was the snack dog shit?
We both know the answer
Man I walked these two dogs for a year, and one of them was hellbent on eating the others turds as they came out. One day my reaction time was too slow. He didn’t even chew, just inhaled it.
Hot from the source. New way to look at scarfing glizzies
"Scarfing glizzies"
I hate how much I like that expression.
I'm respectfully asking you to never use those words in the same combination ever again.
Backdoor Glizzies
God damn I'm so fucking lucky my dogs don't eat shit.
A dog and cat in same house: never have to clean cats poop. At 1st I got scared cat got a blockage.. naah cats poop is a total dog treat. Yuck... dont get me started on cats vomit. Even cat was disgusted.
Probably wouldn't let me dogs lick on me if they were shit eaters.
SSSSLLLLLUUUUURRRPPPPP
My current farm dog isn't a shit eater thankfully but the last one loved cat shit with a passion (pretty common for dogs to eat it as cats have pretty inefficient digestive tracts. But he absolutely loved it).
If he saw a cat digging a hole to shit he would tear over and gobble it before the cat could bury it.
He would stand right there and wait for it to drop. The cats hated it, they thought he was disgusting and would smack his face but they had to shit sometime, and cats pretty much are hardwired to go on soft ground. So they pretty much had no recourse. And I'm not around all the time so he would get at it when I couldn't run him off. Finally I gave up.
And so his breath always smelled like cat shit. I love my dogs but give me a fucking break
I’m practically crying at the image of a cat swatting the dog’s face, and your dog being like “shhhh baby iss okay”
Soft serve!
“Oops you dropped this”
I have to grudgingly admire his dedication to freshness
One of the funniest things I ever saw was when I went with some friends to walk our dogs. As we crossed the street one of my friend’s dogs noticed a hostess pie on the ground. We were walking pretty fast so she wasn’t able to nab it. We walked around for about an hour and on the the way back she managed to grab it and scarf it down. She stayed focused and achieved her goal, we were pretty proud.
Bruh my dog eats his own turds as he’s making em. So as he pops a squat he rotates around just slurpin em back up like “oops I dropped this”. Like does it even count as pooping anymore if you eat it right away?
Wait, so there was a regular dog and a snack dog?
You chase the dog and then YOU run away and the dog thinks it's their turn and they catch you and bam. Fooled the dog.
She was a "no toss only throw" kind of dog, so running in the other direction would've made her go "now I'm extra free!"
Now had she run towards the house with all the stray cats I could've grabbed her no problem. She wanted to make friends with all the cats ever and I would have found her bounding around the yard scaring the piss out of the cats to get then to play with her
Some dogs see you running the other way like "sweet, they're giving me a headstart! That makes this game even better!"
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Haha yup, the only way you can trick a dog into thinking you're leaving without them is to have a dog smart enough to think past the next five seconds.
Like a Golden retriever is just like "huh, they're walking a different direction than me. That's weird. Anyway I should probably run around a lot and smell things now." Whereas it takes a smart dog to realize "wait, they feed me, what if we get separated? I should make sure the stupid human doesn't forget me and follow them. Dumb humans always needing my help."
That actually works with herding breeds! I did that when my aussie broke free as a puppy. Instantly whipped around and went for me.
It also works for ratters. Really, any dogs with either prey or herd instinct. Your lab, however, YMMV.
I have a 40 lbs brindle mutt (Sorta likes like a staffy whippet but too small) and turning around to run works like a charm.
Have this down to a science with my parents cockapoo. He is small but incredibly fast and loves to play. We have around the same top speed but he can turn on a dime. He’s also very anxious. All you have to do is sprint in the opposite direction and he comes running.
We also very rarely let him off leash (even where allowed) because he has literally no sense of self preservation. For some reason he understands he has to be nice in the dog park and is never aggressive with humans but will try to fight German shepherds and turkeys and shit.
I want to fight a turkey.
My roommate's greyhound once managed to unhook his leash while I was walking him. He took off toward a busy road a couple blocks away and I thought for sure that was the end of him. But then he turned the corner, and so I sprinted after him screaming his name with half the neighborhood watching and zero hope of catching up. By the time I turned the first corner, he was already rounding the second. By the time I rounded the second, he was already a block and a half away.
