No cat in the house, but he came to us after wintering on our porch and finally deciding to trust us after being fed for several months.
He used to climb on the back of the couch and perch there for naps. (He was not as big as the dog in the video, but he was no small dog by any measure, so it took some careful balancing.) He also climbed up onto the hood of our cars and the half-wall of our porch which was pretty elevated, so that was risky.
His truly distinctive behavior, though, was answering the phone. We kept coming home to find the bedside phones off the hook and figured my brother was leaving them like that in order to be undisturbed during naps. One day, however, my mother caught the dog lifting the receiver in his mouth.
We had two lines in the house after my brother and I became teenagers, and a friend called and heard the line being picked up, and no one spoke. She called out the dog's name in a scolding voice and was hung up on. She then called the other line which included a wall phone in the kitchen, (that one was never found off the hook), and it rang and rang indicating no one, (or no human), was home.
(I would include images to clue in younger readers as to the phone part that I am mentioning, but my image-posting skills here at DU are hit-or-miss.)
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