The Most interesting places you have seen a dog-OR cat?

[the ringo kid]

This beats all-and sorry-no pics, but, the most interesting or funny place ive ever seen a cat (or dog in this instance) was in a truck on the dashboard of said truck. Saw a dog napping while on the dashboard of a red truck at a stop-light yesterday.

Can anyone top this strange sighting? Animals are the subject in this topic--LIVE animals.

 

[30-30remchester]

Can anyone top this strange sighting? Animals are the subject in this topic--LIVE animals.[/QUOTE]

Dang it I was going to say a barbeque spit.

 

[30-30remchester]

I have lived with both tame and wild animals most of my life. Let me think.

Had a hoary marmot that would crawl out to the end of our masts when the equipment was in the yard, and he would whistle at us as we walked underneath. He made such a racket that the kids called him "big mouth".

Has a spike bull elk with a busted front leg that spent most of the winter tucked up underneath one of our large trucks. He was always near the engine that stayed plugged in during the winter. We would have to chase him out when we needed the truck. He would mill around the yard till the truck returned.

Our present yard, construction yard that is, has some large metal benches outside. Deer loved to crawl under these in the heat of the day or when it was raining. One large doe laid claim to one bench and would kick at any other deer that crawled under it.

Cottontail rabbits found our casing pile safe haven from coyotes, owls and hawks and would often be seen with their heads sticking out of a piece of pipe.

I guess the strangest place for a critter was our bedroom. We sleep with the door open in our bedroom. In the middle of the night our outside cat was inside bouncing off the bed and the furniture. When we got the light on, a bat had come into our room and the cat was fighting it. The cat would knock it out of the air and it would lay on the ground but the cat wanted nothing to do with it when it was not flying. Had to toss both back outside.

 

[Nevada Ed]

When the wife had a V-W bug, our westie , loved to get up on the front dash and look at the world going by.

Our mini Pom likes to ride in the wife's purse, when going shopping. Some places don't allow animals, so it is......
"Duck and no bark or growl" time.

 

[5-Shot]

Several years we built a house. The roofer had a Shepard mongrel dog that accompanied him every day...onto the roof. If he was up there, so was the dog. It climbed the ladder by carefully stepping on the rungs. The trip down was much slower and more cautious. He told me the dog taught itself to climb entirely on its own.

 

[SC_Mike]

When my son was 5-6 we went camping on about a half acre island on the lake here. Had the camp set up fire burning, cooking hotdogs when I looked up and there was a black cat. I blinked and he was gone. I cooked him a hotdog and tossed it in that direction but never saw him again.

 

[the ringo kid]

When the wife had a V-W bug, our westie , loved to get up on the front dash and look at the world going by.

Our mini Pom likes to ride in the wife's purse, when going shopping. Some places don't allow animals, so it is......
"Duck and no bark or growl" time.

That reminds me of a few more unusual sightings. 1) on a bus last week. A passenger had cat inside a purse--it was a him--who had tha purse.
2) Last Sunday, a homeless guy at Circle K, had a small dog zipped up in his back pack.
3) Just this morning, some guy who lives at my Apt complex, had a dog inside of his zipped-up jacket. C'mon-it's fairly chilly outside-but NOT that chilly!!!

 

[the ringo kid]

Several years we built a house. The roofer had a Shepard mongrel dog that accompanied him every day...onto the roof. If he was up there, so was the dog. It climbed the ladder by carefully stepping on the rungs. The trip down was much slower and more cautious. He told me the dog taught itself to climb entirely on its own.

You probably know that Mesquite trees can grow very twisted. Well, we had one rather large Mesquite growing in the yard. Part went straight up, the other went sideways about 20 feet, then went up and split into a "Y" shape. Friskey--our English Shepard--would often climb the tree and sit in the "Y" of the tree. Boy I sure miss that dog. This was over 40 years ago.

 

[mike from st pete]

Window A/C

Ms Katz, the calico that lives in my yard, has found a way to jump up on the window rattler and watch TV with me from outside. I keep telling her she can come in but she always declines the invitation.

 

[oldman10mm]

I work part time mornings at a Tuffy automotive center. About a month ago a couple pulled up and came in,'there's a cat(distinguished by the meowing) in the engine area. I pulled the car in,a cat was trapped between the grill and radiator and couldn't get out because of upper and lower shrouding. Removed the engine bay front lower shroud and was able to get the cat out. Turned out to be friendly and their cat. Only way it was able to get in was a narrow passage on the driver side of the radiator. We should've taken pics.

 

[DavidWJ]

Our Lhasa Apso would sit on his butt in the front seat with one of his front legs on the arm rest and look out the window, just like a person.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...deer on our back deck eating birdseed a couple of weeks ago...

 

[30-30remchester]

...deer on our back deck eating birdseed a couple of weeks ago...

Looks like my house. Enough neighbors feed the deer that they have lost any fear of man. Every day I go to the woodpile I am followed. My sliding glass door has nose prints from a doe we call fat face.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

Looks like my house. Enough neighbors feed the deer that they have lost any fear of man. Every day I go to the woodpile I am followed. My sliding glass door has nose prints from a doe we call fat face.

...the species that have been on that deck probably would number in the hundreds...everything from tiny tiny mice...to good size black bears...

 

[Marshwheeling]

My old boxer/lab Chauncey Gardner used to sit in the back seat of my vehicle and ride with his chin resting in my shoulder. It didn't seem strange to me, but people in the next lane all found it remarkable, to judge by their reactions.

 

[Squarebutt]

I was 2 1/2 stories up on a ladder hanging a heavy storm window. When I turned to descend I almost stepped on my springer spaniel. He liked to follow me everywhere.

 

[steelslaver]

Years ago I was driving out to a oil drilling rig in the middle of nowhere Montana. Wasn't a house for miles. See eyes in the middle of the road. Slowed and saw a cat and a mule deer doe nose to nose, checking each other out. Doe had head down to ground and almost touching cats nose. Haven't got a clue what that was about. Quite a few feral cats around eastern Montana in places. Ranch cats have litters and some of them just wonder off and go wild.

y cat likes to make its way up onto the roofs. Have a carport that connects the shop and house and over 4000 sq ft of roof up there she can look things over fro and get up and down by nearby trees.

 

[Bullet Bob]

"My old boxer/lab Chauncey Gardner..."

Great name, my favorite Peter Sellers movie.

 

[susieqz]

you guys are making me miss my animals.
up north i always had a half dozen barn cats on the payroll.
they got fed. i had no mice.
here, i can't have them. coyotes think they are yummie.
my bitch died last year but i haven't replaced her. puppies are cute but a big pain.

 

[bigwheelzip]

California dogs as back seat passengers twice caught my attention. One was a large German Shepard on a full dress Harley, the other a Mutt on a moped. No picture of the Shepard.





Not a dog or cat story, but a deer in an odd place that seemed most bizarre. 40 yrs ago, a friend asked if my husband and I would drive a U-Haul from NYC to Friendsville in Maryland, to help a sick old woman that we didn't know, move back to NYC.

After loading up her stuff, she brought us to her uncle Jim's home. He's the patriarch of a family that is almost entirely self-sufficient, and enmeshed with the land.

Among Jim's talents, was nursing wild animals back to health, including deer. The locals knew which deer were his "cases", and left them alone. On the wall of his kitchen was a framed photo of the kitchen, with the family sitting for dinner, and a large deer standing on all fours, eating off a plate on the table with them. I didn't get a picture of the deer picture, but I got a picture of Jim in front of his gun making tools.



And in front of his house, built in 1865.