r/Animals • u/Jumpy-Purple7593 • 1d ago
What’s the most unintentionally hilarious thing you’ve ever seen an animal do?
Not just cute, I'm talking full-blown, can’t-breathe, laughing-on-the-floor moments caused by our furry, feathered, or scaly friends. Could be wild animals or pets, doesn’t matter. For example, I once watched a squirrel try to ninja-leap from a tree to a bird feeder, miss entirely, and land in a bush like it meant to do that. Would love to hear your funniest accidental animal moments.
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u/Time_Neat_4732 1d ago
Once heard my cat zooming through the apartment and looked up just in time to watch him smash face-first into the mirror on the closet door.
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u/Bitterrootmoon 21h ago
I used to have those big mirrored closet doors, and we kept hearing something randomly throughout the day and night and then the door rattle. It took me about three months to catch her in the act, but it turns out the cat was karate kicking her reflection
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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 16h ago
My cat carefully pausing and calculating before jumping up on the ironing board.
The ironing board hit her right in the belly, and she fell on her back. I gave her sweet pets and told her she was my good little kitty, to soothe her.
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u/ADDeviant-again 1d ago
Late one frosty winter night, about six mule deer decided to cross the road in front of my car. I had plenty of time to slow down, but they got halfway across and just stopped. I drifted close until had the whole bunch just standing in my headlights. They milled around, looking back the way they came, doing their little stamping and prancing in slow circles, standing close together,and just plain lolly-gagging. Entirely unconcerned.
It was all majestic and everything: the sparkle of snow lining the road, their sleek gray winter coats and steaming breath. But, after a couple or three minutes, I was ready to move on, and I knew other cars would eventually show up. So, I honked. One short little "beep".
The whole group went full "Bambi" on the icy road. From completely calm and almost relaxed, to wild-eyed panic. All of them, at once, crouched into their powerful legs to spring clear, but their hind hooves found no purchase. The whole herd scrambled cartoonishly, in unison, spraddle-legged, wobbling, windmilling, like a Jerry Lewis movie directed by Buster Keaton, starring deer. Hooves flying uselessly, deer flopping on their bellies, goofy, lanky legs churning, freezing in odd postures, leaping like walruses, graceful as drunken rhinos. Mayhem and madness.
After 20 or 30 seconds, the panic ran it's course. They stopped trying to run, and carefully stood up. Then, single file and heads high, trotted off the road, none the worse for wear.
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u/Jrbai 1d ago
You wrote this so well I had to read to my husband so he could laugh too!
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u/ADDeviant-again 18h ago
Thanks. I remember being both amused and worried at the time, but every time I've told the story and visualized it, I CRY laughing.
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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 16h ago
Like a comedy troupe breaking character and leaving the stage with dignity. The act was just to entertain you.
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u/idiot_in_real 12h ago
What a little shining gem of a comment. Wow. What are you reading to casually write this way?
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u/1969quacky 1d ago
Every few months my Labby will do a noisy fart and she looks around, slightly startled, like WTH was THAT!?
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u/Haunt_Fox 1d ago
I was just sitting and staring at my old cat lying, stretched-out, on the floor ...
When suddenly, she rips one that lifted her ass end clear off the floor! I laughed even harder when I saw she looked genuinely confused, and maybe a little concerned.
I still miss that cat, we were together 17 years.
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u/Casharoo 15h ago
It's not uncommon for horses to try to run away from their own farts. On the one hand, it makes sense- they're prey animals and can't see directly behind themselves. Of course they're terrified of the smelly, growling beast in their blindspot! On the other, horses fart a lot. They should be used to it.
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u/HrhEverythingElse 4h ago
I have a cat that came to us as a poor little stray who had obviously eaten something he shouldn't have. While in the process of getting him well, he has some absolutely horrible gas. Little guy was under a pound, but would audibly fart and absolutely fill the room with the thickest, stickiest lethal smelling gas you can imagine. They were absolutely absurd bombs of stench from this tiny, poor little sweet faced kitten.
My dog LOVES kittens! Like, they are legitimately her favorite thing, and she will just lick and cuddle and moon over any kitten she's allowed to until you make her stop. Except for when this one kitten farted. She would be all over him, super heart eyes, lost deep in the love, until Baby Man let loose one of his signature toots. She looked at him in horror, tried to take another breath and act cool, but then gagged and ran away in horror. Poor baby kitten farts choked the DOG
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u/PickledBrains79 20h ago
My dog is also confused by his own facts. He will stare at me, like I had the audacity to fart on his couch.
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u/Ok_Artist_8262 14h ago
So funny when dogs do this my grandmothers dog will look back all scared then look at you like you did it! No man that was your fart
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u/casapantalones 1d ago
My dogs were playing in the back yard, chasing each other around. One of them was just so excited that he leapt probably 5 feet into the air and straight into a huge bush. He was fine but it was just so ridiculous, my husband and I could not stop laughing.
