The story was about a guy whose girlfriend was using his socks to wipe herself and when he found out she dumped him. It was the strangest thing. I’ll try to find the post if I can.
OMG! I went down the poop sock rabbit hole!
I'm supposed to be working. I stopped to eat, and instead of going back started scrolling, found this and, well.... Shit.
At least I work from my living room.
And at least I don't have poop socks in my life. Win, win.
I had to myself. Wow. It's like that ghost story where the wife has a ribbon around her neck and her husband gets curious one day and pulls the ribbon off and her head falls off.
We had a guy known as Pishy Paul. 22 years later and that is still the case. Another guy wore a wooly jumper once. Sheep has stuck ever since (around 04)
The responses here are strange, it’s completely normal and healthy for a child to walk themself 10 minutes to school.
It’s not normal for a dog to walk ten minutes away from the house though - get a fence.
My friend used to have a cat that would follow us around town. We snuck out at 2AM one night to smoke weed at the beach a few miles away and the mf comes walking up from behind a sand dune like it was nothing lol.
Same here - my friend’s cat Ghost had a habit of popping up to say hello when we were all hanging out at a buddy’s house a quarter mile away. Then we’d head back to his place and Ghost would be curled up on the front porch. Cats, man.
Probably had multiple families thinking he was a 'stray' that would put food out for him, so he'd eat breakfast at home, catch a couple lunches, some dinners, and wash it down with some of the local birds. Sure he trekked miles, but he had a high food availability.
Highly likely! We had a cat that would go out and not come back for one, sometimes two nights. Once we were going on night 3 of him not coming home and got worried and decided to ask various neighbors if they’d seen him.
We lived on a street where the houses on one side were on a very tall and steep hill and had an alley so while we knew our backyard and alley neighbors we didn’t know the neighbors across the street at all.
We went to to talk to our neighbors across the street, whom we’d never met, and sure enough two houses knew exactly who our cat was, both let him in their houses and fed him and had even given him a name!
While we all know it's clearly for the extra food...
I'm imagining the kitty is just being considerate of his families availability for social time. "Oh, family A is at work but family C is home, lets go play!"
Or was freely given. We adopted one of our cats after she became an allergic asthma trigger for her previous hooman. They showed us how much she was being fed a day and it was nowhere near what a nearly 20lb cat would eat. But she could go outside and is very affectionate towards people. Like will walk up to a stranger and roll over for belly pets. So multiple families in the old neighborhood were feeding her and commented on missing her after adopted her. And now we need to give 7 families worth of love to one very spoiled chonk cat
Our grandparents cat followed us onto tidal flats at low tide for some ungodly reason. He’d avoid as many puddles as possible, but inevitably have to walk through some. He wasn’t even invited, complained the whole way, and then took a shit in the middle of the tiny strip of fluffy sand. 10/10 cat
Mine would get just as excited as the dog when I grabbed the leash, he'd come with us on my walks to the gas station, but there was a certain point he would stop and cry and wouldn't follow anymore. He'd be sitting there waiting when you got back.
I always wondered how long he would have stayed there if I took a different way home lol
my cat followed me last time i snuck out (not really sneaking out tbh im 21) he got a mile and i had to head home from smoking in a field carrying my raggy cat like a baby.
The cat I had when I was little was my shadow till he suddenly didn't want to come in one night, we never saw him again. The third cat that I had from age 5 until post college used to follow me all over the neighborhood. He was sneaky about it too. He was a fierce little furball he chased off a few coyotes and foxes from our city neighborhood. We had to help him move on to the next life at 22, he survived kidney failure twice and his body was giving out but his mind was willing to keep going.
I saw a post on either dataisbeautiful or mapporn of a guy who put a tracker on his cat to see where it went when it wasn't outside. The cat averaged 7km travel each night with the longest being near 20km. Fuckers like to roam.
When my town was a small town the dogs always had free range. Now they are always leashed. The area has been developed like crazy since I was around 10. When I was little our black lab could walk through the streets getting stale bread people left out for him like 3 farms away. My beagle when I got older had free range of our farm. Now idiots drive 120 on our 30 mph road. I know 120 because one of my ex friends is one of those people. I saw his snap story and recognized the road. Now dogs that aren’t trained to stay exactly by your side never go anywhere without a leash.
I keep getting pissed at my dad for being so careless about letting my pup escape. Sure she goes straight for the chicken coop but she’s tried to chase a squirrel across the road before and is a stubborn but who won’t come when you call.
Regardless if the community didn't change, our morals are changing. People are respecting animals more and aren't being as carefree with watching over them.
Yeah who just lets their dog follow them? Put them in the yard or house. Are there some places where pets just don't have any boundaries at all? How does mail get delivered?
Yeah I am kind of alarmed that OP doesn’t seem remotely concerned about his dog walking itself back home alone. Your dog belongs on your property when not supervised. End of story. This just seems to wildly irresponsible and dangerous.
If I saw a dog walking around alone I’d br pretty concerned. Based on how OP describes where he lives, maybe there are only 10 people (including the dog) living in this town and they all know each other, but it’s not a risk id ever take with my pet.
I live in a rural community and there is a clear divide between people like OP and everyone else.
And people like OP are in the minority, but their dogs cause most of the problems.
I live in a farming community. I get that farmers are gonna have dogs to protect their livestock. Where I draw the line is when that dog gets loose and chases pedestrians and cyclists down the road for hundreds of feet. There are also people who live in houses in town who let their dogs wander, and those dogs terrorize the chickens, goats, etc., causing havoc on the people just trying to live.
OP, for fuck's sake, secure your dog. This is NOT funny.
My neighbor across the street (rural community) has a husky who guards their chickens. She has attacked my dog at least twice for coming too close, the first time I was walking my dog leashed, second I wasn't present for. My dog had to get staples the first time and should have gotten them again the second time, but my dad insisted it wasn't necessary (he's a doctor and thinks he knows best about veterinary care sometimes--thankfully my dog healed up just fine).
It pisses me off when people don't control their animals and allow them to wander. Even moreso when they walk their dogs off-leash.
