I have a cat that plays fetch, very insistently. She brings me her toy mouse, and if I don't throw it for her, she sits on my laptop keyboard. Of course this all started when I would throw the mouse to keep her from sitting on my laptop.

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This wasn't accidental. I have a kitten, about 5 months old.

Every morning, I wake up and feeding him is one of the first things I do. In the first couple months, in his little brain, he learned that me waking up=food.

About a month ago, he started waking me up. Looking to expediate the process. Jumping on me, meowing loudly, running across the bed... Whatever gets me out of bed.

I usually wake up around 6am for work. I guess that was too late for breakfast, as over the course of about a week this kitten would wake me up about 15-20 minutes earlier every day.

This started on a sunday and it wasn't until friday that I was woken up and realized it was 4:30am. It was then that I realized I've been outsmarted by a kitten and I was being conditioned to feed him in the middle of the night.

Now if he wakes me up early, he gets locked out of the room until I'm ready to get out of bed. He doesn't wake me up anymore.

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I, too, learned the hard way that you NEVER feed a cat first thing after waking. Don't let them get it into their heads that there's an association, because they will absolutely take advantage of that.

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My cat is a spoiled brat because of me. She has a certain cry she makes when she wants me to pick her up and snuggle her (she loves being held) and I just can't say no to that. So, throughout the day, she'll yell for me and I'll have to go find her, then she'll stand up on her back legs and propel herself into my arms.

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I have a Pitbull mix (she's about 50 pounds) that likes to be hugged. I tell her, "Mama hug," and she jumps up so I can pick her up and give her hugs. When I took her to get fixed, she was anxiously trying to climb me until I gave her a mama hug. One guy in line was like, "I did NOT see that coming".

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My dad used to drop ice cubes into the cat's water whenever they fell on the floor so that they couldn't go to waste. After a while one of the cats would REFUSE to drink her water without ice and would bug my dad until he put fresh ice in her water.

She went like 16 years without ice water but once she decided that she liked it, that was the rule lmao. She was a queen.

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We have four cats and a dog, so the water bowl is large (we also have one of those fountain automatic waterers). At minimum, the water gets changed in the morning and again in the evening, unless it gets dirty in between. Our kitchen tap water is ice cold in the morning but tepid in the evening unless I run it a while. A couple nights ago I gave up waiting for it to turn cold and dropped four large ice cubes in it. The youngest cat is about four months old, and this was her first encounter with ice cubes. I hung around to watch her figure them out. What a joy! We tend to forget that, to a baby, every single thing is new. That includes kittens and puppies.

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I seem to have inherited a turtle, a red eared slider.

It was originally the daughters and she bought it at age 13 with the help of her mum ???? It came with a tiny tank (I know).

Once it arrived home I thought "Well how unfortunate that your new owner is incapable of looking after herself never mind a pet", she did try but as expected got bored by this new friend.
So I looked for information and found out he may live for 25-30 years, at this point it seemed to become my responsibility .

11 years later, (Daughter has moved out) several tanks later (don't worry the one now is fine in size), two fluval filters, heaters, bulbs for heating and UVB, custom basking ramps and the general upkeep and well being of our not so small turtle it seems that he now 100% mine. I don't mind to be honest.

Anyway, when we are out of sight he will continually swim near the water surface and splash like crazy, all four legs breaking the surface and creating a lot of noise. For some time I would hear this noise and run into the room, upon seeing me he would stop, I walk out, splash time again.
I look forward to the next 20 years of doing this :)

Sometimes we take him out the tank, he seems fine, not terrified or skittish but quite happy to explore, I never know if this splashing is him asking "Hey come on, get me out of here I need a change of scenery".

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Of course. Turtles can be bored pandas too. :)

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We play guitar and sing, and often around the house, we will change the lyrics of whatever song we're hooked on into a song about our dog and how pretty she is

We used to do it for our friends, but they don't like it

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I do this for my cats. About how sassy they are. :)))

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I lost my best friend Moby a couple months ago, he was 14. He had a heart condition toward the end and one of the symptoms was coughing fits after drinking water. They were awful and had even caused him to pass out a handful of times.

