"They're Dumb, But We Love Them Anyway" - 17 Adorable Pet Tales of Owners Sharing Their Fur-babies' Most Hilariously Absurd Antics

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Mar 13, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

We love our pets, but sometimes they do some stuff that we're just like, "….why?". These Redditors are not short on stories of their fur-babies' ridiculous antics, and we lolled reading through all of them. Some sound similar to something that happened with our pets, and some are simply outrageous. Mostly, it makes us love our pets in all their ridiculousness, even if they are big old dumb balls sometimes. 

You would think that most of these stories would be about dogs (and they are), but there are a few dumb cats in here, and even a turtle or two! Just goes to show that not only dogs are adorably dumb, but also their feline friends aren't always the brightest lightbulb in the bunch. In the end, they love us, and we love how absurd they can be, so it works out for both of us. Prepare yourself for a good laugh after these little anecdotes, you might even find something similar to your own baby!

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    Font - oranthor1 9 yr. ago . I have a pretty big dog. Every single time he walks down the stairs he forgets to look up when he gets to the bottom and bangs his chin on the floor. Then he looks around with this shocked look as if he has not done it a million times before.
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    We can perfectly picture this in our heads. Our doggo used to do something similar. 9 times out of 10 he would miss the last step and slip a little bit onto the floor (only half a step to the floor). He would get up, shocked, every single time looking at us like, "Who put this last step here???"

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    Font - Dvorjk 9 yr. ago Once, my gerbil got stuck in an infinite loop. I was feeding her sunflower seeds out of my hand, and she was grabbing them to hoard for later. She'd pick up three, reach for a fourth and drop one of the first three. Then she'd notice the one she just dropped, go for it and drop one of the seeds she was holding. Then she'd notice that one... and so on ad infinitum.
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    Font - puss_parkerswidow · 9 yr. ago Dog heard my stomach growl and growled back. 3.3k ♡ Share
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    Font - cakerton 9 yr. ago My greyhound can't/won't push open a door that's already partway open. He will stick his head through and look at me, waiting for me to open it for him. He will wait and wait forever. Sometimes I'll look up and he'll just be standing there at the door, and I'll wonder how long he's been standing there. It's so sad. 3.3k Share
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    Font - SalamanderSylph . 9 yr. ago We errected a small fence in the middle of the garden so our tortoises stay in the half that we have checked and know there are no holes in the fence. One of them decided to try and climb said small fence and ended up flipping itself onto its back. Then another wanders up and does exactly the same fucking thing. It's a miracle they are still alive, dumb cuties.
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    We didn't even know turtles could climb! We thought turtles were low-maintenance pets, turns out you have to build a fence for them! Well, hopefully, they learned their lesson after getting themselves stuck upside down for a few hours….but probably not.

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    Font - [deleted] 9 yr. ago We were in the middle of remodeling our house and went out of town for the weekend. Got back and couldn't find the cat. I realized I had left a ladder leaned against a wall right below a fucking air duct and saw claw marks around the open duct. I instantly assumed I would be fishing a dead cat out of the wall and succumbed to my fail by slumping down against the wall, trying to figure out how to explain to my wife and 3 year old that I stupidly led our beloved cat to h
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    Font - [deleted] 9 yr. ago My cat has a tendency to open up drawers and then manage to find a way to close it while inside. Problem is he won't admit defeat and start meowing for help so I need to eventually go on a cat hunt when I realize things are too quiet in my place.
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    Font - Should BeDoingScience 9 yr. ago My dog has a blanket that he brings everywhere. He will try to jump on my bed while carrying his blanket. Trips over blanket and falls on the ground. Every single night. ↑ 3.7k Share
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    Font - omgstephz 9 yr. ago · edited 9 yr. ago So I woke up in the middle of the night to my two dogs barking at a cat that had gotten into the house. They'd managed to trap the poor thing in a corner, so I lock the dogs outside and herd the cat out the front door before letting the dogs back in... The idiots ran right back to the corner and kept on barking. To this day they still don't completely trust that corner. 3.5k Share
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    Font - FreeOnes_Petra · 9 yr. ago I had a cat who would go out and torment the magpies who would in turn beat the crap out of her. We'd hear her screaming outside wanting to be let in to be saved. My current cat decided to sneak out the front door that I hadn't closed properly. I was in the kitchen and heard the magpies making a huge scene. I popped my head out the front door and the gang of magpies had my cat pinned against the trash can and were yanking his fur out. Needless to say, he's staye
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    Font - potatoisafruit. 9 yr. ago We had a really stupid Irish setter when I was growing up that would get out of the house periodically. She loved to run, so catching her once she was out was tough. My boyfriend (now husband) came over one day and my mom was panicked because the dog had gotten out. She asked him to help catch her. Now he knew the dog had a reputation for being really stupid (she had once hit a full-out point for a sprinkler). He chased her for a few blocks, but every time he wou
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    Font - Paddy32 9 yr. ago · edited 9 yr. ago Dog poops in yard. Seconds later, he comes to eat his meal. Eats far too fast. Goes back to yard and vomits everywhere ON THE POOP. Proceeds to eat everything. Have a nice day. 2.9k Share
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    Font - secondary_walrus. 9 yr. ago One of my cats is a wonderful idiot. He can only learn to do something if he's seen our other cat do it at least 50 times first. For example, he seemed to think that a 2-ft high baby gate had made a doorway completely impassible, despite the fact that he can easily jump 5 feet in the air if he wants. The first time he saw our other cat on the other side of it, he tried to walk through the gate instead of jumping over it, and crashed into the clear plastic. 2.6k
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    Font - Fiobo999 yr. ago Well, my late lamented cat Buzz did a few dumb things. He chased a Swan. It chased him back, caught him by the leg and gave me a hefty vet bill. He fell out of my bedroom window. Twice. Once I could excuse but after the second time, it was easier to just keep the window closed. He sniffed a lit candle. I was right there, I saw him approaching it, but I never thought for a second he would sniff it. How wrong was I? ↑ 2.3k Share
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    Font - Zulli4n 9 yr. ago My cat wanted to go out, so I was going to open the window. At the second my hand touch the handle, the cat must have thought "Ho, he touched the window, it's open now!", and he jumped. BOOM. Then my cat sat silently on the sofa and didn't move for the next 2 hours. 2.1k Share
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    Font - OneBeardedScientist 9 yr. ago My dog once sneezed, waking himself up, and proceeded to bark at himself for a solid ten minutes before going back to sleep. Also once when the Scooby Doo movie was on telly, during the farting scene he went right up to the TV, then sniffed his own backside in confusion. He is not a clever animal.
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    Font - cool_giraffe 9 yr. ago When I was young, we had an adorable, loveable, but extremely dumb standard poodle. One day, my dog saw my mum pulling into the driveway at our house from one level up. He got very excited so he ran out on to the deck at full speed. Now, at this point we had just redone our deck so there were no railings on it. This dumb dog did not slow down at all, ran right off the deck at full speed and dropped 15 feet to the cement driveway. We all freaked out and were so afrai
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