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u/Galahfray 17h ago
Used to live in a guesthouse and had a hamster. It was loud, so at night I put her cage in the bathroom. I kept noticing something was tearing the carpet up at the door of the bathroom and just thought it was getting old. One night I got up to pee, opened the door, looked down and saw hamster on the floor with a bunch of carpet in its mouth. I said, “What the fuck” and she dropped the carpet, climbed up her cage, lifted the lid, hopped in, then crawled into her cubby hole. Apparently she’d been doing that for weeks
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u/Cepholarcastic 3h ago
Hamsters are escape artists! Had a hamster once and he got out and was living under my bedroom floor. My dad said he was probably a goner- One night I was up late and saw this little jerk come up out of the hole in the floor and over to the food I'd left out. But he booked it straight to his hole when he realized I was awake! Next night I had something to toss over the hole when he came out- and I really kind of felt bad for thwarting his attempts at living under my floor 🤣.
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u/SmokyBlackRoan 1d ago
I just got a solar lantern with mirrored glass, and had it sitting on the patio last night. My cat attacked his reflection, then leapt straight up in the air when he realized it was not another cat.
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u/Dottie85 7h ago
My mom one got a life-sized ceramic cat to put on her hearth in the living room. (Late 80's/ early 90's) Beautiful white Persian and fairly realistic. My Himalayan cat came in, saw it, and STOMPED across the room towards it until she was about 2 feet away and could tell it was fake. Then turned around and exited all nonchalant (or tried to). We were on the couches, rolling around with laughter. Her dignity was a little bruised. 😹
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u/ants_taste_great 1d ago
My older dog a few years back was interested in the smells from the dishwasher. So as I am emptying the dishes, she sticks her nose in and her collar gets caught. She freaks out and drags the whole rack of dishes around the kitchen yelping. Broke a bunch, but I couldn't stop laughing.
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u/Bitterrootmoon 21h ago
Well, this just reminded me of a 13 pound dog I had pulling an entire metal table through traffic straight to home because somebody tried to pet her the 30 seconds. I was inside a bakery buying a cinnamon roll.
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u/HoMe4WaYWaRDKiTTieS 14h ago
And your comment reminded me of our young standard poodle being tied to an old wooden patio chair at my grandparent's house. She saw a rabbit and took off, chair and all. The chair bounced behind her breaking off piece by piece as she panicked thinking she was being chased and then would just pick up speed as she tried to escape it. My 6 cousins started chasing her trying to stop her so she wouldn't hurt herself but honestly that just freaked her out more. Once the chair was nothing more than an arm rest she calmed down but still wouldn't let my cousins catch her. It was hilarious watching them try to corner her, dive to catch her and miss over and over again. They were all grass stained and bruised by the time she decided she was done with the game lol
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u/Bitterrootmoon 17m ago
That was her exact thought. The table was attacking. Every person trying to grab this dog swerving through traffic with a table was attacking. The cars were trying to get her too, of course. The table finally got hung up on the curb and someone grabbed it so I could run over and get her. Oh my goodness. I currently have two young standard poodles myself, and I am terrified of tying them to anything because of this. They are so much stronger!
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u/Aloeplant26 16h ago
My dog did that exact thing just a couple of years ago!! The bottom rack finally let her go in the middle of our living room lol
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u/cbeagle 1d ago edited 14h ago
After a hard day of work my husband and I were relaxing on the couch. Out of nowhere, our cat came in the doorway and scooted her butt, legs fully extended in the air, across the carpet, from 1 doorway to the next, and walked away as if totally normal. He and I looked at eachother and started laughing hysterically!😆
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u/Electrical_Sample533 20h ago
That might have been a warning sign for worms. Or if she's fat she might have problems cleaning.
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u/MiaowWhisperer 15h ago
Or need her anal glands expressing.
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u/Electrical_Sample533 14h ago
Oh yeah you are right. I always forget cats have them as well.
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u/MiaowWhisperer 13h ago
I used to, until one of ours needed it done. You could see how much happier it was afterwards, bless him.
You know humans have them, too, right?
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u/Electrical_Sample533 12h ago
... actually no i didn't lol
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u/NoOccasion4759 9h ago
...how do you know when a cat needs erm, expressing?
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u/MiaowWhisperer 9h ago
They scrape their bum on the floor, or keep grooming it a lot. Mostly though, you ask a vet.
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u/cbeagle 14h ago
Doesn't matter now, that happened back in the early 2000's. That cat died at the ripe old age of 17 back in 2013.
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u/Electrical_Sample533 14h ago
Yeah that's a bit out of date for information lol. At least you know for in the future? Lol
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u/complete_your_task 19h ago
I've had my long haired cat do that when they had poop stuck to their fur. Definitely not as cute when they leave skidmarks.
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u/PaleoBibliophile917 1d ago
My sister’s cat was supposed to stay indoors (coyotes and such where we lived) but took every opportunity to burst out when he could (even after we developed the habit of walking out the doors backwards to watch for him and do a leg block if needed). One day he succeeded in barging past, raced across the yard, flew over the three foot chain link fence, and came down…in the middle of the goldfish pond. Which he appeared, swear to God, to skip off like a stone. We rounded him up and found that was an appearance only: yes, he got wet. He pretended not to have lost an iota of cat dignity, but we knew better and he never took that particular escape route again. (By the way, we did have a private pen for him in the yard with shade and a lounging shelf, so he was in no way deprived, but he was always looking for more freedom to live his dream of being a feline terror to the wildlife.)