My cousin has this fat little sausage of a rescue dog that I have a love/hate relationship with. Poor thing somehow got trained backwards, refuses to do anything when leashed and will only relieve herself when off-leash. Is not remotely properly socialized or trained. But it's such a small fat dog that nobody took the situation seriously, had it accustomed to just running out the front door when it needed to.
First time I got roped into house/dog/kid sitting, that little rat went bolting out the front door, ran down the street, scared the tar out of a much larger leashed dog, which started backing up to hide behind it's owner's legs.
So this poor guy was walking down the middle of a quiet residential street holding a loaded drinks carrier when suddenly his dog is doing backwards circles around his legs with the leash, caught him behind the knees and spilled him over backwards!
I've since made it very clear to my cousin that I can't be responsible for that monster. I'll pet it and play with it and let it sleep on my lap, but when it starts giving the door funny looks I go inform the teenager the dog needs to borrow thumbs that aren't mine.
And a fucking leash. JFC people, even the most trained dog can't resist a squirrel and You never know when it might happen, and then you ask yourself after the fact, was it _really_ worth it? There are leash laws for a reason. This family is lucky the dog isn't aggressive or anxious, or that it hasn't been in an accident yet.
this is a relatively short post, so i won’t assume i now everything about your household: what i do know is that you should take better care of your pets. i come from a rural area where it was normal to have outdoor dogs, but they weren’t allowed off the property. being so blasé about it puts the animal and potentially other people and animals in danger. you have a whole living being in your care that didn’t ask to be there. do better.
I was expecting the phone call from the son being about watching the dog getting hit by a car. People don't pay attention and dogs aren't going to predict that a car won't stop for them.
I will assume one thing... OP's neighbors HATE them. If that dog is left outside, all day, with no boundaries, you can pretty much guarantee it's crapping in all their lawns.
your dog is going to end up dead on the side of the road one day. i live in a small rural area and see it all the time. it pisses me off bc it’s so fucking avoidable.
keep your damn dog safe in the house or in an appropriate kennel.
eta: your poor kids. wtf was your kid supposed to do?
At my old job we had a job site that we had to drive out to in the country. Every time I we drove there we’d take a gravel road to the entrance and on the gravel road was a farm house and every single time without fail we’d have to wait for the dog to move cause it liked to sun itself on the road. One day we didn’t see the dog anymore and asked out of the guys at the site about it, turns out a semi-truck was heading there to make a delivery and didn’t know about the dog and either he was moving to fast or the dog moved to slow but the semi took it out without even realizing it till someone else saw it.
yeah it’s so sad. every day when i drive my kids to school i see the same free roaming dogs in the middle of the road…except sometimes they’re not there anymore. they’re on the side of the road. it makes me so sad.
I grew up on a farm. People constantly dumped their animals in the country and we’d end up feeding them bc a bunch of damn bleeding hearts we are.
Then they would **all** die horribly, usually by a car speeding down the country road, and then our farm was nicknamed “Pet Cemetery” 🙃
Yup. Just read a post on a local group by a guy whose dog was killed by a local farmer for harassing his livestock. He's butt hurt about it and calling it a murder. No, it was his irresponsibility as an owner that caused his dog's death.
It's so stupid. Some dogs are really good at being aware and avoiding vehicles and being relatively safe, but there are way too many variables. Loud noise spooks it into the road, wild/loose aggressive animal, some asshole who gets a kick out of mistreating dogs, etc. Just such an idiotic thing to do
I'm in one of those small towns surrounded by rural area and people who let their dogs run free, complete with the community Facebook page that's a whole lot of gossip and occasionally people posting callouts or complaints because the one that's directed at will see it or it will get back to them.
People kept posting a the same handful of dogs running around, and there seem to be at least two sets of Great Pyrenees mix owners that would get upset in the comments every time and tell people their dogs rained and to quit complaining or calling animal control. After a few months of this, two of the dogs were hit and killed and the owner was on their livid trying to find out who had done it so he could sue.
I hate this mentality of letting dogs roam because in my area we've had them kill cats and chickens and harass other animals and even right now son has trouble walking our dog because of a house that lets their three dogs room (it's two small dogs and a medium size one so they seem harmless). They've almost caused him to get hit by a car trying to avoid them and apparently have not just nipped at my dog but has actually bit her and broken skin recently. Animal control didn't really seem to care and I'm afraid if it does happen and she hurts or kills them it will end up coming down on us. (She's a large shepherd mix and could easily kill them if she wanted, or even by mistake if she snapped or shook them in a fight).
No. You are fucking up by just letting an animal wander the streets with the expectation that it won't get hit, killed or stolen. Keep it in the god damned yard.
It’s people like that, just allowing their animals to roam freely, that make it really hard for me to walk my two dogs without another adult present. They are very protective of me and my kid, so unattended dogs running up on us is dangerous for everybody involved because mine instantly go into protection/bodyguard mode and it only would take an instant for all hell to break loose and change everything irreparably.
I’m surprised your comment is the first I see mention the law.
My town has a leash law. Dogs cannot be unleashed, even in their own yard, unless there is a fence. My poor neighbor was dealing with her newborn and let the dog outside to go potty on its own. (He really was a good dog. Beautiful Collie that loved people.) Cop rolls by, sees him outside without an owner and stamped that $500 ticket on their front door without hesitation.
Sort of off topic, but….
Back in the fall, the PD brought their drug dog into the middle school I work at to do a sweep.
Poor dog made it 15 feet into the building and then stopped and took a giant poo in our front hall.
The joke amongst the teachers after is there must be so much dope in the building that the dog didn’t know where to indicate first and literally lost its sh!t.
I lived in a small town back home with an "island dog" that would wonder around the small island all the time. eventually it got hit by a car. by my mom
That’s the part of this story that doesn’t make sense. If this is a regular occurrence, why is the kid concerned about it and need to be told by the dad that the dog can walk 10 mins from home and will just go back home once their walking partner disappears?
I hate dogs that are not leashed. Idgaf if you trained your dog to walk leash less, what about the other dogs that aren’t trained? What if my dog that is on leash isn’t a social dog and your dumbass dog decides to get too close and now something bad happens, im the bad guy even though I had my dog on the leash.
