and an unsuspecting human,
bran mash

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: skipy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 01:54 PM

Simba loves things with wings! Sadly.
Charles loves his bed & din dins!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Scoville
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 01:24 PM

Apart from food?

My dog had a rubber carrot that she absolutely loved until our friend's corgi mix destroyed it. We got her a rubber gooney bird to replace it but it apparently did not have the cachet of the carrot and she never really took to it.

She also used to love rope bones. I need to get her a new one. She would grab them and shake them to "kill" them, and was always asking to play tug-of-war.

In the non-toy department, she loves her fuzzy oval bed. Sleeps in it until the weather is just unbearably warm, and it's completely solved the problem of a hairy white dog sleeping in Mom's best dark-green velour armchairs.

* * * * *

We tried all kinds of toys for our cat and then discovered that all she really wanted was a wad of paper on a string. Go figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Sooz
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 12:18 PM

So does ours! Sticks and balls are her favourite though.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 12:02 PM

Why is that, our border collie eats poo too

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: The PA
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 11:56 AM

Fly, border collie - eating horse poo
Red, horse - breaking wind in time to trotting !!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 11:39 AM

Bentley the miniature wolfhound likes our bed best. He lies upside down with all four (considerable) limbs in the air, snoring loudly, next to his person while he drinks his morning tea.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 11:34 AM

Grommit watched the movie about sled dogs but isn't a hockey fan.

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 10:36 AM

Faulkner loves to watch/listen to hockey games with us because he gets a treat when our team scores, and he knows to listen to the announcers' voices as the play develops and gets hotter. He also knows-- when the goal-buzzer sounds-- whether it's a goal for our team (home game) or for the enemy (road game for us).

Now another funny thing he's been doing all year is that he often lies down to eat his supper. He stretches out like a cat with his paws extended and nibbles over the edge of the bowl to pick up the large, semi-soft kibbles. He also will take one out and toss it around the room to play with it, like a cat with a mouse. We didn't teach him eaither of these; it's just his thing.

He's always been a front-paws crosser when he gets comfy, but now he's crossing the hind paws sometimes, too.

And lastly, he's developed a yen for sleeping outside, and for refusing to come in at night. I'm working on retraining that behavior, because he gets barky in the middle of the night, or whiny if it's damp (he has shelter out there). His pack (us) sleep in the cave (house) at night and that's one angle I'm using-- he's very pack-cooperative in his basic orientation. Yesterday I made him stay up all day, only one short nap, because I think he's got his days and nights mixed up from too much daytime inactivity and therefore too much nocturnal activity. Tonight he'll get not only the bell cue and treat reward when he comes in, but an invitation to sleep upstairs in OUR part of the cave, as he does whenever Hardi is away overnight.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 10:19 AM

Ginger's favourite thing was his pecker.

Subject: BS: Our pets favorite things
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 10:19 AM

The common and expected things our pets love are wonderful enough but there are those things that are so unique that it becomes a well spring of amazment.

Kevetch the cat would bring her kittens and put them on my pillow so I would wake up with kittens on my head in the morning which was a real treat for a 5 year old.

Natasha the cat would find spare change all over the house and put them in my shoes unseen.

Rocky the flying cat would land on your shoulder at any time and any place with the gentle deftness of a dove - and most favorite was to rest in the hood of your parka and go all over town be it the bank or grocery store.

Boris the cat would straddle the toilet when I had to pee. Once in the dark I could not hear a splash, I flicked on the light and there was Boris.

Rocky II the cat liked to hold deer at bay until the deer would make a whistle like scream.

Grommit the dog likes cracking good cheese and to put her snout in my hand and breathe through my fingers until asleep.