July 27, 2010
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Killing a Puppy
When I was about 4 years old, my Aunt and cousin came to stay with us for awhile.
They had a small puppy. We had a German Shepherd. Our German Shepherd was tied up on a leash. Their puppy was allowed to walk around in the yard without a leash.
One day I saw the dog walking around free. It kind of upset me that the dog was able to run around free so I captured the dog and put it under a bowl. I continued to play and forgot about the dog.
My Aunt came out looking for the puppy but she could not find it. I helped her look for awhile but I had forgotten that I put the dog under the bowl. It was a really hot day. All of a sudden I remembered I put the puppy under the bowl. So I let it out and the dog was not moving very well.
I never saw the dog after that day. Years later I asked my mom what happened to the puppy and she told me they believed the puppy died of heat exhaustion.
I think I killed the puppy.
Comments (124)
uh what?
Idiot.
Aww. That is sad. But you were just a kid, and you didn’t do it intentionally.
awww..sorry dan…
=( Aw. Poor puppy. Why not just let your dog run free instead?
Sad
oh no! wait…is this for real? D:
Sometimes the monkey dies.
Whoa, that kind of sucks. At the same time, who was watching you?
aw… that’s sad. poor kid you.
Where’s the question? HOW CAN THERE BE NO FINAL QUESTION?!
It’s not like you wrapped it in tin foil to intentionally bake your Aunt’s little buddy.
Oh, Dan… I think you should make up for this by buying me a puppy….
D: I’m so sorry. *hugs*
Don’t worry though, you were only trying to be responsible about the dog.
*hugs*
That was nice.
Oh, man. Be positive. Instead of capturing that dog to make it equal, you should have let your dog loose.
Awww, it’s okay you didn’t know.
One of my exes put his cousin’s bird in the microwave and timed it just to see what would happen. What an idiot!
Well, you didn’t mean it. I guarantee there will be comments from people expressing more shock and anger about this than if you told us you killed a human baby, though.
My brother killed our hamster once. He stuck it under a cup, stuck the cup under a pillow, and then sat on it for 2 hours watching TV.
you were a kid. u thought it was the right thing to do. and kids forget…..forget a lot
not your fault. maybe it was the dogs time to die.
did you confess?
That is incredibly sad. There was a story not too long ago about a sibling playing peekaboo with their baby brother or sister, they left the oven mitten they were using on the baby’s face too long and suffocated it.
How big was this puppy that it fit under a bowl?
Oh sad stuff
I’m sorry!
shame on you
Awww,poor puppy.
omg. that is terrible. its not like you meant to do it, like when i was a kid there was this dog that barked at us from behind a fence. we threw rocks at it. one day it cleared the fence and attacked the paper boy as he was riding by…. they blamed it on us. that was never my intention. but i still feel bad and do everything i can for animals to this day.
What triggered the memory?
I have to wonder if this is a real story….but if it is…I am sorry you are still troubled enough to tell it again. It was an….accident.
That’s something you should have sent to Postsecret…
You dumb ass
Regrets from childhood can be the most painful.
I <3 Dan.
Aww, shucks. =[
@neverforqetmex3 - exactly!!
Oh I feel slightly sick.
this just made me think of a new here
a little while ago a man left his 2 month old and toddler in the car while he went inside to make dinner n watch tv. they died
x__x
Did you eat the puppy?
You were four. You lived and learned. Yet in today’s world, some forty year old would be calling for prosecution.
: ( yes, sad.
@sarahvega - he was only four years old. geez.
Aw! Well you were only 4, you didn’t mean to kill it.
That’s really sad!!!
My cousin set a cat’s tail on fire… evil man.
What brought back this memory?
@LyricallyCharged - It’s just not right, is it?? lol WHAT is the question?
you were young and didn’t realize. my sister did the same thing with about 15 baby frogs in an aquarium.
I once gave my turtle a bath in hot water when I was about 4 or 5. I didn’t know any better. It died – I killed my pet turtle by mistake.
Wow. Why was no one watching you? Bad guardians.
Also, how did the dog fit under a bowl? Also, where did you find a bowl that was heavy enough to contain a dog?
Also, how were you strong enough to lift said bowl at 4 years of age?
Dan, you are a terrible person.
murderer, and now you’ve moved on to baby seals.
the travesty of it all.
awwww.
well, good job. you wre just a kid. so, it’s not like you’re really at fault.
@Eternalimplosion - Right? He still could… set it free
when my sister was, i think, 2 years old, one of our new born kitten’s scratched her cause she tried to pick it up and so she hit it with a hammer. it died within a couple blows. i was devastated but she had no idea what she was doing.Â
Still a tender wound. It wasn’t out of malice. Be comforted, my brother.
http://graphics2.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/graphics/crush01.jpg
Add by whole numbers to the filename (up through crush11) to see the rest
Fucking sick
@emberfly_layouts - This.
I’m kind of wondering why the puppy didn’t just… stand up unless that puppy was at such a young age. But unless your aunt was a breeder, her puppy probably wasn’t at that young of an age where it was too weak to lift a bowl.
I’m thoroughly confused.
By the way, you used a lab/golden retriever puppy as your picture. I really hope the puppy that died wasn’t a lab/golden retriever puppy because those are my favorites..
@I_Create - WHERE IS THAT FROM?? I swear I heard it before..
and I dont think its a good idea to tell people you killed a puppy even if it was by accident.
@clulessJ - Well, I’ve been trying to put it all over the internet as a wise phrase that can be used for consolation, but it was originally from Friends.
one day, i lay down on a bullseye drawn in not-yet-dry indelible ink…
You were a preschooler. But I’ve got a couple of dogs next door you could hone you skills on and I’d even buy your airline ticket.
