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Title: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: lighthouse68 on May 17, 2010, 08:08:31 pm
Have you ever seen an animal outside do something that you think is odd?  Well I may have one for you. I looked out in my backyard the other night to see a rabbit eating birdseed out of a feeder.  I didn't have time to put it back up and left it sitting on the side of my flower bed. There he/she was having a snack. I didn't think that they ate seeds. I guess I learned something.

Let me know your story of unusual happenings.
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: jaba187 on May 17, 2010, 08:17:07 pm
I have outdoor cats and feed them each night, and for the last year when I go out and call for the cats I notice a black and white Skunk that follows behind the cats when I am calling for them, but the skunk stops about 200 feet away and will sit their and wait till I go inside and then the skunk will go over the the cat dish and start eating the cat food with the cats and it also drinks the milk I put out their.

I also had a fox come up one night and eat the cat food until I chased the fox off because I did not want the fox to get into the habit of eating the cat food.
 :)
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Post by: football6 on May 17, 2010, 11:29:12 pm
I once saw a puppy licking a cat. Just thought it was odd.
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Post by: christopherlp9 on May 18, 2010, 07:18:50 am
a cat rubbed his boddy on my dog one time.
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Post by: dreamyxo on May 18, 2010, 07:28:12 am
I saw two boy dogs getting it on on a beach.  It was only for a few seconds I guess he realized he was doing a boy dog and stopped. 
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Post by: jusu on May 18, 2010, 07:28:55 am
A Mommy Robin feeding her babies Cherry pie. I left it out after a cook-out. Mama thought it was for her, I guess. I started buying those individual pies and would break it up and leave it out for her, she came every single day, even after the babies left the nest.
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Post by: surveydad on May 18, 2010, 10:09:32 am
I had a husky once eat his way thru a chain link fence to get out of my backyard  :dog:
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Post by: Sweetpea94 on May 18, 2010, 10:13:55 am
I have one for you.  Last summer we had a lot of stray cats attacking birds in our back yard and one day I noticed that a baby bird had fallen out of the tree and it was bouncing around trying its hardest to get back in the tree to the nest.  My husband wouldn't let me touch it saying that its mother would reject it.  I wanted to help it in fear of the cats eating it so I stayed close by in case the cats came around.  They mother bird came back and was trying to help the baby by flapping its wings and nugging it but the baby just couldn't get up off the ground believe it or not the mother bird got the baby by the tree and using its beak and claws ( or whatever birds feet are called) climbed up the side of the pecan tree.  The little bird imitated its mom and in no time it was up the tree.  It didn't make it into the nest but onto the limb the nest was on.  Against my husbands wishes I put on my gardining gloves and climbed the ladder and put it in its nest.  I wish I would have had my video camera because no one believes me.  Never seen a bird climb a tree but it did.
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: rcbrad on May 18, 2010, 10:29:08 am
I have one for you.  Last summer we had a lot of stray cats attacking birds in our back yard and one day I noticed that a baby bird had fallen out of the tree and it was bouncing around trying its hardest to get back in the tree to the nest.  My husband wouldn't let me touch it saying that its mother would reject it.  I wanted to help it in fear of the cats eating it so I stayed close by in case the cats came around.  They mother bird came back and was trying to help the baby by flapping its wings and nugging it but the baby just couldn't get up off the ground believe it or not the mother bird got the baby by the tree and using its beak and claws ( or whatever birds feet are called) climbed up the side of the pecan tree.  The little bird imitated its mom and in no time it was up the tree.  It didn't make it into the nest but onto the limb the nest was on.  Against my husbands wishes I put on my gardining gloves and climbed the ladder and put it in its nest.  I wish I would have had my video camera because no one believes me.  Never seen a bird climb a tree but it did.

What an interesting story.  I hope all is well with the baby bird and that it was not rejected by it's mother.  It was a good idea to put the gloves on. 
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Post by: aznjonoh on May 19, 2010, 06:08:59 am
When they tend to run into random things when they have full vision
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Post by: florezitta10 on May 19, 2010, 06:18:54 am
LOL a lot of interesting stories.

I think I have one. I have a Dog named pebble he is a small dog about a 12 inches  of the ground. This dog is so freaking smart. We had made our dogs a Kennel to keep them safe because they were getting out into the street so we decided to build this for them out of chain link about 5 ft high well this little mother figured out how  to get out by climbing up the fence lol it was hilarious I didn't know dogs could do that lol well none of my other dogs do it so he is  special lol
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: ttmn651 on May 19, 2010, 06:32:05 am
I have a cat, named Shadow, who likes to walk in water!  Sometimes, as I am draining water out of the tub, he stands in the water that is still in the tub--walking from the back of the tub to the front of the tub.  I thought that was unusual, because I thought housecats were supposed to be scared of water, and walking in water.
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: Laurielynn25 on May 20, 2010, 06:43:47 pm
I think it's unusual, and rather sad, when birds try to fly into windows or mirrors.  I walked out of work one day, and saw a bird trying to fly over and over again into the mirror of a car....it was really funny and very sad!!
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: ktheodos on May 20, 2010, 08:21:22 pm
wow...these are interesting...lol...although not too surprising, considering they are animals...lol (maybe it explains why we do crazy things
too sometimes, considering that are closest relative is an animal!)
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: Shmooi on May 21, 2010, 07:10:15 am
I have a parakeet that when she was little, would dunk her head in the water repeatedly and pop up with a mohawk. XD

Right now she's with two male parakeets and she's really uppity/mean, not letting them on the swing if she wants it, etc. I guess the two males got fed up and now they're gay lovers. One of them is always asking the other for affection and if he doesn't get it, he'll start humping an upwards edge of a perch. It's the oddest thing I've ever seen a bird do.
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: jcribb16 on July 14, 2010, 08:09:32 pm
 :cat:  Just the other day, I came out to my car and 2 bluebirds were perched on the outside driver's mirror pecking away at the mirror trying (I assume) to get to the other "bird in the mirror."  When they saw me coming, one flew away, but the other tried dive-bombing me!
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: JessieKateRose on July 15, 2010, 07:21:03 am
I love the story about the skunk with the cats; I think that's so cute.

