15 Stories That Prove Life Without a Furry Friend Is Eternal Boredom

Pets are not just fun — they’re amazing stress-busters, too. Whether it’s a dog wagging its tail, a cat purring in your lap, or even a bird singing softly, they have a magical way of calming our minds. With them around, life is not only exciting but also more peaceful and less stressful. Who needs boredom or worry when you have a furry friend by your side?

• My cat wanted to jump up onto the window sill, which is not a very high of a leap, but my cat is fat and lazy. I’m sitting on the couch and I see him pre-jump-wiggle and make his decision. Well, I was in the way and he tried to leap over me, onto the couch, and then up to the window. He missed his mark, scratched out of my leg, and plowed face first into the wall beneath the window with a thunderous boom. He quickly ran away and I didn’t see him for hours. © Extrasherman / Reddit
• When my cat thinks I’m not paying attention to her (like I’m in another room, taking a shower, eating, on the phone) , she’ll grab a toy in her mouth and walk around crying with it until I (or another lesser human substitute) acknowledges her efforts. She’ll leave them outside of the shower, on my pillow, at the front door, etc. This behavior has always been really cute and sweet but last month she brought me an actual mouse in the middle of the night. © strawberrymooon / Reddit
• Our cat has a very strict rule: no phones in bed. If she sees the phone glowing after turning the light off for the night, she will wedge herself between the screen and your face and refuse to move until you switch it off and put it away. © goodhonestirony / Reddit
• I have a dog and a cat. Both of them are friends, but they don’t want us to think they are friends. Whenever the cat is sleeping, the dog will walk past, giving him a walk-by licking, absolutely slobbering the cat. So, the cat will wake up, with his wet hair sticking straight up, and the dog will be nowhere in sight. The cat will even have a look on his face when he wakes up like, “What’s happening?” © cheechsfeist / Reddit

“Her face after destroying a roll of toilet paper.” © the_skintellectual / Reddit

• I lost my cat one day. I could hear her meowing when I called her name, but she sounded muffled and far away. Finally, after checking behind or underneath everything, I decided to check up the chimney because you never know. There she was, neatly loafed on the narrow ledge partway up the chimney. We regularly had fires, it was covered in soot and so was she. I gave her a bath. She didn’t talk to me for almost a week! © Lunar_Raccoon / Reddit
• Every dog has a way they communicate that they need to go outside. For my previous dog, a toy poodle, it was walking up to you and barking once. Well, one day we were all watching a movie when she walks in the room and barks. I get up to let her outside, but she just jumps up and lays on my chair. She made me get up so she could steal my seat. © DrCrucible / Reddit
• My dog is obsessed with my underwear and always pulls them out of the laundry basket. Last winter, we had a bunch of snow that didn’t melt for a couple of weeks, and when it finally melted, what did I find? 3 pairs of my underwear, chilling in the backyard for everyone to see. © starsinursa / Reddit

“Dog is broken. Doesn’t know how to sit on seat cover.” © andimattone / Reddit

• My cat Dobby likes to sleep with me, preferably on my legs or snuggled up close to my face. He also happens to wake up before I do and tries to wake me up to let me know he has to be fed. Apparently, I had been sleeping with my mouth open and I woke up to Dobby, his whole front paw in my mouth and he’s giving me the most evil of cat glares. I was 2 hours late for breakfast. © Unknown author / Reddit
• My Husky/Newfoundland mix is the smartest jerk I’ve ever met. When chewing something he knows he’s not supposed to have, he’ll place a proper toy over it, so when I catch him chewing on the wrong thing he’ll casually switch to the toy like he was chewing it all along. He also decided he likes walking along the back of the couch like a cat, and even sleeping there, despite being about 70 pounds. © Unknown author / Reddit
• My girlfriend’s basset really liked when I came to her house, and would start howling every time she heard the double beep of my car’s remote lock. Fast forward a couple of years, we (me and the girlfriend) are married, and the basset has just moved with us to our new home. I was taking her (the dog) on-leash to inspect her new territory when my car (forgot who was driving it) pulled up to park. And then came the beep beep noise. My dog was beside herself with excitement because I was coming to visit. Nothing I did could convince her that I was actually standing beside her and holding her leash. So, I asked my wife to hold the leash, walked around to the back of the house and then back from the direction of the garage. Dog was finally convinced I was there. © tower_dweller / Reddit
• I woke up one morning. The first thing I saw was my cat staring at me. Then I noticed she was staring at me from the window ledge. Then I noticed a huge hole in the curtain that covered up my room and the world outside. She’s staring at me through the big hole she created with that “What are you going to do about it?” look. © Mr_Brown_Pants / Reddit

“My cat got his head stuck in a bag of crackers. But then he retreated to the sink full of dirty dishes.” © basicpn / Reddit

• When my cat was a kitten, she used to latch onto your ear and act like she was sucking milk. If you let her anywhere near your ear, she’d try. I wouldn’t let her, so she started doing it when I was sleeping. I’d wake up to her sucking on my ear lobe and kneading my face. © blaiir- / Reddit
• I was a cat sitter in England and lived in the owners’ place. They said not to let the cat go to the balcony — he would run away. And the cat is valuable, with relatives in Buckingham Palace. He escaped through a crack in the window. 2 days passed, and he was nowhere to be seen. I nearly went gray. Finally told the owner about it, and was blown by her reply. She said, “He still managed to run away? Well, no worries, he does that a lot. He’ll come back!” He did come back.
• One of my cats likes to get my attention by meow/whining, which means I am supposed to follow him. When I do, he will look back every few seconds to make sure that I am. It is usually to “show” me something that he finds unsatisfactory. Usually, it’s the state of the litter boxes as he has to share with his two brothers. Once, however, I got a new shower curtain in my bathroom. He repeatedly led me to where I had balled up the old shower curtain (near the trash in my bathroom) and would cry. Even after the old shower curtain was long gone, he would lead me to the bathroom, stare at the new shower curtain, then look at me and meow in protest. © Unknown author / Reddit

Being a pet owner is one of the coolest things ever. You get to have a loyal fluffy best friend who’s always there for you, no matter what. Plus, being a pet owner means you’re part of a special community of animal lovers who just get it.