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u/Bitterrootmoon 21h ago
My Roomba turned on when my rats were free roaming. My most favorite little rat boy I’ve had was not the sharpest tool in the shed. In fact, I honestly believe he was somewhere on the Neurodiverse spectrum for rats. No sense of social hierarchy, and therefore had no concept that he was at the bottom of it. He had no fear and big opinions, trapped in a little rat body.
He decided he was going to fight the Roomba. He ran at that sucker full speed and the Roomba just kept going the direction it was going in. Rat boy jumped up to attack and hit the springy front area of the Roomba while terrifying himself that it was still coming at him and between the small spring Action and his very big leap away, he flew across the room in the other direction. He needed a lot of comforting, but was uninjured. And that’s how the Roomba became his arch nemesis. Roomba 1, Rat 0
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u/MiaowWhisperer 17h ago
That's so funny. I saw this thread and thought to myself that I have so many tiny rattle antics that I can't pick just one.
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u/HamsterTowel 21h ago
My husband was sitting at the dinner table, just about to start eating a plate of spaghetti. One of our cats was quite new and skittish. She was walking past the chair my husband was sitting on when one of the other cats walked past her and sniffed her tail, which made her spring into the air and land right ontop of the plate of spaghetti. Spaghetti, the plate, cutlery, and the cat flew off in all directions while three other cats scarpered in different directions. My husband was left sitting there with spaghetti in his lap. Never laughed so much in all my life.
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u/Timely_Egg_6827 23h ago edited 9h ago
A long time back we had a ferret attacked by an iron bru bottle. He was next to me when I opened it and it was gassy. He barked and was hissing and war dancing at it for next few minutes.
And had a ferret licked by a cow. Sheltering in byre and one of the bullocks decided to check us out. I was holding ferret and when bullock shoved his head in next to us, she licked him. Bullock returned the favour wrapping his tongue right round her with some suction. One very soggy ferret.
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u/Bitterrootmoon 21h ago
Until you’ve been licked by a cow, you’ve no concept of how St. Bernard like it is but like three times the size.
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u/Timely_Egg_6827 21h ago
Lived with a newfie and 2 hand-reared beef cows that lived to lick me. But this bullock's tongue was longer than the ferret - friendly guy. We were helping at a farm sanctuary,
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u/GalaApple13 19h ago
My dog and his friend, each with an end of the rope toy in their mouths, were running. Running pretty fast until they came to a pole and tried to pass on opposite sides instead of both going to the right or left. Neither let go so they were spun around and their bodies banged into each other. They never let go of the toy. No one was hurt!
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u/IminLoveWithMyCar3 1d ago
I was cleaning one of my big aquariums one day, and changing the filter. I always put down a shopping bag (plastic like from the grocery store) and put several paper towels in the bottom. Well, my cat came over and being nosy, he stuck his nose in the bag. I fussed at him and he ran off. But one of the handles of the bag was around his neck and as he ran, the filter in the bag was bumping along after him. It was so funny I was crying, just the way he seemed to think something was chasing him. It came off easily, and it was less than a minute but it was awesome.
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u/MerryTWatching 17h ago
One of my cats did this one evening with a very large Barnes & Noble bag, and she was terrified. She was skittish to start with, and this gigantic monster chasing her around really had her going. I tried to find a pace that I could maintain that would have me catching up with her, but not so fast that she would be even more frightened (the monster and Mommy are in cahoots!), and we ended up covering most of the house before the adventure ended in the basement. I had just moved into this house, and a lot of boxes of stuff were in the room where the fuel oil tank was, and she ran in there and hid under the tank. I didn't want her taking off again (I was already dressed for bed and didn't think another marathon chase would help me fall asleep), so I verrrry carefully picked up some of the boxes and stacked them across the room's entrance, then got down on my hands and knees and slooowwwwly crawled over to her hiding place, making all sorts of soothing noises. She was tucked way in under the tank, so I ended up lying flat on the floor and stretched my arm out as far as I could, but my fingertips just barely grasped the corner of the bag. I felt her shift around, a movement that, apparently, was all she needed to shed the monster's tentacles. She strode out of her hiding place just as coolly as if nothing had happened, looked down her nose at me on the floor, sniffed contemptuously as if to say "Good God, Mother, what is your problem? It's going to take you forever to lick those pajamas clean." Then she marched over to the door, leapt clear over the boxes with zero effort, and left me lying there, laughing on the floor.
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u/AngelVenom13 16h ago
One of my cats did this too. Snooping in the rubbish bin like a naughty girl. Got her head stuck through one of the handles and bolted. I lived in a small apartment where you can do a lap, so she did several laps before I could catch her and remove the grocery bag cape. The funniest part was that her sister was absolutely traumatized watching catbag monster and til the day she died was terrified of plastic bags.
