Pets Do the Darndest Things: Hilarious Stories from the Pawrents Putting Up With Their Fur Babies’ Foolery

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Dec 17, 2025 3:00 PM EST

Perhaps it is the fact that our pets are increasingly becoming animal versions of our hooman children. But whatever it is, nowadays we pawrents have begun putting up with fur baby foolery far more than we ever have in the past. Our parents would simply put their pet outdoors the moment it began causing a ruckus indoors. Heck, most of their pets permanently lived outdoors. So the concept of putting up with a dog or a cat's crazy concepts of normality is quite unique to our generation of animal-adoring pawrents who will do everything and anything for our pets, including but not limited to putting up with their weird and wonderful ways.

And today we are excited to bring you a couple of short stories from two pawrents who have quite the peculiar couple of pets that we figured you deserve to know about. So make sure your pet is far away so that it does not get any bright ideas and get ready to learn a lesson in what not to do when raising pets.

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    I bought a big catnip plant and put it in a pretty pot on the front stoop. My big manx, Sebastian, came to the
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    door immediately to check it out. He immediately bear-hugged the rim of the pot with his
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    front legs, buried his face in the foliage, and froze. I laughed a little and let him hang out
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    for a few minutes before grabbing him to bring him inside. The big guy hung on tight, and growled softly,
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    so I let him stay. Well I went about my business for the rest of the afternoon and kind of forgot about him.
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  • Oh goodness gracious, that was not the smartest of moves. For while catnip might not quite physically resemble a cookie jar that this cat has been left alone with. The effects of catnip certainly do make it so that this situation is reminiscent of leaving a toddler alone with a cookie jar that is full to its brim…

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    Hours later, he was still in the same spot. I put his food out, which on any other day would have brought him
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    running inside. Today, he stayed put. I called for him at night-time. On any other day, he would
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    have hopped into bed with me to cuddle. Today, he stayed put. The following morning, it
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    rained. The mailman came. A man with a leaf-blower walked past on the sidewalk. Sebastian
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    stayed put, glued to the spot. Finally, I removed the plant from the stoop. He acted
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  • Yup, that sounds about right. Cats, after all, are always after the ultimate. Whether it is the ultimate spot to lie in, the ultimate food to eat, or, in this case, the ultimate past time. And once they have found their ultimate, they will never let it go. And when you take it away from them, or, for example, try to offer them some lower-grade food; the consequences are dire…

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    dc₁ od for the rest of the day. D₁gs, man.
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    over my brothers car. I was even going to sit in the back with her so she would be more chill. Opened up the
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    back door, she happily hops in, jumps in the front passenger seat and laid down. She just looked at me like "yeah this
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    is your life now, b ch". And rode like that the whole way home. A few days later I brought her to the vet, opened
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    the door to my truck, where she jumped in and took the f g drivers た seat as if she was gonna drive us there.
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    She's also totally not interested in water even though she's a lab mix, but one rainy day while I was at
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    work, my brother was taking her out and she decided she was going to bathe. In a mud puddle. When I
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    got home, my bathroom was painted in mud. It got in places I don't even know how got there. If she wants
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    belly rubs, she'll roll over on her back and wiggle around like a snake until you start petting her. If you stop,
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    the wiggle resumes. She's a goober, but she's my goober.
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