But then it started raining.
I saw him pass our house with no intention of slowing, feel the first raindrops, and come to a literal skidding stop before spinning around and booking it half a block in the opposite direction to wait for me to let him back in...
I just had to chase my dog a few days ago. I was with her a little at first, but then she hit the turbo. Fortunately, she seemed to be running to my place and eventually ran back to me. She's sonic the hedgehog with adhd, but she's loyal.
I always pretended to fall down and cry. All my dogs would come straight back to check on me.
Got it. Next time a dog runs, kick the owner in the shins real hard. :)
In the dick and if they appear to lack the appendage kick the nearest groin that does, dogs love it when people get kicked in the dick.
Also my 75lb mutt loves to bound off my groin if she’s been laying on the couch with me, shit fuckin hurts, but again dogs love a good dick injury.
I fell down and cried for real when my dog went dashing in to a busy highway. It worked.
My dog used to do this sort of thing when she was younger. She was a Houdini with her leash and with open doors. She ran faster than any human I've met. I swear she literally did a magic trick at one point to detach her leash and then took off running towards the street, waiting for me to chase her. One time, I didn't know if I would catch her at all and she had already come extremely close to getting hit by a car. I only eventually caught her because she stopped to poop. I'm so glad she outgrew that game. It was terrifying.
When mine does that I just get in the car and pull-up beside her, she always hops right in. She loves car rides lol.
When I was a new dog dad, my puppy slipped her leash at the park and ran into the wooded path way that splits into 2 paths. 1 path leads into a quaint neighbourhood that her few friends live, the other path leads to one of the busiest roads. Guess which path she chose? Luckily I got out one of her large treats and threw it in the air and she went and ate it and I got her back on
Yeah my dog managed to wiggle free of her harness at like midnight one night in the middle of January. So I was chasing after her, freezing my ass off, and she’s like “WHY YOU SO SLOW JUST CATCH ME HAHAHA”
I eventually through sheer adrenaline started up a full on noisy, stomping sprint that intimidated her enough to get her to roll over and I was able to catch her 🙃
FENTON!
OH JESUS CHRIST
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If this happens to you, get the dogs attention and then start walking away from it pretending to not care. Most dogs will follow you because you're not giving into their chase game. Then, slowly approach them and grab their leash/collar. I've had to do this with a couple dogs and most of the time it works. Good luck for the times it doesn't work though.
My dog will ignore me completely and just keep running. She keeps running until she finds something she can fight. I've tried walking away, and I've tried acting hurt. She doesn't care what I do she must run, and she must fight creatures 12x her size.
She's a yorkie.
Have you tried bribing her with food? My dog will run straight to me if I start shaking a box of treats.
She never liked treats :/ weirdest dog I’ve ever had. She seems to run on cat software.
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Cats like treats except for when you’re trying to bribe them to be nice
Exactly what I was thinking lmao
My cat doesn't give a shit about treats. I can only sometimes bribe her with wet food... Which I guess makes that a treat.
My dog is smart but so fucking dumb that I can say “OUTSIDE?!?!” And she will sprint to me… excited to go outside.
My dog growing up was too smart. Cuz that originally worked, but then she figured out we’d grab her if she came for the treat and stopped coming for them
Then it became literally getting in the car and driving to her and asking her to go on a car ride (even though she’s already outside lol) which worked - but then that wasn’t good enough, and it required treats with the car ride
Thankfully by the time she got old I could just chase/corner her down. But I also still don’t know how the fuck a 16 year old 50lbs dog could get out of a barbed wired-chainlink fence without digging. Some dogs are just escape artists man
I have had many dogs in my life. Treats always worked.
Until I got my new pit bull.
This dog needs to run for 37 hours a day and doesn't give a fuck what I try to tempt her with. Treats? Doesn't care. Food? Not as interesting as her toy. New toy, puzzle toy, bone - I've tried everything.
I ended up just buying a harness so she COULDNT slip her leash lmao
Our dog slipped out of a harness that I’d swear I put on correctly. She just took one step to the left and was off to the races, like goddamn Houdini.
Harnesses are definitely a good choice for pits. They'd strangle themselves to death on the leash trying to get some exercise if you'd let them.
