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What frights, what scares, makes my heart beat overtime. My one German Pointer fell down the side of a quarry onto hard rock, I thought she was dead, but she survived!
What has your dog done that temporarily stopped your heart?
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- Isle of Man
Oh that's horrendous! Lady luck was watching over her that day.
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- Andorra and Spain
Shadow was air-scenting and I just said, I need to put him on lead because something's amiss, when he started up the bank. Willow followed, then Squidge, and I'm sure they wouldn't have without him, but normally they will come straight back when called, but this time, not. So I wish I know what it was that had them going, because they are all "pulled" by different things, yet none of them responded. It was pretty surreal and I'm none the wiser.
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- Sydney, Australia
All these stories are terrifying. Why do we do this to ourselves? Oh yes, because we love them to a million pieces
Maxx has run off at the dog park twice, up onto the footpath once to greet a jogger and once to greet a dog being walked up there. It is right next to a road but thankfully both times the jogger (who was clearly terrified of dogs) and the dog-walker grabbed him.
That is so unusual for your pups @snowbunny. At least I have plenty of practice at recall being totally ignored
. It depends on the day; this morning he came like a rocket to both whistle and verbal calls. Yesterday his ears were painted on.
Maxx has run off at the dog park twice, up onto the footpath once to greet a jogger and once to greet a dog being walked up there. It is right next to a road but thankfully both times the jogger (who was clearly terrified of dogs) and the dog-walker grabbed him.
That is so unusual for your pups @snowbunny. At least I have plenty of practice at recall being totally ignored
. It depends on the day; this morning he came like a rocket to both whistle and verbal calls. Yesterday his ears were painted on.
I wonder if they have spring fever. Even though it is still cold and snowy here, the days are longer and the sun is getting higher. Jubilee is getting up earlier and being loonier than usual. Today she was standing on the back of the couch ready to blast off. She seems like she is looking for trouble.
I’m 70 and have always had a dog. When I was much younger, I hardly ever worried about my dogs. Now, I worry more because I’ve seen all the creative ways that can get in trouble.
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- East Sussex
Some of these posts are 
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When Plum was a tiddler, just a few months, she was running along the beach with my son and although he stopped when they reached a groyne, she just sailed over the top like a flippin gazelle. Unfortunately the drop the other side was huge, onto sand, granted, but I felt sick at the thought of her breaking something or causing lasting damage. I kept replaying it im my head for months.
Another time, we were walking along a river where it was mud city from weeks of rain. She wanted to jump in but she was on lead as the river was quite fast.
Eventually I let her off lead where the river had calmed. She jumped straight in, went under because it was so deep and then couldn’t get out coz she couldn’t touch the bottom and the bank was quite high.
I couldn’t bend down to get her coz of a bad hip so I had to lay down, on my side in the mud, so I could grab her collar and pull her out!
Not really heart in mouth stuff like some of these terrifying tales just a tale of life with a Lab.
!When Plum was a tiddler, just a few months, she was running along the beach with my son and although he stopped when they reached a groyne, she just sailed over the top like a flippin gazelle. Unfortunately the drop the other side was huge, onto sand, granted, but I felt sick at the thought of her breaking something or causing lasting damage. I kept replaying it im my head for months.
Another time, we were walking along a river where it was mud city from weeks of rain. She wanted to jump in but she was on lead as the river was quite fast.
Eventually I let her off lead where the river had calmed. She jumped straight in, went under because it was so deep and then couldn’t get out coz she couldn’t touch the bottom and the bank was quite high.
I couldn’t bend down to get her coz of a bad hip so I had to lay down, on my side in the mud, so I could grab her collar and pull her out!
Not really heart in mouth stuff like some of these terrifying tales just a tale of life with a Lab.
