I was trimming the nails of my rabbit, Gadget, and accidentally trimmed one too short. Gadget squeaked, jumped off my lap, and ran behind me where my other rabbit, Gizmo was. They conferred for a moment, and then Gizmo came around in front of me and nipped my hand. Only time he ever bit me. Fair enough, I thought. He's gotta take care of his friend.

My dog is incredibly dumb (but crazy sweet, honestly I love you). One night she started bark at a window that pointed to the back yard. It freaked me out so I grabbed my gun expecting a wild boar. I live in the country so I see they semi frequently. For those that don't know, wild boar is incredibly dangerous. They will ram and kill just about anything including small children and dogs. I've even seen them, as a pack, attack a car, taking out the tires and tearing apart the rubber. It's crazy. I wasn't about to let wild boar think that they could claim my yard when I had toddler nieces and nephew visiting a lot at the time. Nothing was out there. My dog was scared of the Groot popcorn bowl I got at the theater that was sitting on the table between the window and her.

my late boxer, evie, was my buddy that went everywhere with me. she loved the water. the family had a large pontoon boat & it was kind of the 'normal' thing for only the men of the family to take it out. well, i love to fish & i don't need a man to operate a boat. so evie & i would regularly go out. she usually jumped on first while i unmoored it but this time she refused to get on. i got it in the water & onboard but she still refused, running back up the dock to the woods. i followed her up to find her; she would not come w/me. then, a huge storm came in literally minutes w/lightening hitting the water & dock which was metal. we took refuge in the car until it passed then hooked up the boat & went home. she knew that storm was on the way even though the sky had been beautiful & no wind.

My ex and my cat never got along. One day after we had split up, I was sitting in the living room with my cat and he suddenly jumped up, hissed at nothing in particular, and ran out of the room. Just then, the doorbell rang. You guessed it. It was my ex!

Our little dog Pepper was my Dad's best buddy after he had a stroke. He was emotionally labile, which sometimes happens. She would climb up on his lap to give him kisses. She was so close to him. In the winter months he would go to play darts at the Legion about a 20 minute drive from home. Driving at night on country roads. Later she would go to the door to wait for him & sure enough 20 minutes later he would be home. He never left at the same time because he might be socializing, but she was never wrong on the time. One night she went to the door but sat only a few minutes then went back to her bed. About 10 minutes later she went back to the door & he was home in 20. Turns out he was walking towards his car & stopped to talk to someone for about 10 minutes, then left. She knew. After he died we thought she would too. Mom put her on her lap & explained Daddy was all gone & was not coming back. She seemed to listen. She was fine. Crossed the Rainbow Bridge to him 6 years later.

Why's it creepy for animals to be intelligent?

I was reading on my tablet and set it down beside me for a second. Jokingly I told my cat Leonard "don't swipe across that, it'll lose my page". He looked at me, looked at the tablet, and started swiping his paws across it. He had never touched it before that. I could hear the Thug Life music playing in my head.

I had just gotten into the tub when I realized I forgot to put my hair up. I had put a hair tie around the ears of my puppy’s toy bunny a few days ago so I told her to go get her “Bun bun”, I need a hair tie. I didn’t actually expect her to go get it. A few minutes later she’s in the doorway of the bathroom swinging her bunny by the ears. I tried getting her to bring me the bunny but she paid no attention to me. A few minutes later, she walked in & dropped a hair tie about 2 feet from the tub. I was shocked. I told her what a good girl she was & reached for the hair tie. Of course she snatched it up & ran out of the bathroom with it. I was pretty impressed though.

My first and smartest cat was a little silver tabby and white longhair that one of my brothers found rummaging in his garbage as a kitten. When I had her, I lived in a condo apartment complex that had ornamental gas flares in a central courtyard. One dry autumn day when there were dead leaves everywhere, she came into the room I was in, crying frantically and running around my feet, then out the door, then back to me... When I followed her out to the living room and to the patio window, I saw a bunch of bored kids starting fires at the base of the gas flares. She somehow knew that this was fire that was not supposed to be there, unlike the flares. We could have had a really bad fire if she hadn't alerted me. It wasn't the only scary-smart thing she ever did, but it was the most impressive.

My old dog and my old cat weren't that close. They didn't fight that much but didn't seem to like each other very much. One day my cut was walking in my garden when a bunch of dogs started burking at him. He started running and they followed him. My dog heard all of that and came running to the garden. While my cat climbed a tree, my dog stood infront of the tree barking at the dogs and protecting my cat. I love them and miss both of them so much