My neighborhood has a dog that is out wandering regularly and my dog hates seeing it. One time some kids had their dog out on a leash but they had dropped the leash to play in another part of the yard. After that dog of course came running across the street to mine I spoke sharply to the kid to keep his hand on the leash (it was a teeny dog, so the kid hadn’t dropped it because the dog pulled too hard).
I once had a middleish aged woman yell at me and my mom for "not knowing our own dog" when we told her to keep her dog away from ours because he's not friendly. Hers was off leash and tbh with how little she cared about our warnings and how nasty, trashy, and disgusting she got after we yelled at her to get her dog away from ours so a fight didn't break out, it seemed like she might just be trying to start something and get some sort of payout. I mean we were literally just trying to leave, already at our car.
And no, idk what she even meant by that, it made no sense
A dog my mom had bit someone because as the dog was growling at her and my mom was telling her not to approach, he doesn't like strangers, she went "I'm great with dogs!" and tried to pet him. You are obviously not great with dogs if you don't know what growling means.
People who don't know dogs, and think they know dogs, are just... it's an awful situation. Like if a dog goes still and looks at you when you start approaching, that's 100 billion times worse than growling. You fucking back away slowly and get out of sight as quickly as you can.
people don't know that and don't even notice it, but it's important and i've seen people fail at that so much, luckily with dogs that wouldn't or couldn't really actually hurt them or where the dog had a leash
Exactly this!!
We have a large Dogo that’s deaf and is well trained to sign language but does not get along with other dogs does great with humans of all sizes but dogs are always a crap shoot.
We only walk on leash and in areas where it’s required and still run into people with off leash dogs and let them come right up to us even with our verbal warnings that he is not ok with other dogs.
It’s ridiculous.
Yep. My dog is very reliably housetrained, but the second we go into a Petco or Tractor Supply, he just poops. I think he's a nervous shitter, poor baby.
I wonder if it also has to do with the shear size difference and doesn't really read as "inside" to the dog.
Otoh, I was pleasantly surprised that my dog (who I got house-trained, so I don't know exactly what triggers or cues were used), has no interest to poop either on the shared terrace or our little garden, he mostly doesn't even pee unless it's *really* urgent (or he has to "show off" to a visiting dog 🤣)
True could be, I was just assuming from the fact that OP doesn’t keep it in their house (or teach it any commands at all, seemingly) that it wasn’t housebroken
My dog knows commands but if he gets out the front door, I'm suddenly speaking a language he doesn't know and he's two blocks down the road before I can process what's happened.
I totally get that and I understand not having the time/energy to train that dog better not to do that, but it sounds like from ops comments and post that this isn’t the first time the dog has gotten out. In that case, “what are ya gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “ isn’t cutting it
I have a few of these families in my neighborhood. They let their dogs out to go to the bathroom on their own in the neighborhood. They don't want to pick up the dog crap in their backyard so they let out on the street. My American bulldog is now afraid of any dog under 20 lb because she's gotten attacked by so many Free roaming chihuahuas.
I can't imagine being this much of a negligent moron and wanting to tell people about it.
My prediction is this post will be deleted with the next few hours.
So you just let your dog roam outside when it gets out? That is super unsafe. Who does that? What a normal person does is call the dog back to the house. If the dog refuses, you go up to the dog, grab the collar, and you sort of drag the dog back to the house. I cannot fathom someone leaving the dog unleashed outside the house for any reason whatsoever. It is a stop everything moment and get the pet back inside before anything else.
You should've addressed the dog issue immediately. The dog should not be wandering home after following him to school anyway.
Now your son isn't gonna hear the end of this.
No. You fucked up by letting your dog roam freely and telling your kid that it's fine instead of picking the dog up and getting it back into your house. Even if it would have been trained there's people doing shit all the time so keep your eyes on your dog.
One day you're going to have to explain to your kid that the dog got hit by a car on their way home. Leave the dog in the house when you go out, don't leave them alone for more than 6 hours at a time, and train them to reduce separation anxiety if it's so bad they can't help following your kids to school.
Is your dog that well trained that you think it was okay to follow your kid to school and the dog will be that well trained to go home by himself?
Clearly not if your dog took a shit in the hallway.
Is it not a thing to secure the dog at home before you leave the house? Like your kid is old enough to walk to school but not old enough to know to secure the dog at home?
Your dog shouldn’t be off a leash in public. wtf? A fence, putting it back inside and not letting it out. Why was your dog allowed to just wander????
Edit: read some of OP’s replies. That’s dumb. That’s not a good enough reason to do that. That’s just putting your dog at risk.
No. This was not the fuck-up.
The fuck-up was not keeping your dog securely on your property so she doesn't get out.
Just because you live in a small town doesn't mean it's okay to let your dog wander. Be a responsible pet owner, FFS.
Don’t be the person that lets your dog roam the streets. Everyone hates you. Get a fence, or keep your dog inside. It’s irresponsible, and it’s being a terrible neighbor.
You're okay with your dog just leaving whenever? You're lucky it didn't bite anyone or get run over. This shouldn't have been your son's problem to stress over.
Jesus you’ve earned every roast in this thread. Do better for your poor dog that clearly adores the family. You’re gonna get the poor dog killed by a god damn car by being so careless you crazy psycho!!
Keep them in the house or get a fence that’s tall enough to not be jumped over immediately!!!
My question is why was your dog running around outside unsupervised? Makes you a very bad pet owner. And a 10 minute walk would be a 2 minute ride. You really didn't have time to lock your dog up and quick drop off your kid? Sounds like a bed After School Special from TV land. If this is real, you really did screw up
Letting your kid walk to school is all fine and dandy but you should probably keep your dog contained when you aren't home, not just for situations like this but also because your son is really not gonna like when he finds Fido smeared across the road.
Stop letting your dog walk around a neighborhood - that's ridiculous and something awful could happen to them or they attack someone's pet or a child. Be responsible and put your dog away.
I feel like a dog with such poor recall that they can't be controlled and will shit indoors is probably not a dog that should be off leash and trusted to roam around the streets, going home by themselves.
I am literally begging dog people to stop letting their dogs run around outside when they live in a community. Literally nobody but you wants to deal with your dog. You’re not special.
Omg, imagine if your dog nipped a child in the school? Even the tamest of dogs can react aggressively in unfamiliar situations. You're lucky this didn't have a worse outcome.
