oh and we wont even start in about when his dish is empty. He will come and lay on my chest while I sleep if he cant wake me which he trys. If I do wake he runs to the bathroom and meows. Even if it was him that took the last bite... Ill fill it he will inspect and and leave... not even EATING A BITE!!!! oh that one really annoys me... wake me up and then not eat... hmpf

Oh and I guess Ill add for the post that wanted to know about my meds... Im on them took em a while ago and yes I am sure my trazadone is contributing to this post... then again I have off the wall thoughts all the time and I just dont manage to keep em to my self lol...

My friends cat is a saddomasocist (sp?) She'll act like she wants you to pet her tail, then when you do she tries to scratch you.

HAHAHAHAHA thats so funny....

thats like my little one... He wants you to pet him but he walks around you all haughty like cats do like they are better then you but you "CAN" pet them if you want like its an honor... so would that be an egomaniac???

wow my house is mental... a OCD cat and an Egomaniac.... now to figure out what smokie is... well he is a teenager so he is everything all at once lol

My brother had a cat that wouldn't pee in the litter box due to some mental thing, so they put it on prozac. I just thought that was humerous. Unfortunately, the prozac didn't work, so they had to put the cat down. Too bad... But, a cat on prozac...funny!

Totally YES! I really think they can have glitches. some are learned, some are in breeding.Any which way they are issues and glitches.
My 5 year old female lab is completely neurotic. She will be someones best friend, lovin them on and on. And litterally 5 minutes later she will attack them. She super sensitive to her enviroment sometimes a fly will set her off into a tizzy. We took her in to a special trainer for "problem Dogs" he told us that she had no pattern or particular triggers to her "disorderly conduct". He told us to put her down... Anyways we didnt. We are just careful when people come over she usually has to be kennaled and when we are not home she is confined.
I have two cats that are full of issues too, but I think thats more our fault than not.
Dont get me started on our new dog. He is classic ADHD. he even moves around and barks in his sleep. I have never seen him staystill. He is a total scatter brain. But he is very intelligent. He has no common sense. He is tiny 10 pounds. But he will take on ANYTHING. He goes into the cow pasture and jumps onto the cows backs, or grabs their tails. Hes INSANE...

Ok, so I have a Schipperke/Pomeranian mix dog who is anxious and barks at the wind and anything else that makes a sound or moves. But, the Papillion/Japanese Chin mix dog is sooo sensitive. He's the depressed one where she's the manic one. The Pap. one even comes to me when I cry, curls up and licks my tears. SO sweet.

I think their issues are more pronounced as they are being abused by my 2 yr. old! Awww..poor doggies!

believe it or not my cat is the same way with the food bowl. She will run under my feet and everything. It drives me insane. She also does the same thing with the water bowl. When it gets to low for her. And it's not like the food is bad or anything. At first I thought maybe it had gone stale. But now my puppy is eating it too and it doesn't have time to go stale so she is just crazy like me. :-)

I had to try and train a Border Collie for someone and she was totally insane. She was vicious and would trap her owner i her kitchen by standing up at the door and growling. She wasn't above trying to bite me so I wore protective glove, ect. I managed to get her under control but I never trusted her. I told the owner that she really needed an experienced owner but she chose to keep her.
I had a cat who would only ever sleep in the airing cupboard and would only eat chicken...lol spoilt pussy!

oh you just hurt my feelings!! I am ocd and you thought i wouldnt find this funny???
I am just kidding.
I am ocd and I have read some of your stuff there. I like your silliness.
Do you realize you just opened a can of worms??
Everybody here has a pet with a weird silly mental issue. lol
I have a dog and 2 cats. My cat biscuit has to be in the bathroom everytime somebody is in there ... if he isnt he will meow and scatch like crazy. We try to tell him we want our privacy but he always wins. He jumps up on the towel rack, an empty spot just for him, and lays down to sleep while we shower. If we leave he is outta there.
My dog cant stay home alone. She will break out somehow. She has mastered the art of opening the windows. She will also tear down all the curtains.Used to be whoever was the last person to say.."Stay here Brandi Loo Loo I will be right back" (leaving the tv and lights on for her and not gone long cause we knew)
She will litterally pee on that persons bed . If it is me or my husband she pees on the side of the bed she knows we sleep on. When we left her for a whole night once she peed in the center of all of our beds!!! Dont worry, after we picked up on what she was doing we punished her by showing her the spot and not letting her do special things like sit on the couch.."no brandi you peed on my bed!" She is very smart and seems to understand everything we say. Its not bad now she has stopped that she just escapes from the house. She is a huge loveable pit bull.(7 YEARS OLD) She has serious issues with loud noises like a balloon popping or a gun. We got her full grown and well trained but we wonder if she was ever been miss treated. She has panic attacks. She even sees a balloon she knows that sooner or later it will pop. (like me I hate waiting on one to pop) but she will try to be in a different room or lay in the farrest spot and watch it saddly. My other cat Hauby, is weird about another cat using his litter pan. He will use the bathtub if biscuit uses his. I dont know if its territoral cause biscuit is the man of the house and hauby (male) knows this. They are also very addicted to catnip. The pot heads.

I think that in nature, defects increase the difficulty of survival. In human society howver, modern medicine allows the survival of individuals that naturally wouldn't have or wouldn't have procreated. It is no longer the survival of th fittest. It's the survival of the insured:)

The vet gave my dog lithium!! No really i couldn't believe it. It was to help him cope with all the fireworks this time of year - didn;t think they gave tings like dat to pets?!?! ha ha

that is to funny... all those quirks. It made me think back on some of the pets I have had and I realized that a few of them really did have peculiar habbits. Ya our youngest cat is ADHD. I told my husband about the thread and he said I was chating GIngie out of his moment with his disorder too. He litterally withh frantically try to climb up any wall or curtain. I know cats do this normally... but its the way he does it with no true thought or if it was there it lasted a second. He will run up one curtain run after a shadow and turn around and go right back after some odd trinkiet I left on the floor for him. Tiggie is my OCD cat... I didint even think about his nite time ritual. Every nite when I lay down to watch tv and fall asleep at nite... like the last time I will do this for the evening (I spend a lot of time in bed) He has to 'pet' my pillow and my skin... like he would do it he was marking with his paws or scrathing something. he has no front claws so it doesnt hurt but I declawed him BECAUSE of this ritual. He only does it to me and he only does it at bedtime and if you inturupt his 5 minute long (or what ever makes him happy) he obsesses over it til you allow him to finish. Smokie he is a pretty normal cat and he has a nice play drive and does all the normal cat things. He would have survived well in the wild.

I find it kinda funny they do put the animals oh the mental health meds.... And I think there is truth in the survival of the fitest.... maybe our quirky animals wouldnt have survived in the wild...

Oh and I should mention for those that have heard me talk about fluffy (visit pictures if y0our curious) the hairless rat, her OCD trait was she couldnt stand the tiny patches of soft hair that would grow on her and she had to clean her self and me constantly to the point of rediculous.... I mean does it really take 2 hours for a tiny rat to clean its self????

My sister-in-law had a cat they put on zoloft. It was a crazy cat.

My Yorkie barks when he here's knocking on TV. Not sure that's mental; just funny. Never mind