Fr. I have two and I love them very much but trying to go on actual walks versus playing in the back yard sometimes feels like I have sled dogs and I am the sled hahaha.
Why are they like this? My Yorkie wakes up choosing violence everyday. As soon as we get outside she’s propped up in attack stance just looking for something to chase. If we see another dog, she goes batshit crazy. It drives me crazy, luckily most strangers (and their dogs lol) just laugh and think she’s cute.
Miniature Schnauzer that does the same thing. Perfectly well behaved when in the house, the moment I take him outside it's like he forgets all of this training. He's socialized and everything is super cool when he's inside, or even at someone else's house. When he's outside it's like he's completely feral.
Ya same! Mine is cool indoors, gets along with dogs/cats/people... outside not so much.
Plus, the bastard keeps turning around and SMILING at me, like "isn't this the bestest fun??" No, it feels like me heart is going to stop beating any second now.
Terriers and other former rat-catching breeds are wild little dogs. It's like people started breeding to emphasize the "small and cute" part of the dog but no one bothered to breed out the "enthusiasm for indiscriminate murder" part.
Lmao I know she would chase a rat, but id be shocked if she killed it. She was gentle when we introduced a kitten to the house... not thrilled.. but gentle.
it seems like the small versions of animals always have this crazy desire to be the dominate one. Chickens are like this it seems.
Have you tried not letting your dog get loose?
Same, Pomeranian who hates almost everything and everyone, but a select few. Other dogs, birds, babies and children are right out. He’s an adorable angel if he trusts you and a gremlin if he doesn’t.
But no one is scared of him because he is tiny and his bite doesn’t feel like anything at all. I’ve tried to socialise him but there is only so much high pitched squeaking people can take. He’s my everything.
Try running... in the opposite direction. They will usually instinctually give chase.
OMG! I pictured a Shepard or Husky until that very last line. I laughed so loud I woke my kid.
My yorkie is chilling next to me right now, he just figured out I don't like when he press the arrow keys on my keyboard, guess what he's been doing this evening
it's always the small ones
When I was volunteering for the humane society, the approved technique to catch a loose dog was to lie face-down on the ground and yell and flail like a toddler having a tantrum. The dog comes over to see what the hell is going on with you, and you can grab him. :) Works surprisingly well!
I adopted an adult dog, and a few days later, I opened the door and immediately the dog ran out (forgot not all dogs are trained to stay inside).
I tried to chase him because he was barreling towards a busy road. In my chase, I tripped over a tree root, supermanned through the air, and landed flat on my face. Skinned my arms and legs. Tons of pain. But by the time I sat up the dog had come back to see what the hell happened.
So yes, falling face down and flailing works, even when it's not intentional!
Just laying down on my side worked with my dog! He came right up to me to investigate. He only got out once because a workman had been here and not closed a gate. Very scary moment but it worked out okay.
Huskies :(
Had a husky and after many escapes and many attempts to corral him, we eventually just got to the point of, "Eh, he'll be back in a day or two." Always came back, the wily bastard.
This will work 1 of 3 ways: 1. Your way 2. The dog keeps running or 3. The dog runs as soon as you go to pick up the leach
I've had three huskies in my life - two of which were notorious escape artists - and this would have never worked. The dogs would be out of eyesight the second you turned around.
The real advice is to get in the car, then go catch up to them, and ask if they wanna go for a ride in the car.
The huskies are laughing at you, not with you.
My husky wouldn’t give two shits. She’s gone.
I tried something similar with my mom’s pomeranian but it ended up getting eaten by a pit bull a neighbor trained as a fighting dog. Dude returned the collar like it was a favor.
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When I was a kid we had a dog who was, to tell the truth, a dummy. We lived a few miles out of town so she had lots of room to run and loved coming with my brother and me on bike rides every day after school but she was just not too bright. In her 11 years of life, I think a total of maybe 8 thoughts went through her head. The one thing she could do fairly reliably was come when she was called.
The thing she loved most was every December when we’d drive up into the mountains to cut Christmas trees. After getting the trees, we would tie our sleds to the back of the truck and Dad would pull us along the snowy dirt roads while the dog sprinted along beside us having the time of her life. We would usually do this on Christmas Day, too. She loved snowy days in the mountains.
