What is the dumbest pet you ever had in your life?

Question

I had 2 and it's hard to choose between them. This is about the dog. As a teen, we had this black Lab mix whose name was Troubles because he looked like he had the trouble of the world on his shoulders. My sister had a Amazon parrot. The parrot would yell "Help! Help! Help" and the dog would run to see what the bird was yelling about, then the bird would shut up. The bird got the dog to do this all darn day. Also, my dad had a, um, gas problem. He'd pass the foulest gas and blame it on the dog. The dog would look at his own behind, hang his head, and get up and move away. He was also raised with a cat, and they'd play chase. As they grew, the cat figured out she could run under the couch. The dog would follow and get stuck. Every single time. The cat could get the dog to play this dumb game every single day.

Answer 1

When I was living in Sardinia (large item off the west coast of Italy) I was walking on the hills side and found a WILD ROCK. It seemed friendly, so I picked him up and took him home. He was no trouble but when I called him (named him ROCKY 10), he wouldn't come. But he WAS useful. He'd hold the door open in the strongest wind. He also gave the weather report: I'd feel him and if he was warm, it was hot out, if he was damp, it had rained, if he was cool to the touch, it was a cold day, if there was snow (there never was) I would know it had snowed. One day I noticed he wasn't holding the door as well as usual. He seemed a bit sad. So, reluctantly I picked him up and carried him back to the hillside over looking the Mediterranean and Corsica across the Straits of Bonafaccio.
When I left him, I looked back and he seemed a bit happier and brighter.
My youngest brother's girlfriend DID have a stupid dog. His name was BEAR and my mom had a parakeet who actually talked. When BEAR would come into the house, MAGGIE would call HERE BEAR! HERE BEAR! PRETTY, PRETTY BEAR! and Bear would run up to the cage wagging his tail with his tongue hanging out. Maggie would DROP on that dog, and Bear would try to get under the couch from Maggie! He NEVER learned!

Answer 2

We had a white pit bull. Dumbest dog ever. He would run beside the kids bikes and run right into a tree. Almost knocked himself out. Another time the kids were playing under the car port because it was raining. The dog was in the yard and started running (fast). Ran onto the concrete floor of the carport and starting sliding and rammed into the brick wall. You could throw a ball for him to retrieve and he wouldn't watch were he was going and run into the side of the house or car.. Really the dumbest animal we have ever had.

Answer 3

We had two. One was an Easter chick that grew into a bird-brain of a rooster who would attack you for no reason what-so-ever. He particularly hated me for some reason, and I, naturally, ended up being his keeper - or to be more PC, his caregiver. He finally died of old age but was an idiot until the end.

The second pet who was more dopey than dumb was Bandit, our ferret. We usually kept him in a large cage in the back yard but often let him in to run around and pester the cats. When we did, things started to disappear around the house. Little things like the bath tub stopper, combs, pencils, cigarette lighters, etc. Later we found all this stuff under the stereo in the living room along with a stash of cat food.

Bandit somehow got out of his cage one cold December night and disappeared. My son and I searched the neighborhood in the dark and the next day but couldn't find him. Three weeks later we heard a noise at the aluminum storm door on the patio. It was Bandit. We let him in and he took up where he left off as if nothing had happened.

I really enjoyed Bandit even though I had to take care of him and he would regulary bite and hold on to tender between finger flesh until you thumped him in the nose and he also had a rather funky odor. All-in-all though he was a lot of fun to have around. He just about drove the cats crazy. They just couldn't get over him and would take off like maniacs when he headed toward them.

Answer 4

I had a German Shorthaired Pointer female...and she must have missed the line entirely when they were passing out the "smarts".

If you gave her tail just one yank, she would spin around like a super-charged top trying to catch that tail, and then when she started to slow down, all you had to do was give it another little yank and off she'd go again! On and on and on until she finally wore herself out entirely and collapsed.

Once a month or so, I would make "head cheese" out of pork hocks...boiled for anywhere from 4 to 6 hours with a couple of tablespoons of vinegar to leach the "gelatin" out of the bones.

And all those bones went to the dog as her treat. The trouble is, if you gave them to her on the kitchen floor (in the winter) on a rubber boot mat to keep them contained, the cat would race to those bones before the dog could, and crouch over them and GROWL every time the dog came near. And if she dared to stick her nose in close, it got immediately raked. All she would do is whine.

