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Do your pets do things that impress you?

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Do your pets impress you at times? I was getting ready to go somewhere yesterday afternoon and got dressed and went into the kitchen to get a jar of ice water (it was hot and I always bring ice water with me in the summer) and one of my parakeets asked me "Where are you going?"....so I stopped and told the birds where I was going. I figure if they are smart enough to ask me I might as well answer them.
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I love parakeets - they are so cute!
I miss living in the country. I grew up deep in the woods, and my favorite birds were Owls. THey would roost in the trees behind our house at night. Sometimes there would be 7 or 8.

But the prettiest were the loons and herrings. There is something sad and moving about the cry of a loon.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
German Shepherds are very smart, we had them living in a rural area, one was a natural guard dog, he'd greet anyone who would drive up to the house, lick their hand when they'd get out of the car, and then go sit at the bottom of the stairs and growl at them not letting them get into the house...they'd end up honking their car horn till we came outside and then the dog would let them come up the stairs.

Another German shepherd was a natural snake dog. He'd shake them to a thousand pieces so fast they didn't have a chance to bite him. If he couldn't grab them (like under the deck) he'd corner them and bark till someone would come out with a hoe and kill it...had a lot of copperhead snakes out there.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Hunkalove: I had a little black and white cat that was really smart. I fed her a certain brand of cat food that was shaped into little rings like Cheerios. One day I was sitting on the sofa eating a bowl of Cheerios, she had gotten up on the arm of the sofa and she looked down into my bowl and then looked at me with a look on face like she was wondering why I was eating her cat food for breakfast. I had to give her a few Cheerios and show her the box it was in so she would understand.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Moonchild: We were on a fishing pier at the edge of the lake, this loon flew down and landed in the water and let out the loudest sound...everyone looked over and someone said "That wasn't a duck, what is that?" I said loon because I had seen & heard them in nature shows....I looked up that particular kind on the internet and it was a Pacific loon, Oklahoma is one of the places they stop and rest during their migration.
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My dog gets so excited she wets herself.. I got her a new teddy bear last week, and she ran outside, did a few crazy circles, jumped up on the garden bench and "whizz" a little accident happened..
it's kinda funny.. she is very gentle and timid and lovely realy.
Now any time you see her, she proudly picks up teddy as if to say, look here I love my present
GlassDog · 46-50, M
I have pigeons who peck on my windows in the morning. I don't see so many sparrows now, living in the middle of the city. I miss them. And the blue tits, and occasional pied wagtail. Just pigeons and thrushes here. Although they're so tame, the thrushes will land on you or walk over your feet.
GlassDog · 46-50, M
Aww, I love birds. You wonder how much they do know, sometimes.

My last dog once got hold of something she wasn't supposed to have so I put it away in a high cupboard. About a month later, she still kept looking at that cupboard when she passed.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I have sparrows outside that I keep water out for, and feed them a little bread or seeds...they live in the neighbors purple martin house next to my fence and when they want me to refill their water they will come to the window and tap on the screen until I go out to fill it up, they've done it several times and the first time was during a drought. And when I drive up in the driveway and get out one of them has flown over to the saucer (on a plant stand) and posed and looked me in the eye till I got the message...not a drop of water left so i go refill it for them.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
My cat continually amazes me with what she knows. She can hear my roommate coming up the stairs, and this is a big old building full of people. Lately I've been eating Cheerios for breakfast and although she naps as far from the Cheerios as it is possible to be in this apartment at the first rattle of the box she is right there rubbing against my leg trying to sweet talk me out of some milk.
I'm impressed when my dog doesn't try to kill my cat.. That impresses me.. Sigh
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I've also got a parakeet. He doesn't talk, but he likes to "box" his bells. I think his feistiness is impressive, but birds can do just about anything and I'd be impressed. He unintentionally cleans his own cage sometimes, ripping up pieces of paper towel he doesn't want there anymore, and tossing it onto the floor.
Dolimyte · 41-45, M
I taught my cat to give me five
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Tumbleweed: Some parakeets, especially females, will shred paper to keep busy, I guess it's a part of the nesting instinct. My canaries also like to tear up paper, I give them some white paper and shred it with scissors and pin it to their cage so that they can rip little pieces of it off.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Moonchild: I love owls too but don't see many around here, about 4 miles north I've seen a few of them, one swooped down near my car as I was driving to work one morning. I saw a migratory Pacific loons in the lake east of here a month ago...that sound is very haunting isn't it?
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@Cherokee - YES ... loons have a very haunting call, moving. I remember being near a lake near my childhood home in the cattails, and I heard one. It spooked me at first. Everything was so still and quiet, and I had gone off adventuring on my own.
GlassDog · 46-50, M
@cherokeepatti: It's okay! It's been a while. I smile when I remember her now, rather than am sad. I've done exactly the same for a honey bee. The poor thing was exhausted but really perked up with the sugar hit.
nolongerhere · 100+, M
she still runs off to be with other dogs when the weather is colder, but for the summer she hangs out in the house and just sleeps all day. Darned dog wakes me up at 2 in the morning
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Glassdog: Sorry about you losing your dog....I think animals are a whole lot smarter than we think they are. I've had honey bee fly up and down my arm begging for sugar water after the dish was all consumed. That bee came into the building where I worked and did that and I got the hint they needed more...walked out there and sure enough it needed a refill. This was during an extended drought with a horrible heat wave, nothing left for those bees to eat and they were drinking from discarded soda cans...so I made them sugar water instead to keep them outside.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Mozgoz: Sometimes I wonder what dogs would say if they could speak words to us. They are one of the best examples of unconditional love.
nolongerhere · 100+, M
that my dog comes when I call her name and hasn't gotten sick of my presence is impressive enough to mozgoz.
Sueisright · 31-35, F
Better not lie to the parakeets or maybe they'll catch you out one day lol
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@Cherokee - That had to be startling! I've never heard one that close before.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Sulusuwakis: Yes it was kind of startling and right after that it dived straight down into the lake and stayed under the longest time, we were all watching to see when it would come back up and finally it did with a fish in it's mouth....it's mate was a distance away, they make that sound to keep in touch with their mates before they dive apparently so they don't lose touch with each other.
My German Shepherd Keke is TO intelligent to smart.....She's been very easy train.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
DOlimyte: Cute

 
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