How has your adolescent dog embarrassed you in public?

[Bupster]

We got gently asked to leave our training class early yesterday, because my ten-month-old puppy was so insane, and barking at a poo bag he thought was a cat. The only thing that's really helped has been hearing stories of other appallingly behaved young dogs. My hairdresser told me that he took a shower the other week and his one-year-old Vizla ate the armchair. I told this story to a colleague, who said his year-old Lab ate her own collar while she was wearing it.

What terrible embarrassing things has your young dog done? Please, I need these stories for my sanity.

My son’s adolescent puppy was in the boot of his hatchback car (a sports version Honda Civic) where my son had bought those bars between the rear passenger seat and the boot.

He drove the car for about 25 minutes on a very hilly, winding road to a beach, so had to concentrate on the challenging drive. When he parked he discovered that his dog had chewed the back of the seats all along the top where the headrests are. It was utterly destroyed. The pup was cross that he couldn’t sit on or next to my son whilst he was driving and had already chewed through a doggy seat belt harness.

He now has to drive with the dog in a crate and incredibly was able to trade his Honda in for a newer car at the main dealership.

On another occasion my son - who works from home - was busy upstairs on his computer and on calls. He thought his puppy was fast asleep…well this pup woke up and decided to amuse himself by chewing through the cushions on his sofa. The stuffing was everywhere! He had to buy another sofa (secondhand).

My son was initially adamant that he wasn’t going to crate train his pup but he was so glad that he relented in the end and it was a costly lesson for him! His dog (now 18 months) is quite happy to be in his crate as I guess it’s his ‘safe space’.

Not a funny one, but at eleven months my dog, part saluki, decided to lean into her independence, and in a public enclosed field refused to come anywhere near me. It took nearly an hour to get her back, and involved playing a squeaky sound from my phone, hiding my phone in a bush, and pouncing on her. Same field, she did it again even though I was armed with various premium treats plus toys, and dogs plus owners came in and out, watching me bemused trying everything to get her back. After the third time (this time when with her brother, which I thought would help—it didn't), I didn't let her off a lead for months.

She grew out of it thank god, but a few weeks ago I let her off in the same field and she tried to do the same bloody thing. Luckily she hesitated at one point and I got her back, but we're never going in there again.

My boy (yes, him of the stealing a pre-cooked bacon roll off the counter in the coffee shop!!!!) once tiddled on his own mother in public. She was sniffing something with him and he suddenly just cocked his leg and pissed on her head. Not just a little scent mark either, but a proper stream.

He's also tried to hump my husbands leg at Charring Cross, in the middle of rush-hour, after not seeing my husband for 6 weeks. Trying to get him onto a train, still mid-hump, was not as amusing as it sounds like it should be.

He is a daily reminder of why I usually don't keep the boys from my litters.

Mine refused to do anything for the dog trainer, never got the memo of how to behave. On one occasion she got so excited, she jumped up and humped her. We never went back!

When my dog was a youngster, I took her up to the park as a WW2 Lancaster Bomber was scheduled to fly over our area. There were loads of people there, some with dogs. As the plane went over the only dog that barked it's head off at the plane was mine. I was so busy trying to quieten her down I only saw the tail end of the plane as it disappeared.😂

Our beagle stole someone's bacon sandwich out of their hand once. DH was absolutely mortified. Luckily I was in a shop at the time and so I could easily pretend it was nothing to do with me

That's fabulous. I did once know someone who lived next door to a pub, with a cat that would burgle food off people's plates in the beer garden. I'd forgotten that till now.

Wouldn’t partake in the recall activity in the training class because she was too busy lying down eating mud. By my feet. Never even got to the stage of putting her somewhere else so I could call her back.

Ate a gearstick. Car got towed.

Not just adolescent behaviour as he's been doing it since we got him, but my dog stalks people as they walk along the road watching them intently and silently judging them if they walk past him - even if on the other side of the road - until they are out of sight. It's a,aging how many seem to feel uncomfortable 🤣

Christ my dog is 7 and still embarrasses me...yesterday a case in point. Refused to come back in our local park...admittedly he thinks it's his private field and sat 'arroing' repeatedly at another dog Walker who once gave him a biscuit.
Came back to me then only ran off and repeated behaviour. Went deaf to recall so I had to do walk of shame to get him all the whilst 2 other dog owners had put their dogs on leads (mine wouldn't touch a fly) and looked at me on disgust.

