Silly/embarrassing things you do to your pet

[skyblu]

I know I cannot be the only freak out there who makes a complete fool of herself while interacting with her dog.

A sampler of totally dorky behaviors that my poor dog has to put up with:


I make up silly nicknames for him (his name is Blue): Blooper, Bloopadoodle, Blue Man Group, Blooster, The Bluesmeister, Schmooky Pooky Blooky Loo. And many others.

I sing weird, made up songs to him: (to the tune of You are my sunshine):
You are my schmooky
My schmooky pooky
And mommy loves you
So very much

I speak to him in the most ridiculous baby voice, and I talk to him all day long, ask him questions, tell him stuff about my day. My son looks at me like I'm crazy and says, "Mom, you do know he's not going to answer, right?"

Along the same vein, I talk to him in public in the same ridiculous voice. People must think there's something seriously wrong with me. For example, if he's in the car and I'm approaching, I start saying (in baby voice), from a long way away, "Hello, my sweet boy! Who's Mommy's sweet puppy dog?"

I dress him up in my boyfriend's clothes.
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I cuddle him in my bed (he's big!) and cover him in smooches, no matter how stinky he is (and I'm usually a clean freak!).

I have him put his front paws on my shoulders and we "dance". Not for very long, as he's not meant to be on 2 legs, but anyway.



Please join me in completely embarrassing yourself by sharing the dorky pet-related behaviors that make others think you're nuts.

Oh, God, I do hope someone else posts, or else I'm going to feel like even more of a fool, having disclosed my closet freak!

[Vegastrtle]

I was once in PetCo and a woman asked me who I was talking to...the dog was with me...but I hadn't even realized I was talking to her :rolleyes:

[IrishMeg]

Oh, I have to admit, I am pathetic when it comes to our pugs. I have made up about 10 songs for each of them. I sing them all of the time. The kids are even singing them now. If I am stuck in horrible traffic, I sing them in the car because it helps me destress! :o

Sometimes I find myself speeding home from work because I can't wait to see them.

I have made up some really embarassing words I use with them and they now know these words to I can't stop saying them.

One day I was home alone and bored, so I put diapers on them and cut tail holes out so they could wear them.

I talk to them about everything. I also talk for them to other people.

[ladybug]

skyblu,
I absolutely do ALL of the things you mentioned with our two pups!!!! I can't tell you how many nicknames they have or songs I have made up for them. In fact, one of the songs I made up while they were in bed with us. It's called the "stinky puppy song"!! :o

Yep, I am crazy!! And DH also thinks it's hillarious that I wave to all dogs, when we are walking by, driving, whether they are with their owners, doesn't matter. I wave!:D

[Supergal16]

I am right there with all of you!!!!!!!!!!

My dog Gatsby's longest nickname is Pooches Maximus Erroneous the 50th Factorial...which came about because my husband was making fun of the goofy things I call him and it just stuck cause it makes us both laugh. He looks at us totally disgusted when I call him this, especially in a sing-song voice.

And here they both are on our other dog Pargo's 6 month birthday.

Do people even celebrate their kids' 6-month birthdays???:p

Gatsby:
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Pargo:
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[maxandmolly]

I talk to my cats all the time. I talk 'for' them, and they both have distinct voices. They both have middle names, which I only use when they're in trouble. None of this occurred to me as strange until I moved in with my (now former) roommates. Max got into something he wasn't supposed to one night, so I yelled across the room:
Maxwell Zachary MyLastName, stop it right now!
They both stopped dead in their tracks and looked at me like I had sprouted a second head.

[jnettie]

I, too, am one who talks to her cats in full on complete conversation mode. *hangs head in shame*

[maxandmolly]

I, too, am one who talks to her cats in full on complete conversation mode. *hangs head in shame*
I live alone-what's your excuse?