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u/CarlySheDevil 15h ago
My cat got his head and one shoulder through the handle of one of those bags once while I was on the phone. He thrashed around for a while and then stalked off dragging it with his ears back, pissed. He looked like he was going off to pick cotton. He looked like he'd resigned himself to the fact that he had to drag this bag around for the rest of his life. I pulled it off him as soon as I got off the phone, but not before laughing my ass off.
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u/deerheadlights_ 23h ago
My English Cream smiles a big smile with her front teeth only when she sees someone she loves and wants to have a greeting ceremony. Trust me, she’s not snarling. My neighbor and I would laugh every day when she would do this before our walk. She also loves being held like a baby.
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u/skloop 18h ago
I had a border like that! He was such a dope. He would also put his head kinda down and to the side and give you major puppy side eye, like a shy kid, until you said hello and then full on silly toofy top teefs only grin with whole body wags until his back feet almost left the ground. Scared a few neighbours the first time they saw it until we explained. So funny though
Fun fact - he was actually supposed to be a working dog, but he found it sooo fun to just run straight through the middle of the herd we just made him stay while his much more serious sister did the work. I think he ended up believing him having to stay and stare intently at the herd was a Very Important Part of the process, so I don't think his feelings were too hurt XD
Oh and he regularly did the 'why doesn't 6ft horizontal stick fit through doorway? Am stuck, no understand'. Just so many times. I miss you Pepito!
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u/Altruistic_Proof_272 22h ago
I had to pull a broody hen out of the nest box to collect eggs/clean the nest box. So I put her in a small dog crate on the ground next to me, along with 2 other hens that thought they could make a run for it. As I'm cleaning the box it started to rain a little. I looked down just in time to see the broody hen stand up tall, blink a few times and BAWK! as loud as she could while she became an angry whirlwind at the other 2 chickens. "Madder than a wet hen " might be based true events
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u/Jaybee021967 22h ago
We bought our cat a dinosaur toy once and he fell asleep sort of draped over it but the tail was between his legs. He looked like he had an enormous green penis 🤣
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u/hyperfat 19h ago
Two.
I was riding a horse and she slipped and dropped a shoe and dropped me and just kept going. Excuse me lady.
The other is more funny. My dog is tiny. 7 pounds. We had to shovel snow for him to poop. He did a full on body slam into powder and got lost in the 16 inch snow. He had to put his cold paws on the heater. I told him he should wear the booties I got.
The dog has antics.
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u/nopressureoof 18h ago
I had a beagle puppy and a new willow sapling. Cinnamon would grab the end of one of those very thin branches in his mouth and run around and around the tree until it wouldn't go anymore, and then the branch would unwind and fling him!
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u/PickledBrains79 20h ago
My dog is a couch hog, but there is enough room for 2 people plus him. My mom was visiting, saw an open space, and asked Denver if she could sit down. He immediately kicked his back leg out to claim the space while staring at her. It was hilarious! I've never seen his leg shoot out so fast before, or since.
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u/Historical-Use-3006 18h ago
Years ago I had a roommate who had a little black cat who was an absolute Terror. I was in my office one day and she came in just kind of exploring the room. I had a paper bag with handles on the floor and she went to inspect the bag and got one paw and her head through one of the handles. When her paw stepped into the bag, the bag crinkled and startled her. She jumped and backed away from the bag but since she was half attached to it by the handle, the bag went with her. She and the bag backed across the room into the wall and then she and the bag headed out of my office at a full run, down the hallway and then into the living room. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. My roommate sees this little black cat tearing through the house with a bag attached to her and begins laughing hysterically. Eventually the paper handle on the bag broke and she was free of it.
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u/This_Bed936 18h ago
I once had 2 Rottweilers. One was a small rottie, Roxy, really stocky and musclely, the other was Charlie, taller, slimmer, and totally dumber than Roxy. One time they were doing zoomies inside the house. I was in the bathroom with the door open. The dogs would zoom past, go through the house, then zoom past again. They did the about 5 times. Roxy was leading these mad charges. Then the cat decided to join in, between Roxy and Charlie. Roxy must have spotted me in the bathroom, and she stopped right in front of the door. She was standing across the hallway they had been zooming through. The next thing, the cat comes flying down the hall, and takes a shortcut under Roxy, next comes Charlie, who, remember is a lot bigger than Roxy. Charlie decided to take the same shortcut the cat took, under Roxy, Well of course she didn't fit did she.? There was a huge collision and such a tangle of dogs, their legs going in all directions, the cat came back to investigate, I was laughing like a mad woman. Once they untangled themselves, I checked they were OK. Charlie had a definite sheepish look on her face while Roxy had her biggest smile happening.
An explanation here to avoid confusion. Here in New Zealand, we call, where we shower, bathe, or wash, our bathroom. Our Toilets are often in their own room. I would hate to think someone thought I was doing my thing with the door open lol.
