Has your cat or dog ever embarrassed you?

[Archae]

Reason I ask, I was just cleaning out the catbox after Charlotte left behind a stinky.

Well, once my Mom was over at my place, and one of the cats left a stinky in the catbox.
Ooooboy...

[TexasTowelie]

1. Is Charlotte your mom?

You should direct her to the toilet in the bathroom so that your cat doesn't embarrass your mother or you ever again.

Eewww that smell!

[Archae]

3. No, this Charlotte.

[TexasTowelie]

4. She is cute.

I have my own calico, AC. She does end up in the oddest places.

[Archae]

5. Charlotte is adorable...

And she is so affectionate.

Yours looks adorable too.

But at times, Charlotte can leave behind stinkys in the catbox that would gas a bulldog.

[Quantess]

38. Beautiful cat!

[Kennah]

25. Thank you. I needed a laugh that brings tears to my eyes. Next taco is on me.

"OK, dinner will be ready in 5 minutes. Did you and Dad want some wine with ... MOM!!!"

[TexasTowelie]

28. I think I'll pass.

I'd rather have a purrito instead!

[Loryn]

31. And we wonder why they have issues!

[Kennah]

39. I wonder what a Michael Palindrome would look like.

[Populist_Prole]

2. My dog came into my high school and somehow found the classroom I was in and sat by me

He did this to my brothers and sisters too.

[nolabear]

22. That's lovely. Mr. Bear had a dog when we were first in love

that went to Duke U with him and hung out by his car on campus while he was at work in one of the labs there. One day he came out and no Bruno. (Bruno, btw, was a short, stocky Malamute/Shepherd/wolf). We were frantic until we were called by the pound a couple of days later. He'd been picked up on the porch of a house I'd lived in the year before, barking frantically to get in and scaring hell out of the current occupant. It was about five miles from campus.

[olddots]

6. One dog we had ate two twenty dollar bills

and pooped them out when we had a bar-b-q naturally I had to retrieve them .

[femmocrat]

8. Then what did you do with them?

[Kennah]

26. Collection plate at Church

[femmocrat]

7. Yes!

My DIL is so not a dog person. We were training one of the corgis and asked her to be the "friendly stranger" that the dog walks past without reacting. Darn dog walked over to her and peed on her leg and foot.

Dogs just KNOW.

[avebury]

9. OMG! That is just too funny!

It might not have helped you with your relationship with your DIL but it is funny!

[In_The_Wind]

14. Ever wonder where DIL was walking before she got to your house?

Just sayin' ... her foot might have smelled like a female dog.

[femmocrat]

16. Maybe.... they live in the city, so that's possible.

But I think he was just paying her a compliment and marking her as a member of his pack. LOL

[Jokerman]

10. My cat pissed on guests.

Not directly. He climbed up onto this nasty old couch we had in college, sat down between two people and let it go.

Found out later that he had feline urinary syndrome and that he was most likely trying to let us know that something was wrong.

[Xyzse]

11. I don't have a dog, but I volunteer at a shelter now and then

So, I had this one dog who is a bit rambunctious, that I usually walk since no one else wants to deal with her. She is still young, about a year and a half. A black mixed German Shepherd.

Any how, I was walking/running her with a pretty new volunteer who I was tasked to show the ropes. Namely, to show the usual path, and how far I can go within the trails.

There are small ponds that we could stop at, so that the dog can go in, and cool off during the walk. So the idea is, to tie the leash nearby, or just hold it while they roll around in the water. I generally just hold the leash, which is what I did...

I was talking with the new volunteer, asking her what she does and so forth. She's legal, and what not... So, as that was happening, I got pulled in to the water.

Had to take off my shirt... Which might not have been a bad thing...

[femmocrat]

17. LOL

You certainly taught her not to go doggy-paddling!

[Xyzse]

34. That dog almost dragged me under

That was one I had a hard time training. She loved jumping on people but that is not something that people who adopt pets like. Especially those that have kids.

[baldguy]

12. Imagine a 65-lb Pit Bull cowering in fear of a little 8-lb puffball Maltese.

Orchid is a big wimp.

[RebelOne]

15. My 95-pound Rottweiler was terrified of my 5-pound Chihuahua. n/t

[nolabear]

21. My 12 pound Cavalier thinks she's Godzilla.

She's such a bitch to other dogs when she's on the leash that I hate to walk her. She may well get her cute, fluffy little ass kicked one day.

[Bertha Venation]

43. What a beauty, bald guy

Orchid -- unique name.

[srican69]

13. I had my friends over when my dog took a fancy towards the legs of one of my guests ...

leg humping

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Aside from the tendencies of my cats

to park themselves in front of company, stick one leg behind their head and enthusiastically lick their junk, not too much...

[abbeyco]

19. She didn't embarrass me but made me look quite the fool

When summer weather permits, I bring her in my car and have the windows down for her. I ran into a drug store for a quick trip and after I was inside for more than 5 minutes, she jumped out of the car and went to sit at the door that I'd entered, waiting for me to come out. The owner of a black lab with the name on her tags was paged and I went out without my stuff to find her waiting and wagging for me to return.

