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 😭

DH once accidentally left one of our dogs at the petrol station - the little sod must have slipped out when DH got out.
He drove back in a panic to find the dog sitting by the pump he had used completely unphased

A few weeks ago, my 14 month old lab (unsure if that’s still a puppy) was off lead running around with his best mate (a golden retriever puppy). In this field behind our houses it’s totally normal for dogs to be off leash playing together. Everyone kind of knows each other.

i could see a woman I didn’t recognise walking along the path at the edge. She was an older lady with an immaculate light blonde fluffy dog trotting along beside her. My dog and his mate took offf running towards them. It was very muddy. Immaculate dog ran towards them and the 3 of them started having the best time what I can only describe as mud wrestling. They were COVERED in mud. Older lady was freaking out trying to get her dog back. Her dog was having a great time. My feral dog and his feral mate decided this was the best game ever and started running rings round us mere humans. Lady got her formally immaculate dog back on the lead, her coat by this point covered in mud and stomped off. Golden was captured and put back on his lead. My lab, when I bent down to grab his collar, shook mud all over me. Face, hair, hands, clothes, everything covered. I got the lead back on him and he decided he wasn’t done with his full body mud treatment and threw himself back down into the mud, playing dead and refusing to move.

the walk ended with me, caked in mud from head to toe, carrying a very heavy, very muddy Labrador out of the field and down the lane home. Goldens leash then got completely tangled in a bush. I couldn’t stop walking to help (see previously very heavy Labrador I was having to carry) so I said bye (and good luck) to him and his owner and trudged across the road where one of my neighbours was getting his bin back in from the kerb. He thought it was hilarious and said I’m not even going to ask.

struggled in the front door and straight to the downstairs shower with the Labrador. Thank god for wooden flooring. And then told DP he was on dog walking duties for the foreseeable

my other dog once grabbed a sausage roll in a paper bag off a man outside the shop.

i sometimes wonder why we love dogs so much 😂

My old girl was an absolute terror for about her first year. Bear in mind, she was allowed into a work place (husband's) and many different people used to let her off her lead which was attached to a desk while she was in training. However much he and I said she had to be on lead, someone always thought they knew better.

Helped herself to sandwiches from desks. She learned to open drawers.
Ran circles round the dining hall, shat next to the pay desk before running off again.
Stole a butterflied lamb leg. See also smoked salmon, sausages etc.
Was caught standing on a table licking out a butter dish.
Decided that the ladies in burquas, who were terrified of dogs so used to run from her, were trying to play with her, so she would chase them. The more their burquas flapped, the more she chased.
Disappeared one day from a neighbour's house - turned out she had cleared a 6' fence, gone next door, in the car flap and back to her bed.
Took her to doggy daycare - cleared another 6' fence. They wouldn't have her back again.

That first year nearly broke me trying to get her civilised. In the end, she turned into a perfect well mannered family dog.

This week the dog chewed up and pooped out (over 2 days), my dd's favorite Victoria's Secret g string. She was hysterical as had had a bad day anyway and this tipped her over the edge. Husband thought it hilarious and I had to tell him to go away while I calmed her down.

My older dog (so should really know better) decided to have a swim in the river. Swam up to a rowing boat and tried to get in with the occupants. I was on the river bank shouting blue murder and totally mortified!

Thankfully they thought it was hilarious as did the river tour boat that went past packed with Japanese tourists who filmed it all 😂😂

Labrador pup, picnic spot so kept her close to us, couple sit down and proceed to cut up a watermelon, she decided to 'bum shuffle' until she was looking over the mans shoulder and literally dribbled down his shirt. Couple found it hilarious , turned out they were french and mam then proceeded to cut up a slice for dog, only for her to sniff at it like it was laced with arsenic!!!

I think you might be on the wrong thread. No one is perfect, bet your kids has been a naughty little so and so at some point.

