Just taken my dog out, went to a park that we've never been to before.

I let him off the lead and as usual he took off at 200mph, all of a sudden I heard a rather loud bang - he's charged straight into the metal fence surrounding the play area!

Thankfully he got up and raced off with no damage - to him or the fence and I could afford a smile.

But then to make matters worse, when I called him back, his halti had come off and because it was so dark, I had no chance of finding it.

Had to utilise my belt and limp the 2 miles home with my pants round my ankles!

Any other readers have any similar stories?

hahahahah, can just imagine that!!
we went to a field we usually go to in the summer yesterday and i took a different route to the one i usually take. Anyhow, my girls went off into an area that was a bit overgrown and full of young trees. it must have been fenced off at some point because one of my girls on her way back to me went head first into some wire fencing , running full pelt. not once but 3 times!!!!! I couldn't stop laughing as she bounced back and then tried again! Luckily, she noticed the escape route and came back none the worse for her ordeal!!!
mel.

>limp the 2 miles home with my pants round my ankles<

"Oh the pale Moon was shinning....."
Oh that made me laugh!! sorry!! LOL :-D

Blimey...I'd just be grateful he didn't break his neck :(  I think I'd have been so weak at the knees I'd have had to crawl home.  Frightens the life out of me as it brings back memories of my love-struck GR running headlong into a tree as he chased the bitch of his dreams.  I lost him at 4yrs old after he suffered horrendous epilepsy and a PE.  I often wonder if the incident was instrumental in bringing on the epilepsy :(

Ziggi did exactly that except it was due to her chasing a squirrel. 100mph after a squirrel. Squirrel went through the child's play area and Ziggi went straight into it. Came away abit dazed but nothing else thank goodness.

Another time she was doing a mad run and went straight into a fence which was chest height. Unfortunately this time it did do some damage and she will now cough if she ever pulls on a harness :-(

It really scares me the things dogs do.

Our dogs chase each other round the garden and one of their "loops" involves jumping over a small retaining wall, zooming across a gravelled area, leaping up the steps to the decking which extends over a pond, rushing around the decking and then on to the lawn ready to start the circuit again. All of this is done at 100mph with one small terrier chasing after one large golden retriever.

As the chase gets more and more frenzied Harley, the GR, will cut the corners and leap straight over the bottom pond onto the decking thus missing out the steps. A big jump but he does it with ease whereas Cooper, the terrier, does not have the stretch to land on the decking and several times has landed in the pond instead, much to his horror as he usually tries to avoid water at all costs.

Now when I see them doing this circuit rather than one of the others I go out and holler "enough". A few weeks ago I shouted  just as Harley leapt the pond and Cooper was several feet behind him. Cooper put on the brakes, skidded through the gravel and hit the tiny wall in front of the pond at chest height which caused him to cartwheel over the wall and land in the pond head first instead of his normal belly flop mode. A very wet and bedraggled dog slunk out of the pond, gave Harley a filthy look and went off to lie on the decking looking very abashed.

But has  he learnt? No way :)

We were crossing a reservoir once with a wall around 4/5 foot either side with a drop of around 10 ft on the other side my eldest boy Koda (15inches) decided it would be fun to walk along the top of the wall and jumped up. I screamed at him and luckily he jumped off straight away. I was shaking like a leaf! He's quite a good swimmer but I don't know whether he would have made it the 100m to shore or whether he would have survived the fall uninjured. He has also jumped off a bridge into a pond after a duck and then got stuck in brambles (long coat) on the way out!! A friends collie ended up with pins in his leg after jumping over a 2ft wall with a drop of 15ft over. Who'd have em!!
Angela

Having seen a completely limp dog brought into my vet and carried out the same way in his owner's arms I don't find dogs running into walls and fences funny.  The dog had run head first into a tree running after a squirrel.

A year ago I might have found this mildly amusing, without realising the implications... now.. I dont.. the consequences of something as silly as running into a wall/fence/tree are heartbreaking

It will be a year ago (in 2 days) that I lost my girl because she jumped over a fallen tree...