And the same dog farts a lot in front of new guests and that's always embarrassing!

[Rowdyboy]

20. Years ago our English springer spaniel pup was kept by our retired neighbors while we worked.

One day when we went to pick him up, the lady of the house had been cooking and giving him tid-bits. Champ got under the table and refused to budge until we forced him to come home with us. It was not our finest hour as pet owners.

[nolabear]

23. We once had a little black and white terrier who had been "owned" by everyone in the neighborhood.

Flash was a piece of work, dumped in the cul de sac we lived in, an independent man who did not suffer fools or confinement lightly. We were pretty good at keeping him but once had someone call us (tags) because he had been found at the Safeway a few miles away, playing with the automatic door, running in and out and in and out...

[duuser5822]

24. Yes, many times

I have a pug that's so adorable. But man, does he love to crap wherever he goes, especially out in public. So dirty.

[Kennah]

27. Years ago, friend of mine's Mom had a 60-70 pound Poodle

He was pretty aged, about 12 or 13 years old, when I knew him. Poor old guy had to be put down after a year or two.

Anywho, friend's Mom had been married to friend's Dad, but Dad was a cheating SOB. Mom related to me how, after the divorce, Dad stopped by one night and they were arguing over child support. Dog quietly walked over to Dad, raised a leg, and took a piss on him.

I was petting the dog, broke up laughing, and then told him, "That's a good boy."

Mom was a nurse, so she was used to embarrassing situations and having to maintain a certain decorum.

[TeamPooka]

29. never, she's a great dog.

[hunter]

30. When I walk our dogs they like to cheerfully greet the police.

That's plenty embarrassing when the police are in plain cars or otherwise trying to be inconspicuous.

One time an officer was standing on the hill watching as the high school let out. He got a little irked with us and waved us away. Our youngest smallest dog decided to read that as a threat. Her posture suddenly went from friendly to, "Oh yeah??? Me and my pack can take you down!!!"

Fortunately the other dogs and I convinced her the officer was okay.

[Loryn]

32. I think they are embarrassed by me.

[Quantess]

33. Yes! Except he wasn't my dog... I just took him out for walks.

My elderly neighbor's german shepherd was so aggressive toward other dogs and humans (overprotective I think) that he had to wear a muzzle out in public. Even so, he was hell-bent on wanting to attack certain humans and other dogs for no apparent reason.

He strained and pulled and fought on his leash and choke chain like a fish caught on a net, trying to attack!

I was embarrassed that people thought he was my dog.

[Throd]

35. I used to have a dog that would only bark at black people.

I'm a white guy who lived in a very diverse neighborhood and people of all races would walk by. She didn't seem to mind Anglos, Mexicans or Asians, but we could tell a black person was walking in front of the house because she would start freaking out. She was a rescue dog and our best guess as to her behavior was that a black person must have been mean to her at some time in the past. I even had a black guy from the neighborhood ask me why my dog hates black people.

[marzipanni]

36. Our dog, Sally, will be thirteen this August, and she doesn't stop to poop each time

Usually if we walk to the P.O. down the street, the police station driveway next door is where 'deposits' start dropping as she walks. I backtrack and pick them up in a plastic bag.
I try not to walk her where we have to walk across the three intersections where there is any traffic because it would be embarrassing to have her pooping as we crossed, and then I'd have to try to collect it between green lights.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

37. My lab tells really off-color jokes in front of my mom.

[mzteris]

40. not me, but my brother.

We had a little dog, that if you stuck your tongue out, he would stick his tongue out. It was cute.

My brother had his girlfriend over and wanted to impress her with our dogs tricks. (He - the dog - could do the usual gamut: rollover, play dead, shake, beg, dance in circles - that sort of thing, too.) Well you could see she was all impressed (I think they were 15 or something) -

- and then he picks the dog up for the big finale - sticks his tongue out. And the dog promptly LICKED HIS TONGUE!

I don't think that girl ever kissed him again.

[polly7]

41. Oh, yes.

My little Brutus was sitting with me in the front row at a meeting when he started snoring about 10 minutes in. Loudly. Boringest thing ever, but still .... That was the same day I was putting my boots on and he was waiting by the window. He saw a jack-rabbit and started whining so someone opened the door. He chased that little bunny down hard! .. bunny turned around and chased him right back to the building with everyone watching and killing themselves laughing at him. Brutus was a little Cocker Spaniel - cross who was positive he was a German Shepherd.

[Bertha Venation]

42. Rat Face -- damned cat . . .

My sister and niece had just arrived for a two week visit. They settled down on the couch to unwind from their flight and the long drive from the airport.

Rat Face -- who very rarely comes into the living room -- came and squatted in the middle of the floor and peed a lake. Damned thing! I shouldn't have been embarrassed before my sister, but I was.