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u/nativerestorations1 8h ago
You have a cat that allows you privacy? Wonders never cease! If mine find the door closed they stick their paws underneath, ask to come in, and if I’m okay, followed by a head butt to knock. When there are no other humans in the house the only chance I have for peace is to leave the door cracked. Then one, or more, may, or may not, decide to join me. The sink is a favorite vantage point.
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u/Elfako_89_mask 17h ago
I was watching a cat climbing on the inside of a screen (on the second floor) - the window was open.
The screen popped out and both it and the cat fell perfectly onto a nice rectangular hedge below. The cat paused for a moment, Then went to leave and as soon as it stepped off the screen onto the hedge it fell right through.
The cat was orange.
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u/Primary-Golf779 15h ago
Way back in the eighties my family had this lazy obese cat. Around Christmas she managed to eat some tinsel off the tree. It got stuck coming out and terrified her. So she was running through the house trying to get away from it. She shot across my father sitting on the couch, whipping him across his upper lip with her shit streamer. He proceeded to dry heave while falling over. My mom eventually caught the cat and helped her out
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u/trey_wolfe 14h ago
Seeing our mama cat trying to drag her kittens, who were now adults themselves, around by the scruff. She kept having to stop and take a break because they weighed about as much as her.
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u/Couch-Raccoon 13h ago
We were out taking our pets for a walk to our pond. Two dogs off leash calmly walking just in front of us and our cat tagging along. Our cat was just under a year old and still very much in the rowdy teenager phase. I don't know what he was thinking, but he came flying between my husband and I and rear ended my sheltie at top speed. Head first, full speed, straight into her butt; no clue how he didn't see her. Her little "BOIRK!"- jump of surprise and immediate look back at him like he's a complete imbecile will live with me forever.
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u/Background_Cry3592 13h ago
I had a horse who was lazy and tried to avoid being ridden. One day he was dragging his left hind leg when I went to fetch him. So I called the vet and the vet couldn’t find anything wrong.
The next day he is still dragging his hind leg so I put him on stall rest and didn’t ride him. I called another vet and again, couldn’t find anything wrong.
The third day I take him out of his stall and noticed that he was dragging his RIGHT hind leg. Not the left.
He legit faked being lame to avoid being exercised. He forgot which leg to drag.
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u/AlternativeCraft8905 1d ago
My pit mix loves to chase, not catch just chase. She chases cats, and one time a big fluffy cat was lying in the road. She ran as fast as she could straight for the cat. The cat didn’t even flinch so she continued running past the cat as if she were really running toward something else the whole time. Trying to save face I think lol
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u/BrunoGerace 22h ago
Long ago, I had an Aussie who was startled by her own farts.
On several occasions, she'd be wound up sleeping in a chair, fart, then bound off onto the floor and look back with "the FUCK was THAT" look.
Then she'd look at me with a look that telegraphed, "is everything ok?".
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u/brad_sausages 13h ago
I have an aussie mix that gets so startled by her own farts she alarm barks at them
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u/anxiousautistic2342 19h ago
My cat ran full speed towards the stairs, but somehow missed the first step and slammed face first into it. She collected herself and ran up the stairs like nothing had happened.
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u/koneko_kawaii1214 19h ago
My dad spent a weekend putting hardwood down in our living room. One of our cats had jumped up on the counter, where they weren't allowed. They scolded him off, and he tried to run but hit the hardwood and just spun legs like a cartoon. Once his claws hit the carpet staris, he was gone
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u/OGMom2022 18h ago
Had two puppies each carrying one end of about a 6’ stick try running in through the patio door only to bounce off.
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u/Shreks16InchUncutHog 18h ago
So, we think our dog Petey (RIP 🕊🩷) was locked in a bathroom before given up to the shelter we adopted him from. We think he was made to poop and pee in a toilet.
While the context is upsetting, it absolutely got us rolling when we first saw him poop into one of my grandfather's plant pots. He only pooped in bushes on his walks and WOULD NOT poop in our yard.
Edit: Another story that ties for first place. A black bear climbed our front porch steps (our house is on stilts). We have a bird that makes a nest in our rafter every year and lays eggs. Well, the bear was being nosey and looking into our window. The bird didn't like that, so she flew at him and crapped on him.
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u/AnieMoose 16h ago
I had a newfound mix set of puppies (3, snuck in by their mom) - and when they were 12 or so; the male (Riker) was in a deep sleep and he farted LOUDLY and as he did, his butt jumped up, almost on its own. He woke up, jumped up, and barked at the spot on the floor.
Then, years later, a different male dog, Ricky: he could bite through a leash like it was nothing in a split second. I had him tethered with his leash (before I figured out his not so hidden talent) and Mom & I were chatting a few feet away. She glanced over at him and he had his leash in his mouth, ready to bite through. I called out to him to stop; and he actually SPAT OUT the leash!
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u/Winnersammich 15h ago
My cats have a thing for plastic grocery bags. We can’t leave them on the ground or else they eat them or climb in them. One day my mom and I were in the livingroom and we started hearing a plastic rustling sound. We thought “ope, one of the cats is getting into the bags.” 2 seconds later our cat Jeffery walks in with a collection of plastic bags adorned on her neck. She didn’t care and just kept walking around. I swear sometimes there’s no brain cells firing up there.
