Best Pet Stories Post

The Pet Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.

1. Nobody Trained Duke to Do This. He Just Knew My Seizures Were Coming.

   The neurologists did not believe me at first. I understand why. What I was describing sounded like the kind of thing people want to be true.…

   178 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story

2. The Dog Kept Nosing the Same Spot on My Wife. It Was Cancer.

   I am not a superstitious man. I spent thirty years as an electrician and I believe in things I can measure. But I owe my wife's life to a do…

   176 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story

3. My Cat Would Not Let Me Sleep. My Heart Was Failing and I Didn't Know.

   I am seventy-one years old and I live alone, and there is a particular fear that comes with that, the one where you wonder who would even kn…

   173 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story

4. My Cat Would Not Stop Screaming at the Wall. It Was Carbon Monoxide.

   People who do not like cats always tell me cats do not love you, they just tolerate you for food. I used to half believe it. Then Marmalade …

   171 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story

5. My Dog Grabbed My Toddler by the Diaper Right at the Edge of the Pool

   I have gone over those fifteen seconds more times than I can count, and every time I land in the same place, which is that I do not have a t…

   168 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story

6. The Night Biscuit Barked Us Out of a Burning House

   I want to say up front that Biscuit was not a smart dog. She was a beagle, and if you have ever owned a beagle you know that they run on nos…

   164 Upvote · 71% of readers believe this story

7. Twelve Pounds of Terrier Stood Between Me and a Man in My Kitchen

   Everyone always laughs when they meet Pickle, because Pickle is a twelve-pound terrier mix with one ear that stands up and one that flops, a…

   159 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story

8. Our Dog Knew I Was Pregnant Before the Test Did

   My husband still tells this story at dinner parties and I still let him, because it is genuinely the strangest thing that has happened to us…

   156 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story

9. The Barn Cat Who Herded Us to Shelter Before the Tornado Hit

   On a farm you learn to read animals, because they read the world before you do. The cows get restless before a storm. The chickens go quiet.…

   149 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story

10. The Morning My Late Grandmother's Cat Sat on the Empty Chair and Waited

    I do not know what I believe about most things, but I know what I saw, and I have stopped trying to explain it to people who need everything…

    143 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story

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