51 Stories Of Pets Acting So Human Owners Could Hardly Believe Their Intelligence

My dog rolls her eyes and sighs deeply when she’s not happy, she side eyes company when she wants them to leave. She reacts to every word I say, when I say full sentences, like ‘I’m going to the toilet, do the dishes, and then we’re going to grandma’ she waits until I’m done with the dishes before bolting to the door.

Best thing tho, my dog had to visit the vet a lot when she was younger and she would always get chicken nuggets as reward. One time she needed surgery on her paw so she couldn’t get chicken nuggets because of the anesthesia. The next day she started limping, refused to stand on her paw, kept looking at me with droopy eyes, so I went the vet to check on it. Suddenly she could stand on it, nothing was wrong, even the vet said she was a little drama queen. New bandages and 80 bucks lighter, we went home and she went straight to the freezer, waiting for her chicken nuggets.

My dog which I had as a teenager would escape the garden when my school was out to wait at the school gate for me.

We were at the vets office, which made my old pup anxious. When anxious he would just lick nonstop. Usually his feet, but since he was small and in my arms, it usually ended up being my arm. The vet was talking to me when pup went to lick my face. I told him to stop and he froze with his tongue still sticking out. His face was just inches from mine and we just stared at each other for a bit before he started to slowly move towards me again. Tongue still just sticking out. I told him not to even think about it and he slowly retreated. Kept staring at one another. I told him to put his tongue away. He shook his head no. I told him to do as he was told or he wouldn’t get ice cream on the way home. His tongue immediately went back in his mouth. I told him, “just lay down, you little monster.” And he put his head gently on my chest like a baby. The vet was wide eyed and quietly said, “he’s like a toddler. It’s like he understood every word and did he just say no to you?!” He was a very smart dog, and we always said if he was a human he’d be the snarky witty type.

My dog once watched me make two cheese sandwiches (not knowing I planned to give her the extra cheese after eating) and watched as I went upstairs into my room. Then after a couple of minutes she started barking like crazy (very uncharacteristic of her) prompting me to come down and check if there was something wrong. I looked around couldn't find anything ... and then I noticed that she wasn't in the room with me anymore. Looked for her and what do I find? While I was distracted downstairs she snuck upstairs and helped herself to one of the sandwiches.
She deliberately disctracted me so she could steal one of the sandwiches! I love that dog so much!

When my two cats were kittens, their litter box was in a side room and one day while I was at work, they somehow closed the door. They used the bathtub as the litter box that day and I checked the whole house for 'surprises', but nope only in the bathtub.

So one of my bf's cats is so attached to him she would definitely be the clingy gf, and she literally thinks she is.😂😂the first time i came over she was sitting on the arm of the couch with us and saw us holding hands. This cat literally looks straight at me, put her paw on him, and meowed.💀💀if that isn't acting human-like idk what is. Even today she'll still come up, see us holding hands, and put her paw in with us😂😂.

I don’t think this is out of the ordinary since I’m sure many family dogs have done the same but here is my story. I was a very lonely and troubled teen and my family dog was my big brother (I was only child). I frequently sobbed alone in my room and my parents were out working so there’d be no one else home. I don’t know where my dog learned this but he would just sit in front of me at first and just kind of be there for me to talk to? And then he started to lean onto me and put his head on my chest and eventually as soon as I started feeling upset (I’m assuming he could smell it or something, idk) he would just run up to me and sit on me and basically shove himself (he was a big black Labrador) on me as much as he physically could. I think it was an attempt at a hug but also an attempt to ‘be there’ for me? He was an amazing big brother.
He also would nip my mum’s ankles when she would raise her hand to hit me. She eventually stopped doing that because she was scared he would bite. I count that as a success on my dog’s behalf!

I still miss him daily. He was my bestest friend ever and I’ll always remember him so fondly. The best big brother I ever had and the goofiest big boy and so so so brave. He defended me from a violent dog attack (I tried to defend him but I was too young to really do much) and he was an excellent mentor to his successor family dog too. Sometimes, I swear he learned to talk and he would try to imitate human speech. And since my family speaks two languages, he learned commands and speech in two different languages lol when talking about walks or food we had to speak in different languages every once in a while so he wouldn’t catch on 😆

Miss ya Alfie. I really hope the afterlife is real so I can meet you up there! Until then, Fifi is doing a great job so don’t worry. We still miss you though!!

I don't have a pet of my own but I house sat for my brother for just over two weeks. Their cat on day one would appear just to remind me of food time, but I was on it and always greeted her with a song. By day three she was at the foot of the bed and I accidentally kicked her but immediately apologized and gave her space but in an hour or so she came back and nudged my head, she spent the night and she and I were unseparated through the rest of my time.

This cat has never been friendly with her family but when I visit she comes out and says hi if she hears my voice.

We had a Bichon Frise who was such a charming and interesting dog - He was very social, and would always hangout with us on the couch, but would only sit next to you. If you tried to put him on your lap, he’d immediately squirm off. He was an anti lap dog.

