PETPOST’S NAUGHTIEST PET STORIES!
We were at home one day when we saw our dog Alice a fox terrier run upstairs and deposit a steak on the floor, then she took off down the stairs, we saw her get down on her tummy and commando crawl across the road disappearing into a neighbour’s house...reappearing with a whole roast chicken (which was nearly as big as her)! She ran upstairs with it put it down and went to fleece more. We were laughing very hard but managed to stop her before she went back for more.
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Smokey Joe is a 1-year old Burmese, who has to be the naughtiest cat in NZ. Smokey regularly arrives home feeling very proud of himself, carrying stolen goods. His best loot to date…a soft toy, an almost full luncheon roll (which was as big as him), and a half eaten pie! Of course at home everything that isn't tied down or covered is fair play, and he really isn't fussy, blueberry muffins are a favourite to steal particularly as they have to be left on the rack to cool for 5 minutes.
Smokey Joe thinks (or rather knows) he rules not only our house but the whole world. He is known to push the lid back on the turtle tank and lie on the sun ramp during winter to keep warm, if he isn't getting enough attention he demands it by biting your hand and making you stroke him.
However despite all his little behaviour quirks he is the most loved and indulged cat.
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Our cat “Pork” has just a mischievous nature, she knows when she shouldn’t but just can’t help herself!
My husband bought a remote controlled flying UFO toy and spent hours and hours playing with it. It was quite small and made a buzzing noise which made it very attractive to “Pork”. She eyed it up for hours only to be told that “no, she couldn’t play with it”
He put it up on the fridge before bed out of harms way. The next morning I wake to a very angry husband who has got up to find hundreds of small foam and mechanical pieces strewn all over the lounge floor and a very naughty “Pork” still sitting with a rotor in her mouth looking up with her big brown eyes.
She was very proud to show dad that she had sourced and caught the annoying buzzing thing that had been tormenting her all night and couldn’t understand why dad was just so shocked.
You can’t help but love her even when she is just sooooo naughty cause she is just so darn cute!
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We think our two dogs are very deserving of the title "NZ's Naughtiest Pet"s.
Harry & Milo are retradoodles (golden retriever x standard poodle) - large, mischievous & adorable!
Between the two of them, they have eaten around 16 cushions, 10 pillows, two duvet sets, and destroyed numerous sheet sets, carpet mats, blankets... They are currently working on our lounge suite, and have eaten every bed we have provided them with.
They have their own couch in our lounge, but always prefer ours!
Their favourite two pastimes seem to be thieving, and tug-of-war. Three remote controls, a telephone and countless other small items have fallen victim to these games. I hesitate to mention a favourite sport of scattering our unmentionables around our yard.
Ah, our backyard... we no longer have any potted plants - all destroyed - nor a retained garden - pulled down - and we have many big holes dug throughout.
We have resorted to using kiddie gates throughout our house to protect a lot of our possessions, although even this is not 100% dog-proof! Probably the worst that Harry has done is to constantly steal our daughter's prized bed toy "Pom Pom", and then eat it. At last count, Harry had swallowed and later regurgitated Pom Pom around 10 times - sometimes many days later! Pom Pom has now been reinforced with a special thick liner to prevent it from being swallowed again.
There is far too much other "naughty" behaviour to mention here, and it's probably just easier to say that they have near-destroyed our house...but despite all this, they are a huge part of our family, most decisions we make involve the dogs too, and they are such a blessing to have around with their friendly, placid natures.
Harry and Milo are loved unconditionally, just as children are, and we wouldn't be without them.
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Our cat Kaya is always looking for warm, snug hideaway....
One day, I hurriedly threw a few damp things into the dryer and turned it on. I noticed a peculiar thump-thump-thump noise and - luckily I decided to investigate.
Out jumped one very indignant cat. She leapt away to lick the wounded vanity from her furcoat and sulked for a while. However, happily, she suffered no lasting ill effects from the trauma of her circular trip.
But she never went near the dryer again!
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Tammy (Collie-Lab X) became a career hole-digger, especially when left home
alone. Revenge of the ignored canine? One night we came home to find,
between the garage and the back door, a grave-type mound of dirt beside a
hole literally big enough to bury her. Believe me, it was tempting, as we
negotiated the massive mudpile with sleeping small children, trying -
a) not to fall in or over and b) not to track the mess inside.
There also was the mud-packed dog problem!
It was raining, dark, and very late, so the excavation remained 'unfixed'.
Anyway a guy decided to evade the police by running through our property to
the railway. The policeman with tracker dog was in hot pursuit until he fell
in the hole!!!