Or the time a woman bent to stroke him whereby he promptly spun around and pissed up her leg...ffs

@LandSharksAnonymous don't tell me.... you got a golden?

Not embarrassing for me but definitely for him.... my boy has learned how to cock his leg so he lifts it so high that he almost loses his balance. Extra points for when he tries it on a slope.

Our middle cat brings all sorts back home - last week it was a tub of mushy peas from someone's chippy, previously it was some spare ribs

Did a poo in the middle of the lovely local independent bookshop .

In his (very minor) defence, the whole floor was carpeted in astroturf....

SO MORTIFIED

Getting older hasn’t reduced their embarrassing moments!!

one dog ate my sun glasses
one dog ate my skirting board

one dog barks like a dickhead for the duration of the walk

one dog rolled down a hill with a young toddler licking his face each time his face appeared- I was horrified. Kid had a great time

they frequently fuck off on walks and come back when they like so off lead is limited

oh and one of my two darling dogs managed to escape a fully enclosed field 🤦🏼‍♀️

every day there is something!!

I have four 😁

I can win this.

Took my giddy adolescent lab to a Labrador meet up. He was going through a humping phase, I was keeping a beady eye on him while everyone relaxed as their dogs played nicely. I turned my back for a couple of seconds and heard gasps, I look round and my lab is humping into the face of a younger lab and managed to ejaculate on him. Needless to say we did not stay the full hour.

My darling girl ate socks as a puppy and adolescent. Not just chewed them but swallowed them and they passed out of the other end as 'sock poos'.

We reckon, conservatively she's had at least 100 pass through her body.

We were at a gathering / group walk for her breed, at the beach, when she started to poo out one of the socks she'd previously eaten, but got distracted by a stick part way through, so ran off down the beach with this REALLY long sock poo dangling out of her bum.

Mortifying.

It’s things like this that get mn angry about dogs everywhere. Are there usually dogs in the book shop? I love my dogs but it’s just not somewhere it would occur to me to take them.

Just laughed so hard I actually cried 😂😂😂

Oh God this actually made me cry laughing. Thank you.

@Titasaducksarse I just remembered that the first time I took him into the town centre he pissed up a lovely charity collector lady's boot 🙄

Oh my gosh .... so many embarrassing incidents over the years with my different dogs. Some that come to mind ... Healey disappeared for a little while on a beach walk, only to reappear a short time later, galloping fit to bust with a whole string of uncooked sausages dangling from his mouth. He'd obviously nipped into someone's caravan and stolen their soon to be breakfast! Same dog, different day, we were at a country show watching an event taking place in the main ring. Standing room only, as all the ringside strawbale seats had been taken. We were standing just behind a seated lady, who had left her handbag open (foolishly) on the ground beside where she was sitting. I glanced down to check on Healey, only to see him just putting his leg down - he'd pee'd in the poor woman's handbag!! I've had to return many burst plastic footballs that the neighbour's children have kicked over the fence, and my dogs got to before I did. I've had dogs since the mid 80's, and had ten at once at one time, so there's far too many horror/hilarious stories to repeat, but I wouldn't change a thing, they give me so much pleasure - and strangely I've never had anyone get angry with me ... mind you, there's been times I've run and hidden!! ☺️🤣

I can't tell you all how much this is helping. Here is the hooligan himself from yesterday, back home after we were ejected, having stolen both the garden chair and my clothes pegs, and not giving one single solitary fuck.

Was walking him on an overcast day and met another dog-walker we know in a field. Other dog-walker was holding an umbrella but hadn't put it up yet, and he bent down to stroke my dog - who grabbed the umbrella and proceeded to gallop round the field, holding it, refusing to come back.

Other dog - chased a runner for ages. Thankfully, that was for my husband, who had to pursue the pair of them all the way down this path and finally by berated by the runner when he did deign to stop. Even with hindsight, that one isn't funny.

We’re talking a bookshop with a resident dog, and a pot of dog treats by the till…

he was only young! Saw ‘grass’ and assumed it was actual grass