60 Dramatic Pets Whose Drama Queen Skills Are On Point

"Cassie is much bigger than Nigel or Shay, and we wondered why. An indoor security cam helped us find out:

07:55 hrs - All three cats fed. Same size bowls, same food, same amount.

07:56 - The feeder human walks away, and goes to work.

07:57 - Shay takes two huge bites, then her eyes start wandering over to Nigel's bowl... What's in there? He sure seems to be enjoying it. Is his food better than MY food?

07:58 - Shay noses her bowl closer to Nigel. She slyly paws at Nigel's bowl while still eating her own food, trying to draw it closer. Nigel gives a low growl, not standing for any of this bulls**t.

07:59 - Shay flings herself at Nigel in a jealous rage. The fight takes them out of the kitchen and into the living room, leaving behind two half-full bowls.

08:04 - Cassie calmly finishes her bowl, then moseys on over to the other bowls and finishes both of them.

This happens EVERY. DAY."

"I don't anymore but I once had both a cat and a guinea pig some 25 years ago and they seemed to hate each other. Whenever my cat got near the cage the guinea pig would start squealing aggressively at the cat and the cat would swat at the cage while sporting a look of utter disgust. That was a daily routine. It was the first thing that happened in the morning and it lasted a minute then they didn't bother each other for the rest of the day and the cat could even nap on top of the cage at times without any protest for either. It was just part of the day for them. That drama just had to happen every day.

They went on like that for 7 years. The guinea pig got really sick because he was old and I realize he doesn't have long left. I picked him up out of the cage and put him on my lap so he didn't have to die alone. The f**king cat came up and licked the guinea pig and laid on my lap beside him until he passed. Apparently, the cat loved him all along. The 7-year drama was just their thing. That still amazes me."

"My two cats are locked in an eternal battle of “who can howl the loudest in the bathtub at 3 am”.

They’re both winning."

vonMishka said:
"In college, we lived on the second floor and would leave the sliding glass door open with the screen door shut on nice days. We’d often come home to find my dog, stuck on the balcony. We figured out that my roommate’s cat was opening the screen door to let the dog out and then closing the door."

Anomaly1134 replied:
"Look doggo, the door is open. Go smell all the smells! I am your fren. I help.
Closes door: hahaha victory is mine drool face. Now I can slumber in peace."

"A friend of ours who volunteers with a feral cat CNR program (capture, neuter, release) caught two kittens who were too friendly to release. She called us up and said, "Hey, you like cats, foster these two kittens, please?"

So now our 14-year-old cat Iris gets to deal with two rambunctious little boys. Sam the siamese is a little afraid of her, so he doesn't bother her much, but Ralph the tabby very much wants to be friends with her. He'll even drop his favorite mousie next to her while she's sleeping.

Iris was very put out that these little punks were invading her space, but she is slowly learning to tolerate the boys. She still deals out hisses and swats when one of them crosses a line, and they're respectful enough to back off.

BTW, the boys are foster failures. They're in their forever home."

"I have two sibling cats, a boy, and a girl. The girl developed heart problems and wasn't eating as much, so the boy cat took advantage and was eating a lot of her share. Now she's a little too skinny and he's gotten fat.

Ok, so I need to separate their food - So I got an automatic feeder for the boy cat and made a feeder box that only the girl cat could fit in, which made the boy cat mad. He eventually gained the confidence to Winnie-the-pooh himself into her feeder box, which is frustrating if I ever need to be gone for the weekend, as he'll literally eat all her food before she touches it.

So far my solution is to put a little inflatable collar on him when I'm gone, so he has a barrier beside his fat to keep him from going in.

Also, I had to barricade his automatic feeder because he kept beating it up to get loose kibbles. Now he stares longingly at that feeder all day."

zerbey said:
"The dog doesn't like when the cat gives him dirty looks. The cat knows this, will deliberately stare him down, and then expertly leap out of the way when he goes to chase her."

Pigelot replied:
"Our dog is very stupid and cannot stand when the cat stares at him. We have a baby gate to keep the dogs away from the cat’s food and litter, and the cat will sit behind the baby gate, TAIL SWISHING, and bore holes into him. He loses his goddamn mind."

"I have a dog, an elderly cat on special food, and two middle-age cats on regular food. None of them will voluntarily eat their own food. The old cat wants to take the younger cats' food, the young cats go to try to steal the old cat's food, the cats will try to eat the dog's massive kibbles, and the dog will go bonkers trying to get the cat's food. They will each snub their own food in favor of stealing the rest. I literally have to feed each of my pets in its own room with a closed door, there's a whole process to feeding time around here.

PS I have kids also, but fortunately, they've outgrown trying to eat the pet food."

CDC_ said:
"My roommate has 2 large male dogs and I have a small female dog. My roommate's male dogs like to rough house and play around sometimes. Whenever they get too loud my little dog will raise her head and growl ever-so-slightly. Just enough for them to hear her. As soon as she does, they stop for a minute and start playing quieter. F**king surreal to see."

frickineh replied:
"I had a female chihuahua mix who was like that. We used to call her the fun police at the park because any time dogs would start roughhousing a little too much, she'd run over and get in the middle of it and the other dogs would just stop. She was like 9lbs."

"3 guinea pigs, Janis, Zeppelin, and Jovi. Janis and Zep are 2, Jovi will be 1 in May and we've only had her for a few months (she's a rescue). Jovi, despite being a fraction of her size, is challenging Janis for "dominant pig" status in the cage.