The first we knew of it was when we heard the pounding of feet, then the
muffled thud and the very descriptive words.
End result? The baddie got away, and we got reprimanded by the uninjured but
messy policeman who informed us very sternly that holes like that were very
bleeping dangerous and someone could fall in.
Well, hello officer. You just did! We were not amused either...
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Where do I start? We definitely have the naughtiest pet in NZ. Oscar is our Welsh springer spaniel who has a love of underwear, especially the more expensive brands, and manure - specifically horse, cow, or cat. We got two kittens about 3 months ago and we never had to clean their kitty litter because he would do it for us! He often collects manure from the dog park to save for later. He has a way of hiding this from us because he knows we don't want him to eat manure. He believes fences are there to keep other people out as every fence we put up, no matter how high, he manages to jump over, dig under, or dig through. If I leave the door to our bedroom open he will jump in our bed for a sleep and growl if we try to get him out. Oscar, although a wonderful family pet, must be the naughtiest pet in NZ.
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Our son loves Criss Angle MindFreak who sometimes does tricks with his cat.
So when Christmas rolled around I gave our son a DVD and put on the card it was from the cat. When he opened it he wanted to know how Stripey (the Cat) knew to pick it, I told him we took her to the DVD Shop and placed half a dozen DVDs on the floor and Stripey put her paw on the DVD she wanted to give our son.
So cute to see a wee child believe so strongly….
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I have a little foxy cross, beautiful wee face. Her name is Holly. We used to live in a very large house with it being quite a trek from one end to the other. Holly was only about two at that time.I can't help myself when it comes to shoes - I would have close to 100 pairs. My little dog also loves shoes, especially mine, so one must be vigilant on shutting the wardrobe door. Alas one night we went out to tea, not more than two hours, on arriving home we had one very tired little dog. Yes she had carried 28 pairs of shoes from one end of the house to the other, most were in good condition…but of course she knew my favourites and those are the ones she chewed! Holly is now 8 years old and still hasn't broken the habit.
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My cat Oryx is an absolute terror around food. He eats EVERYTHING... nothing is safe left on the bench. I've caught him eating warm soup out of the pot while it is still on the stove. I've caught him pulling scraps out of the waste disposal. And while I'm watching tele, I can hear a ting-ting noise, and I know it is him licking the plates on the bench (the noise is his name tag banging against the plate). He even eats through plastic bags, like loaves of bread left on the bench. We have a strict "no food to be left out" policy in our home because of him!
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Our cat Billy's behaviour used to be impeccable... but then it turned for the worse. He must have gotten sick of hearing "Billy don't be a Hero!" sung to him since kittenhood. He started out by stealing our baby's blanket to make into a superhero cape (he drags it around in his mouth all day - jumps over our fences/gates with it streaming behind him like a cape.... much to the amusement of our visitors and neighbours who now call him Supercat!) Unfortunately, though... the cape no longer holds interest and he has turned to taking large items from our neighbours’ places... he steals towels from INSIDE people's houses, kid's jackets, blankets and the like. We look out our window to now regularly see him dragging himself up our driveway with large things dragging behind him. We've had to warn all our neighbours of this rather embarrassing habit, return their things from shed roofs or from our house etc. We really hope that this Slinky Malinky type activity will be a passing phase!!!
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I have two cats, who are sisters, although one is much more inclined to be in the midst of doing something naughty at any given time. A strange occurrence was happening whereby I would find random pairs of my underwear on the ground and just assumed they had fallen out of the laundry somehow.
One day I walked into the bedroom to find Puff on the dresser, jamming her paw into the tiny gap where it the drawer was open and slowly pulling one pair of underwear out at a time. After throwing three pairs on the ground she spotted me then jumped down, grabbed a pair in her mouth and ran off with them! It explains my missing items of clothes....
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My husband, who is on the road, came home to use the bathroom. He left the car door open.
He returned to the car, with the windows open, lit a cigarette and started to drive the manual car up our very hilly street. Just then, George our deaf white cat jumped on his shoulders and tried to get out the window. Stuart managed to change gear, hold his cigarette and grab George by the tail, while also trying to wind up the windows (it was an old car). And they say men can’t multi-task!!!!!
He returned home swearing, and dripping blood from his shoulders where George had attacked.
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We used to have a really fluffy honey coloured cat called Magoo who LOVED
the warmth of the gas heater. He would frequently walk past it, rubbing up
against it with his tail swishing behind him. One day his tail swished in
the wrong direction at the wrong time right through the bars of the heater!
In no time at all his tail had caught fire with a big whoooosh! Thank
goodness I happened to be standing nearby with a tea towel to throw on him
to put out the fire! To this day I don't think he even knew what really
happened; the heat never made it through the thick fur to scorch his skin!
