When your Dog really lets you down

[LaurenBay]

So having a Beagle, I always get compliments about how good he is off lead and obedient he is (which he should be considering how much effort I put into training) So after a lovely long walk in the forest on a route we had never done before, we came out into a golf course, now there were other dog walkers and plenty of them who pointed out the tracks I was allowed to walk on as this was still public footpath. So off we set with our friend and her dog. Now Ralph ignores other people when walking, as he does with bikes, joggers etc. So I kept him off his lead (he had been off for over an hour already with perfect re call) Another dog walker stopped to have a chat and commented on how good he is, when all of a sudden he heard someone tee off (is that even the right terminology?!) from ages away(despite ignoring all the others) and he spun and chased the ball, ignoring my calls all together. So here I am 7 months pregnant, huffing and puffing and trying to chase him whilst dodging flying golfballs. Ralph picked up the ball, brought it to me and left it at my feet (doesn't play with his own sodding balls though) I popped him on lead, apologised over and over with a very red face and trying to catch my breath! golfer wasn't pleased as you can imagine! I swear they set out to embarrass you sometimes! (needless to say he remained on lead until we had left the golf course entirely and went back to perfect re call like nothing had happened)

 

[PapaverFollis]

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Sounds like the golfer takes himself too seriously... who could be mad about a bit of beagle interference. Sorry mate looks like it's in the Ruff.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Oh dear you poor thing! I had identical to this many years back walking my two impeccably trained working collies across a footpath on a golf course.... I strolled along happily with one either side of me - one guy wacked the ball about 200 yards away and that is it they were both gone like a rocket ! they would never normally do anything like that, it must be something to do with the sound of them teeing off lol!

I yelled, I chased, I begged I pretended to run away - not a damn flick of an ear in my direction. They eventually calmed down and dropped the ball and came back to heel. My golfers must have been a bit better tempered than yours, they all clapped and cheered when I eventually had them back under control!

 

[ester]

sorry, that's hilarious, thank you (and well mostly Ralph) for brightening the day!

 

[millikins]

Well done Ralph, can't have those humans taking your obedience for granted I think most dogs have an uncanny instinct for finding the one walker/gardener/golfer who will give you the most grief at their misdemeanors.

 

[MrsMozartleto]

Oops. They always do it at a rubbish time - one of my dogs used to become deaf to recall on the very odd occassion I walked her after eating too much dinner.

As for the golfer, well what a sad person. It was obviously just one of those days.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

The shame! One time, Brig decided to go digging in a sandpit thing on the extremely posh and expensive golf course you have to walk across to access the canal. Oh, the swearing from the agitated golfers! I was thinking ‘Why put a ruddy course in the middle of the bloody woods, then?!“

 

[PapaverFollis]

Once upon a time I was on a horse that "bolted" "out of control" across a lovely golf course. That's probably the naughtiest thing I've ever done. ?

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Once upon a time I was on a horse that "bolted" "out of control" across a lovely golf course. That's probably the naughtiest thing I've ever done. ?

Do I know you??? I think I might just have been with you if this happened way back in the early 60's - a group of us kids , oddly all our ponies bolted at the same time, it must have been all that beautifully manicured soft grass

 

[PapaverFollis]

Do I know you??? I think I might just have been with you if this happened way back in the early 60's - a group of us kids , oddly all our ponies bolted at the same time, it must have been all that beautifully manicured soft grass

Not me! My "accident" occurred while I was all on my lonesome... a little short of 20 years ago. I was old enough to know better that's for sure! (But young enough to plead youthful stupidity and arrogance... just).

 

[MrsMozartleto]

Not me! My "accident" occurred while I was all on my lonesome... a little short of 20 years ago. I was old enough to know better that's for sure! (But young enough to plead youthful stupidity and arrogance... just).

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Mine was across the 400m track on the school sports field ?

 

[Bellasophia]

Your beagle sounds a superstar..perfect retrieve and recall..just the location needed a tweak..I enjoyed your post though ?

