Pet Mishaps?

[DrummerDeanna]

Well - Clancy and I had a slight mishap last night....just proves I guess that with pets anything can happen

So - here we go - how about a pet mishap thread?

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So recently I had to stop letting Clancy sleep in my bad (due to me NEVER getting a full night's sleep...which is BAD for me) so I got Clancy a nice big fluffy dog bed and put it at the foot of my bed.

She seemed quite happy with it and does sleep there...

Well last night she woke me up making some weird noises...I thought maybe she was snoring - but she'd make the weird noises then move around a lot (shaking the bed) - so I said, "Clancy" thinking she'd stop (this usually works with other things) - but instead she moved more - kept making the weird noises...

So finally I got my ass out of bed to see what she was doing....

Well her little head and front paws were lying on the bed - the rest of her? Wedged somehow under my bed It was SO sad....

I pulled the dog bed out from under herr....she tried to crawl out - it didn't work - I had to physically lift the bed and then she crawled out...

Poor thing...it was so sad - she was SO happy though to be free....she was wagging her tail and rubbing her little head against me....she didn't seem to be hurt at all...I just felt so bad.....

[amber]

What do you mean, a mishap?

Also, I don't know if your dog has barfed yet, Deanna, but oh, boy, I sure do love it when my cats do it!
No cat has ever pooped inside, though

[Moony]

Amber, last year, my dog was sleeping on my bed and all of the sudden threw up EVERYWHERE. All over the damn thing! So I take my sheets off to go throw 'em in the washer....well I come back, and the little bitch had pissed ALL OVER MY MATTRESS.



Needless to say, she sleeps outside now.

My dogs are pretty stupid and get stuck under and in things all of the time. Oh well, gotta love it

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by amber

What do you mean, a mishap?

Also, I don't know if your dog has barfed yet, Deanna, but oh, boy, I sure do love it when my cats do it!
No cat has ever pooped inside, though

She barfed a lot when I first got her - mostly when I gave her rawhide (and quickly learned NOT to do that) and when I was integrating a new food into her system...

She hasn't barfed in a long time and now her gas problem is also in check

[Nixxxed]

OK -- kinda long (and gross in parts), but with a happy ending...

I used to live in Austin with my best friend and her two HUGE, NEEDY Basset Hounds. The older male, Cronkite, had some arthritis, and I'd spend a good amount of time massaging him (which he LOVED). Anyway, the arthritis made it hard for him to get down the stairs to the backyard to go outside and do his bidness, and he developed this weird habit of going to the second stair and stopping. So, you'd have to stand there with the door open until he made it all the way down the stairs, because he was nearly 6-ft long from his nose to the end of his tail.

So, one lovely Austin afternoon, he came and found me and made the "gotta pee now" face and gesture, and I let him out. Only this day, he didn't stop at the second step, instead bounding all the way down and stopping on the last (fourth) step. I thought, "Wow - he's feeling good today!!!" and closed the door. Or tried to. It was an old house, and the door stuck sometimes, so I firmly pushed it all the way closed.

I heard a "YELP!!!", and looked out the door's window to see the dog clawing at the bottom step and ground, trying to get away from the door, but not moving. I thought, "What the hell?", and looked down to see the tip of his tail (about 3 inches) stuck in the bottom of the door.

So, of course, I freaked and yanked the door open, ripping the skin and fur almost completely off the end of his tail. I say "almost", because the skin came off and was left dangling underneath. "Mortified" doesn't even describe how I felt. I jumped down down the stairs, and carried him back into the house. He weighed at least 100 pounds, but I didn't even notice as I scooped him up into the kitchen.

I screamed for my roommate, and she came running. The dog didn't seem to be in pain, just really shocked, especially that I had lifted him like that. And when he saw his Mama, he of course started wagging his tail (which I was desperately trying to piece back together), slinging blood ALL OVER me, the back half of the kitchen, and the female Basset that had come running to see what all the excitement was.

