What are your pets' weird habits?

The only thing I can think that Scouty does that is weird is that at bedtime, he will go to each of my boys rooms and 'see' if they are in bed before he will go to bed. He walks into their rooms -- about 3-4 steps inside the door -- look, then turn around and come right back out. Then to bed in our room he goes. Its weird.

Edited: we've been empty nesters for almost three years and he still does it.

Daisy, my 13 year old yellow lab, lets my husband know that dinner is ready.
I plate the food on the counter, then bring it over to the table.
As soon as the plate clangs on the table (she's pretty much deaf so I don't know how much she hears-or maybe she just watches)--she barks and looks at him to let him know to get to the table--well and to give her some goodies from the table (because we're bad pet parents:)

That's cute! Don't worry about being bad pet parents, we let our dog sit up on a chair at the dining table with us at dinnertime. He doesn't eat at the table, he just sits there watching everyone, hoping someone will fall for his sad puppy dog eyes and slip him some food. 

My cats stalk me in the evenings, just waiting for me to sit on the couch to watch tv so they can lay on my lap. If I'm not in the family room at what they feel is the appropriate time they will come find me. They wait for me to put a throw blanket on my lap and then pounce. If I sit and don't put the blanket on my lap they get annoyed. Right now I am still in my office and they keep coming in to check on me.

Turriff had so many idiosyncrasies I could be here all day listing them!

When he jumped on the bed at night to sleep beside me, he always made an 'uh-huh' sound when he lay down, as though the bed was just how he wanted it. 

He would wake me in the morning by slamming his front paws on to the mattress to make me bounce in the bed. 😄

Whenever I would shout up to DS in his bedroom to come and do something for me, Turriff would wait to see if he appeared. If DS didn’t come down within a minute, Turriff would go and sit beside him in his room, staring at him intently until DS got up and came downstairs. We called him my "enforcer". 

He was a good boy and never stole food. However, he would frequently wake me up during the night to tell me DS had left pizza on the kitchen worktop (or ham, or a bit of sandwich, or any kind of food really.) He would get me to go downstairs by lying, telling me he needed to pee, but then would walk past the front door and take me to the kitchen, indicating the food excitedly with his nose, so that I could witness the torment he was dealing with. 

He was a real character! 😊

This little friend starts following me around an hour before dinner. She will carry her bowl and if I sit down, she throws it at me. If that doesn't work, she'll get the other dog's bowl and throw that. If she is out of water, she'll grab that one too. You never have to wonder what she is thinking.
4-22-20 Harley Bowl Back Door by Nancy Tim, on Flickr

This is not my pet, but my daughter's cat. They lived with us for almost 2 years. Her sweet little guy has the weirdest habit about water. Our water bowl is two sided. One side can be completely full and the other side empty, and he will freak out and scratch and scratch at the empty side and not drink any water until both sides are full. It's hilarious, and I would love to know what is going through his little mind. LOL

Toby our shih tzu demands an ice tax anytime anyone uses the ice dispenser on the fridge. He could be sound asleep and will pop up, run over, sit and wait to be paid.

Sushi sleeps on my head and grooms me while I fall asleep. He loves the licky tube treats but will only eat them if I squeeze it on to a saucer then hold the saucer for him. He loves sitting on my shoulders and being carried around. There is a tiny chance he's a bit spoilt

My dog loved ice cubes. But not in her water, and not to crunch... Just to carry around. She always came running as soon as she heard the freezer door open (even if we weren't in the freezer for ice, lol...she came just to check). We'd give her an ice cube and she'd walk around the house with it, holding it in her mouth. Sometimes she'd lie down but still keep in in her mouth. Eventually she'd swallow it, or it would melt. I don't know how her mouth didn't freeze. 

She's up on the Rainbow Bridge politely taking any ice cubes anyone offers her.

I don't have plans right now. If we get a puppy now that is 2am outings in the cold. I did that with Scout and kept thinking I should wait until it is warmer for a new one. It will be a pound puppy or rescue. Scout is Catahoula/Husky. I would love a full blood Husky but I don't want the escape artist of a Husky. I would love a Golden Retriever. And then I think how nice my floors have looked in the past couple of weeks with no extra dog bunnies laying around. There is a stray cat(I think) here at the church. While I don't want a cat I can't stand the thought of it alone outside. My DD thinks I should try and catch it. That Scout needs someone who will put him in his place.   I just know we probably can't wait too long as he is slightly jealous of my grandpuppies when we are together. He likes them, he plays with them, he just doesn't like them to snuggle with his momma. So a new puppy could take awhile for him to get used to. But he does need a younger one to play with.

Our dog Pepper is obsessed with chasing a ball. If you throw it he will bring it back to you for hours if he could. but he won't let you take it from his mouth. And he won't drop it at your feet if you are standing, you must sit in a chair. And then he will carefully place it in the most inconvenient location directly underneath and in the middle of the chair so you can't get to it easily lol. If he has a ball inside, he will play with it by carefully placing it at the very edge of the couch until it inevitably rolls under the couch and then he paws and whines until we get up and get it for him. He can also stand on his back legs longer than any dog I've ever seen! He is the quirkiest but smartest and most loving dog I've ever had and a very spoiled member of our family!

Our dog likes to dismember her stuffed toys and keep the body parts as trophies, like some kind of serial killer. So when she sleeps in our bed she’s got a big pile of wings, tails, arms and legs she likes to surround herself with.

I just thought of another weird thing my dog does as he was doing it. He likes to lick the couch over and over. There's nothing on the couch to lick other than the couch itself but he'll do this over and over until I tell him to stop licking the couch!