Weird things you do for your pets

[UTIceberg]

Our Dixie has come to learn that when she wakes up every morning Dad comes to give her leg rubs in her crate to help her wakeup. So, generally every morning, she patiently waits for me to get up and then go rub on her for about 2 or 3 mins and then she'll get up.

Also, I don't know if this works for cats or not, but whenever we have to give her a pill she isn't really interested in swallowing and I don't want to have to shove my finger down her throat, we do what my wife and I call "cheese bonanza". Where we take a slice of cheese tearing it into smaller pieces and wrap the pill inside one piece of cheese. When then just start feeding her the cheese as fast as we can and she's so busy eating it that she doesn't even realize that there is a pill inside one piece. Works every time.

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[iLoVeLoNgHoRnS]

I sing the weirdest songs to my pets...they probably laugh at me and I just don't know it.

One of them has to have yogurt with her food, and another is very, VERY modest. When I take her out to wee, she will not go unless I am looking in the other direction.

 

[AustinBat]

We used to live 10 minutes from downtown Austin, and we had racoons and possums. We also had a stray cat who lived in our backyard for about 8 years - he hated being inside when I thought it was too cold for him outside. I have photos of the cat, several racoons and a possum eating cat food together on the back patio. If there was no food outside, the racoons would scratch on the glass doors to get my attention so I could put some out. I cried the night before we moved, wondering who was going to feed these little guys. In the 8 or so years they were around, they never did any damage to anything around our house. We figured they went to someone else's house who didn't take good care of them!

 

[X-Ray_Horn]

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[1918Speedway]

Well, now I know I'm not the only one who sings to the cats. I sing "Texas Fight" to Butters (the little kitty) at every touchdown. I also make up other songs to sing to him. Buttons (BIG kitty) doesn't seem to care for my singing.

They both drink water out of Texas stadium cups - the shorter, squat ones they used to have years ago. Also, they do NOT like to see the bottom of the food bowl.

I had a diabetic cat that had to have insulin shots twice a day.