Darwin Awards for Dobes?

Crow · 06-12-2008, 07:42 AM

What are your dobe's Darwin Award moments?

Here's a few to start off the thread:

Charlie once mysteriously fell off a footbridge, into a reed bed that gently subsided, lowering him to the stream below where he calmly proceeded to have a nice drink before climbing back up the bank.

Another time, he was chasing a squirrel and completely failed to see the tree that it ran up into. Kerrang!

My partner's late lamented Dobe, Keda, once ran headlong into the garden ... failing to realise that the glass patio doors were closed.

No one was injured in any of the above incidents, but several people - some of them Dobes - were quite surprised.

**ddsalazar** · 06-12-2008, 09:32 AM

Jack was chasing a football being thrown by my step son when he failed to see the rather LARGE redwood picnic table and ran into it, head first. He scrapped the upper area near his eye, but kept on playing as if nothing happened, dripping blood and all. I thought I was going to have a heart attack! Ice pack, cortisone cream for Jack, smelling salts and a tanqulizer for mom.

Kodos · 06-12-2008, 11:50 AM

While at the park my 4 lb Min Pin thought it'd be a good idea to let two 100 + lb Rotties know who's boss. Fortunately the Rotties were very well behaved and just sat & looked at her.

Crow · 06-12-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kodos

While at the park my 4 lb Min Pin thought it'd be a good idea to let two 100 + lb Rotties know who's boss. Fortunately the Rotties were very well behaved and just sat & looked at her.

LOL. So many little dogs have nooooooo sense of their littleness.

**dobermansrule** · 06-12-2008, 01:54 PM

Quincy (as a puppy) at beginners agility class, climbs A-frame at full competition height, stops at the peak like a mountain climber, then sees fun activity far off, forgets he is on the mountain and 'flies' off... daddy does diving catch to break his fall... puppy goes off on his merry pursuit like nothing happened.

BvW602 · 06-12-2008, 03:58 PM

While walking at a big park (excited/pulling walking), I decide to take Baron to the edge of the little manmade lake to show him a body of water for the first time. When we get to the edge he just keeps right on walking like the grass continues. Luckily I saw this happening and was able to get just enough tension at just the right time so he didn't do a nose dive in the water and I kind of redirected his walk so basically his whole front half swung over the water in front of me and I pulled him back to the grass.

Same park, we are walking across a grassy area to get to the dog park area. For some reason there are concrete-lined channels for drainage right in the middle of the grass that are about 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep. No problem to jump over them, but Baron doesn't seem to understand depth and just walks right into the channel and faceplants on the other side. He hopped right out like nothing happened, but it must have hurt.

**LuvMyDobes** · 06-12-2008, 04:22 PM

When Sweep was five months old, I was moving some things, she got on and did the full regulation size teeter. She started to get back on it but fortunately I got her in hand before she could. I was very upset because that drop was probably very hard on her little joints.

jaxadam · 06-12-2008, 04:25 PM

Probably running through our sliding glass door.

pilotboy14 · 06-13-2008, 05:39 PM

A glancing blow off of a tennis court net post (metal)...glancing only because I yelled right before she squared it off with her forehead (I'm talking looney tunes style here). Although she WAS playfully chasing (head turned sideways) another dog who happened to retrieve the tennis ball that throw

Also knocked a screen door clear off the hinges in an over-excited maneuver...

Note* neither time did she break stride

**melbrod** · 06-13-2008, 05:48 PM

I opened the glass part of the sliding glass door only to have mine run full blast into the screen door--thunk. He was quite surprised.

Off the subject, but my cat did the best screen door trick--I came downstairs at about two AM to find her hanging by all four feet from the screen, about two feet off the floor. She just had a thoughtful expression, like "Now what do I do?" on her face. I wondered how long she had been hanging there.