Please tell me your embarrassing puppy horror stories so I don't feel alone!

[MischiefMaker]

Absolutely mortified. 6mos puppy, empty field chasing ball. She's still practicing recall, we've used a secure field and practiced a lot so maybe today I was less vigilant that I was at the start as she's usually so good and stays close 😭

So a woman and two kids jog into the field around the edge and my pup sprinted to the boy thinking he was playing. I just didn't see them enter and she just bolted I couldn’t stop her in time.
Kid was terrified, mum shouting “don’t run”, I’m chasing waving my arms. She’s only a ~7kg poodle but so fast. Grabbed her eventually — felt like forever.
The mum was understanding but I’m still cringing. Long line from now on (I’d avoided it due to people not picking up poo and it being dragged over it...).

Also told off by man passing that 'you know not to have her off leash where you know kids are nearby'… which is exactly why I use this field 🤯 It was empty. I was as far away as possible. Wanted the earth to swallow me up.

First dog — please tell me your puppy horror stories so I feel less awful 😭

Well hats off to you for owning it. Absolutely not ideal 😅

My dog ate half of my bf's sister's 18th birthday cake that had been printed with a photo of her so couldn't be easily replaced. To top it off it was a fruit cake so I then had the worry of the sodding dog keeling over from her poisonous gluttony.

My (much older than puppy) dog nearly ran onto a football pitch today, during a match!!

DH and I got up from an outside table after lunch at a beachside cafe to walk the dogs. One of them was so excited about finally going on a walk after waiting patiently while we ate, he jumped over a bench where a couple were sitting having tea and cake and knocked everything all over the floor. The noise, the mess, the utter shame! 😳 I wanted the ground to swallow me up. Then we passed the couple again later in the day. The woman glared at us 🫣 but her husband was friendly.

My guide dog once what in my office at work. One of those big open plan offices. It’s been 16 years and I am still not over it!

Not me,but a story my manager told me years ago when her German Shepherd dog was about a year old. They'd gone to the beach for a walk and the dog raced onto the beach and into a rock pool where a couple of young kids were fishing. Dog then proceeded to squat and do a huge dump in the pool. 🤢 My manager said she'd never seen 2 kids move so fast.

Not a puppy story but embarrassing dog story from the 70’s. My dad was staying with a friend and the friend went to take his dog to the park . He asked my dad if he fancied coming too. Both men were football obsessed and my dad’s friend said some of the teams usually playing at the park were off a high standard. Dad was hooked, so off they went.
The dog was fairly well trained, good recall and had no interest in balls , so he was ambling sniffing at stuff off the lead while dad and his mate stood and waiting for the dog to catch up watched an going game.

The dog appeared and before they could move on, the dog spotted some cut up oranges on a plate ( presumably for half time) and before they could catch him, ran over , cocked his leg and wee’d all over them.
My dad at that point found some interesting plant to pretend to look at and removed himself from the scene basically because he was laughing too much while his mortified mate had to come clean to the teams coach.

Mine ( gently) took a finger of kit kat from a toddlers hand . Toddler was walking in front of us, puppy was on the lead and just seized the opportunity. It all happened very quickly. I was mortified. Child minder thought it was funny. Toddler couldn't understand where it had gone .

Years ago, walking across a crowded beach with my dog on a summers day - feeling very smug about how well behaved he was.
I glanced down and he was carrying a flipflop - he'd obviously picked it up as we were walking - I retraced by steps but couldn't find the owner so I ended up leaving it on the slip way that led back to the road.

I just imagined some poor woman getting up from her towel and trying to work out where her other flipflop had gone.

I dont understand why you are so embarrassed? Dog ran at kid - happens all the time surely?

On a walk near our house on a sunny day. Puppy off lead (training had been going well). Puppy spots 2 boys in a stream and dashes to see them. I recall Puppy, she heads towards me. Yeah..... good girl!

Then she does a quick diversion to a large rock where a couple were sunbathing (eyes shut, snoozeville). Puppy stands next the man's ear, licks his forehead and barks at him. He leaps up shouting "what the fuck... what the fuck is that? fucking dog.." The boys in the stream (his children) are both stunned at the language and laughing. Other families all turn round.

We got serious glares and our apologies were not gracefully accepted. His wife was trying to not giggle.

Because it shouldn't? Because the OP is a responsible dog owner who is trying to train her pet?

Oh god this brings back a suppressed memory...

I left my dog tied up to a huge picnic bench outside a cafe while I went in to order. I heard a commotion outside, looked out the window and saw my dog towing the table into other tables causing absolute havoc and throwing jacket potatoes everywhere. The reason...he saw a leaf blowing in the wind.

