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My dog loves watching TV. He has favourite shows and will bark if you talk over them or turn off the TV. And he's not fooled by commercial breaks; he knows it isn't over until the end credits roll.

What weird thing does your pet do?

My dog does that too. She'll stop and look at the TV for a few seconds and then go back to whatever...it's funny, because she doesn't like the dog channel.

As soon as I start peeling veggies in the kitchen, my cat comes running. I put carrot/whatever bits on the edge of the counter and he jumps and grabs them with his little hands. He gets so excited about it, it always makes me laugh. Sometimes he eats them.

This is so cute!!!!!

I used to turn on some show (Cats 101 I think it was called?) and my cat would freak out. Like she would stare at it, and then even go up to the TV, stand up on her high legs and put her paws on the screen, just to watch. She's since grown out of it, but it was crazy how it seemed to register with her.

Our cat used to do similar things with animals on TV shows. She'd meow at some of the cats she saw on screen, or sit there and stare at them. And once the show went to commercial or cut away from the cats, after a second she'd walk off looking sorta pouty, like she was annoyed they stopped showing the cats :p.

I also remember one time we were watching a Letterman segment with one of those animal trainer people who bring various animals on. He brought some type of bird on and it was walking across the studio floor.

Our cat actually got up on the arm of the chair closest to the TV and tried to paw at the bird :D.

And there was a commercial for those Temptations cat treats that she was utterly FASCINATED by-the opening music alone was enough to get her attention, before it even showed the kitty or its food! And then she'd sit there and watch the whole thing. I don't know whether she was more interested in the cat or the food, but either way, that ad always got her attention.

My cats are obsessed with throwing stuff into their water bowls.

My cats come running when I go to the bathroom. Weirdos.

Not that rare, actually. This is a pretty common behaviour with cats.

Topic is, weird things pets do, not unusual things pets do.

But to some degree weirdness is unsualness. It's statistical anomaly.

If it happens constantly it is by definition not weird. Sure, you might think excretory supervision weird in a cultural context because it's a thing humans frown upon socially, but it's definitely not weird in a feline context. How else do you think kittens learn to use the litter box? They watched mum.

But to some degree weirdness is unsualness. It's statistical anomaly.

I disagree.

That's your constitutional right, but you're wrong.

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I don't think that's true. Something can be rare without being weird, or common and still be weird. Weird has nothing to do with frequency, it has everything to do with a judgment of something strange or curious.

And it's a moot point anyway because we're all coming from human culture and human mindsets and it is in no way incorrect, grammatically or otherwise, to call cat behavior weird, regardless of whether or not it's common. If it pings us as weird, it's weird.

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My previous cat really liked watching people play shooters. Not any other games. Just first person shooters.

She was a very weird animal.

One of my cats liked to lick peoples ears, not anywhere else on the head, just the ears and that is a weird sensation to wake up to let me tell you.

Another liked to lick people faces and put his paws on my face to wake me up.

I had a cat who figured out that if she licked my eyelids, it woke me up in a hurry.

Until we got new doors, my cat liked to climb in through a hole under the screen. He also has this habit of watching Let's Plays with me on my laptop. Like, he knows what's a Let's Play and what's not. He won't watch a cartoon leak, he won't watch music videos. He's determined to watch humans play a video game.

The pup meanwhile...let's see...she has this little game of "LET'S STEAL THE HUMAN'S HAIR CLIPS." I have currently gone through about ten in various stages of chewed-up-ness.

One of my cats really loves The Phantom Menace. Just loves it. Normally he couldn't give two shits about the TV, but he'll sit and watch the whole movie.

He also puffs up his tail and wags it when he's happy.

My family had a cat who LOVED watching golf on TV. It has these long shots following the ball as it moves through the air. Sometimes she'd sit and watch, fascinated; other times she'd try to attack the ball.

When I'm watching kitten videos on YouTube, my cat will come running up as soon as she hears them meowing, and start frantically looking for them. (The odd thing is, she's never had kittens of her own, or been around kittens except her own littermates.)

One of my cats used to love watching tennis on television. He would try to catch the ball as it went across the screen.

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The younger cat used to be fascinated by TV to the point where she'd hop up on the stand and paw at it. The Christmas season where we watched Disney's I'll Be Home for Christmas, the opening credits of which have a jingle bell bouncing from city to city on a map of the states drew her attention and she tried to bat at it.

She also screams for attention if she wants it and nobody's giving it to her. Which, I'm guessing isn't actually that weird, but the older cat has never really done that, and the dog doesn't bark when she wants attention. (Actually, I'm convinced the older cat has started screaming to get attention because the younger one does & does it effectively. It's rare that the older one does it, but she is getting more vocal with age.)

There was a time when I was a kid where the only cat we had was the cat who lived next door. He liked to come over and visit because the house we were in used to be his house before his owner moved (or died, I'm not sure which). There was one time a cat was on the TV and he heard it and just had to go check around and find the cat he'd heard (I think it may have been Jones in Alien), and for a few weeks after he'd always check to see if there was another cat around.

Takes burying bones very seriously

Ha, I love that. We had one dog who liked to bury bones, and didn't like us watching her, either - we weren't supposed to know where her secret bone stash was. :D

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