How has your dog embarrassed you in 2025?

[TammySue]

I’ll go first

• I wasn’t even there as my friend (fellow dog owner) was dog sitting for us. Our canine bin threw up one of my old socks. A red one, that had started to bleach into a tie dye pink shade from his stomach acid. He, of course, immediately tried to re-eat his treasure so she had to wrestle my fermented vomity sock off of him. What a friend. I wouldn’t have blamed her for letting him eat it and sticking me with the vet bill 😆

• This one was a repeat offence. Dog loves to swim and will make a beeline for water. More than once in summer he ran full pelt and took a running jump into our local duck pond, sending birds flying. He would be happy as Larry, obliviously swimming in circles whilst parents / grand parents / childminders glared with their bags of seeds. Oops 🙊
To be fair to him, despite being a gun dog, he has zero interest in the ducks so he wasn’t doing anything wrong.

All in all he’s a good boy really.

Mine took a long pee right in front of my new neighbours when I was talking to them.

He decided to lose his head after disturbing a pheasant and refused point blank to come close to me at the end of the walk for about 20 minutes because there might be another pheasant to find.

sigh

Went to vet as off her food.
During examination noticed foreign body at back of mouth/ throat which is duly retrieved from my retriever.

Turns out not a foreign body after all- just a pile of mushed up cat poo that she’d snaffled on our pre-appointment walk. Which she was on the lead. So I don’t know when that was obtained. It absolutely stank.

Turns out, according to my dog, “innapetance” doesn’t include faecal material.

Stealing the prized catch off a fisherman and eating the whole fish except the tail in the 5 seconds it took me to get to him... (he is now not allowed off lead until I've scoured the area for anyone fishing)

My God, that's actually impressive.

The worst my ddog has done this year is when we (teen dd and I) took him on holiday in the new forest, we stayed in a nice, dog friendly hotel.

Ddog (who is completely housetrained) did a massive crap in the middle of the night in our room which was a nightmare to try and clean up.

He then kicked off in the foyer the following morning when a very sweet dog walked a bit too close to him (he’s not usually reactive.)

Needless to say I’ve crossed ‘hotel stays with the dog’ off any future holiday plans.

Ddog saw in 2026 by eating an entire Brie and a wedge of blue cheese I had stupidly left on the kitchen table after coming down first thing in the morning and letting him out of his crate.
He then spent the afternoon at DH’s sister’s with all the family farting Brie smells.
Again, Labrador.

That sounds very like our 13 month old Lab cross too.
He embarrassed me by pulling me over while getting overexcited by a passing 14 year old Yorkie.

Went for a walk with a new friend recently and my dog who usually only does1-2 poos had about 8 sh1ts all the way down the street, meaning I had to be constantly picking up poo. Never done that before or since and I almost ran out of bags for the first time.

She also took a dislike to a lovely elderly lady who came to look around my house with her son (I am about to rent it out), loved him, for some reason hated her. I had to shut her in the kitchen as the glares and growls were too much. I do suspect there's something she sensed that she didn't like, but who knows what it were as the woman loved dogs and was trying to talk to her nicely but she wasn't having it and she's 6 and a half stone or solid muscle so I wasn't for taking any risks!

My two are a constant embarrassment. Lovely and mild mannered in the house, pair of nightmares if they see another dog on walks. The saluki barks fit to wake the dead and the whippet tries to bite through her lead whilst spinning and jumping. Then they have a grumble at each other, possibly telling each other off for overreacting. Again. They also hate young men dressed all in black with hoods, and delivery people on bikes who come from behind. We spend our lives shouting sorry even though they’ve never been allowed near other dogs or people.

I had the same issue over Xmas with a box of Thorntons, he ate 8-9 he liked and left the rest…(thankfully) The vet charged us £200 for the injections, so it’s a real shame you got charged double!! 😬

Just to update on my earlier post about our dog pulling me over when he got overexcited at seeing a 14 year old Yorkie.

My husband walked him this morning and he was telling me that a lady stopped to talk who asked if he’d calmed down at all, “after he pulled your wife over”.
I said it would be the Yorkie lady but no, it was someone she’d been talking to.

Clearly he’s the talk of the local dog walking community.