'I picked my dog up from groomers and noticed horrible mistake'

Almost every pet owner has joked about collecting the wrong dog form the groomers - but for one woman, this became a reality. She explained how she dropped off her black Labrador off at the groomers and went about her chores while she waited for the end of his time slot.

When she went to collect him, shethanked the groomers for their work, complimented how 'handsome' he looked, and returned home with her beloved pet. However, she couldn't help but notice a change in her dog's mood. Initially she put it down to him being tired from his busy day out, and it wasn't until a few hours later that she realised what had happened.

She said on Reddit: "I can laugh about it now. I was given a black lab that was not mine. When he got home I thought, why is my dog acting so weird?

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"Then I started to question if he looked the same as my dog. He looked maybe 97% the same, but something was off.

"As I started to question if I was having a mental breakdown, I remembered that my dog has a chipped tooth, so I checked this dog and no chipped tooth.

"The day care was very apologetic but I did feel like an idiot calling them to tell them I had the wrong dog."

Commenting on her post, one user said: "This almost happened once. I have a chocolate lab and there was another one that looked similar.

"I’ll never forget this happy dog jumping in the car like it was as natural as anything else and me being like, 'Uh that’s not my dog guys'. We laughed over it. Stuff happens I guess.

Another user added: "I worked at a dog day care and one day we just had so many similar looking labs… got down to putting up the last two identical twins and they both responded to each others names because they were so similar!

"These guys are tricksters! Eventually it got down to analysing the minute details in their tiny, low-quality profile photos and we were able to figure it out—but we weren’t absolutely sure until they both went home!"

A third user said: "It’s so funny to me that all labs are always so happy happy happy that they’ll go with strangers!

"Reading her post and the other messages below of other people who have experienced similar things reinforces to me my ongoing joke at home that if someone broke in to murder me, my chocolate lab would leave and be my murder’s new pet!"

One more user added: "I did something similar when picking up our chocolate lab from a grooming appointment.

"I was almost out of the store thinking what an amazing job they did as he looked younger. My kid stopped me to let me know it wasn’t ours."