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What is a command you accidentally taught your pet? (lemmy.world)

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My goldendoodle puppy doesn't ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle "go get your sister" as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say "go get your sister" the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.

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[-] nick@midwest.social 45 points 2 months ago

My cat has learned how… delicious? ear wax is. I was itching my ear once, she started licking my finger, and now if I even raise my right hand near my head she flips out and runs up into my space just in case it’s ear wax time.

Note I don’t actually have a ton of ear wax or feed it to her, but something about my finger after I scratch my ear just drives her crazy.

Seriously though my ears are clean 😂

[-] chikaygo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Cats are sensitive to a protein in our earwax so they find it appealing. I had a cat so obsessed he would hunt down my ear plugs (I had to put child locks on the bedside table drawers). Occasionally the earplugs would fall out in the middle of the night. One morning they both fell out and I grabbed one and thought I may have accidentally dropped the other. My cat raced in out of nowhere and I chased him away but I couldn’t find the plug. Fast forward twenty four hours later and I found a full ear plug in a pile of vomit. Thank goodness he was ok, but that damn cat zoomed in and swallowed that earplug whole in a millisecond and it makes me laugh thinking about it to this day.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

My wired iPhone earbuds vanished one day.

A few weeks later, one of my cats went under the bed. I jokingly told him, “hey, bring my headphones out, will ya?” In front of my partner.

Seconds later, I heard the distinct klak klak and he brought them out.

If my partner wasn’t there to see it, NO ONE WOULD EVER BELIEVE THIS STORY (even me)

[-] nick@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Dang! So it’s not just my dorks, good to know

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