@ Magpye: Priceless!!! hahaha it had to be THAT box that she got into, didn't it??? lol nice
I must have a dozen embarassing things that come to mind...but the two that were the absolute worst:
1. I was going through my student dog training courses, working in actual dog classes and close to getting my certification. The head trainer had told me to bring Honey in as a demo dog, since she really is great at it. On the car ride to the class, I noticed several bouts of the most noxious, awful smells I had ever smelled come out of an animal -- Honey had gas.
Great. I was praying that none of the students would be unfortunate enough to get a whiff. I had arrived a couple minutes early, so I tried to get her to poo on the designated strip of ''potty grass'', but to no avail...just peepee, no poo's. About halfway into class, she had stopped letting them fly, so I had assumed that her tummy had calmed itself and that she wasn't feeling sick or anything. It happened to be ''potty training'' week, and as I was going through with the class how to prepare a specific spot to train their dogs to use as a bathroom, Honey walks up next to me. Just as I was uttering the sentence "and that way, your dogs won't be tempted to go to the bathroom anywhere where you don't want them to go", Honey squats, grunts, lets loose a huge fart, and then the biggest, smelliest, runniest poop I've ever seen come out of a dog her size before. Then when she was done, she walked in front of me and sat down wagging her tail, looking at me like "hey mom, look what I just did!!!!" all proud of herself. At first I was so mortified, I could do nothing besides stare down at her with my jaw dropped in horror and humiliation at the irony of the situation. But luckily, the whole class laughed hysterically until tears streamed from many of their eyes and I seemed to be off the hook. After taking almost 20 minutes to clean the mess up, I was able to join the class again, albeit still very redfaced!!!
hahahahaha
2. My oldest dog Koko is 16 years old. She's still in great health (knock on wood), she's bright, vibrant, and full of energy and love of life. The only real change in her is her way of thinking....I'm not sure I'd go as far as to call it 'senility', but it seems to be damn close. She gets funny ideas in her head sometimes at random, and she will almost always act on them. Sometimes when I call her, she thinks she's in trouble
Sometimes when I take her in to my work, she tries (and has succeeded once) to walk right into the wrong office, even though she knows darn well where my office is lol. One night, as my OH and I were unloading groceries, my OH tried to kick the door shut behind him, but it didn't close all the way. Koko, in the throws of a sudden epiphany that she NEEDED to go on a walk RIGHT NOW, noses the door open all the way, runs down the stairs, and trots off down the street
She never usually runs off like that, but like I said, if she gets it in her head, she's gonna do it, period. I drop my bags of groceries and run after her, calling her name repeatedly, to no avail (oh yeah and did I mention that she's half deaf??? lol) In the distance, I see a police cruiser with it's front doors open, and a person sitting in it's back seat. The cops were standing filling out paperwork with their backs to the car. From behind her, I see Koko look at the open police cruiser door, make a split second decision, and bolt for it. My heart sunk as I knew just what she was planning. She's suprisingly fast for a dog her age, and I was too far behind her to catch her in time. She jumps into the police car, honks the horn with her butt as she does this, and wakes up the sleeping drunk guy handcuffed in the back of the car. He starts screaming and carrying on like he's been slapped. I'm not gonna lie to you--the little devil on my left shoulder tried to get me to turn around and pretent like she wasn't my dog for a second, and I kind of considered it lol. Of course, I couldn't do that, so I had to explain my sheepish self to two very irritated policemen who just had the guy they were trying to calm down for a long time woken up again, screaming bloody murder.
They chilled out after a minute, after I told them how old Koko was and that she's actually a very mannered and well-behaved dog usually. Luckily one of them had a 13 year old dog who does the same crazy stuff, so he was familiar!!! Still, I really hope that I never have to see those two cops again.....
Oh, what we put ourselves through to own dogs.....
~Julie