 

[deb_l222]

Soooooo funny

 

[millikins]

We did one of those "horse and hound" classes at a local show, pony was so over excited it took 3 goes to make her walk through the finish which she had to before I could set off with the poodle. He was then equally hyper, took one look at the agility type "dog" jumps and deciding they were way below his standard set off round the show jumps in bounding leaps. We were about 2 minutes slower than anyone else but the ringside audience were in stitches

 

[ester]

I mentioned this to the golfers today and 1 said they lost a ball last weekend and a guy was walking his dog on the footpath offered to send him to find it.
Dog brought back 2 balls which weren't theirs and then found theirs, so maybe you should be hiring Ralph out instead?

 

[wilf]

Nothing to do with golf. We were on the beach and my (normally very well behaved hound) went up to a fisherman on the beach - all very nice, pats and appreciation. As I am chatting I just see said dog taking a cr@p in his bait box! Goodness knows why... Oh my goodness that took some explaining. Thank goodness it wasn't his lunchbox!

 

[zandp]

When I visit my sister my dogs love going for a walk around a marina lake - they help the fishermen with their bacon butties that they fry by their fishing spots.

 

[mini_b]

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Mine was across the 400m track on the school sports field ?

I keep wistfully looking at the sports field... must think pure thoughts!

 

[Widgeon]

Nothing to do with golf. We were on the beach and my (normally very well behaved hound) went up to a fisherman on the beach - all very nice, pats and appreciation. As I am chatting I just see said dog taking a cr@p in his bait box! Goodness knows why... Oh my goodness that took some explaining. Thank goodness it wasn't his lunchbox!

I used to walk a retriever who just ate the contents of a bait box. We both (me and the fisherman) did our best to stop her but there is no time to get between a retriever and her food. She also ate a dead fish and an entire cake in foil that had fallen off someone's bike. Thankfully she spat out the foil. It was like walking with a cuddly Henry Hoover.

 

[LaurenBay]

Yes Ralph does like to eat from the bait box, whenever we do a canal walk I take a bag of his treats and keep them handy. He doesn't love my side if he knows whats on offer. I keep him on lead around picnic areas though, because he will demolish a whole picnic in a few minutes (pretty impressive really)

 

[CorvusCorax]

Mine both gently steal food from small children at head height, one once punctured and got covered in a series of exploding carbonated beverages left on the beach by kids at a surf school and the other one, again, very gently took a safety bag from a man walking along beside a child canoeing along the river ?

 

[cbmcts]

Ah yes, the golf course aka as the best dog playground

My rottie not only robbed a golf ball, he brought it back to the golfer and dropped it at his feet then pogoed around waiting for him to hit it again for another game of fetch. At the same time, a terrier (more cat then dog tbf) was taking a dump in the sandpit and the other had raised a rabbit and was in hot pursuit over the green.... They were usually pretty obedient, just not that day.

 

[EllenJay]

Not me! My "accident" occurred while I was all on my lonesome... a little short of 20 years ago. I was old enough to know better that's for sure! (But young enough to plead youthful stupidity and arrogance... just).

You see this annoys me. As horse riders we have real issues with finding land to ride on - golfers pay a lot of money to have great gold courses, so are these the types of people we want to piss off by making great hills in their greens? What gives you the right to ruin their sorry just because you want a gallop on their lovely green lawns?

I have twice gone through the golf club lawns - the first time a golfer miss-hit their shot and their ball hit my horse on his flank resulting in a proper out of control gallop across their fairway - with loads of apologies from both the golfer and me. The second time was because of a "miscommunication". A new golf course had opened, and we were told that the original bridleway had been redirected. So the first time we rode that way we followed the blue bridleway signs, only to be told that we had gone off course and we were actually following the ladies tee-off markers! These were quickly changed to yellow.
But my point is, golfers have as much right to their enjoyment as we do, and cutting up their playing fields doesn't help our cause at all.
We are the first to complain if people come into our fields without permission

 

[Auslander]

My setter, who usually has excellent recall, took off like a rocket one day. I set off after him, only to find him in the middle of an outdoor yoga class, kissing people, and singing the songs of his people.
I decided discretion was the better part of valour, and hid behind a tree until he got bored and came to find me

 

[PapaverFollis]

Oh I know. It was very naughty and I wouldn't ever do it again. I was actually genuinely a bit lost too, and it was getting dark, but I could see where I needed to be across the golf course. Since it was 20 years ago I'm not going to be beating myself up about it now if that's OK with you. ?‍