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.

We fostered a dog who ate a door in the property we were renting. I’d popped out for 35 mins to get madam some different food to see if I could tempt her to eat, but obviously as I wasn’t serving up 150 year old oak doors for lunch that must have been the problem. I came home to carnage and madam stood on the kitchen table looking faintly disgusted at the mess like it was somehow my fault. It took DH 3 days to repair the bloody door.

Local dog show which was being filmed by a local news crew. The sound guy bent down to pet my dalmatian who tore the wind muff/furry thing off the boom microphone. Ran off with it, shaking it in his mouth like it was road kill. Luckily they found it amusing

Wee’d on the fake grass patio/shed display at the garden centre
Deployed her favourite Houdini collar-off manoeuvre in the cathedral tea rooms and ran amok stealing bits of people’s afternoon teas
Chewed the walls
Chewed our neighbour’s beloved American football
Chewed the table and chair legs including our antique heirloom nursing chair
Licked our baby niece (germ-phobic SIL has not visited since)
Rolled in every kind of poo available
Humped neighbour’s dog
Humped MIL’s cockapoo
Humped my son (aged 9)
Chased a duck into a river and got swept away, had to be dragged back by scruff of neck (dangerous, only funny in hindsight)

3 year old yellow lab girl. Too many appalling and mortifying stories!

So many labs.

Our lab grabbed our friend’s telescopic camera bag and dropped it into a lake. Fortunately the main camera was not in the bag but replacing the lenses that were in the bag was expensive for us.

He then chased a duck family and ran across another family’s pile of pool inflatable toys and pierced them all. Their kids wailed so much.

We then tied him up to the marquee but he took off and upended the marquee and knocked over an entire bbq which was full of cooking steaks and sausages. He then partially dragged the marquee into a lake.

Oh my God, was this all in one day? That's spectacular 😄

Yes. And it’s not the most embarrassing thing he has done. I’m still processing the horror of his most recent antics and might be ready to post about it in 10 years.

I’ve got 2 labs. They’ve pulled me onto my arse when walking them and wanted to say hello to another dog, peed up a neighbours leg, been ill behaved at home boarding by barking too much, trying to steal food off the counter or steal the home boarders daughters homework, ran after another dog when I mistakenly clipped the lead on their tag ring rather than collar ring and as it’s so thin it gave out and broke when he strained on the leash, they still jump up at guests when they come in the house (not nearly as bad as they were though), one is an escape artist with a high prey drive and has on a few occasions found a gap in the fencing to sneak through to next door - not done that in a while though and luckily our neighbour is fine about it, one has caught a hedgehog in our garden (done that a few times) so had to take the hedgehog to the rescue centre to be checked over (once I had prised it out of my dogs mouth which took ages) - hedgehog was fine luckily, chewed our dining chairs as a pup and my favourite pair of going out shoes, one is reactive to other dogs on walks so this makes me anxious (he’s getting better though), they’ve had food off my kitchen counter including a big lump of cheese and a birthday cake! Honestly they’re a joy really! 😂

We were out walking by a quiet lake and came round a corner to see an unexpected campervan parked by the beach (they shouldn't have been there). DDog was off his lead and went straight behind the van. He popped out the other side and ran off into the grass. I could see he had something in his mouth and when I got closer I realised it was a freshly cooked chicken breast - still warm and with marinade on! It was only then I noticed two deckchairs and a table on the far side of the van with lunch all set out ready to eat. Where the occupants were I don't know but they would have had a bit of a surprise when they came back to eat their lunch.

We've had a few howlers; my darling boy was sick on a train platform that was heaving with commuters. As I was digging in my handbag for a bag to pick it up with, he ate it. I tried to stop him but we had a few issues with resource guarding when he was little and well...there was no stopping him

He is sometimes quite smart and worked out how to get his nose into the bathroom bin. Queue him running into the lounge as I was hosting book club with a condom wrapper stuck to his head

My DM had a lovely cocktail garden party for her 60th, and during her speech he nonchalantly strolled up the bank behind her and proceeded to squat down and poop in full view of everyone

Wouldn't swap him for the world though.

Runs after every ball on the beach. Thinks nothing of joining in with some lads playing beach rugby. Need a decoy ball at all times

I’ve got a daschund that’s been asked to leave both the group walk with the dog walker and the doggie daycare in-house care (different providers) for being too humpy.

but reading this thread reminds me more of my golden lab of my teenage years. So many stories. Noteworthy - dragging picnic bench WITH her as she ran off instead of staying tied to it, eating a whole Christmas turkey off the side, eating 12 eggs including box, the list goes on and on. Great fun.

My boy barked incessantly at a horse and carriage funeral hearse and didn't stop until they had passed . I think he'd never seen a horse before but as you can imagine they're going quite slow and it seemed to take forever to go past 🙈

Cocked his leg on a lady at the park, on lead and supposed to be behaving. Pissed all over her. Thankfully she was a fog person and saw the funny side but god it was embarrassing.

My massive, clinically insane lurcher did many naughty things over the years, one's that spring to mind are -

As a puppy, nibbling at the Christmas tree whenever he thought I wasn't looking, resulting in some lovely sparkly poos for me to pick up

Digging a massive hole in the (rented) bedroom wall, trying to escape because I shut him in for a few minutes while a man read the meter

Eating numerous shoes, but only ever one of the pair

But worst of all, stealing a blind ladies white stick, and running off with it at top speed round the park. He kept doing that thing where they run past you just out of reach, while laughing in dog at how slow you are. Fortunately she thought it was very funny, but I still cringe when thinking about it!

Church picnic by a pretty lake. One of the families was playing with their daughter and a beautiful and brand new inflatable ball, about a foot in diameter. Dear Labrador lying peacefully next to me. Ball lands on our rug. Dear Labrador rears up and strikes like a cobra. Ball goes bang. Daughter in floods of tears. Offered to pay but twenty miles from the nearest replacement!

Ah so many times….. once allowed a toddler to gently stroke her then gave toddler her paw and retrieved half a sausage roll from little girls hands. Very politely.

Once was shopping with my mum and did not get the attention she wanted as we were looking at dresses - so she scooped the jackets in the bottom rail together, stood on back legs and started some humping them whilst maintaining eye contact with my mother……

Once retrieved a pack of ham from a persons shopping bag whilst outside at a coffee shop. She ate it in seconds.

Jumped in a strange man’s car when he was dropping wife at the shops because I think she though he was our dog taxi.

Saw a policeman at the train station and then decided she really didn’t want to be with me and almost pulled me over attempting to walk to heel with him very obediently (whilst giving not two hoots about me).

To be fair she’s a dream dog now but the times above were during puppy puberty and she was like a raptor from Jurassic park. A nightmare. That’s not including the various slippers tea towels and handbags she ate through. I just don’t bother having anything expensive now in case it gets ruined.

My 1 year old dog ran out to a young girl on the beach, cocked his leg and wee'd on her 😱

I was mortified.

He's never done anything like that since (he's nearly 6 now!)

Mine went to have a word with the mounted police horses in my local park.
He's tiny, generally not yappy at all, but that day, whilst he was circling the very placid horses and umpressed policemen, he was the perfect cliché of the yappy little shit.
Now he doesn't care about horses when we see them, he apparently told them everything he had to say that day.

He's a bit over 2 now, and such a good boy. But when he was a puppy / teenager, his place was in high security mental institution.