If it makes you feel better, decades ago one of mine cocked his leg and peed….on a toddler 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

My young dog helped herself to my DIL’s homemade Christmas cake. The cake had been lovingly made, fed with brandy, homemade marzipan on and wonderfully iced. My dog demolished it and then spent the next day throwing up.

This was ten years ago now but I still feel completely mortified. My DS and DIL were brilliant about it and DS took the blame for leaving it where the dog could get it.

At a tiny local horse race meeting, many yrs ago, 1 of our lurchers decided to accompany the horses on their circuit of the race. I didn’t even recognise him at first, all we could do was watch in huge embarrassment, fortunately he didn’t bark as was used to being with horses & dodged into the crowd where we were calling him after the 1st circuit.

My greedy Labrador puppy ate someone's picnic, it was winter/Early spring so wasn't expecting a picnic on the beach and she is normally excellent with recall apart where food is concerned. I apologized profusely and offered to pay for their food ...it was mortified, they were actually very sweet considering how awful it was

Our dog (puppy like😉) is an heckle and Hyde dog, acts up always as specifically two of our neighbours are about. One of my neighbours and a lot of people we pass think he is the best trained dog (he is a model dog, ott well behaved with them), the two others think he’s still a puppy and tell me they’re sure he’ll calm down🙈

I had a couple of the neighbours DC playing with my 5 yo and 3yo toddler twins. We live in a quiet cul-de-Sac, and they all used to play together regularly.

Allies mum phoned as his dinner was ready. So I sent him home, watching from the front door. I nipped in the loo, when I realised the house was quiet. Too quiet.

My eldest and her friend decided that when I'd said "You've got 10 mins left" I'd meant with Allie and trotted across the road... followed by the twins....who were followed by my 2 lurchers.

I dashed across the road, the door was still swinging open, to a stunned looking neighbour. As I wrangled a toddler under each arm, one of the over excited dogs snaffled a full chicken dinner...the shame!

She politely declined my offer of a takeaway.

It all happened so fast, I was mortified. They were really nice about it. I always made sure to fully lock the door after that!

We were having a picnic on a beach once and a Labrador cocked its leg onto the picnic basket. The owner appeared a few minutes later and was mortified. We were quite chilled about it as we’d attest eaten most of the food so, other than needing to clean the basket, it wasn’t the end of the world. It was a bit awkward the next morning though when she went for an interview and my dad happened to be one of the people interviewing her!

First time I took my puppy to the beach he promptly ran over to a family and peed all over their sandcastle!

I dont own a dog but often have ds's staffie

He's lovely but we joke he often turns his hearing aid off and only turns it back on if he knows there is food on the go (he can't hear his name when your standing next to him but can hear a crisp packet a mile off)

Anyway,ds,dil and dgd had gone on holiday,so dp and i where having him for the week and id taken him on his walk to our local church/graveyard and he was scoffing grass-really going for it

I was a bit worried so messaged ds who said it was fine but I stopped him as I wasn't comfortable with the amount he was eating

Gave him back the following day and all was well

Unfortunately,what goes in has to come out

Ds notices a lump of something sticking out of dogs backside so for reasons best known to himself,grabbed and tugged-the dog screamed at ds 'playing' with his arse and ran

My dil and dgd are screaming,ds is chasing the dog about the house,the dogs having none of this and has bolted with this rope half hanging out of his bum,sending anything in his path flying and the neighbours are knocking to find out what the hell the noise it all about

Well over 2 feet of knotted,twisted and shitty grass came out in the end-i do not know how he managed to eat the amount he did

He never bothers with the grass at home so we guessed that the grass grown in graveyards must be really tasty

I didnt think he'd eaten that much but the sneaky sod must have managed it as soon as my back was turned

Oh god! One of my labs also did that, previously well trained 100% recall went out the window when he smelled food. But there was a lovely blanket, an entire smoked salmon and champagne 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ To this day, I think he interrupted someone’s romantic proposal 😱😱 I also grovelled and of course offered to pay but they just gaped at me in horror 😩😩 I kept him on lead for about a year after that!

@MischiefMaker use a biothane long line and keep a packet of wipes in the car. You can get little pocket packets, too. A quick wipe will sort it.

Don't feel bad - recall in a secure field is no match for an interesting person.

Another lab one...ours was just under a year and was generally a very good dog, recall great, pretty calm. She loved chasing a ball and we had (stupidly in hindsight) let her play with lots of other dogs/multiple people throwing balls when she was little in the dog enclosure locally.
Thought this was good socialisation until she spotted someone with a ball thrower on local common when off lead. RACED over, jumped up trying to grab the ball and snapped the thrower in half. Still burn with embarrassment thinking about it now, though other owner was lovely.
Lots of work since then and I'm 99% sure she wouldn't do it now but we're still vigilant!

I'll be back to this thread later, picking up our new Lab puppy next weekend...!