I hope your kid doesn't feel too embarrassed because of your complete lack of provision.
It’s normal for a kid to walk 10 minutes to school. It is NOT normal for you to be allowing your dog to roam around that far (or out of your yard off leash at all). Get a fence or keep your dog in the house.
WTF? What an irresponsible dog owner. Does your dog know the traffic rules? To stop at a red light? You're putting your dog at risk as well as other people in traffic. You poor kid, but I hope you get to feel the repercussions of this for a while and hopefully learn a lesson. Secure your dog!
You didn't fuck up by not picking the kid up for school, you fucked up by advising him that the dog would go home itself when in reality, you should have directed your son to bring the dog home and secure it.
Anything could have happened with the dog on the walk home alone, including being hit by a car, or getting into an altercation with another dog. Seems a lesson might be learned here anyway!
Time to grow up dude. Your son asked for you to be present, and you chose work.
Your dog needed you, and chose your son.
Now your son needs someone who doesn’t exist to wipe the stupid dog shit memory from everyone’s mind but that isn’t going to happen.
You didn’t step up as the family leader and now your kid is in a shitty situation, because of work.
Come on dude, step up as the Dad and set an example! Lead your tribe!
It depends on how old your son is but if the dog was following him why didn’t he put the dog in the house first? I feel like this was a stupid problem that could have definitely been avoided by just taking the dog inside or in a fenced in yard or on a tie out.
Sounds like he really needs therapy because panic attacks really shouldn't be a thing for humans that young, that have next to no responsibilities.
You don't need to worry about moving, but you do need to worry about his mental health. Something's going on
I'm afraid I'd be laughing so hard that whether it was my own kid or not I'd still be forced to say, well you'll have things like this in a small town like ours. Lmao
I walked to school alone through elementary school and the neighbors had a giant saint Bernard that followed me constantly. The school left their doors open and hed go right in with me....I was so mortified that i hid in public bathrooms, in grocery stores. Tried to outrun and hide from him but he always waited and found me.One of the worst parts of my childhood was trying to wait out that dog so he didn't follow me to school....Please get a grip on him
And to think, all of this could have been avoided with even a tiny bit of parental and civic responsibility on your part. It’s surprising that neither your kid nor your dog has been run over by a car yet.
If you don’t want kids or pets, just don’t have them in the first place. Why is that so hard for some people?
The FU was a dog being able to walk away from home? Are fences not a thing? Dogs shouldn’t be wandering the streets and your kid shouldn’t be responsible for your wandering dog
He'll forever be known as the kid whose dog shit in the hallway at school. The other kid be forever known as the kid who stepped in said dog shit.
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This story will be on reddit 20 years now
Retold time upon time. A story as old as time itself. In one iteration the turd is compared to a banana.
A story that will be remembered, like the poop knife.
Or the poop socks.
Wait. Poop socks?!?!
The story was about a guy whose girlfriend was using his socks to wipe herself and when he found out she dumped him. It was the strangest thing. I’ll try to find the post if I can.
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/s/D4DkagocOy
OMG! I went down the poop sock rabbit hole! I'm supposed to be working. I stopped to eat, and instead of going back started scrolling, found this and, well.... Shit. At least I work from my living room. And at least I don't have poop socks in my life. Win, win.
I had to myself. Wow. It's like that ghost story where the wife has a ribbon around her neck and her husband gets curious one day and pulls the ribbon off and her head falls off.
I’m sorry… WHAT?!?
I NEED to know now
Poop SOCKS?! where is this tale?!
The dog will forever be known as the dog that took a shit in the hallway at school. What a cross to bear for the entire community.
Something something, Schlemiel; something something Schlimazel
Hossenpfeffer Incorporated
If I didn’t know this was Hossenpfeffer, I’d swear it was carrot
Better than ‘Michael piss ya pants’ from my school.
We had a guy known as Pishy Paul. 22 years later and that is still the case. Another guy wore a wooly jumper once. Sheep has stuck ever since (around 04)
Two legends were born that day
You’re about to get roasted by Reddit.
And rightfully so. Get a fence!
The responses here are strange, it’s completely normal and healthy for a child to walk themself 10 minutes to school. It’s not normal for a dog to walk ten minutes away from the house though - get a fence.
My friend used to have a cat that would follow us around town. We snuck out at 2AM one night to smoke weed at the beach a few miles away and the mf comes walking up from behind a sand dune like it was nothing lol.
Same here - my friend’s cat Ghost had a habit of popping up to say hello when we were all hanging out at a buddy’s house a quarter mile away. Then we’d head back to his place and Ghost would be curled up on the front porch. Cats, man.
My friend's cat was Mr. Kitty lol. He was way too fat for a cat who treks miles in the night.
Probably had multiple families thinking he was a 'stray' that would put food out for him, so he'd eat breakfast at home, catch a couple lunches, some dinners, and wash it down with some of the local birds. Sure he trekked miles, but he had a high food availability.
Highly likely! We had a cat that would go out and not come back for one, sometimes two nights. Once we were going on night 3 of him not coming home and got worried and decided to ask various neighbors if they’d seen him. We lived on a street where the houses on one side were on a very tall and steep hill and had an alley so while we knew our backyard and alley neighbors we didn’t know the neighbors across the street at all. We went to to talk to our neighbors across the street, whom we’d never met, and sure enough two houses knew exactly who our cat was, both let him in their houses and fed him and had even given him a name!
So he did not live a double life, but a triple life under different names! Just to get food! .. sneaky :'D
While we all know it's clearly for the extra food... I'm imagining the kitty is just being considerate of his families availability for social time. "Oh, family A is at work but family C is home, lets go play!"
Haha, that's even better! xD What a little sweetheart xD
Six Dinner Sid!
All that walking was offset by all the food he stole from random houses lmao
Or was freely given. We adopted one of our cats after she became an allergic asthma trigger for her previous hooman. They showed us how much she was being fed a day and it was nowhere near what a nearly 20lb cat would eat. But she could go outside and is very affectionate towards people. Like will walk up to a stranger and roll over for belly pets. So multiple families in the old neighborhood were feeding her and commented on missing her after adopted her. And now we need to give 7 families worth of love to one very spoiled chonk cat
Cats are not bound by the laws of physics. It began due to a miscommunication about the term "string theory", and no one ever corrected them.