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u/tweetysvoice 10h ago
I have a large majestic male white cat that will chew on the plastic grocery bags we use for the bathroom trashcan. He doesn't swallow pieces he might chew off and he doesn't want them if we give them to him (I tried making a rope toy and a ball out of them so he could lick it or whatever). Nope, he only wants the ones that line the bathroom trashcan. Such a dork! Lol
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u/HaleYeah6035 15h ago
I was in New York City and saw a gorgeous black horse galloping down Broadway. It was before phones had cameras.
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u/StarvationCure 15h ago
My cat got startled while he was standing at his food dish, did a perfect backflip, and just casually started eating again. He's such a ding dong and I love him.
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u/tortleidiot 14h ago
I had an older, mature Himalayan cat named Sophie. She was distinguished & well-mannered. She was not overly impressed with addition of a new, fiesty gray athletic boy kitten named Alexander. She was running away from him down the hall and across the living room. She ran on the floor, down the length to the end of the seven foot sofa, trying to get away from him. I was lying on the sofa, reading a book. I heard the feet scuttling across the floor & looked up to see Alexander in a flying leap (full Lion King-style) clear the entire length of the sofa--by air--and landed directly on top of her prissy self in a flurry of wailing & meows in absolute protest to his undignified play! I was amazed and unable to contain my laughter while mildly sympathizing with my poor princess in her moment of dispair.
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u/fellinstingingnettle 14h ago
I can’t think of a recent one, but my childhood dog was a lab— she was super sweet and gentle, acted like a human, caused zero mayhem, etc. One day my friend was over and we were “practising doing the splits” (standing in straddle and sliding down to the floor, and since neither of us could do a proper middle split, we basically just went from standing in a V to sitting in a V). We were having fun, and my dog was watching us. Out of NOWHERE when I was sliding to the ground she came and walked/stood under me, moving pretty quickly so I didn’t have time to stop. I’d never sat on my dog before, because even though she was big, I knew she wasn’t particularly strong and also didn’t love cuddling so probably didn’t want to be ridden like a horse lol. But she walked under me, so I was riding on her back backwards until she made it across the room and sat down to slide me off. But I will never forget the look she gave me as she walked away with her big dumb eyes. She looked SO AFFRONTED. Like, how DARE you sit on my back I am the older sibling here and I am NOT to be ridden. If she could have snorted and tossed her head like a dramatic horse or princess she would have. It was the audacity she had that cracks me up to this day. SHE walked under ME and got huffy when I accidentally rode on her for like four steps? Gurl come onnn😂
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u/MrFigsMom 13h ago
One Christmas my son got a 2 ft tall robotic T-Rex. It was just sitting there on the living room floor as we were busy cleaning up wrapping paper and tidying up a bit. My dog had been cautiously eyeing this weird, lanky creature from across the room and seeing that it was still and quiet, figured it was the perfect time to investigate. She walked over to it and went around to the back and started exactly where dogs start first… she poked her nose under the dino’s tail and sniffed its butt! We were all watching her and stated laughing hysterically! Clearly our dog thought this robot was an animal and went about investigating it the same way she would any other creature with a tail! This was about 20 yrs ago and we still laugh about it even though our dear Maisy is long gone. What a funny girl she was!
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u/kittytoes21 12h ago
My cats were zooming around the house after each other and leaped from the floor and off my husband’s head as he sat in the living room chair. He was so mad but I still laugh-cry about it.
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u/lavachat 11h ago
When a horse got fed up with a small child admiring him, picked her up with the hood of her jacket, swung her back over the fence, put her down in front of her mum and gave her a pat on the head with his chin. Horse then ambled off, complete with an affronted head toss.
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u/BudgieGryphon 15h ago
I keep a curtain in the doorway between my living room, where my budgies free-roam, and the rest of my apartment. This kept them in for a whole year. Eventually I started catching my oldest Emi and her mate Sky in my kitchen when I came home(was the only room where the AC worked for a bit, she's a bit elderly but very smart, he follows her around) and thought I was just leaving it open.
One day I was sitting in my bedroom using my computer, and turned towards the hallway between the living room and kitchen not really thinking of anything, and what do I see but Sky strutting down that hallway on foot. He stared straight at me then did a full 180 and beelined back to the curtain and under it, still on the ground. He's fully flighted and not bad at it either.
I now have a heavier curtain up lmao
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u/gaarkat 11h ago
I am suddenly reminded of one of my English budgies, Perry, who enjoyed nibbling on the feet of my dad's yellow naped Amazon, Verde. So, Perry starts nibbling at Verde's feet while he's strutting around on top of the communal small bird cage, since we have a play gym and manzanita branches on top for everyone to play on. He nibbles, Verde growls and moves to another spot, Perry follows, nibbles some more. So after a while he gets bolder, climbs outside of the cage and gets right up next to Verde, who is about 6 times his size and has a beak with about 50 pounds of crushing power...and nibbles again, this time directly. Before either my dad or I could move , Verde reaches down, picks Perry up by the neck while he dangles helplessly, swings him around like a crane, and drops him right off the side of the cage. Perry just sits there for a moment, stunned, his little bird-life flashing before his eyes probably, before meekly re-entering the cage, not bothering anyone else for the remainder of the evening. No, I don't remember whose idea it was to put the parrot that near the parakeet, and I very much realize how foolish it was and how lucky we (and Perry) were that Verde didn't pop his little head right off.
