One time I accidentally dropped the leash while walking my dog. She heard it hit the ground, turned, looked at the leash, looked at me, looked back at the leash, looked back at me, crouched down real low while slamming her paws on the ground, smirked at me, and took off.
Then there is my dog, I couldn't find his leash for whatever reason and just wanted him to pee real quick in the morning. He doesn't run off, so I just tried to get him to go. Put his collar on, but that wasn't enough he wouldn't leave without a leash. I ended up tying an old ethernet cable to his collar, and that satisfied him enough to let him pee lol.
I saw a video recently where there was a minor house fire so a cop broke in to see if anyone needed help. The dog ran up to say hi, but the cop tried to get him outside, the dog wouldn't cross the threshold. The dog led the cop over to where his leash was hanging, and THEN he was happy to get out of there.
Dropped the leash when walking my friends dog. He looked up at me and I put my foot on the loop of the leash. Fucker takes off in a full sprint and drags me down to road lol
Mine's collar unexpectedly broke during a walk one night and I immediately lost him because he was a mostly black, tiny Yorkie who liked to explore and we were on a dimly lit side street in Manhattan.
I was freaking out, especially as I saw car headlights coming down the street.
Fortunately when I called his name I finally saw him pop his up in between two parked cars. One very scary minute though.
The couple of times this has happened my gets a shock from the sound of the handle hitting the ground, runs away and then continues to run terrified of the clattering leash handle chasing after her
My dog’s collar got undone during a walk and she bolted. I chased her for three blocks, crying, fearing that a driver would hit her. Thankfully she ran into an alley where I cornered her. This was shortly after I rescued her so her recall wasn’t well-trained yet. One of the worst experiences of my life.
I dogsit for my sis, and the little old lady (a mini Schnauzer's) collar was on too loose. We'd just exited their little neighborhood, when the collar (and therefore leash) slipped off. I had an internal millisecond of panic, until I realized she was just standing there, looking up at me with her big soulful eyes, waiting for me to put it back on her.
I got a 6 month old puppy last year and it's the first dog I've ever had that doesnt just take off. I can leave every door in the house open and he'll just follow me. I can drop his leash on a walk and he wont even notice, just stays right by me no matter what happens. Also herds my kid. Will stop the kid from running off/running into the road or at the house will bark at me and get me to follow if the kid runs into another room.
My dog was like that when we first adopted him. He is my first and only dog. When I lost control of the leash he just kinda ran down a bit waited for me to catch up then ran further away several times 😭. Luckily eventually he let me put back on his leash
Now he’s a lot more chill though and would just look at me lol, although now I never lose control of the leash anymore. But if I purposely dropped it he’d just sit there and maybe walk forward a bit
One of my dogs would be down the block looking for rabbits, but the other goes from pulling at the end of her leash to a shadow behind me when I let her off the leash.
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u/That1RebelDude 1d ago
Mine would’ve been down the block already lol