In 2008, when I was 16, we went up to get our Christmas trees and took the dog like usual. When it came time to leave in the late afternoon, she wouldn’t come. She started playing the “lol can’t catch meeee” game. We tried treats, cold cuts left over from lunch, walking away without looking, everything. She just wouldn’t come. We spent over an hour trying to get her. The sun had started going down and the roads were going to freeze over, so we needed to leave. As a last ditch effort, Dad tried driving slowly down the road to see if she’d follow us. She didn’t; just watched us go. We jumped out of the truck one last time, called to her, and she ran to about 20’ away from me. Nobody could get any closer. There was nothing to do, so we had to leave.
That was Saturday evening. On Monday, somebody called the house saying they’d found a dog with our phone number on the collar and that she was hanging out in their cabin. Mom called Dad at work, which was the high school. He came and pulled me out of class and said, “let’s go to the Bighorns, someone found the dog.” We drove up to the ranch they’d called from, walked in the door, and she immediately ran up to me and sat down. The lady said she had walked up to the cabin the night before just as it was getting dark. She seemed perfectly okay, just a bit hungry.
It was weird.
I was 80.02% sure that story would end with the dog deciding it was her time and passing away.
The other 19.98% was that it would end with a mention of undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell and plummeting sixteen feet through an announcers table.
She lived another 4 or 5 years, so the whole sudden onset canine dementia theory my dad was tossing around didn’t really hold water. Although to be fair, we didn’t expect her to make it through the night. The mountains of NW Wyoming can get awfully cold in December and she wasn’t a particularly large or long haired dog, but I guess she found someplace out of the wind to spend that night. And this was a solid 10.5 years after that day in 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
There we go, sweet release.
SmartAlec105 called it!
My dog also had one brain cell rattling around her head. She was good 99% of the time, but every once in a while, she'd suddenly decide she needed to run. Not to anywhere specific or for any discernible reason. She'd just take off. What's funny is someone always found her because she'd run right up to them. She's gone into neighbors' houses and garages and even jumped onto someone's moving golf cart.
We used to joke that she'd take off running, forget why she was running, realize she was lost, and find an adult for help.
That was a delightful read. You should write books
Glad your dog maybe learned her lesson, but at least is/was safe.
But mostly, good on you for using correct grammar: "my brother and me". 💚👉
I'm not a native English speaker and I learned on Reddit that I can remove the other subject (my brother) to see if my grammar is correct. Haha
This is the worst with a Jack Russell Terrier, 'cause they're like 'What's wrong with you? My legs are only six inches long and I have four of them; you're a walking tree and you can't keep up. Go a little faster, you giant Ent.'
This is going to sound bad but I've always solved this by throwing something at my dog. Even like... an empty cup will do.
As long as it hits them and throws off their running cycle it freaks my dogs tf out and they stop running and learn not to play that game with me anymore.
Humans are the only animal that can consistently and accurately throw projectiles so they’ve got good reason to be freaked out.
I've seen monkeys throw feces with surprisingly good accuracy.
That might work on some dogs, but I think the reaction of most Jack Russells would be "Ooh, new game!"
Omg, we've got a border jack (border collie jack Russell terrier mix) puppy and that little SOB will BOLT. His harness broke one day and he decided to play the "catch me" game in the road / yard near a busy highway.
Thankfully it was before breakfast, so he would run to me when he saw I had a treat, but grabbing him after he strategically hyper snagged the treat was damn near impossible.
Smart. Slippery. Fast. Shit head.
Love him, but we couldn't have gotten a worse dog to try and catch. Lol. Invested in some top notch "big dog grade" harnesses so he couldn't break them after that.
My Jack Russell always waits until I’m about 5 feet from her before she bounds away across the neighbors front yard, just close enough to the busy street that I’m sweating bullets the whole time. She knows there’s no way in hell I’m going to catch her. She almost 11 years old, now, so at least she gets bored after about 5 minutes of fucking with me these days, though 😂
My jrt will start running away once he gets bored of whatever game we're playing, but the thing is that he'll always run straight home. He makes sure he's a decent distance away from you, if you start running he'll run away faster, if you're walking he'll walk. Even tho he's just running home the mfer likes running in the middle of the street and giving me a panic attack.
