Wishing the ground would swallow you up…

[Parodius]

Just for a bit of fun, what’s the most embarrassing situation your dog(s) have gotten you into, past or present?

I was reminded of one of mine recently when I was at the park with Neo and a young family was trying to teach their child to ride a bike. Neo was ever the gentleman and paid them no notice, however about 10 years ago with my previous girl Billie this was not the case.

We were at the park, mooching around and playing ball. A father and son came in and it was obvious he was teaching him to ride his bike, running after him holding the seat. We were right at the other end of the park so I wasn’t concerned and Billie wasn’t interested in the least. Until the little boy started to get the hang of it and began riding on his own and ringing the bell There was that moment when she froze in her tracks and I just knew what was going to happen. Sure enough, she took off running towards the boy at full pelt with me shouting after her! In reality, she didn’t actually go anywhere near him and ran round back to me but it was too late, after witnessing the large black dog running towards him the damage was done, the boy started wobbling and inevitably came off. It was on grass so thankfully he wasn’t hurt but I felt terrible and after apologising profusely to the father and son we made a very swift exit, I was mortified!

 

[Granca]

Many years ago my OH and I were for a walk with our first family dog Fella, a little cairn terrier. We saw one of my OH’s friends walking towards us and stopped for a chat. Fella got bored and cocked his leg up on the friend’s foot… so I walked swiftly on with Fella. I don’t think the friend noticed, or if he did he was too polite to say anything!

 

[Lisa]

Simba snuck into the kitchen while we were hosting my OH’s work colleagues for a Christmas party. We were in the midst of playing a game and it was my turn, so I lost track of the little rotter for a moment. When my turn was over I remembered the dog and looked around…and heard a “slurp, slurp” sound from the kitchen. I jumped up and ran into the kitchen to find Simba with his elbows up on the counter, head lying on the counter, tongue slurping away at the remains of a home made Black Forest cake one of the h guests had brought. Needless to say they didn’t take the rest home.

 

[Selina27]

Well... where shall I start ?
To be honest most of Cassie s exploits have just been funny, but the one when I really did want to be swallowed up was when she was 7 months old. I started taking her to training classes, +r but the trainer was not plus R for humans and was already making me feel I was failing with a then exuberant and outgoing nearly adult size young Labrador.
I just hadn't been able to get Cass to wee before we went in as the new smells just blocked out everything for her. Half way through the session she sat down and did the most enormous puddle , I mean think horse ! It went on forever spreading across the highly polished wooden floor of the church hall we were in. The trainer was really cross and tutted and kept looking at her watch as I had to find a mop and the rest of the class had to wait. I got a serious telling off for other people not getting their money s worth in the class.
All the while Cass sat there with a grin on her face wondering what the next game was going to be !

 

[Atemas]

Half way through the session she sat down and did the most enormous puddle , I mean think horse !

. I remember so clearly you telling me this on the other forum when I was at my lowest with puppy blues. It made me laugh out loud - at the time nothing was making me laugh….but this sure did

Red as a puppy gave me so many reasons to be embarrassed - too numerous to mention - fortunately (touch wood) she has more than made up for it

 

[M.F.]

All the times Snowie has stolen food on the beach. A croissant right out of the hand of a toddler. The roasted chicken in a takeaway container left lying on someone’s towel. The chips in a bag while the couple were doing their own photoshoot. The tray of sushi set in the middle of a group. The list goes on. I am now a champion sprinter when I see his nose go up catching a scent. Keep meaning to buy a retractable leash for the beach! To be fair, it is during the time the beach is specifically off leash for dogs and there are tons of dogs on the beach.

 

[Atemas]

Keep meaning to buy a retractable leash for the beach!

No don’t - live dangerously

 

[kateincornwall]

Mine was with my late Sam , who was an angel until food came into play ! We were at Golitha Falls , he running slightly ahead when to my horror , I saw a couple sitting on the bench enjoying a picnic Sam did what I can only describe as a fly past , taking the baguette from the mans hand and running off with it . I had just seconds to decided what to do when the man called out to me ` Did you see what that dog just did ? ` Yes , I replied , disgusting wasnt it and hastily walked on hoping that Sam would not come running to me , thankfully he didnt , he was in the woods eating his illicit bounty xxx

 

[Boogie]

My lovely Boogie, who I name myself after.

We went to the beach, he was wet and sandy. When we got to the car park he went into the wrong car, which had an open front door, jumped over the front seats and landed on a lady’s lap in the back seat!

 

[Emily]

I see that the beach is becoming a common theme

When Nathan was a toddler I stupidly decided to take him and Ella to the beach on my own. After a bit of play in the waves, of course they decided to run in opposite directions and, with Nathan running towards the water I had no choice but to run after him.