My younger really son loved him. On the day that my son got all his wisdom teeth out, I brought him home and set him up on the couch to recover. He was in a lot of pain and still medicated, so very out of it. The Bichon jumped right up on the couch, climbed up and curled up on his chest for hours. It was the only time that he EVER got up on anyone. It was like he just knew that he’d make my son feel better (and he did).

My cat turns on my husband’s computer when he’s gone.

I have an Australian Kelpie. This dog has stunned me with his intelligence multiple times. When he was a puppy, I attempted to show him how to walk up the stairs for the first time. Stairs were new to him, as he would sit at the bottom and bark and whine when I left him behind.

So one day, he followed me to the stairs and I took one front paw and put it on the first step, followed by the next front paw and said:"Like this, Jovi, you got it."

I'll be damned if this pup didn't run all the way to the top of the staircase and right back down, not missing a step.

He somehow memorized my sister's ringtone. She never changed it from the default setting. That same ringtone was used in commercials for the phone. Everytime he heard it, he'd run to the front door. At 1st, I was like WTH? Then I realized he'd had a very complex pattern of thoughts:

1. He recognized the tone and remembered that it belonged to my sister

2. He was aware that she wasn't home and guessed that she must have just gotten home because he heard her "sound". He then ran to the front door and looked out the window for her. It was kinda spooky TBH.

3. Now, if my sis is working late, he paces to the door every 15 minutes or so because HE KNOWS that she is usually home at that time. The later it gets, the more anxious he becomes. If I hear her key hit the lock before he does, I say:"Check for Auntie" and this dog runs to the door and looks out the window.

Even though I am aware that this could well be me trying to make peace with a difficult situation, but we could have sworn that our bunny knew that he was about to be put to sleep an was ok with it.

We didn’t know that the end was near, and was at the vets for concerning symptoms. An x-ray revealed that he had tumours and needed to be put to rest.

In shock, we spent a good half an hour with him saying goodbye, crying. He was happily climbing and jumping around. But the second the vet came in with the shot, he just lied down, as peaceful as I have ever seen him.

Me, my partner and the vet all felt it. I love an Maia him so much.

My friend's dog used to paw at her bedroom door when he wanted to be let in, and sometimes he'd go inside, fart, and go back outside. That was targeted.

When my cat stretches her little paw out in order to have one hand on me at all times, the same way I stretch out my arm across the bed to reach her, thats fairly mutual. Imo.

My cat gets way less anxious about being alone when I explain to her beforehand what's going on.

We had 2 girls for 8 years together, when one unexpectedly passed away, the other cried and wouldn’t leave the bed (except to go outside) for a week. We had to get her a puppy to get her out of the depression, it was horrible.

My dog will not drink water from his water bowl if the water is not freshly served. He will bark or growl at it until the water is changed.

Our late dog was pretty dang smart. She was a chihuahua toy fox terrier mix. There's a lot of smart things she did; for example, when she thought she was done playing fetch, she'd grab her ball and put it back in her bed. She stole a whole tuna sandwich in record time without leaving a single crumb or making a sound. She walked herself and never got lost, crossed the street alone, or needed a leash... She would walk with us to the grocery store and wait outside until we were done, only crossed the street if we indicated it was safe.

She would come up to you and bark once or twice in a "meaningful" way to indicate she wanted something. Food, play, out, whatever. If you knew her, you could tell what she wanted. My mom was her favorite person, so she always asked my mom first. One time she went up to my mom while she was cleaning the kitchen and barked. My mom said "I'm busy, go ask her" while vaguely looking my way. I was sitting in the other room. Dog walked up to me and repeated the bark. It sounded like she wanted play so I got up to go to the garage. As I was walking out my mom was like, "did you hear that? She understood that perfectly! No way!".

This was 26 years ago, but I had gone through IVF in an attempt to get pregnant. The day the results came, my husband had an urgent work meeting he couldn’t get out of. So I was home alone with our border collie, Molly.

The phone call came, and the news was devastating. I called the important people to let them know and my husband was i his way home after the meeting. Molly got into my lap—would not leave—and let me hold her and rock her like a baby while I sobbed.

I’ll never forget it.

Then another dog, Elvis, assigned himself as my personal protector. My now ex husband had done something that left me with some ptsd, and being in the bathtub had turned from something enjoyable to something terrifying. All the dogs tended to wander in and out while I was bathing except Elvis. The chihuahua would come in and shiver dramatically so I’d hurry up and get out. So one day Elvis was there and I joked with him that he probably wanted me to hurry up and get out of the tub.

He looked at me as if I were an absolute idiot. Then he looked meaningfully at the bathroom door, and then back at me and it clicked. He was guarding me. He’d always slept on my pillow with me, and when that terrible thing happened, he was always by the tub with me until I was through.

I miss my dogs so so much. My ex got to keep the house so he by default got the dogs since I couldn’t have all the dogs in my little apartment. They’re treasures.

Last week my boyfriend was playfully trash talking our kitten. She squared up, moving fast enough to make him jump, and then backed off as if to say "yeah, that's what I thought."

She is six months old. We have NO idea how she leaned to read our tone like that.