I’ve recently rescued a young, healthy dog, but whenever I hear him drinking water a surge of sudden panic comes over me and I brace for something bad to happen.

I miss you Mo.

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Oh, I'm so sorry. I lost my best friend a few months ago and have similar moments. I usually cry. Sending you head bonks. <3

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She’s a tracker. So whenever she need something she’ll just walk me to it. So now whenever she looks at me, and paws at my foot, I just follow her. It’s just a reflex at this point.

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My dog Vernon loved the little end piece of bananas. So every morning when I ate my banana I would pinch him a big piece and say, “does Mr. Vernon always get a piece of banana? Yes he does!” Even though he’s been gone a few years now, I always pinch him a big piece of banana.

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I have three cats so I am as trained as a seal at SeaWorld. Here are just three:

In the evenings, Icy will sleep on the living room furniture. If I get up to get a drink she will stretch and roll over demanding belly rubs. And she wants me to tell her she is a pretty girl. If I don't pet her and tell her that she will meow at me when I come back.

Luna likes to know where I am at all times. So she will call out to me and expect me to answer. I know the meow that means "Lisasimpsonfan where the hell are you?". She wont stop until I answer her.

Mr. Saucy Pants is a big baby so he needs lots of reassurance and I have to leave the bathroom door cracked so he knows he can get to me if he is scared. If it don't this little paw slides under the door and he cries. The only time I shut the door is if other people are here.

The cats run the house.

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The cats run the house like bosses.

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Leave the bathroom door cracked just a little so she can open it, see that I'm in there, and be on her way, instead of waiting outside whining and whining. No, I don't do this for pooping nor when there are people over, as I'm not a neanderthal, but she really needs to know it's me peeing in there or she will freak the fuck out about my location.

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Sleep on my back or front. I used to be a side sleeper but have an elderly cat who loves her human bed.

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I've always been someone who rolls around all night, back then side then back then front, I don't stay still. But I have a cat who lies on me too. Canadians will get the reference that she does the log-driver's waltz all night... https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/

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My dog Yuri has conditioned me into being his pillow at night. At first I would immediately push him off when he tried but eventually he learned how to rest his head on my chest little by little so I didn't notice. Now I basically just let him do it lol

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Lift the covers in my sleep so he can crawl in. He aggressively head butts until he gets his way so now I just do it to avoid a mean bonk to the face with a hard furry skull in the night!

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Everything her little heart desires bc I am an idiot sucker and she knows it.

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When I'm having dinner, my cat would jump on the table and look at me with squinting eyes until I feed him. I try to resist but his eyes squint so hard it's as though he's about to fall asleep. Too cute not to give him a little bit of my food.

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My cattle dog knows if he coughs on my face in the morning, I will get up and wash it. then now I guess I am just up.

Also, for one cat I leave the toilet seat up so she can pee. Otherwise she will go down the sink and that feels wrong.

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Save the last part of everything I eat for him.

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Aww but look at the widdle face!!

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Panic when the door opens. My dogs are runners.

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My cat Bo runs into another room when I get his treats out (he knows looking is cheating) so that he can come back in & “hunt” for where I placed them around the living room. He won’t eat them if I place it on the ground at his feet. lil weirdo

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Bo enjoys the thrill of the hunt.

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my dog is pretty bad at getting under my blanket on her own so she’s taught me to lift it for her every time she taps my shoulder, even when i’m dead asleep. if a person snuck into my house and tried to wake me up, i’d probably accidentally invite them to snuggle under the covers

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That's hilarious

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I’d reach in and get the ice for my drink and just throw one over my shoulder without looking because I knew my dog was gonna catch it. I lost her earlier this year and had to drop the habit after throwing ice on my kitchen floor several times.

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RIP sweet baby😔

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Yell “floor food!” Whenever I’m cooking and I drop something. Or go “cronch cronch cronch” when I’m chopping veggies, so my dog knows I have extras for her.