Awww, poor thing. You didn’t mean to.
My mom got a chicken and a duck for Easter when she was a kid and she sat on them “to keep them warm.” She was an extremely fat kid and we’ll just say that didn’t end well…. lol.
that was really bad! however,you were a kid back then and i know you didnt mean it
Kids can’t see very far into the future.
That’s really sad but all dogs should have to be on leashes if that is a law. Around here it is a law and we always keep our dog on a leash but my boyfriend’s mother (who is a vet.) lets her dog run free on walks even though the dog is clearly supposed to be on the leash. Not to mention that its a very hyper pitbull (well behaved) but could scare the sh*t out of a kid in a yard or walking near them.
aw man, sad story.
don’t blame yourself, at 4 years old.. you don’t understand cause and effect/consequences yet.
if it makes you feel any better, i’ve had 8 gold fishes die on me this year, i keep replacing them, i have no idea what i’m doing wrong.. i bought a book, i google, i ask the pet shop owners’ fish ‘experts’… and i do feel bad about it.
Aww poor puppy. I had a little caterpillar I did that once too. I smashed him. On accident. D:
I use to flush those little pet turtles down the toilet until my mother caught me. My brother told me that the water in the potty flows out to the ocean. I thought I was setting them free.
I don’t think you meant to kill it. I think they knew you didn’t mean to kill it or they would have yelled at you then for doing it…
Which is a reminder to us all especially in the heat of summer. Don’t leave pets trapped in places that can get hot quickly, like cars.
I killed a duckling, and many, many fish in my lifetime (aka as a kid, I would take them out of their tank and stab them with forks). But I was a weird kid.
Rec dan.
Aww, that’s so sad. I’m sure you’re going to hate yourself for doing that forever. You were just a kid, you didn’t know better. ;/
My aunt had four guinea pigs and had their cage in the laundry room. It was summer and she turned on her dryer……Not a good idea. She killed all of them. So sad!
you were 4 and you remember your thought process so vividly?
So did you grow up to be a mass murderer? Not that I would love you any less, but I might be a bit more prudent about letting you talk me into a midnight excursion to an isolated, wooded park.
Im pretty sure I read in the bible somewhere about there being a special place in hell for people who kill puppies..
Oh no. I’m sorry that happened to you. Being a kid, you really don’t know right from wrong. Lesson learned.
that’s just sad.
Yikes! But you were a kid, it was running around & you thought that would help!
Plus, kids forget things easily. Especially when they are playing!
aww..
I steped on a kitten once and killed it.. I felt so bad.
I hope you tell this story on first dates.
Now I get it. The reason you and Paul have issues is because it was his puppy.
Sad day man. Don’t worry about it too much though. You were young and you didn’t know that was going to happen. Mistakes happen.
I killed a puppy in Reno, just to watch him die.
Oh my God Dan! That’s terrible!
If it makes you feel any better, my nana killed a kitten once by hugging it too tight…
@ofunlo - Doesn’t mean he can’t be stupid.
Am I a monster that I thought this was extremely funny in a really ironic, silly way? It’s sad that the puppy died, but still. xD
uh what kind of dog was this… and how exactly did it fit under a bowl… and not have the strength to push it off?
Seriously? Well you were only a kid so hopefully it won’t happen again the next time you get another puppy.
Did you ever end up confessing?
:C
so sad. ;(
Wow…that is really sad..did you ever tell anyone that you put the dog under the bowl??
this makes me sad.
but you didn’t do it on purpose, or with malicious intent or anything.
… why do I feel like there’s a part 2 coming with some kind of curveball?
aw that makes me so sad. i remember watching a tv show, maybe it was Oprah, and this lady spoke about killing her own baby. she was playing hide and seek with the baby, and when she found the baby she laughed and the baby looked at her and died from having to much fun (it got scared).
Omg i want to cry
Its excusable though you were just a kid.
YOU MONSTER.
…..wait, where was the fury and debate inducing question at the end of the blog?
Jesus, Dan D:
i hope you feel okay about it now.
I had a baby sitter once who thought I tried to kill her kittens. One day I was sitting in her barn with the kittens and horses and I dunked the kittens in water and she thought I tried to drown them.
Psh
If you also enjoy setting fires and disecting road kill then I’m going to start worrying about you, Dan.
D: poor pup…
he was four. enough said. @sarahvega -
This asshole killed a puppy, and you guys are saying “poor dan” He must be sitting at his computer, laughing his ass off at all of you.
LMAO
@pcttsai - Is this a rerun? I don’t care what you think either.
that’s really sad. it’s forgiveable though because you were a kid, honestly.
I guess this is Dan’s way of making up to the dead puppy by becoming the most popular Xangan.
You put it under a BOWL?
what??? that’s so sad
:0!?!? well…hmmm
Eh, kids don’t understand those things. You weren’t being cruel.
Thats horrible. What even made you think that’d remotely be a good idea? Sicko.
That reeeeeally sucks.
It’s okay. When I was little, I was playing with a baby bird at my grandma’s house, & when she called me inside for lunch I set it free & was trying to chase it off to find it’s mom & stepped on [& surely killed] it accidentally. :[[ I still to this day feel terrible about it, even though I know it was an accident & I was really little. These things just happen. You live & learn. :/
Maybe they should put you under a bowl.
Maybe I’m a horrid person, but it makes me giggle that your four year old self stuck this little rat-size dog under a BOWL.
Well, you must be the devil’s child/advocate.
I could’ve gone my entire life without having read that story. Now I think I’m going to be sick!
I know a lot of people are feeling bad for you…but I’m not. I feel bad for the puppy, and for your cousin and aunt.
That’s a pretty vicious thing for a child to do… I mean…you essentially wanted to punish the puppy…
…ouch.