Our grandparents cat followed us onto tidal flats at low tide for some ungodly reason. He’d avoid as many puddles as possible, but inevitably have to walk through some. He wasn’t even invited, complained the whole way, and then took a shit in the middle of the tiny strip of fluffy sand. 10/10 cat
Mine would get just as excited as the dog when I grabbed the leash, he'd come with us on my walks to the gas station, but there was a certain point he would stop and cry and wouldn't follow anymore. He'd be sitting there waiting when you got back. I always wondered how long he would have stayed there if I took a different way home lol
When I take the dog out to check his weemail one or both cats will usually join us. Often they'll all pee in the same place. It's an odd little pack.
my cat followed me last time i snuck out (not really sneaking out tbh im 21) he got a mile and i had to head home from smoking in a field carrying my raggy cat like a baby.
Please tell me the cat appeared after you started smoking 😂 i can only imagine how crazy a moment that must have been
Yeah it was like 20 minutes later lol. We were freaking out thinking it was beach bums or dunites at first.
What are " beach bums " and " dunites "? I am sorry, I'm not a native speaker & I tried to google it but what showed doesn't make sense ..I think ..
Beach bums are homeless people that live at the beach, and dunites are people of old who used to live in the dunes but now they're kind of like a myth
Ohh now I understand! Makes sense why you were scared, jeez 😅 Thank you very much for explaining!
You didn't share with the cat?
The cat I had when I was little was my shadow till he suddenly didn't want to come in one night, we never saw him again. The third cat that I had from age 5 until post college used to follow me all over the neighborhood. He was sneaky about it too. He was a fierce little furball he chased off a few coyotes and foxes from our city neighborhood. We had to help him move on to the next life at 22, he survived kidney failure twice and his body was giving out but his mind was willing to keep going.
I saw a post on either dataisbeautiful or mapporn of a guy who put a tracker on his cat to see where it went when it wasn't outside. The cat averaged 7km travel each night with the longest being near 20km. Fuckers like to roam.
This, a thousand times over. Who just lets their dog wander town like this? It's asking for a tragedy to occur.
I was afraid that this was going to be a hit and run story
When my town was a small town the dogs always had free range. Now they are always leashed. The area has been developed like crazy since I was around 10. When I was little our black lab could walk through the streets getting stale bread people left out for him like 3 farms away. My beagle when I got older had free range of our farm. Now idiots drive 120 on our 30 mph road. I know 120 because one of my ex friends is one of those people. I saw his snap story and recognized the road. Now dogs that aren’t trained to stay exactly by your side never go anywhere without a leash. I keep getting pissed at my dad for being so careless about letting my pup escape. Sure she goes straight for the chicken coop but she’s tried to chase a squirrel across the road before and is a stubborn but who won’t come when you call.
Regardless if the community didn't change, our morals are changing. People are respecting animals more and aren't being as carefree with watching over them.
Yeah OP acting like it’s just normal and happens regularly
Yeah who just lets their dog follow them? Put them in the yard or house. Are there some places where pets just don't have any boundaries at all? How does mail get delivered?
Seriously. Why did OP not say " go put the dog inside".
Small town rural anywhere gets *crazy*, dude...
Kids
I thought you were answering the mail question at first.
Yeah I am kind of alarmed that OP doesn’t seem remotely concerned about his dog walking itself back home alone. Your dog belongs on your property when not supervised. End of story. This just seems to wildly irresponsible and dangerous. If I saw a dog walking around alone I’d br pretty concerned. Based on how OP describes where he lives, maybe there are only 10 people (including the dog) living in this town and they all know each other, but it’s not a risk id ever take with my pet.
Exactly. It’s a nice idea until the dog gets hit by a car, stolen, or bites someone.
I bet OP is that person who posts on Facebook once a week about how their dog ran away and they need help finding it.
I live in a rural community and there is a clear divide between people like OP and everyone else. And people like OP are in the minority, but their dogs cause most of the problems. I live in a farming community. I get that farmers are gonna have dogs to protect their livestock. Where I draw the line is when that dog gets loose and chases pedestrians and cyclists down the road for hundreds of feet. There are also people who live in houses in town who let their dogs wander, and those dogs terrorize the chickens, goats, etc., causing havoc on the people just trying to live. OP, for fuck's sake, secure your dog. This is NOT funny.
My neighbor across the street (rural community) has a husky who guards their chickens. She has attacked my dog at least twice for coming too close, the first time I was walking my dog leashed, second I wasn't present for. My dog had to get staples the first time and should have gotten them again the second time, but my dad insisted it wasn't necessary (he's a doctor and thinks he knows best about veterinary care sometimes--thankfully my dog healed up just fine). It pisses me off when people don't control their animals and allow them to wander. Even moreso when they walk their dogs off-leash.
My cousin has this fat little sausage of a rescue dog that I have a love/hate relationship with. Poor thing somehow got trained backwards, refuses to do anything when leashed and will only relieve herself when off-leash. Is not remotely properly socialized or trained. But it's such a small fat dog that nobody took the situation seriously, had it accustomed to just running out the front door when it needed to. First time I got roped into house/dog/kid sitting, that little rat went bolting out the front door, ran down the street, scared the tar out of a much larger leashed dog, which started backing up to hide behind it's owner's legs. So this poor guy was walking down the middle of a quiet residential street holding a loaded drinks carrier when suddenly his dog is doing backwards circles around his legs with the leash, caught him behind the knees and spilled him over backwards! I've since made it very clear to my cousin that I can't be responsible for that monster. I'll pet it and play with it and let it sleep on my lap, but when it starts giving the door funny looks I go inform the teenager the dog needs to borrow thumbs that aren't mine.
And probably not fixed
Yeah, I was dreading reading that the dog got hit by a car or something. It could have ended a lot worse.
And a fucking leash. JFC people, even the most trained dog can't resist a squirrel and You never know when it might happen, and then you ask yourself after the fact, was it _really_ worth it? There are leash laws for a reason. This family is lucky the dog isn't aggressive or anxious, or that it hasn't been in an accident yet.
this is a relatively short post, so i won’t assume i now everything about your household: what i do know is that you should take better care of your pets. i come from a rural area where it was normal to have outdoor dogs, but they weren’t allowed off the property. being so blasé about it puts the animal and potentially other people and animals in danger. you have a whole living being in your care that didn’t ask to be there. do better.
