8 Dog Owners Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Moments

"Dear, sweet Katie. We had umpires and their wives staying over for a tournament weekend. While we sat around talking in the living room, Katie piled six pairs of women's underwear in front of the fireplace. Total embarrassment for the ladies."
— Mike Stewart

"My dog is a professional beggar. When we are all around the table, she will play musical laps, putting her head on everyone's lap, begging for whatever 'yummies' they have and leaving a pile of slobber on people's laps as a parting gift! But who can resist that face?!"
— Lea Church

"Our dog Amun, a Miniature Pinscher, loves to move things that are not his toys around the house. One day, we discovered that he loves to take my husband's underwear and leave them all over the backyard. We try really hard to keep them away from him — to no avail. He always manages to find a pair and promptly takes them outside. The good news: He takes only my husband's, not mine. He never damages them, either. We can only wonder what the neighbors are thinking: Those two people must have some wild times. No, but the dog is happy."
— Lupe Eagan

"When he was 3 years old, my 100-pound male chocolate Lab had to have a biopsy done on his nose. Ten days later, we dutifully returned so that his six little pink stitches could be removed. We walked into the very crowded waiting room and took a seat at the end of a long bench, at which time Bear decided that he would slide all the way to the wall under said bench. When the tech came to get him, I reached down to grasp his harness to assist him in getting out from under the bench. He promptly decided he was not having anything to do with this procedure and then braced his back against the wall, lowered his head and slid sideways down the wall; I ended up holding an empty harness. He then laid against the wall, completely stretched out, behind several people’s feet and refused to come out. The tech left the room. A minute or so later, she returned (meanwhile, I was trying to convince Bear to ‘man up,’ come out from under the bench and have his stitches removed). The tech brought reinforcements; she asked everyone to stand up and move their various dogs and cats away from the bench. The two techs then laid on the floor, slid under the bench, and one laid across Bear’s chest while the other one removed his stitches. They then slid him out from under the bench, and I re-dressed him in his harness. Of course, as soon as the harness clicked, up he jumped and bolted for the door. Raising my voice over the gales of laughter emitting from all of the people, I asked what I owed the clinic for their services; the tech’s response was, 'There is no charge; Bear has made everyone’s day!' I then proceeded to attempt to remove myself and my miscreant dog with some shred of dignity. He is aptly called Pooh Bear!"
— L. Brooke Raber

"Thirty-five years ago, a young man came to pick me up for our first date. My family had an old, pretty much toothless hound dog named Dandy. When I was called and asked out for a second date, I was asked to tie the dog up because he bit my date the first time he came. I said, 'Dandy does not have many teeth. How could he bite?' Sure enough, my date had bruises on his leg. He and Dandy became friends, and that date and I have been married 34 years."
— Robin Brumagin

"My husband is a veterinarian, and I was his bookkeeper until a year ago. We took all our dogs to work with us, and our clients got to know them. When my Saint Bernard was a puppy, about 4 months old, a female client who was a well-dressed attorney, asked to see cute little Ruby. We let her out into the reception area so the client could pet her. Well, the client leaned way down to pet her, and Ruby promptly rolled over on her back and peed a big fountain straight up into the lawyer's face! We were horrified."
— Maxine Hall Beckner

"My dogs don't like anyone on a bicycle, including me. They bark at me like I'm a total stranger."
— Wendy Fleming Dexter

"The time that our Louie decided to do a big poo in front of the king of Malaysia at our golf resort in Bali — with his wife, staff, security, company and tank watching."
— Kim-Marie Froehlich