funny pet stuff... Options

[Dantrag]

Just want to ask people about crazy stuff their pet(s) do(es).

My dog will sit in his pen and bark, so I let him out. Then he will walk right back into the pen and start barking again...This is a daily thing.

And then my snake tries to eat mice sideways...spending hours trying to eat it. And ends up leaving it on the ground.

Share your stupid/funny pet stories!

(wow i'm bored, starting this thread...)

[Foster]

I think the strangest thing I ever saw was my hampsters exercise regime. Now, this was one fat-british boat hampster - ate way too much, didn't like doing any form of movement (would expect food brought to him). Anyway, one day we hear the wheel creeking, and so figure he's finally decided it was time to exercise. We went downstairs, turned on the lights and... he was pushing the wheel around with his paw, watching with amusement as it turned around.

That was one lazy mammal.

Anyway, here's something intresting about animals, well, most animals anyway. I mean everyone knows some of the freaky stuff (like various useless organs animals have, left over from evolution), but how many of you knew that the majority of animals cannot throw up due to motion sickness?

Wierd, huh? There are only a few animals that throw up when you spin them around and around. Now, before that sounds like I'm being cruel to animals, I knew someone who did research into various drugs and such (back in the days of old school research, 60s, 70s,80s), and obviously there was (is) a lot of animal testing in that kind of thing. Now, without entering a debate on animal rights, he used to work on trying to cure motion sickness, and had to spin animals around. He told me that the only one he could do it with was some kind of Japanese Shrew (or something) because it was one of the few animals with a motion sickness response.

On another, competely unrelated note, does anyone know if dogs can look up?