:-D  That's what you call "well socialised."

We have just recently started going camping, and regularly find ourselves in embarassing situations with our dog. The fisrt time we went we were fast asleep when we heard a voice asking if we had a dog. Tyler had escaped through a hole and took himself into the nearest tent. The same thing happened the next day the people behind were having breakfast and Tyler had joined. Apparantly they had pushed him back through the hole twice. We have now bought a new tent and enjoy going to the lakes, but last time he shook over half a dozen people after bathing in the lake, and peed up the neighbouring tents windbreak The family were encouraging him over though. Luckily in that environment where there are lots of dogs we got away with it. In fact we made friends out of it. I will probably get linched now for being irresponsable. Don't worry your dog doesn't sound at all bad.

I daren't risk taking our dogs camping; at least, not without a crate to keep them in!

I couldn't take our dogs camping at all - they would guard the tent and no-one would dare move without them barking :D :D

Daisy

We have had to buy a new tent with lots of zip up compartments to zip our dog in!! Not sure if i could cope with multiple dogs in a tent though I never thought of using a crate, thats a good idea, but as we have never really used one i wouldn't like to start now.

after his escape escapade he had to come in the main bit with us and my god you dont know how much a dog stinks till youve spent a night in a small canvas area with it!! especially when its been hoovering up scraps all evening.

We had friends visit and my mates hubby's Howard is frightened of big dogs, any way my old GSD Wispa took a fancy to him, and promptly squatted in front of him and pooed dont know why he didint finish his sandwich :) :)

A similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago, I was busy cleaning up Rhuari's mess with one hand and he was sitting waitng for me on a short lead,the next thing out of nowhere behind me an adult on a bike appearred riding on the pavement,Rhuari went for him and he wobbled off into the road,I shouted after him" it was his own fault he shouldn't have been riding on the pavement in the first place",to which I received a load of verbal abuse with "fat cow" thrown in for good measure.

I may be fat but the last time I looked I wasn't a cow.

I put it down to experience and without eyes in my backside I wouldn't have been able to prevent it.

Rhona

I have been laughing out loud at all these exploits! They bring to mind an incident with my GR cross. We were walking along a crowded pavement and he suddenly lunged forward and stuck his nose right up between the legs of the man walking in front of us making him stumble to the ground.. I was so embarassed!  After helping him up he saw the funny side thank goodness!

Ooooooh dear.....

I know the feelnig, only too well.... just remember, small people spend a lot of time falling down, nearly falling down, crying, in fact probably in equal amoutns to the tim ethey spend hurtling about and being loud.... she will have forgotten about it by now!

MY evil dogs..... well...

I once was having lunch in a pub garden, with a then puppy Rocky, and some friends.... the landlords daughter appeared from out of the back of the pub... all pink dresses and ribbons and blonde ringlets... and her eyes lit up when she saw rocky.....

Who decided the very BEST way to greet a small, pretty child.... was to do his very best miniature savage rottwieler impression (he looked like a mini rottie).... and hurtle at her, barking his head off and try to jump on her (lead too short thankfully)..... her face crumpled up and she screamed her head off!!! Poor kid, he did only want to play but she didnt know that!

He has also weed in a blokes coat pocket when he found the coat hung over a post, danced round the scariest nutter-lady in the park with his nose up her dogs bum, with me trying to catch him whilst seh beat me with a chain lead and her daughter screamed hysterically, hes weed up the videos in the video shop.... zoomed in the front door of a nasty neighbours flat, grabbed her sausages of her plate adn zoomed out the back door.... rampaged through at least TWO picnics (picnickers hiding behind a bush), complete with his hairy entourage of OES and Border Collies, snaffling sandwiches and cakes on the way through, picked up other dogs balls whilst they were peeing and displayed how HE can multitask, peeing and holding ball at same time.... got his OES mate into trouble playing the 'follow the leader peeing' game, he peed up the front of a car, hes a short dog though, OES peed up the front of the car and he is BIG, and sports cars have low bonnets.... and the car owner was IN the car at the time..... rofl...the last thing he did was have a Birthday Fight.... squeezed out my front door only to find a stray dog in the garden, so he kicked its backside all across the street, holding up the bus and several cars (fortunately its not a fast road at all), much doggy swearing and me yelling at him to leave it and come back.... which he did when the stray gave up and admitted defeat, and then he swaggered back in,he has a very cocky attitude at times and also suffers from 'short man syndrome'.... (btw, neither dog was hurt this was male macho fighting, not to the death scary stuff!)......

Since then (and that was his birthday two years ago), touch wood he has been a good boy.....and now he is nearly 6 he is quite tolerant, mature and relatively sensible (nickname Captain Sensible amazingly enough), so they DO eventually grow out of dropping you in the poo!

Em

I think that must be a retriever thing, mine like to put his head between peoples legs as well. He kind of goes behind pushes his head through your knees!

Snap :D our retriever does that as well but he's  not fussy if its from in front of you or behind. If he does one of his enthusiastic recalls (not very often) he gets there so fast his head has no choice but to end up straight between your legs or even his whole body disappears through and he ends up sitting behind you with his back to you looking surprised :D

My Lab girl likes to do that too, especially from behind as we are skiing down a hill.  She's not big so zips right through between my legs in a move that obviously delights her.  But her BIG male Lab friend tried it one day and knocked me right off my feet/skiis.  His owner was appalled and so embarassed.  I have a lot of prematurely grey hair and I'm sure he had visions of this old grey haired lady being critically injured by his dog.  Specially as both dogs then thought, "oh boy, lets jump on her."

My retriever likes to go through your legs from the front. Then he stops with his bum is level with your legs at which point you are expected to scratch his bum. Bum scrungies they're called in our house. :-D

At least i get to see the face lol!

Well we do call his feathers his bum beard blame the OH I take no responsibilty for that one :-D

Oh Dear lol.

We call them rumbubs.