Suspicious silence, lowered head, beguiling eyes, and tail pressed hard against the body signal that someone just got busted big time. Ask any dog owner and they will tell you it happens more often than you think!
To commemorate this hilarious and irritatingly cute moment of ill-doing, dog owners are now joining in for the new challenge that does exactly what it says: #guiltydogchallenge. Run by the fan-favorite Facebook group “Dogspotting Society,” it has caused a real buzz on social media partly because it’s so easy to relate to.
So get ready for the cutest delinquents of the animal world, who just couldn’t resist eating the whole pizza without asking, feasting on laptop chargers, and gorging on the carrot cake that’s been pulled straight out of the oven and left to rest. But how can one truly be angry at them?
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Banjo when he gets caught doing something naughty. He automatically puts himself in time out.
Three stages of realising its bath time next.
"That was so much fun! Yeah. Yeaaaaah. Huh. Oh...oh s**t. What...what...what have I done."
To find out more about the guilty dog look, Bored Panda talked to Kate Mornement, an animal behaviorist and consultant who runs Pets Behaving Badly solutions. Kate explained that the guilty look is body language and behavior displayed by dogs which seems to coincide with naughty behavior.“
The guilty look often involves dogs showing the whites of their eyes, lip licking, avoiding eye contact, tucking their tail, holding their ears back flat against their head, cowering, and sometimes hiding from the owner.” Moreover, there are both universal signs of guilt that seems to be present in many dogs, and less frequently displayed behaviors, like exposing their teeth or closing their eyes (remember Denver the Labrador?).
Kate explained that while “guilt is a human concept, dogs are known to share other emotions in common with us, such as fear, anxiety, joy, and anticipation.” Perhaps, Kate said, “guilt will be added to this list; however, we'll have to wait for the science to prove it one way or another.” As for now, "researchers are trying to establish whether dogs actually feel guilty when caught out or whether they're just responding to our behavior and body language and being scolded."
I made a beautiful carrot cake for my mums birthday in October.. I left the kitchen for literally 2minutes and came back to a pile of crumbs
I wonder who the culprit was
This morning while my owner slept I ate 2 bags of freeze dried chicken hearts (60 or more) 2 bags of Raw coated biscuits. 1 bag of freeze dried liver. 12 dental chews size small. 3/4 of a yak chew bone. 1/4 of a 3kg bag of dry dog food. The farts are just starting....
My doberman Django chewed through his lead, now he is Django Unchained.
It’s not the first time that we've seen challenges from the Dogspotting Society Facebook group going viral on social media. In a previous interview with Bored Panda, a representative of the Dogspotting Headquarters team explained that these challenges are usually started by community members.
“Most of them based on universal experiences, so many people can interact with one another. Some of the other challenges we’ve seen are #ThenAndNow challenge, #WhatWasYourDogMistakenFor challenge,#SmilingDog challenge, and #UnflatteringDogPhoto challenge, just to name a few!" Check our article on the "Didn’t Want A Dog" challenge right here.
A spokesperson of the Dogspotting Society also said that now that the world is in quarantine, it’s the perfect time to adopt a dog. “With so many people working from home, you’ll have more time to bond with your new best friend! We know this year has been very difficult for a lot of our members and the challenges have added a bit of levity for everyone."
When they get quiet “no dogs were hurt” he did this to 3 cans to feed his brother chihuahua and sister yorkie.
“No mom? I have NO idea who stole the spaghetti squash off the counter?”
**Do not make eye contact with the spaghetti squash **
Me: Jäger... did you get into the cat food last night????
Jäger:
The Dogspotting community is a truly unique and large social media platform that involves a variety of different channels, like the Dogspotting Society public group, their sister site, Dogspotting, the Dogspotting Headquarters page, Dogspotting Media, and even a court page.
Everyone strictly follows their rules there to ensure efficient and interesting content. After all, the Dogspotting Society Facebook group, which is public, has a whopping 1M+ members that make about 10k posts a month.
When Max first came to live with us, he was an expert kitchen burglar. He stole cakes, buns, entire loaves of bread, cocoa powder, cheeseburgers, packets of biscuits - as well as a bunch of non edibles like pizza boxes, sweet wrappers, cigarette filters, and wet wipes.
We had a crash course in keeping things out of his reach. The habit is so ingrained that we still do it now, even though he crossed the rainbow bridge last month. Hope you’re eating all the chocolate cake you can, Maxi! We miss you.
