My cat is flushing the toliet and other weird animal tricks

[damunzy]

Well my cat, Taco, has started to flush the toilet again. He started it when he was a kitten in our first apartment 2 years ago. When we moved into a house he didn't do it anymore. My guess is the toilet was to hard for his little cat paws to pull down on the flusher. We recently moved into an apartment again and he just started flushing the downstairs toilet last night.

Does anyone else have animals that do weird tricks like this?

 

[Apollo]

Originally posted by PaleHorse76
Does anyone else have animals that do weird tricks like this?

I have a cat that loves to explore. Periodically, and also just after anything has been done to a room, she'll go in there and have to check out everything, opening cupboards, lifting up lids, etc. Also, both my cats once climbed up on the water heater in the garage, and climbed into a hole in the ceiling and wandered around on the ceiling tiles. :crazyeyes crazy stuff

 

[SunTzu]

well my dog is pretty smart, he plays hide and seek with his ball, he'll get a big blanket and get it out into the floor and put theball in it and ruffle the blanket around and then try and find it..
He does other things that i find amusing and smart, not really tricks though. To wake me up in the morning he'll get a running start from one side of the house and come to my room and jump on my bed and then take off and he keeps on doing it.

 

[Becka]

My dog is a little pervert. I'll take a bath, and if I don't close the door all the way, sometimes he'll use his nose to push the door it open. It's happened more than once.

 

[Magnus]

I got my dog to 'crawl' along the carpet to get a cookie, essentially she is laying down and scampers close along the floor - however I since tried it on wooden floors where there is no friction, so she can't really do anything, so she had to 'fake it' by bowing her head and splaying her front paws in a very weird display, it never ceases to get me laughing hysterically.

Also I have had oscars who I have trained to hop up a few inches out of the water to grab food from my fingers, sometimes they hop up - and out - and onto the floor - how embarassing...

 

[kobayashi]

Are oscars those grumpy creatures that live in a trash can?

 

[Magnus]

:fish:

'Oscar' = Astronotus ocellatus, is an amazonian cichlid that can grow over a foot in length and has a very people friendly attitude, that's why it is my favorite fish.

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by Magnus
:fish:

'Oscar' = Astronotus ocellatus, is an amazonian cichlid that can grow over a foot in length and has a very people friendly attitude, that's why it is my favorite fish.

Nice fish. Those crazy cichlids.... :crazyeyes

I had three fish (betas), Fishy Mah Fishy, Wee Willy Winky and Warren. Fishy Mah Fishy has recently died but all of these fish have/have had interesting personalities. For instance, Warren had a habit of getting in front of this one shiny stone in his bowl and, upon seeing his reflection, goes into his little routine, (you know how betas do when they see another beta or their reflection in a mirror).

Also, my dog has a habit (although not too extrordinary) of taking his empty water bowl and leaving in the middle of the hall where we'll find it the next time we pass by. But last night he did take it into the family room where I was sitting and put it by my chair. I'm very proud.


Oh, yes. My horse also has his own quirky habits. If his halter is sitting on the fence, he'll knock it off whenever he gets the chance. I've also noticed that horseshoes I hang on the fence mysteriously end up on the ground after a while.
When he's hungry, he'll pull on the fence. He once gave me a cowlick ala "There's Something About Mary", and he once gave me a wedgie.

 

[Julien]

Originally posted by Apollo


I have a cat that loves to explore. Periodically, and also just after anything has been done to a room, she'll go in there and have to check out everything, opening cupboards, lifting up lids, etc. Also, both my cats once climbed up on the water heater in the garage, and climbed into a hole in the ceiling and wandered around on the ceiling tiles. :crazyeyes crazy stuff

I think all the cats do this. It's a cat's instinct to explore a place they are not familiar with. They also like warm places ; that's why they like your water heater. All the cat I know do these kind of things.

 

[CurtSibling]

Well, My giant Schnauzter, Maximillian has these qualities:
1 Too large,
2 Moulting his black fur everywhere
3 Has the brain of a peanut
4 A boisterous big german mutt!
5 Does nothing you tell him...
6 A good guard...
7 Slobbery and has a "mustache"....
8 He make odd noises when he wants to be walked...
9 Makes strange a tweeting whne he wants fed...

Have you ever heard a 6 stone dog tweet?

It's bizarre!

 

[TheDuckOfFlanders]

Well ,i used to had a cat (when i was 10years old) ,he could do one amazing trick when he was young.
We had a tree in our garden ,i don't know the english translation of that tree.I can give you a discription of that tree: it has a sort of dreadlock branch shape ,wich mean's that all his"branche's" start on the top and go toward's the ground.It's like a tree with a lot of cord's attached to the top.
Anyway ,my cat seemed to learned at one point to use these branche's to "swing" with them "tarzan style".He always crawled to the top ,jumped down on one of the branches and used it to swing after bird's.
Afcourse ,that way he never catched anything (with the exception of one crow once) but usualy ended up some feet from the tree.
Still ,it was pretty cool to see my cat jumping down the top of the tree ,swinging down on one of the branche's ,and then fly acroos the garden to land in some flower's.He always managed to land on his four feet though ,and was never injured in this breathtaking stunt.

I saw him taking that craw ,he hit him in mid air with his claws after releasing a branch.it was one of the coolest thing i ever saw (and he made a cool sound while doing it) .I don't know the total though of bird's he killed that way ,cat's usually hunt at night.

He was very succesfull with the ladies of the neighbourhood.when he came older ,he was sometime's gone for a fair amount of day's.Sometiumes 2 days ,then 3 or 4 days.Eventually he never came back.
I cry'd a lot then.I really love animal's ,and losing one was very hard for me.I think that is the reason why my parent's never took a new pet.

 

[gjts00]

My grandmother used to have a Siameese (Gonzo) that used to p1ss in the toilet. And, I have to say that it's pretty damn funny having to wait for the cat to finish before doing your own business.

 

[scorch]

our cat sits down like a human, legs foward and leaning foward... strange thing.