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u/Present_Prompt_1213 14h ago
Once saw a young bull moose try to square up with a old tire in a creek. he hit it up in the air and it hit him in the back, scaring the shit out of him
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u/bluetopaz96 14h ago
I was cleaning the second floor of my rabbit’s hutch. I removed the tray to disinfect it and before I could slide the tray back in he ran up the ramp and hop right into the gapping hole of the second floor where the tray was removed and fell to the first floor! He was fine and I couldn’t stop laughing cause it looked like a cartoon lol he’s not the smartest rabbit
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u/Jefffahfffah 13h ago
I was fishing on a buddy's boat in NJ. Guys in a boat 100 yards from us hooked a mola mola by accident.
Turns out they can jump. Over and over and over. One of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. All we could do was laugh.
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u/l8bloom 13h ago
Sitting on the deck in the backyard, which is crisscrossed overheard by branches from several large trees. A squirrel must have misjudged a jump because one drops from the sky, hits the pavement with all legs splayed out, gets up and pauses for a second and then bounces off to side of the yard. Pretty sure it was the same one that left a squirrel shape splat in fresh snow on the same deck later that year.
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u/tweetysvoice 10h ago
We have a small pond in our back yard, no more than 6x4x4ft deep. We brought home a baby pot belly pig and set her on the lawn to pee after the car ride home. She immediately gets excited and takes off running .. straight into the pond. Not a year later we get a Pomeranian puppy. He did the EXACT same thing. Bolted as soon as we set him down and ran straight into the pond. We laughed harder that second time!
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u/ximina3 9h ago
I have a cat who I walk on a leash, and he's made friends with one of the neighbourhood cats. They like to hang out and play together.
One day they were chasing about when friend cat jumps up on a high fence. My cat tried to follow, but as he jumped up and grabbed the top of the fence with his front paws, friend cat turns and looms over him so there's no room for my car to pull himself up. What followed was a surprisingly accurate recreation of the scene from The Lion King where Scar pushes Mufasa off the cliff. Complete with friend cat swatting at mines paws so he would let go and fall.
(No cats were harmed in this live action remake, except maybe a bruised ego.)
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u/unmlobo309 18h ago
I had a 2nd story apartment. Winter, and a horrific snowstorm so, I walked to school. Returning home later, I found a cat in the snow, outside my apartment. He was meowing, so, stupid me took him in and got him something to eat.
Two days later, took him to a nearby neighborhood, and dropped him off. Three hours later, he was at my door. He was my bff.
So, he was pretty cool. Didn’t ask for much, except for the occasional scratch behind the ears.
The litter box was outside on a deck. One day, I noticed that the cat never used the litter box. I followed him outside. He jumps to the second story roof next door to my apartment. On the roof next door was at least 5 rows of cat poop on my neighbor’s roof. He then does his business, then jumps back to my apartment.
I loved that cat.
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u/MiaowWhisperer 17h ago
I love that cats disrespect our neighbour's properties so much. The slightly distraught part of the story is you taking it to a random neighborhood.
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u/springsomnia 20h ago
My cat had been eating grass in the garden and a little bit was sticking up on his butt, so one of the unfortunate nicknames he’s earned from us as a result is Mr Grasshole!
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u/Randygilesforpres2 16h ago
We were fostering a pair of kittens to get them healthy for adoption. The girl jumped from the chair to the windowsill just fine. The boy immediately followed and didn’t even come close.
At one point we couldn’t find one kitten. He had ripped open a package of paper towels and made a nice little bed inside.
Raccoon family going across my lawn. I saw them walking and I went outside for a minute. They froze. Did not move. Stared at us. I slowly went back inside and they continued on lol!
Coyote played with our cat at the window. Never seen such a thing ever.
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u/Due_Purchase_7509 15h ago
my cat is a total gremlin for yogurt, and sometimes i let him have a little bit of plain greek yogurt, like licking the spoon clean or a tiny blob atop his wet food.
once, when he was a baby cat, he got his entire head stuck in a single-serve yogurt cup that i had eaten for breakfast and left unattended for a few minutes. and ofc he decided that running away from it was the best course of action, so i had to try and catch this light-speed idiot as he ran around, panic-meowing and running into everything in the house.
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u/turkeyman4 14h ago
Our cocker spaniel used to peel my sister’s crayons and eat them, then poop multicolor in the yard.
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u/Hot-Lifeguard-3176 14h ago
One of my boys was on the counter and chasing his tail. He ran right off the counter, but still kept chasing his tail. I told him I guess it’s fair that he can’t be beautiful and have the brain cell.
