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 😭

My not-young rescue dog also found someone having a mid-winter beach picnic and helped himself to their hot chocolate. I know he has limited (no!) ability to behave around food so there's no chance he'd be allowed off lead in the summer. But like you I wasn't expecting to see someone in December, and somewhere I've never seen people before or since. I was also mortified.

A couple were eating fish and chips sitting on a low wall in the sun, and I walked past with my dog. She suddenly had diarrhoea, out of nowhere and with no warning - about three feet directly in front of the people who were eating their lunch.

It. Was. Awful. I couldn't move her, she was panicking and it just spread it further when I tried to. The diarrhoea was green, watery, stank to high heaven and there was the accompanying almost comically exaggerated sound effects.

These poor bastards just did the British thing of looking into the middle distance and continuing to eat their fish and chips, while I tried desperately to wash away the mess with a bottle of water (I always pick it up, but it was literally green water so I couldn't).

It was so awful. I can laugh now, but I will never forget the expressions on those people and their staunch chip-eating through gritted teeth, as I flailed about right in front of them trying to sort it 😅

My puppy walked passed a girl sat on a beach and before I could stop him cocked his leg on her back 🫠 I’ve never been more mortified in my life.

Hes 6 years old now and has never done it again!

Yes i get that but its not mega embarrassing to the extent to be still cringing about it

Ds's dog-the same shite-bag that ate grass

For some reason,ds had left him with me and id taken him for his walk

Feeling a bit bored of our usual route,id taken him somewhere different for a change

Part of this route was through the local cemetery

He was on his lead (no way was i letting him off after grass gate) but the lead was one of those that extends a long way and hes normally really good on it

I thought id lay flowers for a friend while I was there (2 birds,1 stone) who had died in a tragic accident the year before

Im laying the flowers and 'chatting' away to my friend in my head when I suddenly i heard a loud gasp

The dog had decided he needed a poo and had started to curl one out on top of the grave next to the one I was standing by

As he was crapping away,he turned his head and gave the biggest staffie grin to the poor sods who where in the middle of a funeral-stood by the hole in the ground as they lowered the coffin in

I have never in my life been so mortified-they looked as horrified as I felt

He finished his crap and trotted back to me (like hes been trained to do)

I fished out a bag,picked it up and fled while texting ds who found it hilarious

Glad someone did-that dog is going to get me slapped one of these days

"Long line from now on (I’d avoided it due to people not picking up poo and it being dragged over it...)."

--- get yourself a flexi and use it with a harness. It never touches the ground and used with a harness works well. wouldnt use then on a big strong dog but since you have a wee poodle...

They get a bad rep because people use them in utterly inappropriate situations such as busy parks, roadsides😱 etc but this is the exact scenario where i would use it.

@MischiefMaker 6 months old, decidinging to plunge into pond on Wandsworth Common in November scaring herself and hiding under the jetty so I had wade in.

This makes me feel better about my ten month old
lab having next to no manners. He’s jumped up at people on walks before now when they’ve appeared out of nowhere and I’ve been mortified. Luckily no children or elderly people.

Seven month old puppy has only just stopped greeting boy dogs by sucking their private parts.

When my boy was a puppy(pre second vaccination), I was leaning over a counter to order coffee and the bastard snaffled a pre-cooked bacon roll off it! (They heat them up for sale).

Same boy dog, at two years old urinated on a female puppy.

Current eldest once recalled to the wrong family and followed them off Holkham beach and all the way down the car park before they realised they had a shadow and bought her back! I didn’t even notice she had gone as I was dealing with two toddlers and three other adult dogs!

Took cream lurcher to a muddy beach, dog looked like a Thornton truffle. Nearby hotel holding a very posh wedding reception, dog smelt the food disappeared inside leaving muddy paw prints and mud over a cream carpet. Never did that walk again

My old dog ran into a young couples bluebell photoshoot in some woods when she was a puppy. Then got onto the back of the photographer who was laying on her front to take the pics

They found it amusing thankfully

That wasn’t in wales was it ? It happened to me!!