Dog- "Couch just went "Poof!" I'm as surprised as you are! If I'm being honest here..... I think the cat did it."
Throw back to Thanksgiving 2018 when I left the kitchen with 3 loafs of pumpkin bread and returned with less than 2
Idk how he managed to eat that pizza without us even knowing
He gave him self up when we turned around and looked like that
I got out of my truck to get gas. When I got back in, he said he had zero idea where my pizza slice went.
What was I supposed to do? You left it so I thought you didn't want it
One morning I woke up to my husky that I thought killed something outside nope just destroyed a RED lipstick on carpet with no regret LOL (hey I did get the floor and her clean) oh Sookie. She’s lucky she’s cute.
Ate over half of a pizza and then passed out in a food coma. I taught him well.
I had one piece, Nina had 7
Making stuffing from scratch tomorrow so I cut up the bread to dry out, came back 5 minutes later and poof, gone! SHE ATE TWO LOAVES OF BREAD🥵
Keeping the second batch in the oven where big chungus can’t get to it
“But mom, Kevin Bacon jumped up on the counter... not me!”
Someone decided to go digging in the garden and try to escape the shower. 10/10 for the guilt face though
Can’t find the limbs.
Guess it's not going back to Santa this year. The dog touched it.
My husband and I had to quarantine for 2 weeks after he got back from deployment. We spent AT LEAST one week non-stop working on this puzzle he got for our anniversary. Needless to say, we never got to *fully* finish it
William can't be trusted alone with the groceries
His expression is priceless: "You're blaming it on me!!! It was the cat!!!"
Chester stealing toilet paper. His is so guilty and knows his not allowed stuff he will look the other way and pretend not to see you or run away depending on his mood.
my dog would hide it and then when we are away he would destroy it
Someone got into the litter box. And it wasn’t the cat...
After escaping her crate, Gidget decided that the bedroom door sounded like a tasty treat.
Just to clarify, she doesn't have anxiety about being in her crate at all and actually kinda likes it in there, but i think once she got out of it she panicked cause she couldn't get back in there and the door to the room was closed, and since she could see the rest of the house through the doorknob hole she was just trying to get out there.
Brand new lipstick down the toilet!! It looked like they had killed something it did have a lovely scent to it so who can blame them who looks the most guilty!!!!??? , Dane or Aussie shepherd.
Not gonna mention any names... but someone has a thing for eating toilet paper.
And that's how the toilet paper crisis started (much cooler story than the real one)
I have the perfect guilty-looking dog for the #GuiltyDogChallenge!!!
Teddy (6 months when this was taken) didn’t like me going to bed and leaving him one night, despite it being 3am and he had been sleeping the whole time before I left to go up to bed. He quickly made his feelings known by getting into our basket drawers in the kitchen and pulling/chewing/destroying anything he could get his little paws on. He finished the crime off by doing a big, stinking poop right by the kitchen door!!
He then preceeded to howl repeatedly for 2 minutes to let us all know upstairs he did a bad thing, as he only ever howls when he’s guilty and remorseful. In fairness to him he hadn’t committed an incident of this magnitude since he was a very little pup, and thankfully this has been an isolated incident! He just didn’t want me to go clearly!
I have to dig through my albums for the picture of the carnage he caused and if I find it, I will post it below, it’s without the poop as I had cleaned it up before anything else. But I just thought I would share this in light of the trend because I have never seen a dog look so guilty!
The way he is sitting and the way he looks is definitely guilty
Second remote destroyed in 3 weeks, do you think she cares?
no. She was just trying to figure out it's purpose. Thought it was a chew toy probably
I think the pillow says it all
Dog: just sitting here on the floor, minding my own business and it just exploded. It could have killed me!!!
The look you make after pulling an all nighter...
Rue ran 5 miles away to a Starbucks and I picked her up at 5:45 in the morning when the baristas called me. Super grateful she was found. Not sure if this is a look of guilt or feeling hung over though.
Someone chewed up 3 pairs of my panties. Two suspects in custody, poker faces turned all the way up.
This is Carroll. Carroll is a foster dog. Carroll was found as a stray with third-degree burns covering her back. Carroll’s burns were so bad, Facebook obscures the “before” photos. Carroll spent a month in the hospital. But Carroll heals quickly. Carroll spends two months healing in a foster home. Eventually Carroll finds a wonderful family to adopt her. Carroll’s foster family is thrilled.