> Had to utilise my belt and limp the 2 miles home with my pants round my ankles!
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This thread is useless without pictures :)

I'm sorry to hear about the others, my heart goes out to you. I hate the wire fences around my local fields but my old boy seems to have sense to avoid them, however many dog walkers have ripped them down and have either thrown the wire in the grass or spun the wire round the fence posts leaving the sharp ends sticking out :(

As a teenager I used to walk my neighbours totally hyper BC, one day she ran so fast into the french doors to the garden that she broke her neck and dropped dead on the spot. She was totally the wrong breed for them but they got another one anyway :(

Mmmmmm.........another gory story - merely posting as a warning that danger is potentially everywhere.  A couple of months back a young male Weim sadly ran into the seat of a metal bench on the village playing fields and cut an artery in his neck.  Needless to say it was fatal.

A while back my parents and I took our dog on a long walk and stopped at a pub on the way back. I was sitting outside with my mum who was holding the dog. This dog in particular REALLY loves my dad and was sat looking into the pub. As she saw my dad coming out she ran towards him, pulling my mums arm, tipping her chair over backwards and dragging her on her back into the pub! As my mum got up and muttered "stupid dog"  a man shouted accross the beer garden "that's right, blame the dog!"

This was meant to be a light hearted thread, and certainly not offend people.

I realise that my boy had a lucky escape, hence the 'funny' incident title.

I was focusing more on the fact he is very clumsy and always leaves a trail of deverstation in his wake.

Apologies Bez.. I am certainly not offended.. we never know what around the corner... life deals us some dreadful hands at time..

My girl was like your boy.. clumsy in the extreme, and lived life at warp factor 8.. devastation was her middle name.. I have posted here many times on what I used to call 'her antics' even went through a plate glass window... never did I ever think her antics were anything but amusing...

Now I see things very differently and my heart is in my mouth when I see or hear of dogs racing with no thought of where they are going.. sooo much fun chasing rabbits/leaves/papers etc..

My girl was just 14months old and so full of life.. she jumped over a fallen tree and impailed herself on a protruding branch.. no-one could have forseen... but I have never allowed any of my dogs to chase or race around with each other since that day... .. Maybe because its less that 2days to the 1st anniversary of her going, I am still feeling a bit raw...

I didnt take offence (I rarely do) but just trying to point out the hidden dangers..

Bev,

I don't think any of us were offended and I'm sure that no one thought that was your intent, so don't worry about it.

It's simply based on experience a dog running full throttle into a fence it's just not a topic that many of us find funny because of the potential consequences.  If you've seen the consequences yourself for your own dog or others, I'm sure you would feel the same. 

This is why my OH won't field trial our Lab.  In competition the dogs are meant to leap, without looking, into the pond and retrieve as fast as possible.  In real life hunting that pond might be very shallow or have a sharp stick just below the surface, or a big rock.  I don't know how people trial and hunt the same dog.  The OH doesn't hunt anymore so maybe a moot point in our case.

My 3 yr old lab had an incident on Sunday night, we went to the local as I fancied chocolate! he sat outside with me and hubby went in shop.  I decided I would walk up to the DVD shop to see what they had in window and I was assuming he knew where I was going and instead of following me straight on he went left to go in shop and slammed his nose straight on the window! Poor boy he certainly looked sorry for himself for a while and I can imagine it must have hurt!

I have had the odd incident of walking into lampposts when on lead walk when distracted by something across the road, they don't do it a second time.

mine was getting chased by a friends young boxer a few years ago who was hell bent on jumping her.  In her efforts to escape my bitch jumped up at my friends car.  For some reason she must have thought the car window was open but she hit the window and slid down it.  It was like something out of a cartoon with my staffy dribbling down the car window and door in what seemed like slow motion.  really funny and I couldn't do anything for laughing but it could have had serious consequences.

Another incident involved her on a lead walk going round a pond.  She stuck her head over the edge to look in the water and appeared to over balance and tipped in head first to the pond.  It was strange the way she went in, like her head was weighted and eventually her tail sunk from view. She was on a flexi lead and I had to pull her up by the lead onto dry land.  Once more she looked a bit dazed but none the worse for the incident. 

Now I am thinking there are too many to mention.

These stories make me shudder...........my boy thinks he can fly and jumps or tries to jump the most impossible things. I am NEVER going on holiday that has even a whisper of cliffs nearby

K