Did you pay to replace their ruined food and drink?

@notnormanno Devon 🙈

It’s the naughtiest thing he’s ever done!!

Absolutely none of this is remotely funny. Keep your filthy fucking dogs under control. Jesus.

These are all from the same best boy now sadly been long gone for many years.

Weeing up the fire extinguisher’s in the vets waiting room.

Taking a cob out of a toddlers hand as she was about to throw it to the ducks at a local pond.

A group of teenagers playing football in the park, jumpers for goalposts, yes he did a wee all over one of the jumpers. Teenagers were falling about laughing and I did offer to take jumper and wash it but the owner said it was fine.

Also swiped a whole joint of beef off the work top.

loved him to bits and miss him dearly.

My dog has twice weed on people (sitting down) on beaches and once ate the contents of a portable BBQ. This was all in the first few weeks of owning him so ever since we only go to beaches with no ‘sitters’.

Years ago DH and I went away for weekend with our very well trained gun dog retriever.

I went inside a lovely pub to get a couple of drinks and DH sat down by the lake with dog on lead under the table. Dog had never really been on a lead.

I came back, and was nearly taken out by about five hundred ducks, followed by dog who has cleared the entire lake, chewed through lead. DH a hadn’t even noticed, just saw the ducks flying and thought that’s nice.

a very kind local lent us a lead for the rest of the evening as everywhere was closed. It made the local news. All these poor people swarmed by ducks. They were all very lovely and we had such a funny evening and weekend.

Tbh op you're a responsible dog owner doing all the right things and the jogging family share some responsibility here. If you're nervous / wary / scared of dogs then it's pretty stupid to start jogging in a field where one is running loose.

I once had a usually-well behaved poodle who interrupted some families picnic to steal a sausage. They were not impressed, I was mortified - she was delighted!

My dog once ran to steal a woman's flip-flop whilst she was sunbathing. He dropped it very quickly but still.
She was very cool about it, her boyfriend was pissing himself, so we ended up just just having a good laugh.

He also ran after his ball in the direction of a poor teenage girl who was very scared and started to run, I had to stop her and calm her down, and apologised (and obviously put the dog back on the lead).
Funny enough, few days later, she came to see me to ask if she could say hi to the dog, she really wanted to address her phobia and somewhat trusted my dog, since he seemingly chased her but didn't attack her. Still often see her in the park. Since then she has stroked other dogs (mine really isn't the best for that, he's either aloof or all over your face, no middle ground)

I remember a friend's labrador who just casually stole a sandwich from someone's hand in Paris. The dog was on the lead, just helped himself as the guy was walking with his sandwich. He was cool with it, my friend gave him some cash to get himself a new sandwich.

Thanks everyone I definitely feel better!! I knew I wasn't alone, thankful I have a girl dog so no leg cocking!
I'm also now scared of what's to come lol.

Ray of sunshine you are 🌞
Do you have a dog or did you join especially to be negative?

Ours escaped the boot of our car the moment between opening his crate and putting his lead on, he then ran straight to the beach, stole a mans cheese sandwich ate it as fast as he could, then ran back to us and sat very nicely so we could put his lead on. Thankfully we were by the cafe so it didn’t take long to replace the cheese sandwich.

They do improve, he’s an adult now and has rock solid recall, is dog and human neutral, he would look down his nose at a puppy stealing a sandwich.

My old dog ran out of the sea and across the empty beach, to shake off next to the lady who was livestreaming her pilates moves...

I accidentally let my dogs out of the boot of the car on a petrol station forecourt when I pressed the wrong button on my key fob. I caught one of them straight away and put her back in the car, but the other one is a contrary little bitch and absolutely would not come to me. I was trying everything I could think of to get her back and she eventually did a poo on the forecourt. I grabbed her collar and awkwardly held her while I picked up the poo before carrying all 30kg of her back to the car. I then had to go in to pay for my petrol and the woman said "pump 4 was it?" like there was any need to clarify 😳

ETA - to make sure I suffered maximum embarrassment, the dog in the car was setting off the alarm the whole time I was trying to catch the other one 😩