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CleverNameGoesHere
I bet every one of you has at least one funny story about something that happened with a pet. I'm going to start with my husband's favorite funny childhood pet story --

When he was a kid he had a guinea pig named Tweety, which he'd let out of the cage to run around the house. One day he was watching TV and eating nacho cheese Doritos out of the bag, not really paying attention to what Tweety was doing, or looking at the bag as he was reaching in for handfuls of chips. One particular bite of Doritos was bitter and extra-tangy and nasty (I think they're kind of nasty to start with but maybe that's just me), so he looked in the bag, and Tweety had pooped in it! My husband ate guinea pig poop! huh.gif I try not to think of this during romantic moments... biggrin.gif

One more amusing thing, we used to have a cat named Noodle who was a Maine Coon. He loved water. One day I turned the bathroom sink on just enough so it dripped continuously, and I put him on the edge of the sink to see what he'd do. He loved batting at the water and sucking it out of his paw fur so much that it became an obsession. You'd go in the bathroom and he'd run to follow you in, then climb up on the sink and meow. Often he'd just lay in the basin, snoozing. When it came time to brush your teeth you had to shut him out of there or he'd get covered in toothpaste froth because he just couldn't stay out of the way. smile.gif It was insanely cute.


Who's got a funny pet story? Bonus points if it involves doody in some manner. tongue.gif
momof3
I know I cannot top that! LOL
SmokeChaser
Yep, that is going to be hard to top.
PaperPusher
One night about 11 p.m., our dog went outside for her usual evening pre-bedtime stroll. She disappeared in the dark of the yard and then came running back, stopping periodically to rub her head in the grass. We smelled her long before she got to the door. Skunk.

Never having dealt with this before, we went with what we'd always heard - tomato juice. Where can you find tomato juice at 11 at night? The magic store open 24-hours a day. My husband rushed to Wal-Mart.

He tried to look innocent after lining 10 quarts of tomato juice at the checkout counter just as someone nearby said "Hey, do you smell skunk?"

Tomato juice doesn't work. It makes your dog smell like skunk covered in tomato juice. Long story short - we laughed ourselves silly, the dog slept on the back porch that night, and PetSmart has everything you need to combat the deadly skunk.
momof3
that was funny and informative.
CleverNameGoesHere
funny and educational, Paperpusher! I thought tomato juice worked too. Maybe the tomato juice cartel started that whole urban legend "remedy" in the first place to boost sales, hmm. dry.gif so, did your pup learn his lesson?



Here's another story -- when I was 7 and my brother was 5 we had a German shepherd named Lady. We rented a farmhouse at the time and she was an outside dog, wandering the fields nearby. She'd come back to us after exploring for hours, absolutely infested with ticks. My brother and I would pick them off (which was easy because they were pink, plump, and engorged with blood), lay them on the concrete patio, and drop bricks on them to pop 'em. ph34r.gif This one time I dropped the brick, and the blood splatter flew up in the air and landed just inside my mouth on my lower lip (I must've had my mouth hanging open in amazement at the awesome game we'd made up, to while away the hot summer afternoon). I remember - vividly - running across the front of the house to the back door, bawling my head off and screaming, but trying to keep my lower lip protruded as far from my head as it could possibly go, lest I get any tick blood actually past my teeth and INSIDE my mouth. My mom and dad still laugh about it. I don't know what we did with Lady's ticks after that, but we certainly never dropped another brick on a swollen tick!
PaperPusher
Eeewwww Clever. That almost auto-started my gag reflex.


No. The dog has not learned. We keep a supply of de-skunker on hand. She thinks all skunks are cats with a white stripe. She thinks her job is to chase all cats out of our yard.

Hey...everybody needs a job!
Ithlilian
Here are the mythbusters results from removing skunk smell from a person or a room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(...n_2)#Skunked.21
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