What daft or embarrassing things have you found yourself doing for a pet? – 17 times pet owners embraced their inner cringe
10.
‘Honeycomb – a cat of mine in the past who absolutely hated the vets. She was a real cuddler at home but as soon as she arrived at the vet’s she was a complete bitch.
I tried things like putting something that smelt of me in her crate with her and many other things but finally got a way to keep her calm, playing a loop on an old phone that went in the crate with her of me singing to her on a round with myself as recordings over each other.. Soft kitty, warm kitty etc…
It made her slightly less evil to the vets, she stopped drawing blood from the vets staff each time. I miss that cat, she was a menace but a lifesaver in her own way.’
-Baileysandchocolate
11.
‘Blimey, just about everything I do for my cats is daft or embarrassing.
At dinner time I sing “If you’re hungry and you know it say meow!” and get ridiculously overjoyed if one of them meows even once at some point during the song.
I make up songs about them and their exploits or just using their names.
If my mum and / or dad are coming over I tell them granny and / or grandpaw are coming to see them.
A couple of them will come for a walk with me, so I ask them if they want to go for a walk.
Last weekend while in TK Maxx I bought some Halloween-themed cat toys and put them away in order to gift them to my cats at Halloween. I’m still considering what Santa Paws is going to bring them this year.’
-MadWifeUK
12.
‘I took my mum’s cat on after she passed away last year. He’s settled in pretty well, sleeps on my pillow next to my head, kicks me in the face all night…
This last week, I’ve been working on tracing my family tree back through history. Every piece of gossip that emerges, I share it with him in scandalised tones.
Which is why, had you snuck a hidden camera into my bedroom this week, you would have had footage of me laying on my bed, lit by fairy lights, gasping dramatically, saying things like “he was in a war! They gave him a medal, little man!” and “a bigamist? Surely not!” in an over-the-top period drama voice while showing him the screen of my ipad.
I remain fairly sure he can’t read.’
-Colossal_Squids
13.
‘Singing stupid songs at him.
Making up ridiculous crimes and charging him guilty of them.
Buying paw balm and giving pawdicures
Going on pupventures
Picking my own weight in blackberries so I can make him doggy ice cream.’
-Bigluce
14.
‘I once called the vets because my dog got an erection and thought he’d done something and hurt himself. I’d seen his penis just unsheathed many times before so assumed that was all there was to it, but no, just unsheathing it was not the same as him getting a full, very red swollen and painful looking boner.
Yes the vet nurse was very nice but I know she must have been laughing at me after we got off the phone’
-Ok_Resident3556
15.
‘Taking them to Father Christmas and also an Easter egg hunt. Paying over the top for the privilege as well.
It’s the wife that does it, I have to tag along.’
-Mail-Malone
16.
‘I once called my cat up on the landline from holiday whilst slightly tipsy and sang a song to him about how much I loved him when it went to voicemail.
The cat sitter was out when I did this thankfully.’
-RodJaneandFreddy5
17.
‘Standing outside my house in the rain demonstrating to my dog how to shake.’
-PraterViolet