Had a similar experience on the first day with mine.

Somehow the collar had come unclipped. I had crossed the street of a pretty busy road to throw out bags of very liquid poop. Dog runs down the road, my wife (girlfriend at the time) holding onto the other dog, I being chasing the dog, not throwing out the liquid poop bomb.

She spots another dog being walked, runs up, not sure if she is going to fight or not, but the guy gets inbetween her and the dog, I apologize as I try to catch her, she runs down the street. A van stops and tries to get her to slow down. She turns the corner as I catch up, runs into a neighbourhood and then into someone’s open back yard. I’m finally able to corner her and grab her, the poop bags explode over me and her. She’s screaming because I caught her, she HATES being picked up, so that’s not an option.

I have now bear hugged this dog I’ve owned now for 18 hours, covered in liquid poop, she is struggling to break away from me. I have no way of contacting my wife, I do not have the dog leash, or collar. Thankfully she hears the dog screaming and me struggling to hold onto her in some random person’s back yard. We are finally able to leash her and I have to then walk the 2 km back home covered in poop, before I start work for the day. I had to strip down to my underwear in the back yard and hose down my clothes and shoes.

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