My dog has slipped through the front door twice sprinting for the stairs down from our floor. Once he got confused by the second floor and was trapped. The second he got all the way to the ground, but he got distracted by smells, forgot he was running, came when I faked a treat, and then I was able to get a hold of him.
I’m lucky he’s dumb or he’d have disappeared into the Texas scrub brush and probably gotten eaten by coyotes.
My ex GF had a dog that I loved dearly, and the dog loved me as much. If the GF had treats the dog would still come to me. It was quite the love affair. So much so that when the GF and I broke up she would drop the dog off for visitation sometimes. The dog would sometimes get out and run away from her like a game. I'd come out and command the dog to come to me, and of course he would. I could let him out to potty without a leash, not so much for the GF.
Well... one day it's girls night out, a few girls form out of town... dog gets out. everyone is drunk. They chase the dog. It ends up running to the top of the street, gets hit by a car, dies. That was 20 years, and several more dogs in my life ago...
That's a rough pain. I'm sorry.
Yes. 1/2 a day in a cow pasture chasing our husky. There was a bull involved as well.
of course it's a husky lmao
in my old neighborhood, there was a family at the end of the street who had a huge yard and some cows. my old girl escaped through the front door one day and eventually ended up in their yard. i just had to wait by the fence while she ran around with the cows (and got super muddy lol). she ran over to me when she was done having her fun and ready to go back home. i miss that little troublemaker every day.
Thankfully our pup isn't up for runs anymore, but our Dane bolted through the bushes twice (shame on me) this weekend. Both times I just stalked her like Michael Myers and waiting for her to want to go back inside
One time I was so distracted when I got home that I left the porch door wide open for my six month old puppy to walk out of. I didn’t even notice for like half an hour. This was during covid. My wife was in isolation. I panicked so bad that I forgot she was in isolation, ran into the bedroom and swung open the door and yelled that the puppy was gone.. she jumped up, no shoes, and we both sprinted outside. We live about 100 yards from a busy road, so we were expecting the worse.
We ran to the side of our apartment building and saw our puppy stretched out in the grass under the sun, sleeping! Little booger… she didn’t even struggle. She was happy to see us and acted like nothing was wrong. I love dogs. 😂
I have heard that if you sit or lie down, the dog will run back to you
Edit: I haven't owned a dog since I was in high school, and it was an always leashed Lhasa Apso. It is just what I've heard once or twice anecdotally. I take an interest in how things work and how to problem solve situations. The running in the opposite direction suggestion probably is more productive.
Run in the other direction - they still think it’s a game so they follow you back.
Yup. This is what I did whenever my dog got out the front door and wouldn't come back.
Just follow him a bit, get his attention, and run back to the house.
He'd run straight after me.
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by the time I got to my car my vizla would be in a different county
My Corgi (Bentley) used to do this and he thought it was hilarious. Super demeaning because he literally had 3 inch legs. He would wait for you to get close, then kick in the after burners laughing the whole way as he did a sick burnout in your face.
My childhood dog got hit by a car because of this, I will never own a dog for myself because of that incident. Cats are just easier.
You can just train it not to run off
My dog is a rescue and has some neurological compulsion that he has to have his collar on at all times. I think it stems from separation anxiety.
If it falls off he will chase whoever has it and tries to force his head back through it. If you drop his leash while it's attached to said collar, he'll try to put the leash in your hand. If the door is open, he has to make sure you're following him.
Not afraid of running away in the slightest as a result.
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Oh boy. Have you ever had your dog run from you like it’s a game, so you try to turn around and leave so it decides the game’s over, but then other people start trying to chase the dog down, so then you have to explain to them that the dog thinks it’s playing and the most helpful thing they can do is leave it alone but they just won’t for some reason and then you’re late for work and they’re late for work and the dog’s just out there merrily playing in traffic like this is the most fun it’s ever had?
My sister's dog got out one night. It was like 11pm, and im out there yelling the dog's name. My sister was nice enough to let the 6 year old she baby sat name the Olde English Bulldogge "Crazyface" or just "Crazy" for short. I was walking around with a Flashlight yelling Crazy at the top of my lungs until she finally showed up
Have you ever chased a receipt or a dollar in the wind? Same feeling
Brothers tiny dashund. I could catch up to her, but by the time I bent down she was able to get away. My neighbors slowly came out of their homes, random people stopped in the street (she went under some of their cars) and we all eventually corralled her into the garage.