The amount of chasing, humping, rumbling, etc going on is truly ridiculous. Like... They're small adorable balls of fluff, the fact that they're trying to intimidate each other at all is fairly hilarious to watch. Janis will chase Jovi down, mount her for a minute, then run off, Jovi will immediately chase after her like "I'll hump you right back".

Meanwhile, Zeppelin is usually watching them with a look of "don't involve me in your f****ry, I just want to nap". Every once in a while they drag her into it and it's all downhill from there."

"The younger cat wants to play with the older cat, but the older cat is not into it at all. The younger cat will sneak up on the older cats, and the older cat just hisses and spits and bitch slaps. The dog and I are just watching from the couch hoping to stay out of the line of fire."

Dr_Julian_Helisent said:
"We got a puppy two weeks ago. Our elderly cat is furious when we do dog training sessions because the cat deserves the treats instead. We end up doing joint training sessions and the cat is actually much more consistent than the puppy."

jag77707 replied:
"We made the mistake of giving one of our two cats a piece of rotisserie chicken 'cause I had dropped it while striping the meat off. Our cat can now pinpoint which grocery bag has the chicken if we buy one and attempts to rip it into the bag to get it. He also sits next to me and meows while I prepare it for salads or whatever."

"I have 3 dogs. 2 of them are having a mostly passive-aggressive war over toys.

It started with a squeaky toy, a blue bone-shaped one. The younger dog, Reese, started showing off how wonderful the squeaky toy is. The older dog, Pepper, is very jealous. So he would carefully steal it every time Reese got the slightest bit careless.

This escalated to them tossing it in the air in front of the other to taunt about who had the toy. Needless to say, some tosses resulted in the toy changing hands.

Soon other toys got really contentious. Pepper especially wanted all the toys so he lay on top of them like a dragon hoard. Reese would take whatever toy he had and toss it in front of Pepper to show that there were still good toys not in his dragon hoard.

This culminated with a serious disagreement between them and now all the toys are out of reach for the foreseeable future."

"One chicken of mine broke her toe and all of my other 39 hens stopped laying. One of my roosters is really depressed, and when I brought her back out after she was starting to heal, every other chicken froze like they’d seen a ghost. It’s quite funny now whenever I bring her outside."

feliciates said:
"The dachshund will NOT stop invading the beagle's personal space (crate) to suck on her ears. The beagle has HAD it and wants it to stop. Two things tho:

1. Beagles have a really hard time being stern and intimidating.

2. Dachshunds are NOT easily intimidated.

So this morning we had 40 minutes of the beagle "growling" (not very convincing sounding) and dachshund "sass" (barking back) ending up AS USUAL with an annoyed beagle with soggy ears. It's hopeless."

_northernlights replied:
"One thing I learned about growing up with a Dachshunds. They don't understand what personal space is, and even if they did they don't give a f**k."

"My Silver Lab likes tennis balls, my Aussie likes his security blanket, and he suckles on it... ya, I know.

But sometimes the Aussie who is older and still the alpha for a bit longer steals the Ball and gnaws on it in plain sight of the Lab. So the Lab takes his Blanky and flips it around, tosses it in the air playfully, and wraps it around the Aussies head until he just can't stand it anymore. As soon as he snatches his blanky back, the Lab swoops in and steals the Ball back!

And then the zoomie race is on!"

"I have a very very stupid cat and a very smart alpha dog. The cat is in love with the dog and the dog wants to bully her like she does other dogs but the cat literally doesn't learn. The dog finally gave up and lets the cat cuddle and groom her but has a very short temper when it interferes with her naps.

Said dumb cat also has asthma, sometimes causing her to cough in her sleep (not severe, usually completely controlled with inhalers, but she does flare seasonally and takes about a week to get it back under control). Well, it's spring flare time and the dog just can't. She's already cranky my husband is working from home and he interrupts her all-important naps. Well now the cat, usually cuddled up against her sound asleep, is also waking her up.

She has taken to punting said cat off of the couch when it happens. Just straight up "go suffocate somewhere else, will you?" The poor cat looks so confused and hurt, I mean she was in a dead sleep with her favorite creature on the planet, and now she's struggling to breathe, then she's suddenly falling. Then cue me chasing her while scolding the dog, trying to get the cat to take her rescue inhaler, which she hates (I guess the smell is worse than her maintenance inhaler). Meanwhile, the dog has no regrets, none. Will do again."

"We have 4 cats, yesterday I bought one a squeaky mouse toy for his birthday and they all love it. Unfortunately, we had to give them worm medicine yesterday and have to keep them separated. We gave the medicine to the kitten first and put her in the spare room with her food, water, and litter box, but also gave her the toy. Now the other cats are pissed because only she gets to play with the toy."

"Brother/sister Huskies. Dude discovered he can jump his way to the top of a shed out back. Sister can’t and it bugs the s**t out of her. He sits up there and she’ll howl at him.

I think her revenge is laying in front of the dog door. He’ll howl at her to move and she just looks at him."

"Years ago I was taking care of my GF's cat, a female Siamese, Sadie, who violently hated all other female cats.

Enter my (thankfully former) roommates and their big ginger tabby, Chester.

Sadie had never met a male cat before. She hissed for half a second and then immediately warmed up to the big lad. Unfortunately for Sadie and fortunately for everyone else, Chester was neutered long ago and had zero ideas what to do with the sudden attention he was getting."