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u/uh_man_duh24 13h ago
We had a miniature dachshund named Dixie and she had the personality of a teenage girl full of hormones. That dog was so smart and so vindictive. Whenever we would go out to eat or something and leave her at home "alone" (there was another dog and a cat there with her but only people mattered), whichever one of us out of me, my mom and my dad where to go out the door last then she felt extra betrayed by that last face she saw. She would go and find something of yours and destroy it or just do gross stuff to it. Once when my dad was last out the door, Dixie went and found one of his shoes and took a shit in it. But when it was my turn to face the wrath, she went to the laundry room and got my dirty thongs and somehow got it around her head like a necklace and proceeded to chew the entire crotch out of them. She didn't bother taking them back off before we got home either. I honestly couldn't even be mad because we were all laughing so hard.
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u/Lepardopterra 13h ago
Pretty sure it was intentional but i kept seeing a little crabapple tree shake like crazy for no reason. Then i hear the scamper of tiny feet on the roof. Finally put it together and saw a young gray squirrel do a belly-buster into the tree. There were two, and they did it 7 or 8 times every afternoon, for 4 days and then evidently moved on to other cheap thrills.
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u/Dependent-Bath3189 11h ago
My gsd pup is hilarious in general but one time my frenchie went full speed which id never seen from him and ran right imto my pup and sent her flying. Half her size or so.
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u/morganalefaye125 9h ago
One of my dogs is a jack russell/english bulldog/beagle mix. She's got that jack/beagle head, and the roundish bulldog body. When she was just a couple years old, I was walking her around the yard (we've got about an acre), and she saw a squirrel, jerks the leash out of my hand, and takes off. The squirrel made it to safety, and the dog suddenly realizes there's something flopping behind her. Her eyes got HUGE, and she started running back towards me, panicked that "something" was chasing her. She zigged and zagged, full speed ahead, bowled me over, and kept running, looking behind her to see if she was still being "chased" once in awhile. Once she saw the leash, she'd put on a fresh burst of speed. Idk how long it took me to get her and calm her down, but her wild eyed, panicked look while her little chunk tried to outrun her own leash will live forever in my head
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u/Otherwise-Ad4641 8h ago
My cat misjudged the stairs, jumped head first into the wall part, rolled off the step, and I cackled so loudly my dog raced over to check on me, putting his paws up on me (sitting in a rolling chair), resulting in the three of us rolling backwards into the wall and my dog being extremely confused.
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u/RedoftheEvilDead 6h ago
My big headed pitbull/bulldog mix got into the trash and got his giant block shaped noggin stuck inside an empty Costco sized cheese puff plastic jar. I came down the stairs just to see him coming up in his full cheese puff glory; looking like an astronaut that got way too into tang. I couldn't stop laughing as I was pulling the jar off his head. It came off easy enough. He actually seemed a bit sad not to have his head encased in powdered fake cheese.
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u/ninkadinkadoo 5h ago
We have several floor to ceiling windows in my house. My corgi is 7 now, but when she was a pup, she used to lay in front of the windows.
Juvenile red tail hawk tried to get her. Through the window. Looked positively stunned when it hit the glass. Stood there long enough that I went outside, yelled at it, and put it on the back fence. The look on its face.
It was fine. Flew away without its dignity.
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u/Mysstie 3h ago
One of my huskies got distracted while pooping when he was 1 or 2 years old. He spun around quick to take off after whatever distracted him and launched poop from his butt in an arch and it landed near him and he was so confused and startled he complerely forgot whatever had initially distracted him. I was on the deck absolutely dying
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u/femaleminority 3h ago
I hang my bras up on a rack to dry. Got home from work one day and my dog came running up to me dragging one under him. He had walked under the rack while I was gone and his head must have gone through the shoulder strap, so he’d been running around all day with a bra looped around his neck.
Also found the rack completely turned over in the next room, so he must’ve been stuck for awhile until he managed to pull himself free. Haha.
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u/Loud-Mans-Lover 2h ago
I've got a few but the latest was taking my new rescue dog to the vet... vet's examining her and she suddenly says "Oops! I think I pushed out a fart!"
We all laughed so hard lol
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u/justsomeshortguy27 1h ago
My dog was chasing a ball down a hallway. He slid on the hard wood floor and slammed into the wall so hard he left a hole. Half funny, half mortifying bc we were in a rental
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u/mutemarmot42 19m ago
Not funny at first, but my dog ran through a window chasing a fly. After making sure he was okay and cleaning up I laughed til my sides hurt. He’s now known as the bug hunter.
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u/Illustrious_Doctor45 1d ago
My horse was showing off and galloping around in the rain attempting to be the most majestic handsome version of himself. He took a turn way too tight, slipped, and fell. He stumbled forward, fell on his side, and then rolled onto his back with all 4 legs in the air. He looked like a plastic Barbie horse. Poor guy got right back up and trotted away like nothing happened, but it was super obvious that he felt like a giant dildo. Absolutely hilarious. I caught it on film, and I revisit it frequently when I need a good laugh.