'My dog once ate a feather duster': 20+ Pets who kept their owners in stitches with their hilarious antics

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 21, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

What would we ever do without our silly precious pets to cheer us up? 

If you own a pet, you already know how much they can brighten your life. Your pet always wants to see you, because you're their favorite person. Your cat probably wants to snuggle 24/7 because they're obsessed with you. Your dog probably always wants to play catch or snore loudly next to you on the couch. And, as you'll definitely know if you've had a pet, they are not always the brightest bulbs. 

Some animals are really, really intelligent. Others can come from the exact same shelter (or litter, even) and be as dumb as a bag of rocks. You look at that sweet soft pet and realize, there is nothing going on in that brain of theirs. Not a single thought. Just chilling out, wondering when their next meal is. It can really bring you a sense of peace to know that even in this chaotic world of ours, your pet knows nothing about all that. All they know is that you're their whole world. 

A lot of pet owners shared what happened to their most brainless pets at their silliest moments, like one otherwise smart cat who continually locks himself in the refrigerator. Check out a bunch of great stories down below! 

Next, this medical professional was so aghast at their boss's behavior that they wrote out an email and sent it right to their boss's boss! 

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    What is the dumbest thing your pet has ever done?
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    DrZeuss My cat stood over a lit candle and briefly set himself on fire.
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    Dark-Hero Growing up we had a llama that would lick the electric fence. It eventually got the the point we had to turn off then fence. Afterwards we would go outside and see Llama licking fence with a very disappointed look on her face.
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    [deleted] My dog would dig with both paws at the same time. So, while digging he'd almost be faceplanting but doing it over and over again. He never got that far into the ground...
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    neotsunami My bassett is afraid of its own farts. He jumps every time he does it.
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    [deleted] I had a mini schnauzer that as soon as he was finished doing his business would run right back and leap the three back steps to land inside the house. On multiple occasions, however, he did not realize that the sliding glass door at the top of said steps was closed.
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    After crashing into it and sitting confused for a few seconds, he would decide that the reason he did not make it into the house was because he didn't have enough momentum, and
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    would run back across the yard, turn around, and try again. If I heard the crash I had to act fast to get the door open before he tried a second time.
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    Fimbultyr I had a Lhasa Apso for a while, who managed to be both astoundingly bright and hilariously stupid. Once he managed to get up on a table and eat two pound of grapes while we
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    weren't home. This was a 20 pound dog, mind you. He spent the night with whole grapes shooting out of both ends.
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    tosca12 My cat has, for all 12 years of his life, woken me up at 5 am to feed him. Here's the issue. We fill his bowl before we go to bed. He sees us do it.And he doesn't touch it all night. So essentially my cat won't eat until he wakes me up and bites my toes at 5am every
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    morning just so I can walk out to the kitchen and point at the already full bowl. THEN he eats. And its only me. When I stay elsewhere at night he doesn't bother anyone else and eats like a normal cat all night.
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    Dog stories: old dog (blonde lab) thought cool tools were the tastiest delicacy on the planet. My younger brother (very young at the time) used to get super upset and demand my dad go through her (the dog's) turds whenever he found a new one missing.
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    New dog (also blonde lab) is terrified of steps. Will not go down them. Works out well for us though because we can keep the cat box in the basement with the door open and not worry about her partaking in a nice afternoon shitsnack.
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    davidy323 My cat Olive would always sleep on top of my chairs back rest. No matter how many times it happened she would wake up from some twitchy dream and fall, she would still go back and sleep there. It got to the point that I put a pillow below where I knew she would fall because
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    she kept doing it over and over. I would be laying on the couch then I'd see her start to twitch and without fail, she would wake up and bang hit the pillow. Then she would look right at me like it was my fault and walk away like she meant to do that.
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    HMDRHP My Newfoundland backs up slowly, barks, and growls at his food bowl when it moves while he eats. Then sneaks back up on it to continue eating after it stops moving.
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    americnleprchaun ⚫ My dog once ate a feather duster (minus the handle). Fun fact about feather duster feathers, they're indigestible. My dog pooped bright yellow feathers for a few days