My 2 went to a dog boarder for the first time recently. We walked them just before going so they could be more relaxed and have a poo.
First thing they both did on entering her house was to poo on the floor. Mortified

Woof

you are especially joyous today @Ballondoor 🙄

Talking to Vet after check up - puppy pee’d on his leg. Not a dribble - full blown jet wash 🙈

We took our dog to a really big Cornish beach when he was still quite young. He was so excited about all the open space, and we had gone there with another family who also had a dog so it was just a very exciting occasion all round for DDog. He got the Zoomies and ran right through the middle of a picnic gathering. Luckily they had not yet put out their picnic food but they had put out a bottle of sparkling wine which he knocked over. Mortifying! Some of the group thought it was funny, others not so much.

(We offered them some money for a replacement bottle of wine which they declined)

My previous dog used to poo on the tiniest thing. He'd find a teeny leaf in a field and do a perfectly positioned deposit.

He did a perfectly positioned deposit in a builders work bag when out walking with my friend. I am so very glad I wasn't there that day!

Ds's little friend and his mum were over for a playdate for the first time, so my eyes were slightly off teenaged terrier who must've snuck upstairs (not allowed) and found bathroom bin. Dog then runs back into the living room and deposits a used condom in the middle of the floor in front of us all...

Seem to be a fair few Labrador culprits here
My sister took hers for a lovely walk along the river bank offload.
Dog loves water. He ended up swimming about a mile and only got out for biscuits.

Did she get the job? 😂

We have a few as our dog is a Samoyed, very stubborn and selective hearing … my husband has her well trained but on the long road to training her she’s got herself into a sheep field (didn’t know it was there! Threw herself into an iced over canal to chase some ducks, only to hear cracking ice and she sank - DH had to wade in and get her lol. She recently chased a cat into a hedge, DH had gone somewhere away from homes / pets etc as usual as she needs off lead time to exercise, she’s a utility / sled dog, and it seemed that a person with a narrow boat had a cat 😵 … needless to say he doesn’t go there now either!

Hahaha sorry but I think this wins 😂 😂

We were on a sponsored walk children parents dogs etc went past a golf course a pair of golfers were about to tee off. Dog saw the golf ball and before she could be stopped grabbed it golfer didn’t notice and did a double take because his ball had vanished his partner was just laughing cue two laughing male golfers and one very embarrassed female owner all chasing the dog who thought it was a wonderful game.

This made me laugh so much!

Imagine coming on a thread about dogs behaving badly just to be furious about … guess what … dogs behaving badly 😂 muppet!

Oooh I have so many embarrassing stories about my dogs - I think they plot how to humiliate me.

I'm disabled and during my initial adult SS visit, I was sat in the living room answering questions from the social worker - after one particular question, right in the natural pause before you answer, all we heard was a very loud creaky-door style fart! Looked round and my dog was sat there looking very proud of himself.

There was the time during a really hot summer, where we went to the vet and it had already been embarrassing because our female dog hadn't wanted her injections but as soon as she had them and I was trying to listen to the vet, our little minx, nosed open the blinds to the window which looked out onto the waiting room and did a huge doggy grin to everyone waiting.
My DH had waited in the waiting room with our male dog and as I was paying, I heard a farting noise behind me and my husband calling our dog's name in a horrified tone and I looked round just in time to see him diarrohea all over the welcome rug, right under the aircon! (the dog, not DH) - I was so embarrassed and kept on insisting that they let me clear it up.

The time where we were staying in a caravan park and I was just arranging my crutches but stupidly had hold of our girl's lead and she bolted off and I literally flew out of the caravan like a bird (felt like I was airborne for ages) before landing flat on my face in a puddle as DH was clutching himself laughing.

When our boy was a puppy and before I was disabled, he liked jumping about as Border Collies do and he knocked into the new TV which began to fall, so I leapt off the sofa and ran to catch the TV, which I succeeded it - unfortunately I was also wearing a strapless maxi dress and had trodden on the hem and yanked it down so I was stood infront of our large window, both my hands on the TV and my huge naked boobs exposed as neighbours were outside opposite (and of course, my boy was still barking and loving the excitement.

These are just a select few - I honestly think you can't have a dog if you're averse to being embarrassed.

Gotta love dogs!!

Why come onto a dog thread when you obviously dislike dogs?
Rhetorical question - not actually interested in your answer.

First dog and puppy. Very proud "dog mum" at 15 weeks old.

loudly professing that "she is so clever. Honestly. So intelligent"

No sooner had I finished the final word she ran into a glass door.