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.
Wow, this could have ended in a bloodbath really easily, glad that nobody got hurt.
Maybe there was a bloodbath but they licked it away? My late american staffordshire terrier found a way to my metal waste bin and when i got home from work there was blood marks everywhere on the floor! I was worrying so much when i saw it. Then i checked his mouth and he was fine, turns out trauma to the mouth heals very fast. Then i kept my metal waste in another place to prevent it. conserves-...4ad067.jpg 
Imagine what this clever dog could do to an arm, with precision like that. Yeowch!
This is not okay. There is no way this dog did this without injury. Why do I know? Because my dog used to go after discarded cans. Every single one - bloody. This isn’t funny. I welcome downvotes and BP feel free to delete my comment. I find this really dangerous. And this just makes me upset. Edited for stupid grammar lapses.
It's not good, no, but to be fair, I wouldn't have thought about hiding full, sealed tins out of dog-reach as part of my usual dog-proofing, as my three dogs have never shown inclination to rip a tin open. If I caught them doing so, then I'd hide tins. This could be the first time this dog has ever done this before. If it happens repeatedly though, then fair enough.
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Yes, we believe your dog knew to chew around the lid in a perfect circle just like a can opener! Give me a break.
Aww, he was trying to help out & feed his siblings ♡. I do hope he learned chewing though cans like this aren't safe for him & maybe he won't attempt this again? (Beautiful dog btw)
I call BS. No effing way that no blood was shed if this were real. It isn't, thankfully.
No BS. my late dog did it with my metal trash bin. There were blood marks on the floor but at the time i returned from work he was totally fine, turns out mouth heals very fast. And yes after that i found a new place for my metallic garbage. conserves-...690a2d.jpg 
I had a mastiff called Hooch once who used to chew tuna fish tins flat and suck the fish and juice out thru the holes; and he once bit a glass peanut butter jar in half, and licked both halves clean and not even a scratch on his tongue!! He lived up to his name!
“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.
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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.