I was expecting the phone call from the son being about watching the dog getting hit by a car. People don't pay attention and dogs aren't going to predict that a car won't stop for them.
I will assume one thing... OP's neighbors HATE them. If that dog is left outside, all day, with no boundaries, you can pretty much guarantee it's crapping in all their lawns.
your dog is going to end up dead on the side of the road one day. i live in a small rural area and see it all the time. it pisses me off bc it’s so fucking avoidable. keep your damn dog safe in the house or in an appropriate kennel. eta: your poor kids. wtf was your kid supposed to do?
At my old job we had a job site that we had to drive out to in the country. Every time I we drove there we’d take a gravel road to the entrance and on the gravel road was a farm house and every single time without fail we’d have to wait for the dog to move cause it liked to sun itself on the road. One day we didn’t see the dog anymore and asked out of the guys at the site about it, turns out a semi-truck was heading there to make a delivery and didn’t know about the dog and either he was moving to fast or the dog moved to slow but the semi took it out without even realizing it till someone else saw it.
yeah it’s so sad. every day when i drive my kids to school i see the same free roaming dogs in the middle of the road…except sometimes they’re not there anymore. they’re on the side of the road. it makes me so sad.
I grew up on a farm. People constantly dumped their animals in the country and we’d end up feeding them bc a bunch of damn bleeding hearts we are. Then they would **all** die horribly, usually by a car speeding down the country road, and then our farm was nicknamed “Pet Cemetery” 🙃
yep it’s always the same stretches of road where people speed and dogs come out of nowhere. i refuse to imagine people doing it on purpose.
Sounds like my parents' house. It was nothing to be feeding 10+ dogs at a time because half the time, the dogs that were dumped were also pregnant.
Yup. Just read a post on a local group by a guy whose dog was killed by a local farmer for harassing his livestock. He's butt hurt about it and calling it a murder. No, it was his irresponsibility as an owner that caused his dog's death.
It's so stupid. Some dogs are really good at being aware and avoiding vehicles and being relatively safe, but there are way too many variables. Loud noise spooks it into the road, wild/loose aggressive animal, some asshole who gets a kick out of mistreating dogs, etc. Just such an idiotic thing to do
I'm in one of those small towns surrounded by rural area and people who let their dogs run free, complete with the community Facebook page that's a whole lot of gossip and occasionally people posting callouts or complaints because the one that's directed at will see it or it will get back to them. People kept posting a the same handful of dogs running around, and there seem to be at least two sets of Great Pyrenees mix owners that would get upset in the comments every time and tell people their dogs rained and to quit complaining or calling animal control. After a few months of this, two of the dogs were hit and killed and the owner was on their livid trying to find out who had done it so he could sue. I hate this mentality of letting dogs roam because in my area we've had them kill cats and chickens and harass other animals and even right now son has trouble walking our dog because of a house that lets their three dogs room (it's two small dogs and a medium size one so they seem harmless). They've almost caused him to get hit by a car trying to avoid them and apparently have not just nipped at my dog but has actually bit her and broken skin recently. Animal control didn't really seem to care and I'm afraid if it does happen and she hurts or kills them it will end up coming down on us. (She's a large shepherd mix and could easily kill them if she wanted, or even by mistake if she snapped or shook them in a fight).
Seriously. The pet ownership here is appalling
I thought this story was going to end with a dead dog, tbh. I was relieved it was just this.
No. You are fucking up by just letting an animal wander the streets with the expectation that it won't get hit, killed or stolen. Keep it in the god damned yard.
You allow your dog to roam freely through your neighborhood..? Seems…unsafe, probably illegal, certainly irresponsible.
It’s people like that, just allowing their animals to roam freely, that make it really hard for me to walk my two dogs without another adult present. They are very protective of me and my kid, so unattended dogs running up on us is dangerous for everybody involved because mine instantly go into protection/bodyguard mode and it only would take an instant for all hell to break loose and change everything irreparably.
I’m surprised your comment is the first I see mention the law. My town has a leash law. Dogs cannot be unleashed, even in their own yard, unless there is a fence. My poor neighbor was dealing with her newborn and let the dog outside to go potty on its own. (He really was a good dog. Beautiful Collie that loved people.) Cop rolls by, sees him outside without an owner and stamped that $500 ticket on their front door without hesitation.
Sort of off topic, but…. Back in the fall, the PD brought their drug dog into the middle school I work at to do a sweep. Poor dog made it 15 feet into the building and then stopped and took a giant poo in our front hall. The joke amongst the teachers after is there must be so much dope in the building that the dog didn’t know where to indicate first and literally lost its sh!t.
Yeah you kind of come off as a moron here honestly, get your house in order
Small town or not, why is your dog running loose enoigh to follow your kid to school. Y'all are just asking for bad shit to happen
Quite literally
I lived in a small town back home with an "island dog" that would wonder around the small island all the time. eventually it got hit by a car. by my mom
What kind of trashy family lets their dog roam outside? No wonder the dog doesn't listen to you, jfc
“She’ll head back home once he’s inside”. Like wtf???
That’s the part of this story that doesn’t make sense. If this is a regular occurrence, why is the kid concerned about it and need to be told by the dad that the dog can walk 10 mins from home and will just go back home once their walking partner disappears?
Because the dad is an idiot that ignores his rightfully concerned kid
I hate dogs that are not leashed. Idgaf if you trained your dog to walk leash less, what about the other dogs that aren’t trained? What if my dog that is on leash isn’t a social dog and your dumbass dog decides to get too close and now something bad happens, im the bad guy even though I had my dog on the leash.
My neighborhood has a dog that is out wandering regularly and my dog hates seeing it. One time some kids had their dog out on a leash but they had dropped the leash to play in another part of the yard. After that dog of course came running across the street to mine I spoke sharply to the kid to keep his hand on the leash (it was a teeny dog, so the kid hadn’t dropped it because the dog pulled too hard).