Quite often actually. Our 6 year old dog figured out it was able to hop over the fence last year
Oh that’s fun
FENTON!
I actually trained my dog.
so no.
crazy how many people here are just outing themselves
That’s when you let your endurance-predator instincts kick in and just slow jog him into the ground
My friend used to live a street behind my parents and their dog got out all the time. One day I stopped by my parents and the damn dog showed up at the door. I walked out to get him and he took off towards a busy intersection at the end of the street so I had to run after him. Little fucker got across and booked it down this damn street. Chased him for 2 miles in a big loop back towards his house. I was like thank god hes going back home. Nope, dude juked me and took off towards another street that was a dead end with a nasty ass swamp like creek. He as far as he could until he was cornered between me and the creek. This asshat legit jumped in the damn water and swam across to the other side. I couldn’t believe it.
Happened with my parents dog once. Back when I still lived at home, they were away for a night and I had to take the dog out. I was forgetful and forgot to take him for a walk, so when I took him into the backyard to do his business before letting him go back to bed, he slipped out the gate because the winds had blown it open. Chased him up the street only for him to take off.
My parents take him on a certain route around their neighborhood every day, so when he got out, he didn't choose to run away, no. He took himself for a walk and then came home to get comfy in bed. He literally walked his usual route on his own and just came home, I guess he figured "well if I'm not getting a walk, I'll do it myself".
Another time we were moving and our old dog got out from the backyard and ran up the street, managing to cross the street without issue, all so she could go to the lake and I assume look at ducks or something.
No, because I train my dogs properly. Lmao
Dated a woman long ago who had a pit bull that HATED me. It was ridiculous. I am good with animals, have had animals my whole life, dude just had some issues I guess.
One day he gets out. No one does anything, they’re all just standing around saying oh no. Like this is a pit bull that at least hates my guts and probably wouldn’t hesitate to get a chunk of me and he’s now running through a development. I didn’t want him to bite someone.
I run after him and when I got in sight I fucking yelled at him so hard his brain shut down. I completely let loose on this shithead (verbally) so loud that he had no clue I was even the same guy. Caught up to him, picked him up and carried him back.
He was devastated it was hilarious. Big tough dog and I put him in his place hard without even hurting him. He never barked at me again.
Girlfriend wasn’t thrilled. But no one got bit.
I'm so glad my dog doesn't do this. My old one would sneak out any chance she got.
Sounds like hell
Fuck a breakup..?
1: don't get stressed
2: find a stick/toy
3: entice dog with said stick/toy
4: profit
I don’t wanna be that guy, but this is why you train your dogs for recall. Mine will come back because we’ve spent extensive time training them to do so. Granted, they’re cattle dogs so they’re naturally easy to train.
yeahh if my dog slips out the back door he just sorta rolls around in the grass then looks around for me. If I drop the leash he looks back at me like 'whats up'
it just seems like no one bothers to train their dogs.
My dog was adopted 3 years ago now, she is much better now but she would run and I swear to God, she would stop, give me the finger, smile and then take off again.
Lie down. They’ll wonder what’s up and come back to check you out. EDIT: Just to say this worked for me like a charm, but YMMV
Nope, my dog was never more than a few feet away from me. I often let her into the (unfenced) front yard to hang out with me while I did yard work, and she never took off even once. One time I accidentally left the back gate open while she was outside and when I went into the back yard to get her, I couldn't find her anywhere. Ran out the front gate in a panic, calling for her, only to find her on the front porch waiting to be let inside with an expression that said "HALP AM LOST."
Reverse psychology. Doesn't work only with humans but it works with dogs. Tell him you're leaving, turn around and walk away. They'll come back chasing you. I did that to my golden retriever all the time.
The best way to handle this is to run after your dog then make sure they see that you turn around and run away from them. They will often be more than happy to "catch you". It works far more often than just chasing them.
If they aren't happy about catching you but does want to chase, then just run into the house.