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    Stijakovic If I combine my dog's old toys (tying them together, etc), my dog freaks out like it's a brand new toy.
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    Ih8YourCat I got a few. Used to have a big dane/chocolate lab mix. Like big. Like a small horse big. He was the and I miss him terribly. Anyway, he was massive even as a puppy and always thought he was a small as a normal puppy. He caught a glimpse of
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    himself in the mirror one day and got scared, thinking it was some wild big dog. He got so scared he himself as he ran away. One time he started freaking out in the middle of the night. This scared the of me and my girlfriend. I ran downstairs half out
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    expecting someone to be breaking into the house. He's still barking, jumping around, and scratching at the back door. I open the door and he runs full sprint across the yard. All of a sudden, I realize he's chasing a cat. The cat, being a cat an all, jumps up on top of the
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    wooden fence and then jumps down on the other side. He runs full sprint and smashes his face into the fence. I'm surprised he didn't run through it. He also ingested an entire corn on the cob during a bbq. 2 days later, out the entire cob.
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    WelahWhale Our first dog, a huge black lab, once ate a doghouse my dad made for her. He had worked really hard to make it comfortable for her. She ate the wood, the carpet, the little light bulb he had put in there for her, and a concerning amount of nails went missing as well. A good
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    60% of the doghouse was just GONE. She was miraculously completely fine though, labs seem to be able to eat whatever the they want.
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    Ironic thing was that he made the doghouse so she wouldn't be inside and try to eat everything in our actual house all of the time. TLDR; Ate a doghouse.
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    [deleted] My lab/beagle mix likes to get into protection mode and growl at strangers. Hair raised, teeth showing, growling like he is the most vicious dog out there. If the person comes near him to pet him or let him smell
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    their hand he pees everywhere with his tail wagging like he has never been so excited to meet someone in his entire life. Such a badass.
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    [deleted] Nothing beats George in the fridge, so here goes. We had this orange tabby cat named George. His best feature was that he was incredibly smart. He would open closed doors, give "high fives" and even find people in our house. (For clarification, you could say "George, find Lopsidedbuilder" and he would find me
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    and then sit on my lap until he got a treat.) Despite all this, he had a habit of shutting himself in the fridge. We had no idea why he went in there, but he did this at least once a week. One specific incident sticks out in particular. My dad opened the fridge only to find George sitting in a bowl of green jello. When
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    my father tried to take George out, George grabbed a small container of Chinese rice by the metal handle and tried to jump out of the fridge. The weight of the container was to much, however, and he would up falling to the floor, busting open the rice container.
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    The shock of this caused him to panic and he bolted away from the fridge. He slipped on the kitchen floor (because of the Jello) and hit his head on the leg of the dining room table. He was okay, but it was pretty dumb. His fur was green for a while after that.
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    TL;DR- My otherwise smart cat shuts himself in fridge, sits in Jello, panics when found out, knocks over rice, panics more, hits head on the leg of a table. Fur is green from Jello
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    LandofRy My dog takes a tennis ball and drops it and catches it when it bounces back up. She will do this by herself in the corner for hours, and all I can focus on is the thump. thump. thump. thump.
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    InferiousX My dad's Samoyed was probably the dumbest animal our family ever owned. I literally watched him just straight up walk into a wall one time. He didn't clip a corner or hit it while running away/doing something else, etc. He just got right up and walked directly into a wall while looking at it.
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    When he got older, he would bark constantly, so my dad bought a collar to try and make him stop. Well the fur on the dog was so thick that it didn't have the intended affect. The dog would feel a vibration then bite himself then continue barking.
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    Very friendly and playful dogs though....well into old age.
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    qovneob I have a chocolate lab. He is almost 3. I cant think of any single dumbest thing because everything he does is stupid. At first he didnt believe in stairs (living in a townhouse). He would leap down the first set, hit the wall at the landing to stop, leap down the
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    rest and slide across the linoleum into the stove. EVERY TIME. It took about 3 months for him to learn he can go down them slowly and not smash his face. When he meets new people he will lose his and bark and growl like hes rabid until he gets up to them. Then he cowers because he isnt actually tough or scary