Then one day, two weeks before adoption day, Carroll gets very sick. Carroll’s foster mom rushes her to the vet. Carroll’s X-rays reveal that she ATE AN ENTIRE BIRD. Foster mom is stunned and confused. Carroll is unashamed. Carroll wags her tail even as she is put under for emergency surgery.
Carroll is still unashamed despite the $2k bill for the rescue. It was a very good bird.
(She really is the happiest girl ever. We will miss her when she’s adopted on Saturday, but she is getting a fabulous family. She’s pictured here with our foster puppies.)
"We're still wondering how she managed to fit an emu in there. Oh, well."
Here is the award winning mess that was Fourth of July weekend and like a week later. Arlo broke dads ankle AND sifted through the trash because he knew dad wasn’t mobile and ate pork rib bones which he then threw up on my bed at 7am. Don’t feel sorry for him, he delayed our move and got some tasty food from the vet while I scoured through his [poop] for a week to make sure he was passing bone fragments. I had two patients to take care and I sprained my own ankle. My husband wants more full blooded saints this time. I think I’ll get a corgi, they don’t maim people.
This was the cake for my parents 50th anniversary party a couple years ago. The cake had been delivered not 5 minutes before this and I had just set it on the table and stepped into the kitchen. Then Lola found it. We all had had a good laugh about it and we ate the unlicked side of the cake.
Y’all, let me tell you about Margeaux...she lives in a world of not giving a single f*ck. Has had zero regrets about eating an entire tub of butter, literally entire, I bought it the day before. Guilt has no home with this one.
Maybe she tries to bring sanity. I mean, what butter do you think is harvested in lakes? Sea cow milk? Otter cream? Not to mention the olives. Nor sea salt. Whatever this product is, it's built on lies.
In a time span of an hour...one pup created so much chaos. Yes thats a bagel. We didn't even know we had bagels.
Sid telling us he hated the sofa
A very nice person posted a parcel through the door when you were out Dad. I checked it and its safe..
Just making sure nothing harmful or dangerous is inside... definitely not checking if it has anything tasty inside
Yea that plant. The plant I waited years to buy because it was too expensive. The plant that I put in the Uhaul up front with me so that it wouldn't get ruined in the move. The plant that was on the end TABLE minding its own business. But, it's been over a year now and I got a new one and we have grown from this.
He's not sorry at all 🤦♀️ id like to say he's since grown out of this... but he hasn't... his favourite activity is shredding anything possible
Draw picture of cat on them then act surprised your husky attacks is? Weird.
Bane (in back): It was like this when we got here.
Elwood (middle): I think I saw the cat run that way.
Cyrus: Am puppers!
This was a while ago, but here she sits in her nest of shame, that USED to be her bed.
The face of a guilty puppy & a doggo who think he’s funny
I sense mild remorse in eating moms not even worn just purchased 12 hours ago new heels.. but he’s a #guiltydogchallenge
Maybe he didn't like them and he'd like you to ask his opinion next time before you buy shoes
This is Lottie & this is her guilty face.
In this specific photo, she’d pooped in nanny’s living room (she’d JUST been outside for the toilet moments before) & it resulted her in a time out whilst we were outside the front doing the gardening
That time I tried to get a cute photo of Belle sniffing dad's beer then the little @#$% stuck her tongue in the foam.
#guiltydogchallenge #caughtintheact
Disclaimer she was fine only got the foam not the beer, you can actually see daddy's hand snatching it away as I took the photo.
We had a parakeet that liked beer...boy, you'd better not try to keep him out of it, he'd drink and then fluff up and talk to himself.
Ahh, yes. The year Bruce discovered he was tall enough to reach the venison backstraps on the counter from the only deer my father in law shot that year.
this young doggo Stanley found my box of tampons I bought from the shop. Left him alone whilst unpacking the shopping to turn around to this. Silent as a mouse the entire time !! This photo was around a year ago and he’s still just as guilty
Roxie destroys all sandals I buy ... and has the audacity to stick out her tongue at me
Poor baby had an anxiety attack while we were at work. She escaped her kennel, and ate 2 boxes of heart burn meds, an unopened bag of treats, and an unopened bag of chips...
But how can you be mad at this face??
I took a nap and when I got up it was obvious that something terrible had transpired and Mr Friendly was dead. Nobody is talking...
That time Smokey tore up my brand new ‘dog shaming’ calendar... guess he wanted to be in it too
That time my niece Annabelle didn’t get any Thanksgiving turkey
Edit- he s not like this now! He has plenty of toys too! We were able to crate train him too! I just wanted to share a pic of him when he was little.