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When we got our new young puppy, Paddy, I got books out of the library on puppy training. Somehow Paddy managed to sniff out just those two books – from the pile of many books and magazines on the coffee table – and chewed the covers off. They were so badly damaged I had to buy the books from the library. A classic example of when ‘how-to’ books don’t work!
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I am sure I have the naughtiest cat alive, his name is Henry and he is a polydactil cat. However, I am sure that the extra toes mean extra trouble!
I have a cat door which is on a one-way lock, the cats can let themselves out of the house but can't let themselves back in. The reason for this is the variety of animals which were been delivered to our door by Henry was getting out of control, we have had possums (yes, that's right, Henry can catch possums), pukekos, quails, mice, rabbits, weasels etc. However, Henry has learnt how to lift the cat flap up from the outside and now comes & goes as he pleases, however he can't lift the cat flap up & bring his prizes in at the same time. He does enjoy water though and does not have a problem with having a shower in the rain and then coming on the bed for cuddles!
I have another cat, Garfield who has nearly reached the ripe old age of 17. Henry has taken it upon himself to become the "bully" big brother, even though he is only a toddler (4yrs old). Garfield has only about 4 teeth left & has grown deaf over the past 18 months due to old age. Henry torments Garfield by hiding behind furniture and then running and leaping on him like something out of a wrestling movie, poor Garfield just can't move fast enough anymore to escape the wrath of this cat! About 12 months ago, Henry started a habit of biting Garfield and as a result of a nasty bite from Henry we had to partially amputate Garfield's tail!
Last year I was volunteering at the Auckland SPCA and adopted a beautiful 2 year old ginger cat, whom we named Molly. Henry decided that he didn't want more feline company and he stalked and attacked Molly until she was too scared to come inside or go outside, we persevered for about 2 months thinking that Henry would settle down & accept Molly.....Molly is now living a life of luxury at my Mother In-laws!!
The list does go on on with stories of Henry's bad behaviour, but we do love him and he does make our lives interesting!
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This summer, we thought we'd go for a few days away, visiting friends who have baches in the Coromandel, and take with us our family dog, Taz. She is a devil, (hence the name Taz for Tasmanian Devil!). She is a gorgeous German Shepherd cross who looks like an angel, but is so very naughty! Food was her objective on this trip, and it started before we even left home! While I was packing the chilly bin, I turned my back for a second and boom, she got into the Tupperware where a rolled ham was and got stuck into it. No ham for us on this trip! New Years Eve, 7 families camping up in the hills, celebrating with our kids and dogs. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Taz in someone's chilly bag, "Taz get out of it!" as I chase her off. Uh oh! One family keep pigs and generously bought a pile of bacon for us to all enjoy for New Years Day Breakfast - not anymore, Taz ate the lot! I don't think our dog will ever live this down and will probably be never invited anywhere again! She had a great time anyway, swimming in the river, looking after all the swimmers, rescuing boogy boards and bringing them to shore. We rewarded her with a bone on our last evening while staying at a friend house (the people's whose bacon Taz ate in fact, we had all forgiven her by this stage), however, the excess of food, exercise and pure joy of spending time with so many people caught up with her, and spent the entire night throwing up! She's so naughty, but we love her!
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We have a beautiful 14 week old kitten named Ishta.... she is proving to be very adventurous and has climbed to the top of a tall tree twice this week and had to be rescued each time. It took four of us and a ladder and some loving kindness to settle her afterwards.
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I have this rabbit called Niblick....Nibbles, for short.
He was the most adorable baby bunny, a cross between a black dwarf Lop and a Rex. Tiny, cute and cuddly. I'm not into cages so his home was free range in the garden, contained by a 6' fence.
At around 6 months of age, he started going missing on a regular basis. Turned out he was visiting a caged rabbit over the way and eating everyone's newly planted vegies!!!
After the hassles of trying to catch him every time and the wrath of the neighbours we decided to send Nibbles for the chop....But just the 'wee' one you understand?
Three weeks later he stopped having the urge to leap tall buildings and 6' fences in one bound, and we all settled down to domestic bliss.....If only........
He started using the dog door to come and go from the house, how cute we thought.....but he left his calling card every night!!
Now this is where he really lived up to his name.....he chewed every live cord in the house!!! More than once....cost us a small fortune in new leads for expensive TV/DVD equipment.
So we had no choice but to fence and gate the back garden.......
Nibbles $20
The chop $75
Leads $150
Fences and gates $100
The joy of having a 'livewire' $ Priceless!!!!!
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