It’s Friday! Other than the fact we are heading into a long weekend (yay!) that also means it’s time for another edition of Furbaby Friday!
Have you guys heard of dogshaming.com? It’s a website where pet owners submit pictures of their dog along with a description of what the dog did to get themselves in trouble. Some of the things dogs do are truly ridiculous and hilarious! If you’re a pet owner (or pet lover) and you need a laugh, you have to check out this website. Warning: you get sucked in very easily and could lose an hour (or a few hours) of your life reading crazy dog stories. Dog Shaming definitely makes me feel better about a few of the offenses our dogs have been guilty of over the years. There is comfort in knowing you’re not the only person that has had multiple things destroyed by your beloved pet, right? This whole concept got me thinking. Our dogs have done several things worthy of being submitted to Dog Shaming, so I figured I would share with you a few of their crazy stories!
I don’t know that I have told many people this first story because I was so horrified at the time. Right before we got Lyssa, I bought a brand new car as a present to myself for graduating college, getting a full-time job, and successfully entering the adult world. A few months later we adopted Lyssa. One day Chris and I loaded her up in my car to take her somewhere… I couldn’t even tell you where. She was whining during the drive but we didn’t think much of it because her foster mom had told us she wasn’t great in the car, so we figured it was just par for the course. Well… I guess she was trying to tell us something because a few minutes later Chris looked in the backseat and said “She’s pooping!” On my brand new leather seats I might add. So I freaked out and slammed on the brakes, which only made the situation worse because a turd came flying into the front seat. It was ridiculous and probably could have been a scene from a comedy movie. Luckily we were by some grass so I pulled over and Lyssa finished doing her business outside, but I was “traumatized” for years.
Another fun Lyssa story is the first time we left her out of the crate while no one was home. She was less than a year old and we had decided to start transitioning to leaving her out of the crate when she was home alone. I think we left the house for an hour or so, not very long. But it was long enough for her to destroy the blinds in the downstairs window of the townhouse we were renting.
It was an easy fix, but at the time we were less than impressed. Lyssa seems to have a thing with blinds because she did the exact same thing last year when we moved into our brand new house… Except this time she chewed up 6 sets of blind! We still haven’t replaced them… One day!
Lyssa isn’t the only dog in our house with some Dog Shaming moments, Levi has definitely had a few of his own. Every day with him is an adventure. He loves food! So much that he acts like he’s starved because he scarfs down any food in his general vicinity. (Note: he gets two square meals a day, so he is definitely not starved!) We had caught him counter surfing a few times as a puppy, but it all came to a head one night when Chris was at work and stopped by to pick up some dinner. I had made a pan of meatloaf, so I cut two slices: one for myself and one for Chris. I put Chris’ in a tupperware container and ran it outside to him when he stopped by the house. I stood outside talking to him for a few minutes and then went back inside to find an empty meatloaf pan on the floor in the middle of the kitchen. I was SO mad! That meatloaf was supposed to be dinner for a few days and Levi ate it! Not to mention the fact that I was concerned about how his stomach would handle the meatloaf and wondering if I would have a giant mess to clean up later. It turns out, his stomach digests meatloaf just fine, so that part worked out well. We have since wised up and never leave food out on the counter.
One last story for today. A few months ago Levi became a Houdini and started escaping his crate when no one was home. Since he was about to be a year old, we decided it was a good time to leave him out of the crate and see how he did being home alone. Although he wasn’t technically alone because Lyssa is with him, but you know what I mean. Surprisingly he did very well for the first few weeks and the house was always intact when we got home, so Chris and I decided to leave Levi out on a regular basis. Well, one day I came home from work and the dogs greeted me like they always do. I checked out the house and everything seemed to be fine so I went about my evening. I went to fill up the dogs’ water bowl which happens to be by a window and something in the backyard caught my eye. I looked closer and I saw a picture of myself out in the yard, which immediately set off a red flag. I walked out to the backyard to find a scrapbook of my first trip to Europe destroyed and in pieces in the grass. I was not a happy camper! You may be asking how do I know it was Levi and not Lyssa? This is typical Levi behavior and it had “mischevious puppy” written all over it. That scrapbook was put away in a bin in a spare room. How he got a hold of it, I don’t know! But it was beyond repair and I was forced to throw it away.
I have more stories where these came from, I may have to do Dog Shaming Round Two in the future!
Part of being a dog owner is taking the bad with the good and now I can look back at all of these stories and laugh. Our dogs may get in trouble from time to time but I wouldn’t trade them for the world! They bring so much love and laughter to our lives and that makes all of these “dog shaming” moments worthwhile.
Do you have any dog shaming stories? Comment below, I would love to hear them!
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