my cat learned to open my door and stare at me. It was a terrifying way to wake up, like there's someone watching you and BAM huge green eyes in your face.

Before he learned that he'd sit outside my door and scratch+meow until I woke up. I'm not sure which one I prefer.

He learned pretty quickly where the treats were stored too (in a cupboard) and did some acrobatics to get them down. We just put them where he couldn't climb...

But it was a great thing that he was, uh, clever? like this, because he got cancer during his last years and had to learn how to walk in a leash and use kitty litter :/ at like 17 years old. I guess he was young at heart since it's supposed to get harder for cats to learn the older they get, but he got it really quick.

lol if it wasn't so funny, I would probably be angrier. :( yesterday he started sniffing/batting at it, knocking it over, dragging it around, etc. My mom and I just kind of watched in amusement because he would give up at a certain point. Tonight however he was really going at it, and dragged it into the other room while I was playing games. After a while I decided to check on him and he had... ripped open the bottom of the bag and got cat treats everywhere, lol.

I don't think he noticed though because they were all over the ground? And he wasn't lickin' them chops or anything. I just thought it was hilarious and moved the bag elsewhere where he couldn't get to it (yet, he will probably figure out how someday.)

What funny (/annoying) things have your pets learned to do, CC?

Those cats. Amused by anything. My dalmatian (who's the only one tall enough to reach the doorknob) can open doors. See, I live in an old house and all the doorknobs are a diamond-ish shape and just need to be turned for the door to open. So, she just grabs the doorknob with her teeth and tilts her head to the left. Sort of gross though, as she leaves drool all over the knob. xD

ughh.

my dog used to be afraid of heights, probably because when she was a puppy we had to take her to my dad's work with us so she wouldn't cry, and the only place we could keep her in (obviously we were there with her; we're not horrible!) was upstairs where the floor has big holes in it. she spent all day fearing that she'd fall through the floor...i don't blame her.

but earlier this year we had to watch over my aunt's dog for a couple months since she thought he was some kind of demon baby killer (he bit one of the other dogs and drew a little blood). he was ultimately fearless, always jumping on the couch and on the table and stuff.

and then by the time my aunt took him back, my dog had suddenly gotten over her fear of heights! we can't keep the candy bowl on the kitchen table anymore. or any food, for that matter. sometimes if we forget i'll walk in the room to see her standing on the table, happy as can be to see me. until she knows that i've noticed the ripped tootsie roll wrappers.

god, she's gotten into so much chocolate i'm surprised she isn't dead yet. it pisses me off that my dad always places the blame on me for forgetting to move it when we all did. :|

My cat does that too...

He pretty much rips the bag open, bites it, claws at it.

I taught him how to sit using those treats too...

I need to buy a jar or something for them.

I love how smart cats are.

watching a horror film dog opens a closed door then walks in and scares me half to death XD oh and in the middle of the night one of my cats randomly jumping on me and scaring me half to death XD oh and any my snake pooping on me

my cats manage to open the cuboard door, push the cat food out from the top shelf then open the box and pull the food out with there paws XD

XD My cats have learned how to break cat food bags, so we bought these metal boxes (that are actually made to store really long guns o.o) to store cat food in. XD

haha, that's one smart cat you've got there! :p i can imagine how funny it looked.

my dog is kind of the same way. one: she knows my mum will give her treats to make her shut up, so sometimes she starts barking for no reason just so we'll give her a treat or five. she's got us figured out, mk. two: she knows how to handle boxes and bags and whatnot when we give her stuff (yeah, she begs and we cave into it). she's a smart one, alright.

My dog can open all the doors in the house, she's a Great Dane she she just lays her head on top of the door-handles. She recently figured out how to open the fridge by nudging her nose between the rubbers...

You guys have smart pets. My dogs have worked out how to let themselves out of the house, unfortunately, not as sophisticated as some of the pets posted.

Their method is running straight thru the screen door, taking it off its rails and throwing it across the patio in the process.

They knock on the door when they want to come in.

Well, last night my cat chewed through my keyboard cord :x And last week, he did the same thing to my DS cord. He also destroyed two rolls of toilet paper in the past two days, started chewing the window screens, ripped open the bottom of the bag of dog food my rats eat, and chewed up my PHP book.