Once I'd caught him, I turned around to see Ella running at full pace towards a family enjoying a picnic on the sand. Soaking wet and covered in sand, she charged through the middle of their picnic, stopped in front of them and did a huge vomit on the sand. To make matters worse, she then remained there while she gobbled down her vomit, about 2m from where they were sitting

 

[Selina27]

Mine was with my late Sam , who was an angel until food came into play ! We were at Golitha Falls , he running slightly ahead when to my horror , I saw a couple sitting on the bench enjoying a picnic Sam did what I can only describe as a fly past , taking the baguette from the mans hand and running off with it . I had just seconds to decided what to do when the man called out to me ` Did you see what that dog just did ? ` Yes , I replied , disgusting wasnt it and hastily walked on hoping that Sam would not come running to me , thankfully he didnt , he was in the woods eating his illicit bounty xxx

I remember this !

 

[Candy]

Solstice.....well, where do I start?!
She was highly skilled at snaffling food from unsuspecting small children, she thought they were the perfect height and acted so quickly that sometimes we didn't even notice it happening.
She adored hoomans and fully expected them to have the same level of enthusiasm for her. When I said to people 'Be careful, she jumps up' they would say 'It's alright, I don't mind ', thinking that what I meant was 'She puts her paws up'. No, what I meant was that she would run at complete strangers at full pelt, then all four paws would leave the ground as she launched herself at shoulder height at them, frequently from behind. We eventually kept her on lead around people at all times including when we had visitors to the house. To be fair, she started growing out of the jumping behaviour at about the age of two and eventually stopped it altogether. Not so with the food snaffling though!
As for Joy, well she's always been a GoodGirl!

 

[Lottie'smum]

My most worst embarrassing moment was whilst walking through a busy Spanish market. Lottie stuck her nose firmly into the poor woman in fronts bum. The women turned round sharply and very nearly slapped my OH around the head, she let out a tirade of Spanish loud enough for the whole market to hear. She hadn’t noticed Lottie and clearly thought it was my OH touching her up.
No amount of apologies were enough to reassure her it was Lottie not OH.

 

[Parodius]

All the while Cass sat there with a grin on her face wondering what the next game was going to be !

This is the issue I often have, trying to explain away whatever transgression they have made and apologise and they spend the whole time looking pleased as punch with their accomplishments!

 

[MrChew]

Well, about two weeks ago Chewie met one of his neighbourhood fans, who happens to be an older woman (his favourite demographic) and in his joy at meeting her he knocked her banana out of her hand and ate it.

They are still friends.

 

[Beanwood]

We could write a book just based on this thread! with the gang I really don't know where to start. I guess one of my fondest memories is Benson pushing his nose through MIL's skirt to snaffle half a chocolate cake she was trying to cut for my OH's birthday! She shrieked, I shrieked … more worried about the cake knife she still had in her hand!

Actually, @Emily_Babbelhund might want to mention her embarrassing moment which left her holding a a collar and lead.... with no Benson! Still makes me smile to this day!

Or @snowbunny being remembered for Bensons famous "tug of sausage".... at a hotel...

 

[M.F.]

she gobbled down her vomit

Very decent of her: She didn’t gobble up their picnic. And she left the area clean.

 

[Lab_adore]

Oh my, so many. I think the worst was at the off-lead beach at Culburra (south coast) when Mr Maxx took off full pelt up and over the dunes then up into the bush behind the beach. We spent ages looking for him when an eagle-eyed young girl spotted a yellow flash in the greenery way up above us and said "I think he went into our backyard". Sure enough, there he was sitting in front of their chicken coop, freaking the poor chooks out of their minds

Or there was the time he leapt up and knocked a man's sunnies off the top of his head....

Or slyly sidestepping and neatly pinching a ham roll from someone sitting at a picnic table

 

[Kelsey]

We could write a book just based on this thread! with the gang I really don't know where to start. I guess one of my fondest memories is Benson pushing his nose through MIL's skirt to snaffle half a chocolate cake she was trying to cut for my OH's birthday! She shrieked, I shrieked … more worried about the cake knife she still had in her hand!

Actually, @Emily_Babbelhund might want to mention her embarrassing moment which left her holding a a collar and lead.... with no Benson! Still makes me smile to this day!

Or @snowbunny being remembered for Bensons famous "tug of sausage".... at a hotel...

Benson seems to be a common theme

 

[Hollysdad]

While walking in the Forest Holly and I came across a bird-watching hide. I decided to give it a wide berth but Holly had other ideas. She shot off into the hide and came out with an apple in her mouth, hotly persued by the guy. It was his lunch and, unlike Holly, he really wasn't very happy.