Today, my mother woke me up at 4:30 A.M. to tell me our dog was running down the street. I ran for an hour, chasing after her. Turns out it was our new neighbor's dog. Ours was in our basement. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was frantically woken up from a nap by my son who was scared because there was a dog in the house. We don't own a dog. It was the new neighbor's dog. When my son opened the door to go play outside, the dog came barreling in. My kid and cats were terrified. FML
Today, I was woken up by my neighbour's dog losing its mind, and I remembered reading a story about someone ignoring a dog and later finding out that their car had been stolen. Paranoid, I went outside to check on mine. Nope. Just the damn dog barking at one thirty in the morning. FML
Today, I was going for a relaxing walk but my dog broke free from his leash. At the same time, my 80 year-old neighbor was leaving her apartment. My dog ran inside her home and she screamed. I ended up in her bedroom, running around her bed, chasing my dog who was trying to get at her pantyhose. FML
Today, I walked outside to see my friend frantically waving and running at me, yelling something I couldn't understand. I smiled and started to jog over to him until I realized he was screaming "RUN!!!" We spent the next 10 minutes running from his neighbor's 5 vicious chihuahuas. FML
Today, after I got off work, as I walked into the house, I noticed something running across the floor towards me and out of complete terror I kicked it halfway across my living room, not knowing what it was. Turns out it was my roommate's new puppy. FML
Today, my dog was barking at a squirrel in the yard. I opened the door to let him chase the squirrel. I went to look at the dead squirrel and found out it was the neighbor's chihuahua. FML
Today, I fell down the stairs. My mom came running from the other room because she thought it was the dog. She rolled her eyes and walked away when she saw it was me. FML
Today, I was driving home with my girlfriend. As we turned onto our block, she shrieked that our dog was running down the street and into traffic. I jumped out of the moving car and chased him for about a mile, only to give up, go home, and find out it wasn't our dog. FML
Today, my dog disappeared for an hour. After I'd called her name repeatedly, she crawled out from under my bed, threw up on my feet, and then happily walked out the room. FML
Today, I got home from work and found my dog missing. When I asked my neighbor if she saw what happened, I saw my dog sleeping on her couch. She tried to say it was hers. FML
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Jayjay210 0
That sucks, I'd check the house before searching, Tbh.
DarthFurby 0
Damn, that sucks. Reminds me of when my neighbor tried to get me to help catch her Chihuahuas at 5 in the morning.
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Comments (71)
goonie85 0
Your life is awesome for being a good pet owner and caring enough to chase him, even if he wasn't yours.
alexFYL 11
Agreed. Crappy owners would just let their dog go. This person sounds like a good person. Also people are like "blah blah blah neighbors dog stupid neighbors". Uh, most of my neighbors are elderly or definitely not in any sort of shape to chase after their dogs. I can't say I'd be happy to chase after their dog but I would do it because it needs to be done.
Tigg3r 3
OP, your life is not ****** just because you had to wake up early and go for a jog. Also, never believe your mother before ten in the morning.
randomaccountnam 0
YDI for having a dog, and for living next to someone with a dog, without killing it.
jessxoxo28 5
lmao, gotta love ur mom
cgjones 0
ha!, your mother is quite bright.
daydreamstar 7
WHO LET THE DOG OUT!!!!!
cucumberfabulous 7
Hahahhahahhaahhha....
freezelikeme123 0
how the hell would you not recgonize your own dog?
Hugorgy 0
The neighbor could have a similar dog? Besides, it may be difficult to discern the dog when it's dark outside and when OP's mom said it was their dog that escaped.
wh4t3v3R 0
This has happened to me before, you know your the only one in the neighborhood with that breed (or in my case a pair of cat breeds) so you never think to look for identifying marks when you chase them down. OP, FYI: Later your neighbors are going to see their dog locked in your house and freak, trying to figure out how he got in there so they can pull him back out. This I also know from personal experience.
alexFYL 11
When I was a little girl, my sister's plain gray cat got outside. We found him a couple houses down, so we picked him up and started to bring him back. Some lady came outside and started asking us why we were stealing her cat and was just being a huge b*tch about it (we were like 10 years old) and she literally grabbed him from our arms and started to take him in. He has a very distinctive meow, so when she started to take him, he protested with a nice loud "maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" and she held him away from her and said "oh, wait, this isn't my cat" and just put him down and walked off like nothing happened. Older lady trying to steal a little girls' cat... I can understand she probably thought, "oh, stupid little girls are trying to take my cat" but, seriously? Way to be a bitch, hope she felt bad that she was trying to steal OUR cat.
Fr0gg13 0
ur mom doesn't know the difference? fhl
FernandoTorres_fml 0
When you finally caught the dog, did you let it go after you realised? If so, then FYNL.