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My cat is kinda like that. She's been mine her whole life (12 years), but she's just a pain more and more as she gets older. Similar to your dog, she wants to be on top of me most of the time, except she uses her claws to hold on so it's even awesomer. She wants to be petted all the time, but when you pet her, she's that typical cat who only likes it her way, plus she just randomly bites you sometimes while you're petting her. It's like she needs to pretend she doesn't like it or something? And she wakes me up in the middle of the night a LOT, laying on my pillow and whacking me in the head with her tail, or just meowing. And of course she sheds, which our dogs don't so if we didn't have her we wouldn't have to deal with pet hair.

We've looked into getting rid of her, but have never found anyone willing to take her, including no-kill shelters. She's honestly sweet, minus the random bites which aren't really hard enough to hurt, just SO needy. Anyone in TN need a really clingy cat?

I have no tips on getting to like your dog better, but I totally empathize with the feeling!

We just have one pet, a dog that I adopted 6+ years ago and, for the most part, she's great. I don't like any of my sisters dogs though (she has 4 large dogs). They are super territorial and often aggressive. It always makes me nervous when we have to go there and visit.

I have never been a dog person and it took a solid 6 months before I really cared about him at all. Even after that it wasn't the way some people love their dogs. Right now we are becoming better friends because I have made a point to walk him daily and do training work or games with him daily. He likes me more now too which helps.

So I guess my advice is don't worry about it too much, time helps but walks and training games help too. I kept thinking giving him lots of treats would make us bond better but that definitely did nothing for us.

I have a cat that I am not too fond of. He's really old and just getting to be yukky... I wasn't very fond of him whenhe was younger either BUT he's mine and I am responsible for taking care of him until the end.... I just wish he'd stop carrying litter ALL over the place and stop destroying my house

I hate myself for saying this but I like our dogs a heck of a lot less since having DD. I still love them but that is very much outweighed by all the responsibilities they bring - particularly the poop; I want a lovely garden for DD to play in and their pee and poop antics make that virtually impossible. We built them a "run" (they have the run of the garden while we're watching - so we can poop pick immediately - but the run is for when we're not watching!) but that takes up most of the patio which also irks me. I feel awful for saying it but I kinda wish we didn't have them!

I went through a very, very tough time with my one cat about 18 months ago. She is 9 and she was attacking our younger cat who is 5. It was becoming so hard that my husband and i were sleeping in separate rooms, in a tiny apartment, so that neither one of them had to be alone while they were separated.

We always had the option to bring her back to the ASPCA we got her from (they do "take backs" for life) but it killed me to think of her all alone in a cage even though i couldnt freakin stand the way she was acting.

We brought a pet therapist to my apartment and we eventually got her on prozac. I'm glad we stuck it our but there was a long time that i really didn't like her and was actually scared of her.

I wouldn't necessarily call it dislike but our cat has been driving me crazy ever since we brought LO home 2 months ago. He has been attacking us (not viciously...more playful like) more and more and leaving marks (I think this is related to too much energy...we haven't had as much time to play with him) and he has started peeing on things. He peed on some clothes in LO's room and on a rug in the kitchen. I was pissed about the clothes because I think he peed on them because they smelled like LO. He has acted out about the baby more than the dog did! I have actually debated sending him to my parents because of his behavior, which is something I never thought I would do. I think things have gotten better over the last week though...and he's not allowed in LO's room anymore (we bought a baby gate for the door). Hopefully he starts to chill out a bit!

I don't like DH's dog. He's a golden retriever/husky mix and sheds buckets of hair. It's everywhere and it makes me insane. No matter how much I mop, sweep, vacuum, brush him... It's covering LO. Ugh.