‘I bought my dog an X-rated toy and was called out in the park about it’

A man has taken to Reddit to share how he was called out by a woman who took a disliking to his dog’s favourite toy – she made him feel like the ‘sleaziest person to walk the earth’

Dogs can form attachments to their toys – with many often spotted trotting around their homes with their prized possession hanging out their mouth. While most dogs favour a tennis ball, stuffed animal or even their owner’s slipper, one man has been left red faced after his dog took a particular liking to a “dog toy that resembles a sex toy”.

Explaining how he was verbally attacked in a park over his dog’s favourite ‘chew toy’, the man has been left questioning whether he should take his dog’s favourite toy away from him to avoid “offending” other park goers in the future. He told Reddit : “I had never had my own dog before. In my early 30s and being a new home owner I decided to buy a border collie, the dog I always wanted.

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“I found Thor at a local pet store (my naivety didn’t let me realise how terrible those places are – I’m sorry) and fell I love with him. An adorable blue-eyed border collie.

“As he grew, I did everything I could to keep him safe and happy. He would accompany me on long runs, but had an obsession for carrying sticks as we ran. I read that this is unsafe as the dog may slip and end up with splinters in his throat.

“I went to the pet shop and discovered a toy called ‘safe stix’, a malleable plastic version of a stick. My dog sniffed it, loved it, we bought it.

“We went straight to the park across the road from my house for a trial run: I threw it, he grabbed it and bounced back to me in joy.

“As he brought it to me I would take it and say in a playful voice ‘You want it? You want it? You’ll get it!’ As I waggled it in his face.”

But during their quick game of fetch, the man was approached by a woman in her 60s who scolded him for allowing his dog to play with ‘such an obscene item’.

He added: “I hear a voice from behind me: ‘You are a disgusting young man, you should be ashamed of yourself’.

“The voice came from a 60 something year old lady with a small child with her. Only then did I realise the resemblance was uncanny.

“As I tried to explain, the woman walked off in a huff and I felt like the sleaziest person to walk the earth.”

While most users slammed the woman for being ‘so dirty minded’, others urged the man to allow his dog to continue playing with the toy.

One user said: “I think that lady needs to get her mind out of the gutter, I was expecting something a little more phallic in shape”

Another user added: “I have the same toy for my dogs and I hide it in shame in a back pack unless it is in use.”

A third user said: “My dog’s toys more closely resemble a dildo than that thing does. That old woman just had her mind in the gutter.”

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