[SheRa]

Oh, I am ridiculously shameless in my doggie love. My dog, Remi, is rarely called Remi except by my fiance.
I'm not sure he would answer me if I called him by his given name. Nicknames include: Toosie Roo, Toosers, Stinky Butt, RemiRooser, Roosertoose (anything that has an "ooo" sound is not off-limits!)...there are a million more, but I can't even think of them all right now!
I also make up songs for him CONSTANTLY! I smoosh him under the covers in bed and smother him with kisses. He is sooo spoiled, he generally sprawls out in bed while I am curled up in a ball due to lack of space.

But I wouldn't trade any of it, no matter how crazy people think I am! :)

[ysolde]

Oh, boy.

Let's see. There are the songs

You are my Reilly
My only Reilly
You make me happy
Make mice go 'way!

And, to the tune of "Maria", from West Side Story, there is:

Menina
I just met a cat named Menina
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me
Menina
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like purring

DH and I make up voices for them, and have long conversations with them.

DH buys Nina Matchbox cars and super bouncy balls.

He bought Reilly a flying helicopter for Christmas, since she likes to chase birds.

Nina showers with me, and plays with the water -- I call it the panther in the waterfall game.

DH is convinced Nina likes Beethoven and Reilly likes Mozart and Bach. He plays them for the cats.

We have been known to make a little extra Beef Wellington for the cats on special occasions (Tuesdays).

(Feeling ashamed)

[skyblu]

Hee hee hee! I love it! You guys are just as crazy as I hoped! Aren't our pets lucky to be loved so much? Although sometimes I swear Blue looks at me with one eyebrow raised. A look of resignation, indignation, who knows.

[johnny'sgirl]

Y'all should like this site: http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

[mb1197]

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Need I say more?;)

[imagirliegirl]

Originally Posted by jnettie
I, too, am one who talks to her cats in full on complete conversation mode. *hangs head in shame*


Oh I do! And I am convinced that she changes the tone of her meow to hold her weight in the conversation. :D

I sing to my cat, too. I make up songs for her. I also sing regular songs to her. I have a special "I'm singing to the cat" voice and she knows it. She runs and rolls around next to me like "keep going Mama!".

Here's one of her songs:

To the tune of Britney Spears' Toxic.

*ahem*

With the taste of tuna I'm on a ride
It's toxic I'm slippin under
It's a taste of kitty paradise
I'm addicted to food whether canned or you boxed it

I need help. :rolleyes:

[mkredhead]

I have an unhealthy obsession with my dogs, Speck and Simon.

- We celebrate birthdays.

- We dress for special occassions.

- We watch Animal Planet together.

- We eat eggs on Sundays. With toast.

- The boys are featured on my Christmas cards, like many of my friends feature their children.

I could go on and on, but it might be too much.

[houseblend]

I, too, make up songs for my animals!!! I thought I was the only one! Some are versions of existing songs and some I have no idea where I came up with.

To the tune of Hey Baby by No Doubt, "Hey Katie, hey Katie hey. Cats say, cats say....All the dogs get the cats in the back." (BTW, my cat's name is Katie and I have absolutely no idea what that song means.)

One I made up goes, "Puppy, puppy, puppy, puppy. Puppy, puppy, puppy. Puppy in love."

I love singing to my pets. :o

I also dance with my dog, which she seems to enjoy and is very good at.
I snuggle with her. She puts her head on my pillow and I wrap my arms around her. That can cheer me up on the worst of days.

We also take her canoeing.

Aren't pets awesome?

[maxandmolly]

When I stay at my mom's, both the dogs like to pile up in the bed with me. Maggie, my Beagle/American Foxhound (we think) mix (she's lived with grandma & grandpa for a couple years now, but she's still *my* dog!), is a mutant-like 45+ pounds. Rusty, mom's Golden/Chow mix, is 65 pounds. The guest room has a double bed.
I've been known to get up and move to the couch rather than disturb them when I run out of room on the bed. Maggie is *such* a bed hog!

[greenbunny]

I dance with Bella. I pick her up and sashay around the kitchen with her. She purrs to some songs, and lays her ears back to most of the crap DH listens to. :D My cat has good taste.

She has songs, too.