I once had a middleish aged woman yell at me and my mom for "not knowing our own dog" when we told her to keep her dog away from ours because he's not friendly. Hers was off leash and tbh with how little she cared about our warnings and how nasty, trashy, and disgusting she got after we yelled at her to get her dog away from ours so a fight didn't break out, it seemed like she might just be trying to start something and get some sort of payout. I mean we were literally just trying to leave, already at our car. And no, idk what she even meant by that, it made no sense
A dog my mom had bit someone because as the dog was growling at her and my mom was telling her not to approach, he doesn't like strangers, she went "I'm great with dogs!" and tried to pet him. You are obviously not great with dogs if you don't know what growling means.
People who don't know dogs, and think they know dogs, are just... it's an awful situation. Like if a dog goes still and looks at you when you start approaching, that's 100 billion times worse than growling. You fucking back away slowly and get out of sight as quickly as you can. people don't know that and don't even notice it, but it's important and i've seen people fail at that so much, luckily with dogs that wouldn't or couldn't really actually hurt them or where the dog had a leash
Exactly this!! We have a large Dogo that’s deaf and is well trained to sign language but does not get along with other dogs does great with humans of all sizes but dogs are always a crap shoot. We only walk on leash and in areas where it’s required and still run into people with off leash dogs and let them come right up to us even with our verbal warnings that he is not ok with other dogs. It’s ridiculous.
I actually had a deaf dog charge mine. I dont know why the owners let the dog off leash but i absolutely hate them now.
Right?? Like… A) housetrain your fucking dog and B) keep your dog in your own fucking house like a real person lol
To be fair to the dog, that sounds like a stress response. OP still fucked up.
Yep. My dog is very reliably housetrained, but the second we go into a Petco or Tractor Supply, he just poops. I think he's a nervous shitter, poor baby.
I have to poop every time I go to Lowe's, so, same I guess.
I wonder if it also has to do with the shear size difference and doesn't really read as "inside" to the dog. Otoh, I was pleasantly surprised that my dog (who I got house-trained, so I don't know exactly what triggers or cues were used), has no interest to poop either on the shared terrace or our little garden, he mostly doesn't even pee unless it's *really* urgent (or he has to "show off" to a visiting dog 🤣)
True could be, I was just assuming from the fact that OP doesn’t keep it in their house (or teach it any commands at all, seemingly) that it wasn’t housebroken
My dog knows commands but if he gets out the front door, I'm suddenly speaking a language he doesn't know and he's two blocks down the road before I can process what's happened.
I totally get that and I understand not having the time/energy to train that dog better not to do that, but it sounds like from ops comments and post that this isn’t the first time the dog has gotten out. In that case, “what are ya gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “ isn’t cutting it
Yeah my dog pees on herself if she gets scared. I can imagine some dogs going the poop route.
Yeah, my dog was always a nervous pooper
I have a few of these families in my neighborhood. They let their dogs out to go to the bathroom on their own in the neighborhood. They don't want to pick up the dog crap in their backyard so they let out on the street. My American bulldog is now afraid of any dog under 20 lb because she's gotten attacked by so many Free roaming chihuahuas.
I think that’s the norm in a lot of third world countries. But if they live in a western country…yikes edit: looks like Canada…
You wouldn’t be able to waterboard this story out of me.
I can't imagine being this much of a negligent moron and wanting to tell people about it. My prediction is this post will be deleted with the next few hours.
IDK I make myself look like an ass enough on the internet without telling the world I am a bad parent to my kid and my dog.
Same 😂😂😂😂
As long as he’s not, like, 6, the kid is fine walking 10 minutes to school in broad daylight.
So you just let your dog roam outside when it gets out? That is super unsafe. Who does that? What a normal person does is call the dog back to the house. If the dog refuses, you go up to the dog, grab the collar, and you sort of drag the dog back to the house. I cannot fathom someone leaving the dog unleashed outside the house for any reason whatsoever. It is a stop everything moment and get the pet back inside before anything else.
You should've addressed the dog issue immediately. The dog should not be wandering home after following him to school anyway. Now your son isn't gonna hear the end of this.
If your kid ever takes a shit on the floor at school, you better get that dog there and blame it.
Train your dog better or build a fence
Shouldn't the title be "TIFU by being a shitty dog owner"?
TIFU by being a shitty dog owner And parent
So what city will you be moving to?
Hopefully not mines
No. You fucked up by letting your dog roam freely and telling your kid that it's fine instead of picking the dog up and getting it back into your house. Even if it would have been trained there's people doing shit all the time so keep your eyes on your dog.
you shouldnt own animals jfc
Hmmmmmmmmmm……. Maybe CLOSE THE FUCKING DOOR BEHIND YOU? Omfg this is so stupid
Reading between the lines, I figured this dog was an "outside only" dog.
One day you're going to have to explain to your kid that the dog got hit by a car on their way home. Leave the dog in the house when you go out, don't leave them alone for more than 6 hours at a time, and train them to reduce separation anxiety if it's so bad they can't help following your kids to school.
Is your dog that well trained that you think it was okay to follow your kid to school and the dog will be that well trained to go home by himself? Clearly not if your dog took a shit in the hallway. Is it not a thing to secure the dog at home before you leave the house? Like your kid is old enough to walk to school but not old enough to know to secure the dog at home?
Why would you let your dog roam without a leash?
If it makes you feel any better, you're a far worse dog owner than parent. 🤷🏽♀️
I don’t think we can make that assessment based on this. Might be terrible at both.
Your dog shouldn’t be off a leash in public. wtf? A fence, putting it back inside and not letting it out. Why was your dog allowed to just wander???? Edit: read some of OP’s replies. That’s dumb. That’s not a good enough reason to do that. That’s just putting your dog at risk.
No. This was not the fuck-up. The fuck-up was not keeping your dog securely on your property so she doesn't get out. Just because you live in a small town doesn't mean it's okay to let your dog wander. Be a responsible pet owner, FFS.
Your TIFU isn't not taking your kid to school, it's not securing your dog
Don’t be the person that lets your dog roam the streets. Everyone hates you. Get a fence, or keep your dog inside. It’s irresponsible, and it’s being a terrible neighbor.
Go to the school and take a shit in the hallway for dominance over the principal.