I just wave goodbye to them👋 😌
Yup almost got hit by a car if it didn’t hit its brakes. Had to dive for my dog to grab him, got the scars to prove it. He died of old age being a spoiled dog. RIP Zeus
i had an escape artist for a dog. the little shit would have me chasing her around the fucking neighborhood trying to catch her. one day she got out again. i chased her again. she was at the far end of the massive sidewalk and was far enough ahead that she stopped for a moment, turned around, saw me, and wagged her fucking tail before running off again. from that day on i realized she thought of it as a fun game.
she was a pain in the ass but i miss the little shit. my little shit.
When they stop and turn around but when you get close they start running again
It’s totally unfair. They have twice as many legs!
Don't chase!
Fall to the ground, act like you're hurt.
Doggy will then come to you.
Just get a cat
Ironically, I had this happen with my cat today! I have netting over the railing of my patio*, so she can be out there when I am, because she'd be an outside cat if I'd let her. Turns out the tape securing the end of the netting to the side of the apartment had frayed a little; my fat ass had to vault the railing and chase her back. Nearly gave me a heart attack.
* I used a baby proofing kit. The box didn't say it had to be for human babies.
Or just train your dog.
My dad's dog did this once after which he beat the shit out of it and it never did it again. He didn't tell me that the long after it was dead then I was grown up but yeah that's pretty fucked up
Oof. Miss you, Moose.
I had to chase after my parent’s pug once. I was full speed, legs outstretched like I was stealing home in the World Series, and that little fucker was just “weeee!”
My Aussie was like that. My pitty doesn't like being more than a few feet from me.
The only puppy I ever had did this when she was 6 months old and ran into traffic and I had to watch her die. After 6 months of her becoming my best friend and basically my child..
I've never owned another pet since.
Yes, it swam into a swamp. Wasn't even my dog
I used to live right next to a fairly active road. My dog got outside and ran directly into the road. And he just kind of sat there until my sister grabbed him. Fucking dumbass.
He wouldn't stop, took at least 15 minutes to get him back
I never actually chase my dog, I just sort of follow. When she looks back at me, I start walking in a different direction. Eventually she'll run towards me. If she runs past me, I change directions again.
My dog jumped our fence for awhile when she was a puppy to play with my brother and his friends out front. She thought it was fun. I did not. Glad she grew out of it.
There is a park in front of my house, and sometimes my sister's dog will break free and go running there. The catch is, he only does it when the grass is wet and full of mud/wet sand, so he comes back dirty, and you can't actually run after him, or risk slipping.
Wife’s friend once just stood at the doorway and didn’t come in when I let her in and my dog squeezed through. I chased him barefoot. He’s a fast dog and was outpacing me everywhere. We had a fenced in apartment but our backyard wasn’t fenced and was all woods. We’ve heard wolves howling there, so I was deeply worried about losing him in there.
He hadn’t gone that way yet but was hauling ass around the parking lot. Luckily he stopped to take a shit. I knew I couldn’t catch him, so I opened the gate to the dog park, which he adores. Luckily, he took the bait and ran around in the dog park until my wife could bring me his leash.
I nearly had a heart attack. Between the woods and the very busy road near our apartment I thought I was going to lose my dog
Back in the 70s, my grandfather's dog was named Boner and would run like that with my mother, aunt and uncle chasing after it screaming its name in public. Everyone in town thought they had Tourette's syndrome.
Get the dogs attention, then run away from it. Most will chase you.
This is the answer. Chase them maybe halfway down the street, then turn and run home. It's worked for me twice now.
They know it’s not a game, but also that you can’t prove that they know that.
Only way mine comes back is if I can get in my car fast enough. if I tell her we are going to the store she'll jump in. If I can't find her, she just runs around doing who knows what and comes back on her own terms.
I had just arrived home from work. I had taken off my work clothes and was about to change into shorts and a t-shirt. I had loose fitting boxers and a t-shirt in my hand when the doorbell rang. I looked out the window and saw a Fedex truck so thinking nothing of it, ran to the front door and just before opening the door, put my t-shirt on. My dog Wally decided that was the best moment to make a run for it. It was 5:30 pm on a weekday and I lived across the street from a vacant field. On the other side of that field was a very busy street with a speed limit of 45 MPH. Wally bolted across that field and into that very busy street. I gave chase, but Wally proved the faster and more agile animal that day. I ran after him and was running in front of cars in my skivvies and t-shirt, no shoes, no dignity, trying to prevent my little buddy from being run over.
