What do our pets do at night?

[Skierchickie]

Hee hee - the camping stories are great!

We took our first dog camping with us - a 70lb collie/St Bernard/who knows what mix. It was Memorial Day weekend - we went to a wedding that day, so we didn't get to the state park until dusk, hunting for campsites right off the road. We wanted to hike in (we were backpacking), but it was too late. We finally found a spot without many people, and set up our tent just in time. We had the dog tied outside the tent. Then the loud, drunk, foul-mouthed, partying all night people showed up. It was upsetting her, so we brought her inside the tent. She was still upset, but there was room for her between us. By 2 or 3 in the morning, after other campers had yelled at them to be quiet, and they had yelled obscenities back and just laughed and yelled louder, one of the girls announced that she had to pee. So she rustles off into the bushes. Thinking it was a critter, our dog started growling and woofing (she had a very big dog voice - sounded very scary for a big ball of fur). Scared the c*** out of the girl! It was too funny! She shrieks & swears & runs back to her group, all freaked out - couldn't have been better! Ordinarily I don't like my pets to make people think they're about to be eaten, but I made an exception.

[trinena]

perfect for this topic see today's "Pearls before Swine"

http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/

[LoriO]

My Corgi once dialed 911. I was cooking dinner and Hubby was on the couch. Suddenly he jumps up and turns the volume up on the scanner. Clear as a bell, officers being dispatched to our address for a 911 hangup!!!!

Look for the phone, and sure enough, fat boy is lying on it. Now to make this even more interesting, I am a 911 dispatcher in another town and my hubby is the fire marshal for the town we live in. We call the PD back and get the dispatcher on the line. Thankfully we know her well and she knows my dogs. We tell her what happened and she just starts laughing. She can barely talk when she called the officer on the air to tell him he can cancel that everything was fine. How embarassing!!!

As for the sleep, I work midnights so the dogs sleep all night on the bed with hubby. In the morning they get up, go outside, come in grab a drink of water and then go back to bed with me until I get up. What a life of leisure they have!!!

[short cut sally]

My little Alphie cat is a bed hog. His cuddling may start off inocent enough, but then he starts kneading, and stretching and using either DH or myself as leverage and he won't be the one that moves while he's shoving. He can start off right between DH and I, by the time he is thru, DH is usally in the livingroom asleep as there is no longer any bed or blankets for him. In the morning, he is laying across the bed, stretched all out and I'm usually on the edge. All 3 of us share a queen sized bed, and its just big enough for one 15# little boy.
Oh, and DH and Iwon't trade him for anything.

[Brandi]

Bo sleeps between my and dh's pillows. Curled in a ball but has to have head upside down. He sleeps there most of the night. Then Aki will sleep stretched out at the bottom of the bed. Don't move your feet she might bite you! Willow sleeps in the office on her favorite chair.
Aki in the middle of the night though thinks it is play time and will bring her feather toy with the bell on it up the stairs. Ding ding ding up the stairs. Then she let's go and watchs it fall down the stairs. Sigh! In the morning Aki will sit next to my head and yawn constantly and loudly to get me to wake up!

[Brandi]

I don't have dogs. I love them but traveling for a living makes it hard to have them. Cats are a lot easier to take care of if you are a traveler. But I have a camping dog story from just last week.
We were camping with a bunch of friends. Our one friend brought thier Chihuahua Timmy. He is not a normal looking chihuahua. He doesn't having buldging eye's. and he kinda has longer hair themn normal.He's a sweety. he like to hang out in my driveway with my cat aki (who is bigger then him).
So we are all sitting around the fire enjoying ourselves, when my girlfriend who was walking to her trailor yells out she see's a critter in the dark! Timmy starts barking and runs over. Then my friend yells "It's a skunk"! "AHH timmy's been sprayed!" She grabs him to get him away from the skunk. Whew what a smell! Poor Timmy is shaking and confused! They took him over to the camp water spigot and gave him a cold bath. Poor little guy was done for the rest of the night. We passed him around in a blanket around the fire till he got warm. But he didn't want to move at all the rest of the night. We figured he just barely got hit. Reason being they washed him with just dish soap and it seemed to help the smell. Tomatoe juice does not work by the way.

[7rider]

Grrrrrrr....

Well, I came downstairs this morning, and I found out what MY 2 rabbits were doing last night. They were fighting!! Clumps of Tasha's fur were EVERYwhere, and Tasha was cowering in the litterbox in the cage and wouldn't come out - even for banana. Noah - who weighs twice what Tasha weighs and who has an adrenal disease that causes sky-high hormone levels - just got a Lupron shot on Wednesday, but it hasn't "kicked in" yet. It takes about 7 days for the hormone levels to come back down...and I guess I timed the vet's visit a little too late. He was grunting and buzzing - like a crazed hormonal un-neutered rabbit - and running circles around my feet. I took Tasha out and brought her to the stairs and tried to get her to calm down. She was soooo stressed and was grinding her teeth like crazy.
Poor baby!! I had to separate them today - Tasha's locked in the cage...I hope she eats and drinks. I hate having to separate them.

[wackyjacky1]

I think my eight cats conspire through the night -

Eight cats? Yikes! Two is a handful for me. If I had eight cats, my life would consist of non-stop litterbox scooping.

[divingbiker]

Well, I came downstairs this morning, and I found out what MY 2 rabbits were doing last night. They were fighting!!

Oh, no! Can rabbits do damage to each other when they fight (other than scaring the crap out of Tasha)? Do they leave bite wounds?

Ruby went to the dentist again today (she had a dental in January, before I got her). At this point, she has lost over half her teeth .

[7rider]

Oh, no! Can rabbits do damage to each other when they fight (other than scaring the crap out of Tasha)? Do they leave bite wounds?

Ruby went to the dentist again today (she had a dental in January, before I got her). At this point, she has lost over half her teeth .

Boy, don't I feel her pain!

Buns can indeed do damage to each other. Bites can be fairly bad. Fortunately, Noah wasn't so much interested in biting Tasha and ... well, getting a good grip on her! I felt her up and down, and I couldn't find any external damage. She hadn't touched her salad all day, but was eager to get out of the cage when we came home this evening. Funny, tho', she turned around and started eating the old salad once she saw Noah dive into it! All of a sudden, it started to look good! Right now, they're snuggling together. Fortunately, no hard feelings between the two. A life lesson there....a nice kiss on the forehead and some snuggle time is good for making up!

[invsblwmn]

One of my cats sleeps on top of me in bed, but I know she leaves at some point during the night because I always wake up with some strange household item in bed with us. This cat is a nut. She steals stuff and carries it all over the house. I might wake up with the kitchen sponge on me, or maybe a belt, or even a card or photo that I had hanging on my bulletin board in the office.

OMG, you made me remember the "gifts" Cooper and Emma used to bring to me in the middle of the night. I had an older home in the woods. One night I woke to the creepiest very loud shreiking, and it was close. Flipped on the bedside light and a MOLE streaked off of my leg to the floor and then behind the dresser. Poor thing. It took me, both cats and both dogs and hour to get that mole into a shoe box (amazingly in puncture free condition) and back outside. There were more than a few mouse chasing incidents in the middle of the night as well. Those are gifts I would rather not receive. A belt would be nice, though.

[makbike]

Glad mine only bring me their rattle mice and rubber bracelets when they hunt at inside at night.

[Zen]