‘You thought MY CHILD was my DOG??!?!?’: Overzealous dog lover goes to pet pawrent’s pup only to mistakenly pet their kid instead, much to mom’s shock

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Oct 6, 2026 7:30 AM EDT

So, it is no big secret that us dog lovers can get pretty weird when it comes to doggos. Some of us have a thing for dressing the same as our pups. Others are into fine four pawed dining experiences. And there are some truly outlandish canine connoisseurs who are partial to the pomp and circumstance of a canine hairstyle. But what this dog lover ended up doing was far stranger than even those.

Coming to us from r/BestRedditorUpdates this story is truly a brilliant one and one that has a rather surprising ending to what began as quite the boiling controversy. It all began when a tired, bored and dog loving aunty flew in to watch her niece play softball. An innocent enough activity, at least it would have been if this doggo had not been there to make it anything but. You see, when our protagonist laid her eyes upon this pup she was overwhelmed with the need to pet it. A semi-normal thing to feel, we can understand it. But what is harder to understand is how it came to be that this woman petted the pup's hooman sibling instead.

Causing a shocked mother to yell words lacking in niceties at her and for the whole softball team's moms to know the story. But that is not where our story ends, though you would think that they would have had enough. Though it is lucky they did not as the way this story ends is delightfully unexpected and wholesome.

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Well, that was awkward at the very least and inappropriate touching at the very worst. How tired and discombobulated do you have to be to absentmindedly pet someone’s child when you intended to pet their doggo? Surely, if this pawson was as good a dog petter as they claim to be then they would have made eye contact with the dog they so desperately wanted to touch. At a minimum it is a safety thing. At that, just a normal societal thing, it’s pretty out there to pet a kid, even if you ask permission.
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Yikes, who knew that things could get this bad. Likely we were well aware that sometimes if you let yourself get a little too obsessed with doggos things can happen that are not ideal. For example you might find yourself furgetting about the rules of pawsonal space amongst hoomans. But for it to get so bad that your brain basically overloads with excitement each and every time you see a dog. Well, that is one heck of a high grade issue you have on your hands. At least this hooman is acknowledging their ill thought out ideas and not denying it. But dang.
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