One time when I lived in Connecticut I had a black lab who was usually not at all friendly with other dogs, and for most of the summer we kept her in a big cage in our yard. One day we came home and went to let her out to play and as usual she was standing at the door of the cage wagging her tail, but she had a little bitty chihuahua sitting next to her in the cage wagging it's tail at us, too! We don't know where it squeezed in, but it was just sitting there with our dog and she clearly hadn't done anything to harm it.

Have you guys seen the video of the dog playing with the little deer? At the end of the video you can see two cats on the porch watching them.
Oops, I forgot we weren't supposed to post links. You can find it if you google One Ball: Dog vs. Deer.
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: ro901 on July 15, 2010, 09:22:35 am
:cat:  Just the other day, I came out to my car and 2 bluebirds were perched on the outside driver's mirror pecking away at the mirror trying (I assume) to get to the other "bird in the mirror."  When they saw me coming, one flew away, but the other tried dive-bombing me!
I've seen that a lot. I once had a cardinal break my mirror on my car trying to get to the bird in the mirror!
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: shernajwine on July 15, 2010, 11:47:39 am
the most precious animal i ever owned was a cat named powder. he was my baby through and through. he was three legged and fat as garfield. he actually used the potty lol. he didn't know how to flush but he tinkled in the toilet and i never taught him that! he always liked following me to the bathroom though so i think he just figured, hey this is what your supposed to do and just started doing it one day!

he passed away a few years ago and i miss him so much  :'(
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Post by: kheaton91 on July 15, 2010, 11:56:03 am
the most precious animal i ever owned was a cat named powder. he was my baby through and through. he was three legged and fat as garfield. he actually used the potty lol. he didn't know how to flush but he tinkled in the toilet and i never taught him that! he always liked following me to the bathroom though so i think he just figured, hey this is what your supposed to do and just started doing it one day!

he passed away a few years ago and i miss him so much  :'(



i know how you feel cause i had a *bleep* name tee..he was a thorough bred horse and was so gentle w/ everyone..i had him since i was 2 yrs old and he was the best...i could do anything i want and he would not harm me any way...heck i could lay downw/ him in his stall...he always follwed me into my own house...the hardest thing was that he was getting really old and my parents sold cause they couldnt afford to feed him any more so we sold him...i heard he passed away bout 5 yrs ago..i really do wish i can find another one just like him..
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: girlswin2 on July 15, 2010, 03:56:22 pm
I had a shelton pony that we called Pom Pom dark brown with white mane and tail.  He was a little bad but let me tell ya.  One day at the barn someone put down there coke a cola and ciggeretts so he decided he wanted them and ate the cigs and drank the coke we looked and he had the coke bottle turned up and was drinking it just like we would.  First time I ever saw him do that .
That same day we were going ridding and he decided he wanted to go even though no one was ridding him and he somehow went threw the walk that makes a  U  and followed us.  We didn't know he was back there until he was standing beside me at McDonalds we stopped there to get a hamburger and he took my hamburger out of my hand and ate it.  He was a glutton would eat and drink anything people learned the hard way at the barn when he wasn't in the big field.   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :wave: :peace:
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: nb0404 on July 15, 2010, 04:54:53 pm
my dog pees while standing on its front legs.
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Post by: shernajwine on July 15, 2010, 05:03:45 pm
my dog pees while standing on its front legs.
just it's front legs??? how the heck does that work? lol
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Post by: moonangel on July 16, 2010, 06:26:54 am
years ago i was driving out in the country and i saw all the cows standing and looking across the road. so i looked across the road to see a bull standing and looking at the cows
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: FuzzyCottonsocks on July 16, 2010, 06:35:55 am
There was a farm right behind my ex's house.  The cows would stand at the fence eating and if you sang to them, they would all start swaying.  It was cute.
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Post by: JessieKateRose on July 16, 2010, 07:32:19 am
my dog pees while standing on its front legs.
My boyfriend had a dog that did that! xD
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Post by: jzmom on July 16, 2010, 07:40:25 am
My cat Sammy loves to play fetch. He will literally drop the ball in your lap for you to throw and he brings it right back.  My other cat Oliver loves the rain.  He will stand out in it and get soaking wet.  Crazy cat!
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Post by: lynnc35 on July 17, 2010, 11:19:06 am
Animals are odd, mine talks to all the ones in the neighborhood, I have a cat, he talks to bunnies, dogs, other cats, think I seen him talken to a chipmunk the other day, but most of all think he is threatening the birds, or something like that.
Title: Re: Unusual animal behavior
Post by: Angelbot on July 18, 2010, 05:20:15 pm
I have a funny story about my sisters cat. Sassy was the runt of the little but she was as smart as smart can be. We were always looking for pens or pencils that we left on the tables or counters but couldnt figure out where they went. one evening when the rest of my family were away for the weekend, i was sitting down watching tv and i could hear click click click down the hallway to my left... as i turn and look i see Sassy walking on her hind legs and clutched in her front paws (kind of like in a prayer mode) was a pen i had lost earlier) and then she sat down and leaned forward a bit and tapped  the pen a bit to push it up in her paws. ha ha when she looked up at me she stayed sitting on her hind legs with the pen in her paws and she had this Oh No they found me out look on her face! ha i wish i had a camera! but since that night we caught her doing the same thing on several occasions of walking on her hind legs carring a pen or pencil between her paws