So anyway, we spent the rest of the afternoon in the Animal ER, getting the tip of his tail sewn back on. When I walked into the ER with my neck, arms & clothes streaked in Basset blood, the vet assistants behind the counter freaked and ran over, thinking the dog MUST have multiple puncture wounds or a severe gash or something... And when I told them it was only his tail, they didn't believe me at first, despite the huge bandage I had wrapped around the end of it.

But he was fine in the end, and didn't hold a grudge, and I was glad. And, from that day forward, when he had to/wanted to go outside, he didn't stop on the stairs ever again. He went all the way down to the ground. And neither me or my roommate closed the door until he (or the other dog, for that matter) was all the way to the bottom.

Here's a link to some pictures of him: http://clicheideas.com/Cronkite/index.htm

You can see how big he was in the "Attacking Mama in the morning" pic on the first page. And yes, that's me in the "Puppies must put up with many indignities" pic, circa 1989 when he (and I) were both just puppies.

[DrummerDeanna]

OH MY!!!! Those are some CUTE dogs...I LOVE hounds...any kind

What a sad little tail story though...poor dog....- glad it had a happy ending.

That reminds me of once when my brother in law was trimming our old dog's claws...the dog flinched - got cut - freaked out then ran around the whole house (which had off-white carpet) all the while making bloody little paw prints...it was scary....

[Nixxxed]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

OH MY!!!! Those are some CUTE dogs...I LOVE hounds...any kind

What a sad little tail story though...poor dog....- glad it had a happy ending.

That reminds me of once when my brother in law was trimming our old dog's claws...the dog flinched - got cut - freaked out then ran around the whole house (which had off-white carpet) all the while making bloody little paw prints...it was scary....

Yes, scary. Nearly everything in my roommate's kitchen was white, also. White appliances and cabinets, with a black-and-white checked floor. When I finally got control of his tail, I looked around and the kitchen seriously looked like a crime scene.

The absolute worst thing about the whole incident was the face Cronkite made at me just before I took him to the ER. You know, that "You're such an idiot!" face that dogs can make when it's obvious that the humans around them really ARE???

[Pisces Queen]

This was a husband mishap with my Pomeranian. My husband is a Gunny in the Marine Corp and he loves short hair. The boys (Blake & Joey) both got high & tight hair cuts and my husband decides the dog needs a hair cut. They gave my Pom a flat top and cut his hair so short he now looks like a cat Nothing against cats but he's my fuzzy little Gizmo not a short haired Cat.

[estranged4life]

Deb & myself were in the bedroom watching TV when I heard a major ruckus coming from the kitchen, Surely noone was stupid enough to try to break in our house but the ruckus sure made me think otherwise...But alas it was just Patches ("The Crack-head Calico") with her head stuck tighly in an empty Mayo jar, And she as trying to walk around with it on and at the same time trying to work it off her mellon

We made sure to take pictures of her, Cause it was rather humorous (Gotta get those developed, I need a good laugh)...But not too surprising, Our cats are really on the rather dumb-as-hell side of the feline blood lines.

[SuzeQuze]

This is gross and has to do with excrement so if you can't deal with that kind of thing skip it. Mufy has long fur and sometimes if his poops are soft they get stuck in it. Then he will drag his butt all along the kitchen floor trying to get it off all the while leaving poop streaks. One time it was so bad, he got it all over the kitchen and I had to cut out the rest of it that was stuck in his fur (gag)! This was during Medium too so I missed the last 15 min of that episode!

I need to have his butt groomed I think. Maybe he'll let me cut it again, he won't let me near his claws though. I should take him to a groomer, poor baby. He was mortified. He was very happy when it was all cut out though.

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

That reminds me of once when my brother in law was trimming our old dog's claws...the dog flinched - got cut - freaked out then ran around the whole house (which had off-white carpet) all the while making bloody little paw prints...it was scary....

My stepdad's brother used to trim his dogs nails with old crappy scissors . I saw him do a few times and it was horrible. I swear that guy shouldn't have been allowed near animals, or kids either, but that's a whole other thread.