And Summer smells like pickles for some reason, so sometimes I sing "smelly cat" from Friends to her. :o

[ignutzz]

Well, there's the requisite nicknames:

Gordon: Gordy, gordo, old man, gordmeister

Oliver: Ollie, fatso, bubba, roly poly, ollie bollie

Rosie: Rosalita mamacita, hot mama, twinkletoes, rosie posie

Brizlo: Brizzy, BLo, goofball, meathead, crazy kitty, whacko


Gordy was the ultimate lap cat. He loved to be picked up and held, so I would. He would stand up and put his front paws on my hip and I would pick him up under his "armpits", like a child, and carry him around on my hip. He would just wrap his arms around my neck and snuggle. :)

We talk to them constantly. Our lives are arranged around their schedule and their needs. People think we're crazy, I think we're in loooove. ;)

[vwinkel]

I swear my cat Sassy can understand me. She looks me right in the eye as I talk her too.

I also call her by many names - Sassafrass, sassafrasser, sassy baby. . .

I will put down my cereal bowl and let her drink the milk, but she refuses to drink out of the bowl, I have to spoon feed it to her. :rolleyes: DH didn't believe me until I showed him. She'll sit by the bowl and wait for me.

While sitting on the couch, Sassy will cuddle up by my face. She'll flop to the left and I'll catch her and she'll tuck her head under my chin and knead my neck. BUT, I can't talk. If I laugh at the TV show or try to talk to DH, she'll rear back and bite my face! When my parents are over and she does this, my dad loves to try and get me to talk. Evil.

I have to call out DH on this one - we were in the car listening to the radio and that Laffy Taffy song came one. Well, I hate it. He wouldn't let me change the channel simply because it annoyed me. So, when we got home that night, he started singing "That Sassafrasser, that Sassafrasser" to the tune of that stupid Laffy Taffy song. :rolleyes: It stuck and now it's every night. He would die if he knew I posted that!

Sassy LOVES to play hide and seek. I'll hide around a corner and she'll come sprinting around and jump with her front paws up in the air. She'll then run off and I'll go find her.

We have a fenced in yard (about 4 ft. high). In the summertime, I let all three cats out in the yard and play with them. I'm sure the neighbors think I'm nuts.

[greenbunny]

Nicknames!

Bella: Bella Blue Eyes, Princess, Bebe, Fuzzbutt

Summer: Sumsum, Chubalub, Pickles, Peaches

Bella loves to be held like a baby: on her back, legs curled up into her belly and her head resting on your chest. Summer prefers to be held like a toddler: upright, with her front paws wrapped around your neck and her face next to yours. When I told my dad he was holding Bella in Summer's pose, he thought I was nuts. But I showed him how to hold her, and then she stopped whining and fell asleep. :)

[pewee9196]

My DH and I are both horrible at many of the same things!! I could go on and on but I have to meet DH so we can go home and play with our baby

[ignutzz]

All these furballs sound fantastic. I love hearing about such different personalities!

I just remembered that we have theme songs for Gordy and Rosie.

Gordy's was Darth Vader's theme. He was such an obsessive stalker cat and we would start humming the music as he approached, especially at bedtime.

Rosie's is Foxy Lady. :D

[Kanga]

I am guilty of all of those, especially when it comes to treating them like babies. When I was very pregnant and really anxious to have my baby, I would grab whichever cat I could get ahold of and "practice" with them. I even tried to buckle the one in the carseat.

[E&O]

We have two dogs who we just tease to death.

Nicknames:
Emmitt: E-Man, Big Man, Big One, Bubba, Bubba Man, Bubbalicious, Monkey Man, Bloodhound Jones
Otis: Little O, Little Man, Little One, Otis Potus, Otie Potie, O Po, Beaner the Frog, Frog Man
Collectivly, they are the "Monkey Men."

I sing them songs, and dance with them. And Little Otis lets us have wheelbarrow races with him (where we pick up his back legs and he runs around on his front legs). My husband picks them up and carries them like babies (60lb and 45lb babies). We also talk to them and "talk" back to us for them.

