Mistakes I have made with my dog, and yours too!

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A lighthearted thread please, please!

Thanks to you lot I nearly fogrot to feed my poor dogs tonight.

I also managed to leave my uncompaining, never barking old big boy out in the rain for 15 minutes having let the dogs out for a 'quick' pee in the garden. I thought I'd counted them in. I was wrong.

And I recently absent-mindedly gave medication to the wrong dog. Cue hugely agitated call to my vet who fortunately reassured me that medicated dog was on a very low theraputic dose and that as wrongly medicated dog is a big one it would do no harm.

Note to self: Don't multi-task. It doesn't work in your favour.

I spent ages looking for my dog one day, calling his name, running upstairs, even looked in the cupboard under the stairs.

I know that he cant open the doors, I know he wouldnt jump the garden fence (he could but has never done so) I know he probably isnt dextrous enough to open the stairgates... so how can you lose a 40Kg GSD in a house?

The only place I hadnt checked was the downstairs loo - yes that is where he was, he had gone in, nudged the door and shut himself in. Didnt have the sense to bark or even squeak, just sat there staring at the door waiting to be rescued.

Funny thread!

Mistakes I made? Got a dog. Lab. Lovely calm placid dog. I am not one for interacting a lot with her so I thought she might be lonely. Got another dog. Black lab. From same breeder. Due to previous calm dog. This time we got lab crossed with forgetful kangaroo. She doesn't just jump. She bounces and pirouettes in the air. She forgets no food or treat till she is sitting. She forgets no jumping. She forgets lead doesn't come off till she is sitting. She is a year old now and still forgets all this every sodding day. Thick as two short planks she is.

Wakes me at 5.30am every morning. If I don;t get up and come down she now barks till I do. So I do as I don't want her waking DS at that time.

She is very cute though. Which is the only reason she is still alive.

Years ago I worked for a family who had a lovely young yellow lab.
I made a chocolate sponge cake and left it to cool ( Stoopid I know).
Lab came crawling across the kitchen with her little face all crumpled - mystery of the cake- with- a -massive- bite- out- of -it solved !

Didn't tell her off because I reckoned it was my fault for leaving it there and she vomited it up later.Nice!

Yay, the dog confessional!

The other day I was walking the hound and clipped his extending lead on as I wasn't sure if another dog was over the hill. Then my phone rang. I had phone in one hand as dog started to circle to toilet, but somehow got the lead wedged under his tail, so the more he circled the more string he got across his bottom until he was in a kind of cats-cradle dog nappy I only had one hand (and an important client on the other end of the phone!), so I was frantically running around him in circles to catch up with the lead and untangle him before he pooed all over it, all the while trying to agree a deadline and not yell 'Don't crap, don't crap!'

Dog looked so humiliated by the whole episode he refused to go at all, or for the next 3 hours

Coffee, my GSD and yours must be brothers! I have a silent one too (but they always say that GSD are vocal! Another 'breed myth'!) who got himself shut in the loo by going in and whacking the door shut behind himself when I was fast asleep one night. The first I knew of it was when I searched for him, also wondering how the feck you could lose a 40kg Shep in a secured house, and discovering him silently sitting in the loo surrounded by much ripped up loo roll!

I was on mumsnet working in my study and sort of knew Daisy was chewing something. Hoped it was the bone she had been carrying around earlier. When I looked around I realised it was the iron - luckily not plugged in. She completely severed the cord.
On a larger scale I did everything wrong in my acquisition of Daisy.
Got a puppy.
Chose her with my kids "helping." Also with my sister in law and her kids choosing a puppy from the same litter. Complete chaos and to be honest I think I partly chose Daisy because I saw SIL eyeing her.
Novice dog owner got a puppy with a border collie mother.
Bought her in the same week that FIL was dying and we were all in grief and chaos.
Luckily we all love her , have put lots of effort into training and socialising her and it was time fora new armchair anyway.