Hilarious Animals Understanding The Word 'No' And Not Caring Whatsoever (Tumblr Thread)

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jan 22, 2024 11:00 AM EST

Having animals… is a whole adventure. Don't let anyone tell you that pet ownership is easy. Animals are complete and total hooligans, especially when they feel comfortable around you. Your dogs will chew your toilet paper and show it to you as if they expect you to be proud of it. Your cats will steal food right off your plate while maintaining eye direct eye contact with you. Your parrots will give commands to your dog just because they can and they like seeing the dog get heckin' confused. 

And while some pets do this stuff just because they don't understand they're not supposed to, other animals totally understand and choose to be little agent of chaos anyway. And you know what, annoying as it may be sometimes, pet ownership being such a silly adventure is exactly what makes it so amazing in the first place.

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    wow-david Follow My parrot has a vague understanding of the word "no." He knows to stop doing what he's doing when he hears it, and he knows how to say it. He knows it's a word that is used when he's doing something he shouldn't be doing. However, being told "no" doesn't make him stop doing it in future. If he's ever out of my sight or if I'm not paying attention, I know exactly when he's doing something bad. Because he says "no" to himself as he does it. #birblr #parrot #story time #funny #lol
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    Honestly, non-animal people might think that your pets doing this is inconvenient, that you should train your pets better to listen to you. But we… actual animal people that we are, think that this is the cutest thing in the world. Moments like these are what makes being a pet owner worth it.

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    astromechdroid-r2d2 Follow 01 My pigeon has the same understanding. He knows he has to stop whatever he's doing when I say "no". Sometimes he stops, sometimes he doesn't, cause he's a little 1. Sadly, he's a pigeon thus he can't speak. But I love that apparently, this is a thing with birds. ^^
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    elena1701a Follow My cat understands the word "no", because she will stop what she's doing, look at me, then go back to whatever she was doing!
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    Moments exactly like these. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. We live for these moments specifically, when our pets show their purrsonalities to their full extent. There is not a single thing that makes us smile bigger than this.

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    Othe-duchess0 Follow This just reminds me so much of my dog. She loves going into the garden but knows full well that she's not allowed to bark at people walking past the fence. When she did, we used to send her back inside and tell her to go to her cushion. Now however, whenever she's outside and barks at the fence, she'll walk herself in and lays down on her cushion before anyone said anything. Like... e... you could have just not barked? Then you were allowed to stay outside?
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    grinningbobcat Follow I work at a vets office and we have an African Grey Parrot named Kuka that lives in the lobby. He loves to rip down boxes and bags of inventory on the shelves behind him and before he pulls them off he says "No, Kuka! Stop that!" because that's what we yell to him every time he does it.
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    violetsbisme Follow My sunconure is like this, 'no' is one of the words she can actually say. Except when i tell her no she either screams at me or tells it back. I tried saying "HEY!" In a very firm voice since she started doing it but now she can say hey. The only vocals she knows so far are 'no, hey, yup! And a bunch of booping and screeches and clicking. Besides always getting into stuff and me having to tell her to knock it off shes a good girl and i love her to the moon and back.
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    asterroc Follow OMG if Kappa could talk, this would definitely be her. She's a dusky conure, and conures are right at the edge of big/smart enough to talk, and females are less talkative than males, so no real words for her. Unlike the cockatiels I had before her, she definitely knows and understands the things I'm telling her, and makes a conscious choice to do other than what I'm asking. The cockatiels either understood me and did what I wanted, or didn't understand me and that's the only reas
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    can see it in her face, the furtive way she looks at me while doing something she knows she's not supposed to be doing, the way she'll be actively doing *thing* and making loud noises while doing it when I'm not paying attention to her, but the instant I turn away from my computer to her she suddenly goes quiet, or furtively runs away from what she was doing. It's hilarious.
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    circe154 Cats are the same way. No just means to do it when you're not looking.
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    ninety-eightpointsix Follow Depending on the cat, they'll even do it while you're looking, not because they're unaware of the rules, but because they like to test their limits. Like when you catch them on the table, they won't jump off, they'll sit there and maintain eye-contact, waiting for you to make the next move. At least my cats do.
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    blueandbluere Follow Tradic My cat Mort had a very specific meow he used when he was about to do something he knew was naughty. I would hear it across the house and be like "Mort? What are you up to" and find him chewing plastic, sharpening claws on the furniture, or something else he knew wasn't allowed. I called it "telling on himself."
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    falliblefabrial Follow I have been told that when I was a toddler and doing things wrong, I would just sort of go "No no no no no no no no no" in a low voice the whole time I was doing it
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    specsthespectraldragon Follow I tried to train my cat to meow when given the cue "it's for you!" because I want to be able to put her on the phone with my parents. she already had a vague idea of what "it's for you!" means which resulted in her taking my phone and me laughing so hard that I accidentally reinforced the behavior oops
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    thewitchway Follow Our African Grey used to rattle his water dish around in his cage and spill water EVERYWHERE and directly yell "STOP IT!" He must have assumed "stop it" was the term for "rattling the water bowl and spilling water" because when he got a new cage he could now longer play that trip and never said that again.
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    positivityoutlet Follow My bird will do something similar. When she tries to bite at people toes, she'll go "eHH" because that what we say when she does it and she knows it's bad.
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    spaghet-dad Follow Whenever my birb is being scolded he pauses to listen to the lecture and then starts dancing immediately afterwards
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