Your Pet Gestures

[Janice]

What is one gesture your pet does to tell you he wants something? This is a gesture he makes not a sound he makes.

My cats knocks over his bowl if there is not any food in it and he is really hungry.

[alicia-w]

Our puppy sits at the refrigerator when she wants water (we have the dispenser in the door) or she'll bring the leash when she wants to go out or for a walk.

[coriolis]

Our dog waits until we're all in bed and then comes up to the bed and whimpers to go out.

It's more like the gestures that I make. When I want to play, I'll bare my teeth and make growling sounds. That gets her going in a hurry. I do the same to my wife, but that doesn't work on her.

[O Town]

When my dog wants to play fetch she drops the ball at your feet and just stares at the ball for an hour if it takes that long for you to pick it up. And she has the ears perked and standing not sitting, very tense position to hold for more than a few minutes but she loves to play ball that much.

[Stephanie]

My one cat, Gipper WHINES when he's hungry....

[Miss Mary]

Let's see....

1. Our dog has to rub up and down the couch, after eating. She starts with her face, then her body, stretching her back legs out. Up, down all around it. Yes the couch is covered in hair (I have to routinely vacuum it). After this 3 minute couch rubbing is over, she walks to the back door and turns back to look at all of us, as if to say - I was just working up a you know what, come on now, open this door. I joke she's working up a poop (happens every time after a meal).

2. If it's past her dinner and we're running late, she'll just walk over to the bowl and stand there, making constant eye contact with you - did you forget something?

3. She takes her paw and scratches the back door (atrium, mostly glass). I can hear her nails on the glass from anywhere in this house. Can my family (who are sitting mere feet away I might add) - NO!

Hope and I have this unspoken language thing going....I am so in tune with her.

Mary

[coriolis]

2. If it's past her dinner and we're running late, she'll just walk over to the bowl and stand there, making constant eye contact with you - did you forget something?

They sure know how to make you feel guilty!

[Miss Mary]

Ed - oh yeah. And if we dine out, I feel her early so she doesn't skip a meal. But when we get back, she ~still~ walks over to the food bowl and stands there. I often wonder if pets of alzheimer patients probably eat all day long? I just pat her head and say, no you ate already, you silly dog. But she makes me doubt myself, sometimes......I should write myself a note. Pre-senior moment there? LOL

Mary

[Janice]

My cats walk past me and hump up their backs indicating they want petting.

[TexasStooge]

Everytime I would go in the litchen to get something to eat, the cats would come runnin' behind me wanting something to eat.

[george_r_1961]

When I had my cat, she required us to feed her promptly at 4. Im sure she burned up a lot of energy sleeping or staring at the wall all day If dinner was late she would go to her food dish and alternate between staring at at and either me or my parents with an expresssion that said "welllllllll?????" If that didnt work the meowing would start. After she stuffed her face she would frequently look at us and purr..while licking her chops of course. As if she was saying thanks.

[SouthFloridawx]

my cats meow constantly when their food dish is empty. Even in the middle of the night they jump on the bed and bug the crap out of me.

[breeze]

Ed - oh yeah. And if we dine out, I feel her early so she doesn't skip a meal. But when we get back, she ~still~ walks over to the food bowl and stands there. I often wonder if pets of alzheimer patients probably eat all day long? I just pat her head and say, no you ate already, you silly dog. But she makes me doubt myself, sometimes......I should write myself a note. Pre-senior moment there? LOL

Mary

LOL, Alex does that, too - they are TIMELY creatures of habit. If I
feed her early, she does the same thing - "where's it at?" Or, if I
feed her a good portion of table scraps, she STILL thinks that I
must appear with the canned Alpo...??

"You ate your body-weight, pooch - forget it!"

~Annette~

[Hurricaneman]

reaches out for hand to be petted even if youre 20 feet away

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

1. My collie mix can't get over this new "shake" trick she just learned. She paws the air when she wants food, walks, petting, playing, pretty much anything. All other commands go in one ear and out the other. Shake accomplishes everything.

2. My terrier/sheperd mix makes it real obvious when he wants something. He jumps on my lap and starts licking my face.

3. Guinea pigs can't be trained to do much, but they learned real fast that I'm usually the family member who brings food. Any time they hear the crinkling of a plastic bag (or what they think sounds like a plastic bag), they all wake up and start squealing and sniffing the air. Opening the refrigerator has the same effect on them.

4. When my rabbit (who has free range of the house and strangely seems to be the dominant animal in the house) gets bored, she sprints around the room in circles, or she'll go and bother the dogs. Oscar knows he can't mess with her, but what can he do when there's a rabbit sniffing his tail? You can see how uncomfortable he is in his facial expression. Poor puppy. One time Oscar was laying on my brother's bed chewing apart a stuffed animal and minding his own business when Gia came into the room, jumped on the bed, sniffed his toy, grabbed it in her mouth and threw it off the bed, and then jumped down and left the room. My dog's sense of dignity must be in shambles.

[Miss Mary]

Our dog plays volleyball with us, booting the ball back with her snout. We dub her Air Bud when she does that. Our daughter has been doing this everyday since the weather is nice again. We need to get this on tape, Hope jumps up so high all 4 paws leave the ground. She even boots it twice sometimes, once straight up and once back to you. So cute. Our neighbors watch and laugh when we play this game. She even grabs the ball with her front paws and seems to use them like we would our arms.

Either she's copying us or is one smart dog.

We all say getting a dog was the very best thing this family did, 6 years ago. Sure there's hair just about everywhere but who cares! She's our shadow, all day long. So affectionate and loyal.

Next.....

Mary

[angelwing]

Digger (my bearded dragon) likes to sleep in his cat carrier when he wants to go to bed he'll walk over to it and if it's locked he'll give you the "stink" eye, so ok, you open it and he goes inside and looks at you again until you pet him, then he goes in, wiggles in and keeps his eyes open until you cover him!

When he wants out of his tank, he'll glass-dance..then he'll either make a beeline for the patio door or climb up on your chest to be held

[streetsoldier]

Annabelle (she be a ho') stands directly in front of me, plants her butt down, and STARES...something like, "OK, slave, now try to find out what I want you to do...YESTERDAY".

[j]

Bad picture (camera phone) but here is Sinsei biting my foot to "inform" me that he want's out on the porch.

[HurricaneGirl]

Where to begin.. Ratt will go in my bathtub and lick it if he wants me to change his water in the morning.

He also will start scratching on one of my bass amps or doorframes if he wants to go outside.

If he doesn't get his way about anything in particular, he will hide behind chairs and attack your feet when you walk by.