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Love it! Totally will use it!

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I’ve somehow become a cat treat dispenser for them. Yay for thumbs I guess... They both come next to me, keep staring until they get a treat. Or the boy sometimes keeps talking and gives me a massage until he gets his treats. The girl also is all flirty when she wants temptations... until she gets them. Candydigger

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She will look toward the kitchen and then back at me with a smile. Then she gives a little wag and looks at the kitchen and back at me with that cute smile. She's telling me she wants a treat.

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Leave pillows laying next to the tile. He likes to lay on the tile, because it cools him down, but he doesn't like his head to touch the floor.

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Too cute <3

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Every time I stop petting my dog, she reaches out and taps me with her paw- sometimes quite insistently. Of course, who can resist that? I keep petting her every time

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Mine does that, too! Or if he wants your attention, he will just walk up behind you and paw at your leg until you give him loves. (He kind of grabs with his paws as he does it too, so it kind of hurts, but I know he just wants love).

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I talk back to my dog when he “talks” to me.

To be clear, I have a German Shepard and for those of you who have never owned one, they really like to talk and mine talks a lot. When he “talks” it’s not really a bark or a whine but a sound in between those two noises and ive learned to replicate that sound to have a conversation with my doggo in doggo language

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My dog does this and has learned that I love the “wooOoOOo” so much that I will give him whatever he is asking for if he does it back and forth a couple times with me. Dinner is around 6 every night; the Woos start at 5:30. I could trust this without checking the clock, until a few weeks ago. He tricked me into serving him dinner absentmindedly. I realized after feeding him that it was barely 4pm! Sneaky little rascal.

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My 14-year-old cat occasionally tries to get me to feed him earlier than his typical 5:30-5:45 am. Luckily he won't wake me up before 5 and half the time I wake up that early anyway, but I will straight up walk past him and his food bowl to go to the bathroom, then go back to bed. Almost always, I'm joined by him for another half an hour or so without further complaint. He's my baby.

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One of my tabby babbies likes to know when I'm rolling over in bed so she can reajust herself, so know in the middle of the night I'll quietly say "rolling over cooci baby" she loves her human bed no matter how i sleep.

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I will only do this if Eli, my dog, won't move. Usually both he and my cat will both shift if I turn cause I toss and turn so much but sometimes Eli just won't budge and I have to reach out and tap him telling him to move. He huffs and grumbles but he'll finally shift.

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My dog would sit outside the kitchen with his back straight just waiting for me to drop some food.

He knew he wasn't allowed in the kitchen unless I told him to (it was a smol kitchen and I didn't want to trip over him to have him get hurt).

As soon as I dropped something, I'd either just point to it or say "go!" And he would run in, pick it up and sit outside the kitchen again like a tennis ball boy.

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Check the mail every day...he's so excited to walk to the mailbox with me it reminds me to actually do it.

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Carrying one of my kitties to the mailbox is the highlight of my morning! Letting him sniff the henge and grass is the highlight of his morning...🥰

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I had fish on top of this cabinet (not sure if that's the right word) so I would always be really really careful when closing it so it doesn't disturb them. I haven't had fish or any other pet in 5 years but I still do it

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My dog likes to sleep under the bed covers, if she wants to get under she will come and nudge me gently and no matter how asleep I am I lift the covers with my legs so she can get in

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I have started leaving the shower curtain open so when I go pee, he jumps into the bathtub and gazes lovingly into my eyes while he pisses down the drain. He started yelling at me and scratching at the shower curtain until I opened it. Now it’s our daily bonding ritual. No, his litterbox isn’t dirty or messy, he just... is really weird. I also cannot eat Cheetos or cheese or cheesepuffs in front of him or he will jump on me and try to get at them. He is a goddamn maniac for cheese. He will try and steal the bag.

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So when my cat was just a kitten, I thought it'd be a good idea to pet her while she eats, as many animals get skittish when there's people nearby while they're eating. Worked well, except for now she just b*tches at me to pet her whenever she eats. She'll eat without me petting her, but she'll be vocally upset about it.