Then, like a light switch, that mother fucker calmly trotted back to the front stoop and patiently waited for me. I was so furious that I wouldn't talk to him for 3 days.
Yeah, and it gets really awkward when your dog runs into some random person's garage because she somehow knows you can't follow her in there.
This is how I discovered I could run. Joined and won all the cross country in high school cause of that fucker.
Girlfriend's co-worker just had to put his dog down a few days ago because the dog randomly decided to dart into the street and got hit by a car. The bastard kept driving and never even considered stopping. The co-worker said his dog has never done that before and he's still confused.
I took care of my MILs miniature Pinscher, and that little bastard would break out at least once every other week when school let out, and terrorize the neighborhood kids as they walked home. Mind you I had two kids who were walking home from school at the same time. He had no interest in walking with or protecting them, just chasing children.
I had a special ringtone for the school because I got the call frequently enough.
The only way you could catch him was to pretend not to be mad, play along, and pull up next to him in a car so he would jump in.
My golden retriever was the fucking worst for that
Day after the first St Patrick's day following my 21st birthday. Hungover and felt like I was dying. Dog broke his tie out while going potty. Had to chase him all over the neighborhood, stopping to puke in random bushes along the way. In the top 10 worst experiences of my life.
never chase a dog. Get its attention so it sees you and then run the other way. It will stop and run after you, and you can grab him when he catches up to you. Works EVERYTIME!
I’m a fairly anxious person, and when my dog gets loose it feels like anxiety on “episode 4 doom nightmare difficulty” mode
i’ve gotten bad burns on the bottoms of my feet from chasing my fucking dog barefoot down the street in the middle of summer. that fucker was having the best goddamn game of chase and i was in more and more pain each step. i still love her though!
All the goddamn time with my childhood dog Benii. He loved to door dash and he was fast as fuck, we called him greased lighting. Dumbass got hit by a car and lost his front leg once. It didn’t slow him down at all. Unfortunately, one day he got out and never came back. He had tags and a microchip, so the only conclusion is that he either died or was taken by someone who wanted him for themselves.
Shit happened to me last week. Was walking my dog when her leash snapped and she took off. She almost attacked another dog but I luckily got her before.
My dog knocked a glass citronella candle off of our patio table. Then, when I came running to see what the noise was, she grabbed a huge piece of broken glass and ran around the yard with it in her mouth. I started yelling and chasing her, and she thought we were playing. I could see her mouth was bleeding and she had little cuts on her tongue. Ah, it was a stressful few minutes.
Why would you chase your dog
only so far
Just don't have dogs and you won't have to chase them.
A friend and neighbor has a small white dog I believe she paid or is still paying close to 5.5k and she dropped it off with a loose collar she bolted into the night and it took me maybe an hr to find her or more but I was so stressed 😔🙏
It lasted for miles…miles.
We had a dog when I was a teenager that would routinely escape the yard. (In the suburbs) He would just roam around the neighborhood until you caught him. But as soon as you caught him, he would always immediately run home to the door. You could be 3 blocks away and catch him and he'd run away. You could just walk back and he'd be there waiting. He did that one time but on the other side of the busy road. I caught him and he just bolted home and ran as fast as he could through traffic. He made it thankfully. Dumb dog.
My dog thinks "Oh! Play time!" and I'm like "Get TF back here you numpty PoS!"
Then I start walking the other way, only for me to get zoomed back by like "WTF? NOW you decide to move your ass over this way???"
UGH.
my dog slipped out of her harness and decided it would be fun to play a game of keep away all around my apartment complex. I chased her around panicking for a few minutes before she stopped to poop and I was able to tackle her mid shit. She got a new, extra secure harness that day lol.
My dog broke her leash when we were on a walk and went for a run. Fucker was running in and out of the road, damn near hit twice (bless the reaction times of those drivers), just living her best life as my fat ass was struggling to keep her in sight, catching her was beyond my skills.
Finally she found something to eat and stopped for a snack, which let me catch up to her. Had to take her home by the collar.