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    and usually rolls over on his back for scratchies. Usually he will pee all over himself. He tried to jump into my car window when it was closed. Hit the glass then looked at me like I did something wrong. I should point out that at no point did I ever teach him to jump in the open window, he just really wanted to go for a ride.
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    He refuses to learn any tricks besides Sit and Paw. If you try to teach him anything else he will sit and lift his paw. If you dont give him a treat after that he will leave. Swimming. He loves water. So much that if he sees a pond or pool he will haul and jump into it. He can swim well, but gets too excited and
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    keeps his mouth open so he swallows a lot of water. He'll get to shore, puke, and go out for more until we get him to stop. I got him a doggy life vest which helps float him up a little higher, and has the added bonus of making him look hilarious.
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    kampamaneetti My dog once walked up to a skunk and sniffed its as if it were another dog and got sprayed directly in the face.
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    abiblio I had this wonderful Bull Mastiff that recently passed away- she was so cool, we used to joke about getting a second dog so she'd figure out she wasn't human. I was sitting with her outside when she was 3- 4 months old- beautiful sunny day. She sees her
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    first rabbit and lets out a super loud bark (her first bark). It scared the out of her. I mean yipping, tail between her legs, ran as fast as she could inside.
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    Another time, she was laying on the grass in my backyard when the sprinklers started-she hated water. Ripped a sprinkler head and a foot of tubing out of the ground.
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    charliethesloth When we first got my dog we got her neutered, and she had to wear a cone around her head to stop her getting at the stitches. When we brought her home and she was awake she started running around the house and ending up getting her head stuck beneath our
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    coffee table and couldn't get out as the cone was too big. She did this like 3 times a day, it was always funny.
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    zogmuffin Heh. Not all about my own dog, but three stories: 1.) My uncle's old dog Brea famously put her head through two glass- top tables. She liked to lie under them, and when a bee flew overhead, she'd forget the glass was there and bust right through. Because eating
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    bees isn't dumb enough without breaking glass with your skull to get to them. 2.) My other favorite Brea story is the one I like to refer to as "the radish incident." My uncle used to watch TV upstairs while munching on veggie trays and salads. One day Brea came slinking up to check out
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    the food situation and decided it would be a good idea to steal a vegetable. So she grabs a radish and books it down the stairs, caught up in the wild excitement of doing something she isn't supposed to do. She reaches the bottom of the stairs. The home stretch. She sprints across the kitchen and blasts full force into the
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    closed screen door with a giant WHAM. The radish flies out of her mouth and is left spinning on the hardwood floor some distance away from the stunned dog. 3.) My usually sharp lab/pit bill mix once got caught up in the joy of running through the woods and flung himself off a pretty good
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    cliff. He somehow managed to roll and bounce downhill in such a way that he was uninjured aside from a few scratches on his leg. I love that durable little dummy.
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    DocDru When my dog got lonely in our backyard, he would take an empty paint bucket by the handle and throw it into the air. He would try to catch it on his face. We had a few paint buckets because we would put his water inside. Huge smart lonely rottweiler.
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    A-punk We had a vegetable garden in our backyard that was fenced off. Our dog decided to break in one day and eat the chilies. He yelped for the next 2 days every time he took a
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    jesswashere bird: flies into wall. falls behind furniture. squawks repeatedly until i get him out. bro you can fly and walk you could definitely get out of there. also watch where you're going
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    geebsterlove When my cat was a kitten, she'd peer down at us from between the railing slats of the staircase. When she was that little, she could fit her whole body between the slats no problem. As she got bigger, she didn't seem to understand why she could no longer fit between the slats. A few weeks ago, I was eating
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    breakfast when I heard horrific screams and hissing. I ran around the corner to the staircase where my cat had tried to jump between the railing slats just like she had when she was a kitten. Of course, her fat adult cat belly had gotten stuck, and she was suspended in the air about two feet, the slats squeezed tight around her belly, holding
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    her in place. When I tried to pull her out, she just screamed and hissed louder. I actually had to disassemble a section of railing to get her unstuck.
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