Not very smart, but definitely very annoying! He's lucky he's so cute :P

my cats are dumb, and too fat to reach the counter where the cat food is :( they just chase after me when they're hungry and cry until i feed them.

my mom used to work at her boss' house (in the office) and they had two BIG labs. the male used to always try and hump me (i didn't see him doing this to anyone else- just me- he would get all excited around me and jump on me, usually knocking me over) also, they had a pool and when you would go underwater he would run around the side of the pool and bark, because he thought you were drowning. but he hated water and if you actually were, he wouldn't save you :P

and the girl dog was FAT. she always managed to knock shit over and get to the treats and then eat them all, she would also steal people food when we weren't looking.

Lol!

My hamster learnt how to open his cage door - which is NOT easy...it's quite stiff. I have to tie it with one of those twist tie things. I found out because I was downstairs, and all of a sudden I look to the doorway and there's this hamster staring at me watching TV, lol. He had come down two hallways a a flight of stairs to get there. I have no idea how he didn't fall down the stairs, or at lead make a THUD noise as he went down them.

my kitten learned how to catch mice and lizards =_=

most of the time we just leave our back door open so she can go in and out as she pleases, and because it's summer and the breeze is really refreshing so we don't have to put the AC on all the time. last time she caught a mouse though she ran inside with it and dropped it at my mom's feet. she freaked /: haha.

besides that she just does most other typical-annoying-cat-behaviors.

Hamsters are master escape-artists, like you'd never believe. Once my sister had a black-bear hamster that escaped from its cage in the middle of the night & somehow got out of home completely. Poor thing was never seen or heard again. :( We also had a couple that would somehow manage to escape when I had them in their plastic hamster balls. Though in retrospective, I think that last one was more my fault than the hamster's.

My sister's cat Mira also learned some silly cat tricks, which sometimes baffle us. The most amusing being her recent climb to the mantle of our fireplace, which is made of bricks & rather hard to reach. She also has a habit of climbing up on the kitchen counter when no one is looking. Ironically, if we see her she'll automatically know when's she's been caught.

My dog knows how to open doors now =_= its really annoying. oh and hehas learned to pick up a soccerball with his teeth which is very amusing considering the fact that he has such a tiny mouth xD

I found a bag of cat treats on the table yesterday with Tomo sitting next to it. I don't think he figured out how to open it though. It was still sealed. I think he's too dumb. Tomo's not one of the smarter cats.

Ginger is the smartest. She can open doors. If you hold her up to a door, she'll put her paw on the knob and make a twisting motion. She must have watched us opening doors. She's really observant. It's kinda scary. .____.

I've had horses who have figured out how to open their stall doors from the inside too. Shadow did that a month ago or so. He opened his door up and started wandering around the barn, ultimately ending up at the hay pile. Someone had to come in to put a better latch on his door.

My indoor cat learned how to open the door to get outside. More annoying than funny. Cute at first, but now I have to go chasing after him.

We have a screen door for our backyard, and he gets his claw stuck in the screen, and drags it open along the tracks. Kind of smart, huh? I think it first it started off as an accident but now he does it all the time. xD

My one cat likes to chew holes in her food bags and eat the food out of the bag rather than eat it out of her dish -headdesk-

Then she eats it so fast it comes right back up.

Whenever my cat thinks I'm taking too long of a shower (or she just decides to be a bitch that morning), she drags her claws down the wall outside the bathroom, very much in a nails against the chalkboard kind of way. "JESUSCHRIST, KALLIE. WAIT A MINUTE. I'M CONDITIONING. D:"

She also knows how to knock if she wants to enter/leave my room when she can't just walk out the door. When the door is closed, she uses her claws to pull the door towards her slightly, thus making it bang back into place once she's moved it as far as she can. It's really cute, unless she's doing because she's bored and just sits there when I open the door at 4am.

She also doesn't like it when I ignore her when I'm trying to get dressed, so once the pants are on, she stands up and gets her claws stuck in my jeans. So I have to stop and unhook her claws while she tries to drag me down, successfully drawing my attention from dressing myself to her.

My cat's kind of an attention whore. :( I love her to bits.