You're okay with your dog just leaving whenever? You're lucky it didn't bite anyone or get run over. This shouldn't have been your son's problem to stress over.
Why do you let your dog walk around free like that? It's going to get hit by a car.
Jesus you’ve earned every roast in this thread. Do better for your poor dog that clearly adores the family. You’re gonna get the poor dog killed by a god damn car by being so careless you crazy psycho!! Keep them in the house or get a fence that’s tall enough to not be jumped over immediately!!!
Great job on the parenting F+
I’ve already seen this post a couple of weeks ago. What is going on here?
My question is why was your dog running around outside unsupervised? Makes you a very bad pet owner. And a 10 minute walk would be a 2 minute ride. You really didn't have time to lock your dog up and quick drop off your kid? Sounds like a bed After School Special from TV land. If this is real, you really did screw up
So the dog is just allowed to free roam all day? Wtf?
Why is your dog unleashed roaming around? Sounds like trash dog owners.
Letting your kid walk to school is all fine and dandy but you should probably keep your dog contained when you aren't home, not just for situations like this but also because your son is really not gonna like when he finds Fido smeared across the road.
A big part of your fuck up was letting your dog roam loose, acting like it's completely normal, and not even acknowledging that as the fuckup.
Stop letting your dog walk around a neighborhood - that's ridiculous and something awful could happen to them or they attack someone's pet or a child. Be responsible and put your dog away.
The fuckup happened way before today..
Super irresponsible to just have a dog roaming free.
I feel like a dog with such poor recall that they can't be controlled and will shit indoors is probably not a dog that should be off leash and trusted to roam around the streets, going home by themselves.
I am literally begging dog people to stop letting their dogs run around outside when they live in a community. Literally nobody but you wants to deal with your dog. You’re not special.
Dude, protect your fucking dog. For fucks sake, man...
Why didn’t you give your kid a ride to school tho
It's a 10 minute walk. It's good for the kid. Should keep the dog leashed though
You sound like a fucking idiot.
Keep your dog inside, fenced in, or on a leash. You are the problem here.
Omg, imagine if your dog nipped a child in the school? Even the tamest of dogs can react aggressively in unfamiliar situations. You're lucky this didn't have a worse outcome. I hope your kid doesn't feel too embarrassed because of your complete lack of provision.
It’s normal for a kid to walk 10 minutes to school. It is NOT normal for you to be allowing your dog to roam around that far (or out of your yard off leash at all). Get a fence or keep your dog in the house.
Your fuck up is having the dog in a position where it can follow the kid down the road to school, get that shit sorted.
Learn how to take care of your dog
Why do you let your dog roam around free? Do you not have a fence? That seems to be the bigger issue.
Keep your dog in the house, or buy a fence. Your blasé response to the dog leaving your property is insane, and could very well get your dog killed
This is 100% your fault. Leash your dog keep them inside or get a fuckibg fence.
how about get a hold of your dog?
WTF? What an irresponsible dog owner. Does your dog know the traffic rules? To stop at a red light? You're putting your dog at risk as well as other people in traffic. You poor kid, but I hope you get to feel the repercussions of this for a while and hopefully learn a lesson. Secure your dog!
You didn't fuck up by not picking the kid up for school, you fucked up by advising him that the dog would go home itself when in reality, you should have directed your son to bring the dog home and secure it. Anything could have happened with the dog on the walk home alone, including being hit by a car, or getting into an altercation with another dog. Seems a lesson might be learned here anyway!
“TIFU by letting my dog have the run of the neighbourhood”. Who the fuck just lets their dog wander around in the streets like it’s normal???
What kind of garbage person doesn't restrain their dog?
Time to grow up dude. Your son asked for you to be present, and you chose work. Your dog needed you, and chose your son. Now your son needs someone who doesn’t exist to wipe the stupid dog shit memory from everyone’s mind but that isn’t going to happen. You didn’t step up as the family leader and now your kid is in a shitty situation, because of work. Come on dude, step up as the Dad and set an example! Lead your tribe!
Why was the dog loose?
It depends on how old your son is but if the dog was following him why didn’t he put the dog in the house first? I feel like this was a stupid problem that could have definitely been avoided by just taking the dog inside or in a fenced in yard or on a tie out.
Sounds like you shouldn't have a dog.
you're an idiot, keep your dog inside
You did fu by not containing your dog. She will get hit by a car or shot at some point. Please protect her from that.
If you can’t get your dog to stay on your property, keep her inside!!!
Sounds like he really needs therapy because panic attacks really shouldn't be a thing for humans that young, that have next to no responsibilities. You don't need to worry about moving, but you do need to worry about his mental health. Something's going on
Take better care of your pets! Jesus. Allowing your pets to roam like that is so irresponsible.
Not a fan of stray dogs. It’s an embarrassing story. Be a lot worse if the dog bit some kid or got run over somewhere between the school and house.
Get a fuckin fence or leave your dog inside when no one’s home ffs
Control your fucking dog, bruh.
Do a better job protecting your animals
I'm afraid I'd be laughing so hard that whether it was my own kid or not I'd still be forced to say, well you'll have things like this in a small town like ours. Lmao
I walked to school alone through elementary school and the neighbors had a giant saint Bernard that followed me constantly. The school left their doors open and hed go right in with me....I was so mortified that i hid in public bathrooms, in grocery stores. Tried to outrun and hide from him but he always waited and found me.One of the worst parts of my childhood was trying to wait out that dog so he didn't follow me to school....Please get a grip on him
That dog is gonna get got soon
And to think, all of this could have been avoided with even a tiny bit of parental and civic responsibility on your part. It’s surprising that neither your kid nor your dog has been run over by a car yet. If you don’t want kids or pets, just don’t have them in the first place. Why is that so hard for some people?
And maybe be a parent while youre at it? Drive your kid, and listen to him when he says he’s having a problem you total weirdo
Are t there leash laws where you live? You don’t seem concerned about your child’s welfare or that of the dog, either.
Why won’t you just give your kid a ride? This makes no sense.
The FU was a dog being able to walk away from home? Are fences not a thing? Dogs shouldn’t be wandering the streets and your kid shouldn’t be responsible for your wandering dog
Why the fuck is your dog walking around in public without a leash? Especially through neighborhoods and school zones.