Anyone else’s bigggo puppy rips up their pee pad and destroys the dry wall in their apartment and causes over $800 worth of damage? Just mine? please excuse the mess
Rae Villanueva
The time that Thor decided to eat an entire roll of garbage bags and spent two nights at the vet. That was an expensive dinner!
Finally a challenge I can do. Was moving 2,000 miles across the country, stopped at a truck stop. Before filling the U-Haul truck up, I went in and grabbed a burger, threw it in the truck all wrapped up and pumped gas. Came back to this
Frankly this one is your fault, unattended dog and unattended food only lead to one conclusion.
We had a super large, super cute, super accurate labrador for 12 years who NEVER stole food, even if the kids dropped it before his nose. When he died, my mom realized, that it was NOT my dad who ate one to two apples a day, to keep the doctor away...
Well... he ain’t going to the vet he now the rule
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looking through the pictures reminds me of why I have a cat not a dog... when I was a kid, we had a dachshund... he was smarter than most. Mom left a big pot of tomato sauce/spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove without a lid. We went for a quick trip to the store for something else for dinner that night (spaghetti, salad, & garlic toast night)... when we came back, half of the spaghetti sauce was gone. Mom said she was surprised that it had cooked down so much in only 20 minutes. Then I noticed little orange dog paw prints all over the floor. The dog made the "oh my gosh, I'm caught look" and ran to his bed to hide. Sure enough his belly was bloated with the spaghetti sauce... darn old dachshund! Some how he had connived a way to climb up on different things until he could reach the pot on the stove. He was about to get punished, but we got to laughing about it. So mom put the rest of the sauce up in the freezer & fed him out of it a cup at a time for a few weeks.
Most of these dogs are just bored out of their frickin' minds. You can't get a dog and just let it do nothing all day, they need jobs Also don't crate them while you go to work, it's cruel. Dogs should never be in a crate unless you're traveling. You just need to raise them well and give them enough activities
When I was in college, I came home one time to find that my roommates German Shepherd had eaten the couch! (It was her couch.) Walked in, looked at what was left of the couch, and I took a big ol drink of “This ain’t none of my bidness though!” And took myself right on upstairs!
Dogs are incapable of feeling guilt. They are afraid their owner is going to yell at them. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/dog-myths-debunked-do-dogs-feel-guilt/
All this people accusing dogs of doing stuff like stealing and destroying and all I can see it's a inocent face. I'm sure they are all inocent and good boyz and gals.
We had a super large, super cute, super accurate labrador for 12 years who NEVER stole food, even if the kids dropped it before his nose. When he died, my mom realized, that it was NOT my dad who ate one to two apples a day, to keep the doctor away...
Well... he ain’t going to the vet he now the rule
Load More Replies... looking through the pictures reminds me of why I have a cat not a dog... when I was a kid, we had a dachshund... he was smarter than most. Mom left a big pot of tomato sauce/spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove without a lid. We went for a quick trip to the store for something else for dinner that night (spaghetti, salad, & garlic toast night)... when we came back, half of the spaghetti sauce was gone. Mom said she was surprised that it had cooked down so much in only 20 minutes. Then I noticed little orange dog paw prints all over the floor. The dog made the "oh my gosh, I'm caught look" and ran to his bed to hide. Sure enough his belly was bloated with the spaghetti sauce... darn old dachshund! Some how he had connived a way to climb up on different things until he could reach the pot on the stove. He was about to get punished, but we got to laughing about it. So mom put the rest of the sauce up in the freezer & fed him out of it a cup at a time for a few weeks.
Most of these dogs are just bored out of their frickin' minds. You can't get a dog and just let it do nothing all day, they need jobs Also don't crate them while you go to work, it's cruel. Dogs should never be in a crate unless you're traveling. You just need to raise them well and give them enough activities
When I was in college, I came home one time to find that my roommates German Shepherd had eaten the couch! (It was her couch.) Walked in, looked at what was left of the couch, and I took a big ol drink of “This ain’t none of my bidness though!” And took myself right on upstairs!
Dogs are incapable of feeling guilt. They are afraid their owner is going to yell at them. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/dog-myths-debunked-do-dogs-feel-guilt/
All this people accusing dogs of doing stuff like stealing and destroying and all I can see it's a inocent face. I'm sure they are all inocent and good boyz and gals.
