Pet Owners Share Hilarious Stories Of Paying The Vet… Just To Find Out Their Pets Are Weird

January 7, 2026

Sometimes pets keep us on our toes… and sometimes they just keep us laughing — and spending.

A cat owner recently shared a story that quickly went viral online: “Spent $110 at the vets thinking there’s something wrong, to find out he’s just weird.”

bear_witness123 on Reddit says his cat pees in the sink

He had taken his feline friend in for a check-up after repeated sink-peeing incidents, fearing a urinary tract infection. But the verdict? Nothing was wrong. Turns out, his cat simply enjoys peeing in the sink — because, well… why not?

After sharing the story online, hundreds of other pet owners chimed in with their own hilarious, expensive, moments.

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I thought my cat was developing arthritis as she's getting up there in age and was getting extra grumpy. She was also getting really picky about her food and started taking over blankets. Diagnosis many many dollars later: She is just a b**ch who knows what she wants in her old age.

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I sympathize. I spent thousands at the vet trying to understand why my dog did weird things until they took me aside and quietly told me he’s “developmentally delayed”.

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I once spent $700 to find out my dog needed to fart. She let it out in the exam room after her stomach made some disturbing noises. Last words the vet said during the visit were “Jesus Christ…”

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Omg my dog used to tip toe through grass and looked visibly sick every time I took him outside. He would gag and sometimes even throw up bile. Took him to MULTIPLE vets MULTIPLE times… until finally one vet was like “can you send us a video everyday for 7 days at different times of the day what he does outside? Try to go to different areas of him to potty. Record your walks leading up to the gagging and what happens after” We were thinking he had a major grass allergy or someone was pouring some weird shit on my lawn that made him react like this. He just doesn’t like grass.

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My dog was coughing and like licking his lips intensely then next thing I know there’s food around him. I thought he was sick. Turns out my dog likes to store food in his cheeks like a chipmunk and will spit out a piece or two when he wants a snack.

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Before we met, my wife got a cat that constantly bumped into the coffee table and always seemed to hit everything around her. My wife then took her in to get checked out if she was blind. The vet said her vision is fine, "but I think she's just kind of...dumb".

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I can relate. I found a strange lump on my cat's chest and thought he had cancer. Turns out he just has "really weird nipples".

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Took the tortoise to the vet because he wouldn't stop trying to eat rocks. Ran tests for deficiencies. Diagnosis: dumb.

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We spent like 200 bucks a couple months ago to find out my cat ate a stinkbug and got really nauseous/disoriented and walked in circles for 10 hours straight until she was so exhausted she couldn’t walk anymore 🙂 I totally didn’t have a massive freakout and was convinced she was gonna die.

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Got a white cat, seemed to have trouble hearing. Lots of white cats are deaf, so off to the vets. He was diagnosed A**hole. He was just ignoring us.

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That’s chump change. Wife and I spent over 1K at the emergency vet one weekend because our cat kept throwing up and we didn’t know what was wrong with him. Turns out he was just upset about our recently acquired second cat.

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my dog limped for 2 days when my parents came back home after 2 weeks away, we thought he injured himself so bad but had to wait till vets opened. Soon as we walked in the vet he started jumping around and he had a bad case of “ you weren’t paying attention to me enough cos family was over-itis”

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These tales are a great reminder that pets are full of personality — sometimes expensive, sometimes confusing, but always entertaining.