Ridiculous things you do for your animal

Nebb

I know we all do them, so spill it.

My dog sometimes gets fussy and wont eat, so I will create a line of kibble from his bed (or wherever he is) to his dish, and then feed him one or two by hand so he gets the taste in order to slowly lead him to his food dish. Sometimes if he is close enough, I will throw them to him, and throw it shorter distances each time so he has to walk closer to his dish to get it.

caseylynne21

Brodie gets frozen yogurt...and on his birthday he gets a burger with peanut butter and bacon on it.

JanoBean75

I cook for my cat. Canned food is not great, so I make a mixture of chicken, vegetables and rice, blend it all together and serve it with a bit of dry Science Diet.

We tell her we love her every time we leave the house.

FI lets her give him a facial (she licks his face...she won't lick mine).

She has three beds: two in the living room and one in the bed room. Well, if you count ME, she has four beds. The one in the bedroom we call her "pretty princess pillow" because it's sparkly.

She has two stockings at Christmas.

We put suet cages on the outside of the windows to give her something to watch during the day. We love feeding the birds, but the location of the suet is for her.

missy68

Jasmine, I feel you on the rectal valium. I'm glad I only had to administer it twice.

Maggie had knee replacement surgery, every once in a while (this is bad) she'd get a cheeseburger from McDonald's and she'd eat it, pickles and all.

When we drove halfway across country and she wasn't interested in water, I bought her gatorade and she drank that.

Max gets a sweet potato stick and a small handful of treats for "quiet time" in the kennel. He also rings the bell 10 times in the 5 hours I'm home/before bed. He's a ball of weird; I think I'd need a novel to describe it.

My dog- now dogs - have two embroidered stockings. My mom always orders them. I suspect Max's is on the way. One for me, and one for my parents' house in case we're there at Christmas. When the dogs pass away, the stockings are folded up, and kept in the Christmas box.

When Maggie died, I bought a Magnolia charm and two blue beads (her full name was Magnolia). I wear it every day. I haven't thrown anything of hers away, and her favorite things are packed away in a box. When we took her in, we left her with her favorite blanket and her favorite toy, a Snoopy, so those are with her.

My dad retires this summer/early fall, and I've asked him to make her box.

impslave

If the PetSmart by my house doesn't have the only flavor of Science Diet Hairball Control cat food that Stoli will eat, I will drive to the PetSmart on the other side of town to find it.

We also have a little routine called "Going out for a sniff."  I will carry Stoli out onto the porch of the condo and hold him while he sniffs the air.  He is strictly an indoor cat, so this is as close to getting outside as I let him.

L-Bride

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[QUOTE]Water dragons are awesome :) Brooke, I seat belt the cat carrier and chinchila carrier whenever they go in the car with me. I get really weird looks but like you said, safety first. If something happens I don't want my babies to become missiles flying around the inside of their carriers. <strong>Honey rat melted everyone's heart.</strong> When she passed the vet wrote me a really sweet card about how they will miss her visits to the vet and what a special rat she was.
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Aw, she was cute!
I'm actually looking into getting a rat since I have heard they make great pets and FI won't let me get another dog right now <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-frown.gif" border="0" alt="Frown" title="Frown" />

How does one pick out a nice rat? I'm afraid I'm going to get one and it's going to start biting me once I get it home. Do rats normally bite?

atayk21

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[QUOTE]I know we all do them, so spill it. My dog sometimes gets fussy and wont eat, so I will create a line of kibble from his bed (or wherever he is) to his dish, and then feed him one or two by hand so he gets the taste in order to slowly lead him to his food dish. Sometimes if he is close enough, I will throw them to him, and throw it shorter distances each time so he has to walk closer to his dish to get it.
Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]

I do this too kind of. We have an area rug in our living room that has blocks on it, I fill the blocks with Molly's food then I make a little path to her bowl. She won't eat in the morning before I go to work, so by making a game out of it it works.

I will also move things around her when I am doing stuff, so as not to disturb her, the princess.

I love her though and I don't care that she is spolied!

smokeybailey

I give Smokey medicine orally every night.  So what?  And he gets an enema every few days.  Sometimes I have to give him a very large enema and then he just explodes everywhere.  So I sit there and clean him and the floor until he is done/empty.  Oh, this usually seems to occur in the middle of the night.

Last fall, he had some issues and we took him to a specialist and about $3K later I had no diagnosis but a lot of really good guesses as to what was wrong with him.  That cat still ain't right in the head but he's better now.

Whenever I go out of town, the cat sitter comes to see them and this can add up at $16 per day.

They wake me up, on average, every 90-120 minutes a night for something or other.  I haven't slept for 8 hours straight in my own home for 12 years. 

I still love them though. 

jayjoe

oh boy..
Because he drips after drinking water and it gets all over the kitchen floor (which i then walk into wearing socks), i started wiping his mouth with a napkin, partly as a goof. Well now after he drinks he will find me or my hubby and sit in front of us until we wip his mouth.

I also maneuver around him in bed so he is comfortable (i have an 80lb english golden retriever).

He loves fresh mozzarella so he gets it. At $9 a pound.

His first birthday is next month and we are throwing him a party complete with a doggy cake that i am making, favors, balloons, etc. My parents, inlaws and other family will be there including a lot of my friends and their doggies.

We sound crazy, but we love him, he is our child And the way we look at it, so many animals get abused to spoil one isnt the worst thing in the world.

Audrey&Austin

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[QUOTE] She drank out of the toilet so any time we passed the bathroom we woudl flush it so she had cold water. Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]
Mt FI and I do this for both of our cats. They also have their own stockings at Christmas, they take up more than half of the bed (how is it too little kitties can stretch out to be so big?!), and get treats for simple things. My fiance and I both do the "Good bye babies! Momma (or we) loves you!!" as we leave for anything. I've started leaving Animal Planet on for them when we leave the house too, I guess I'm trying to teach them about the world? Both kitties come when we say their names, but only in a sing song voice... And pretty much everything I read is something that we do too, so it makes me feel a little better about spoiling my babies!

aprilhaynes

My fiance and I were recently having a conversation about ridiculous things I do for my cat. I should begin by stating that fiance "gets it" when it comes to this, but it does not stop him from laughing at me from time to time. 

Anyway, he was laughing about my most recent episode, and then he says, "yeah, it kind of brings a whole new level of meaning to the term 'pussy whipped,' doesn't it?" LOL!!!!!!!!!

So yes, we call this kind of behavior "pussy whipped" now. :-)

buffalove716

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[QUOTE]We just had a birthday party for one of our dogs...complete with canine guests, dog cake, and gifts...and she got to wear a ruffly birthday girl collar!  They also get Easter baskets, with treats inside the plastic eggs for them to open.
Posted by loveslug[/QUOTE]

I do this too! 
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goheels05

We adopted a Bengal last February, and before we took her home, I did a lot of research on the breed.  Their food has to be all meat--it can't have any grain or fillers (I guess because they are closer genetically to wild cats?  I can't remember), so we get her special (and very expensive) food from the only shop in town that carries it. 

I also read that they prefer running water to still water so much so that they are known to turn on faucets to drink the water (there's actually a hilarious video on youtube of a Bengal turning on a faucet and sticking it's head underneath), so I got her a plug-in water fountain.  The dogs love it, too. 

I don't think those things are crazy, really, I think that's pretty much par for the course when you get a specialty breed (or really, any pet), but DH rolled his eyes and huffed and puffed and I'm sure my in-laws think I'm insane.