I would finally have to grab the CAT (who always growled at me too) and lock her in the cloak room so that the dog could gnaw on her bones in peace...the funny thing is, that the cat wouldn't EAT anything off the bones....she just didn't want the dog to have them!

Answer 5

My husband and I use to raise exotic birds, Macaws, Cockatoos, African Grey's, Scarlet Macaws and so on. My personal pet was named Coco and she was a beautiful white Cockatoo, you know like the Beretta bird. Coco's favorite thing to do was to dismantle things, like the remote controls, telephone buttons and buttons off of the couch. This bird was like living with a giant termite!! She was so beautiful yet so destructive.
That is a riot about your Dad with gas and blaming it on the dog. The dog sniffing his own behind, hang his head and move away. Ha hahahahaha

Answer 6

Your pets sound hilarious. A few of the answers to your question are quite good also. I am a dog person and grew up with talking birds and dogs but must confess my dumbest pet was my second husband. He always made up statistics off the top of his head and quoted as if they were gospel to make a point. It worked on a young girl but alas we all grow up. I guess he was counting on me remaining dumbs as a box of rocks or childishly immature.

Answer 7

ROFLOL!!! I like your story! LOL
Okay, yes, I had a standard poodle! Dumbest dog in the world! I was pregnant with my second child and that dog would keep me bending over to get socks...whatever he chose to steal from my dirty clothes basket! I did everything I knew to do to keep him out of those clothes! Nothing worked!

Then, he really did it! He knocked over my older daughter by trying to get to the door first! It put a huge knot on her little forehead and I was mad! So, out went the dog!

We lived in an apartment complex at the time and so, I had to keep an eye on the goofy thing as he was my responsibility. So, I was sitting on the step, outside our bldg. and I watched that dog so sniff a female and walked away! He then went over and sniffed a male dog! Bingo! He tried to mount the boy dog! That was the last straw for me!

He had been a gift from my hubby and I told hubby that the darn dog had to go! I told him that the stupid dog couldn't even tell a female from a male! lol Now, in hindsight, I think he was just simply gay and had made a choice. Perhaps, I was the dumb one? Not sure, but...I bid goodbye to that dog as hubby drove away with him and never once regretted it either!

Answer 8

Had only one truly stupid dog in my life...a Llaso Apsa.(spelling???)..that absolutely could not be house broken, no matter how patient I was, no matter what crate I used...the damned dog would go and sit in it...have never seen that in another animal. She ran away, I didn't go looking for her, and found out later that a pair of older women had found her, taken her in, and gave her a great home....better them than me.
As for your dad, that reminds me of an OLD joke...I am sure you know the joke :-)
And I must say, you are right..your doggie did not learn very quickly, did he? My Standard Poodles would do these things the first time, but NEVER again! These dogs learn far too much far too qucikly...you can fool them once, but not again!

Answer 9

My husband had a captivating row of tomato flora and a fine looking backyard with patio fixtures and each thing. We have been so proud. Our toddler Chocolate Lab at 4 months previous destroyed each and every thing in a be counted of two hours. each and all the tomato flora have been ripped out of their pots and rolled around the deck, the fixtures grew to become into ripped to shreds and he or she even made her thank you to the very back of the valuables and ate my pumpkin that grew to become into with regards to the dimensions of a basketball. i grew to become into extremely astonished that one tiny domestic dog could make that massive a multitude! After that I signed up for dogs Obedience and worked along with her for 3 years. She's 8 now and a surprising puppy.

Answer 10

LOL your srories are GREAT!

When I split with my Ex-husband I kept his dog. My ex was abusive to our animals as well as my daughters and myself, and I wasn't going to let him hurt any of us!

This poor dog was crazy, I thought that time would help. As the months went on it just kept getting worse. Her name is REO and she is lab/pit mix. She would be running around the house and run into the desk or wall look at it then run into it again. Our rottweiler couldn't stand REO either and the rottweiler would dig holes along the fence just big enough for REO to get out. REO didn't run away though. She would go over to the neighbor’s yard and still anything and everything she could get back through the hole.

REO was scarred of almost everybody but my daughters and me. When anyone would come over she would hide. One day one of my cousins came to the house for the first time. REO came out of hiding and crawled up into my cousin’s lap and it was like they had been friends for ever. I ended up giving REO to my cousin and they have been living happily together ever since! My rottweiler never dug another hole until the day she died and my ex served jail time for all the bad things he did.