Probably most embarrassing- we hardly ever go out on Friday night because they've been in their crates all day and my husband doesn't think its far that they have to be in their crates all night too.

[kcjaime]

Probably most embarrassing- we hardly ever go out on Friday night because they've been in their crates all day and my husband doesn't think its far that they have to be in their crates all night too.

Yeah, this is me. DH thinks I'm nutty for thinking this, but IT'S TRUE! We tend to order in on Fridays and rarely go out weeknights for the same reason.

I sing songs to my cats and dog, and they all have a bajillion nicknames, many of which have nothing to do with their actual names. :p

Mercedes, our lab gets called: Mermaid, Mermoo, Moosky, Sadie Lane, Mersady-lady, Tatertot, Totsy, Miss Maider,

Gatsby, our orange cat gets called: Gatty, gatty 2x4 (He's the fat one. :p ), Fatty, Sir Gatsby (b/c he's regal!), Gattymuncher, Fatsby
*Wow. Maybe we're giving him a complex with all these fat names. ;)

Riley, our black & white cat gets called: Rileyman, Ri-Ri, Evil Rileyman, Ri-bear, devilkitty

DH often complains when the furfarm and I are camped out on the couch that there is no room for him. He sometimes resigns himself to the chair. :)

When I make popcorn as a snack, its not just for me, its for Mercy. And Riley sometimes. He digs it. Its Mercy's favorite thing EVER.

When Mercy decides to sleep in her (open) crate some nights, I put one of mine or DH's shirts in there so she feels like she's close to us.

We leave the TV or radio on when we leave the house for the animals. :)

[sdianems]

I talk to my "kids" like they are human, all the time, every day.
I sing songs to them almost daily.
I cover them with kisses (like most everyone here)!
I take my Tasha puppyy-girl with me everywhere that I possibly can, and love that she sits in the front seat next to me. She just looks out the window like a human!

[skyblu]

I just bought a new car for my dog today. Well, he won't get to drive it ;) but I bought an Audi wagon just so he could have plenty of space in the back and be safe and "ride in style." Okay, so I don't mind the style myself...

[Heidi9771]

with my three cats, we all have full conversations with each other every day. Of course, I often wonder if I have a multiple personality disorder!

[ignutzz]

How about something embarassing that the CAT did?? :

NYC finally hit 60 degrees yesterday, which is positively balmy compared to what it's been lately. So, when we got home we threw open the bedroom windows to get some fresh air. The open windows are like kitty crack, so all three were immediately ensconced in the sills.

Later that night, as we were chatting in bed, in the midst of the conversation we hear a cat running our direction, then BONK! :D Brizlo had made a running jump headfirst into the now CLOSED window! hahahahaha oh we couldn't stop laughing. :D:D:D

[Etoile]

Hua Tai-Tai, a pug/sharpei mix:

I give her a massage every morning before we get up.

I dress her up.

I sing to her.

I talk to her and "for" her. (She has a voice like a spoiled British child.)

DH does all the same things and spoils her way worse than I do, including cooking food for her every day (she has allergies and can't eat regular dog food, we've bought organic special buffalo/rice dry food but DH won't just feed her that and if I only feed her dry food he gets mad.)

Oh, and she was in our Christmas card picture too (we do not have kids yet)

[ManteoChik]

Our Lab Duchess is the poster-child for spoiled doggies.

-We buy Duchie her own Filet at the store and cook it when we cook ours, then we cut it up and mix it with her dog food.

-She always gets some sort of dinner when we do, and if I'm not cooking that night I will go out and buy her chicken tenders...cut them up and put them with her dog food.

-She sleeps with us (and I won't go to sleep unless she's in bed)

-When we bought our last airplane we made sure to get one large enough that Duchess would be comfy in.

-She goes EVERYWHERE with us...even up the street to the drive through pharmacy.

-We buy at least three boxes of Frosty Paw's a week - doggie ice cream - and she gets one every night.

-I talk to her!

-She goes to the petstore at least once a week for new toys....and she has her own "toy basket" in the living room where she keeps all her stuff.

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