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- Vlaardingen, the Netherlands
When Finn was 4month old my OH went with Euan and Finn for a walk in the woods. There was a walk through the woods but sometimes this walk had to be shared with mountain bikers. My OH didn’t know this and at one point Finn got hit full on by a mountain biker. Finn was confused, the mountain biker only called if he was all right and drove off. My OH wanted to go to Finn immediately but the little one took off into the woods. My OH couldn’t find him, recall was worthless at this age. My OH ordered Euan to find Finn, which didn’t work....They searched him for over two hours and finally found him, all shaken up. Luckily he did not have any nasty fysicall damage, but I am not sure mentally....
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- Close to Devon/Somerset border
Crikey ..... a lot of scary things have happened to our dogs. Odd isn't it, almost every time there's a terrifying incident concerning a dog reported in the news, it's either a spaniel or a lab
We used to walk through a field that had a stream running down the middle of it. Not that much water but it was a deep cutting down the field, the dogs would jump in and splash around, run down to the bottom of the field and scramble out.
One day, after some serious rain, we went in the field for a walk and BJ (previous epileptic lab) joyfully ran across and jumped into the cutting as usual ... and disappeared under about an 8 ft depth of water
Not a hugely scary thing in itself but because of his epilepsy, we were worried!
Eventually a soaking, bedraggled BJ clambered out of the ditch and proceeded to go crackerdog round the field to cover his embarrassment
We used to walk through a field that had a stream running down the middle of it. Not that much water but it was a deep cutting down the field, the dogs would jump in and splash around, run down to the bottom of the field and scramble out.
One day, after some serious rain, we went in the field for a walk and BJ (previous epileptic lab) joyfully ran across and jumped into the cutting as usual ... and disappeared under about an 8 ft depth of water
Not a hugely scary thing in itself but because of his epilepsy, we were worried!
Eventually a soaking, bedraggled BJ clambered out of the ditch and proceeded to go crackerdog round the field to cover his embarrassment
How're you doing this morning @snowbunny ? Just re-reading posts on this thread, I'd have been mulling that mystery for a while. Any theories emerged overnight?
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- Isle of Man
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Nope, very weird. It could be all sorts of things. Maybe one of the saw or scented a deer. Maybe they found something disgusting to eat (my recall doesn’t trump face full of rotting something). Maybe the people were fussing them. Who knows?!
But the information is: I need to do some more robust recall training
Yep - the eternal 'maybes' can float downstream. You are wiseNope, very weird. It could be all sorts of things. Maybe one of the saw or scented a deer. Maybe they found something disgusting to eat (my recall doesn’t trump face full of rotting something). Maybe the people were fussing them. Who knows?!
But the information is: I need to do some more robust recall training
Wow that’s scary. Does she have dew claws?
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With our three if they are in a particular "buzzy" mood, one of them can set off the other two. For example, Casper may see something odd /interesting down the lane and like a bullet he sets off, Bramble just loves a chase....and Benson will go along for the ride!Nope, very weird. It could be all sorts of things. Maybe one of the saw or scented a deer. Maybe they found something disgusting to eat (my recall doesn’t trump face full of rotting something). Maybe the people were fussing them. Who knows?!
But the information is: I need to do some more robust recall training
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- Andorra and Spain
Totally, they are so easy one on one, but together, they can definitely egg each other on. Little monsters! It was more the not coming back that was concerning and weird for them.With our three if they are in a particular "buzzy" mood, one of them can set off the other two. For example, Casper may see something odd /interesting down the lane and like a bullet he sets off, Bramble just loves a chase....and Benson will go along for the ride!
Yes she does, but they were useless against the current of the river and ice
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- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Now where shall I begin. CHARLIE, yes well he has done so many things to stop my heart but the most scary has been he put his paw through our french window because he saw a bird in the garden A week later he ran at another french door smashing the entire full length window because he saw a squirrel in the garden miraculously he didn't hurt himself at all, the only thing that was painful was replacing them. That is just the tip of the iceburg I really don't want to relive the other things!! xx
A week later he ran at another french door smashing the entire full length window because he saw a squirrel in the garden miraculously he didn't hurt himself at all, the only thing that was painful was replacing them. That is just the tip of the iceburg I really don't want to relive the other things!! xx
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- Malvern Worcestershire
What a dog, that must have been so scary (and expensive!).
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- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
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