I don't have any pet stories of my own. My mother never let me have them.

[amber]

Those are great stories! Nixxxed, very cute dog. Suze? I relate, my good cat is super fluffer nutters, sometimes that happens to him, too. But I usually have to clean his fur off. Oh, he loves that. And I brush him, like, every day, and still get massive fistfuls of fur out. Brian - funny. We used to have a siamese who got small bags stuck on her head all the time, it's really funny. Although, be careful, I once knew people who's dog died because it got it's head stuck in a chip bag, when they were out.
Moony - barf and pee! awesome!

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

This is gross and has to do with excrement so if you can't deal with that kind of thing skip it. Mufy has long fur and sometimes if his poops are soft they get stuck in it. Then he will drag his butt all along the kitchen floor trying to get it off all the while leaving poop streaks. One time it was so bad, he got it all over the kitchen and I had to cut out the rest of it that was stuck in his fur (gag)! This was during Medium too so I missed the last 15 min of that episode!

I need to have his butt groomed I think. Maybe he'll let me cut it again, he won't let me near his claws though. I should take him to a groomer, poor baby. He was mortified. He was very happy when it was all cut out though.

Yuck. Poor Mufy....haha....

That sort of happened to Clancy once - I took her to get groomed the next day

our old dog (the one who's paw got nipped) was super fluffy and had that poo problem - my sister always made my bro-in-law clean her off whaddya know? Husbands ARE good for something

[pianogirl04]

My animals just tend to do lots of weird goofy stuff -- we have a cat that's deathly afraid of the sound of plastic bags and two others that learned it from her, a cat that sleeps in the litterbox, another one that likes to sleep under the covers with you, and a dog that's afraid of the dark. One of our feline boys, Djibouti, likes to 'sing' in the middle of the night. He doesn't want to be let out, he wants you to come into the kitchen and sit there and *watch him eat* before he starts rubbing up on you again and making you play with him into the wee hours of the morning. He's a very solid, gorgeous, mature cat (except for the eating bit) which is why this is so funny...

Djibouti has a habit of jumping up on top of the fishtank and taking a nap. Well a couple weeks ago we took the glass top off of the tank to clean it and Djibouti decides it's time to sleep, so he jumps up on the fishtank -- and falls in. Then he scrambles out of the tank and throws water everywhere. The walls, the ceiling, the floor... it was hilarious. He ran down the hall and hid under my bed and he gave me this priceless, humiliated "you didn't see that" look when I found him... and he smelled like fish... it was the nastiest thing. Needless to say, he hasn't jumped up on the fishtank since.

[amber]

Originally Posted by pianogirl04

My animals just tend to do lots of weird goofy stuff -- we have a cat that's deathly afraid of the sound of plastic bags and two others that learned it from her, a cat that sleeps in the litterbox, another one that likes to sleep under the covers with you, and a dog that's afraid of the dark. One of our feline boys, Djibouti, likes to 'sing' in the middle of the night. He doesn't want to be let out, he wants you to come into the kitchen and sit there and *watch him eat* before he starts rubbing up on you again and making you play with him into the wee hours of the morning. He's a very solid, gorgeous, mature cat (except for the eating bit) which is why this is so funny...

Djibouti has a habit of jumping up on top of the fishtank and taking a nap. Well a couple weeks ago we took the glass top off of the tank to clean it and Djibouti decides it's time to sleep, so he jumps up on the fishtank -- and falls in. Then he scrambles out of the tank and throws water everywhere. The walls, the ceiling, the floor... it was hilarious. He ran down the hall and hid under my bed and he gave me this priceless, humiliated "you didn't see that" look when I found him... and he smelled like fish... it was the nastiest thing. Needless to say, he hasn't jumped up on the fishtank since.

That's awesome! Your pets are pretty weird! My cat sleeps in the sink sometimes, and my other cat on top of the kitty litter once in awhile (I have a covered one) But overall they are fairly normal.