A dog just fell through my ceiling. Again.

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Have you ever had a dog fall through your ceiling?
Poll ended at 31 Jan 2013, 3:32 pm
Frequently 9%  9%  [ 2 ]
Occasionally 9%  9%  [ 2 ]
Never and I'm glad of it 50%  50%  [ 11 ]
Never but I'd like it to happen 32%  32%  [ 7 ]
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28 Jan 2013, 3:32 pm

A dog fell through my ceiling the first tine on February 7 last year. Here is what I wrote someone about it then:

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A few minutes ago while sitting at my computer here at work, a dog fell through my ceiling.

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It's a suspended ceiling. The back of the office is a storage area that is open to the suspended ceiling for the rest of the office. The dog went up the stairs and jumped over a small ledge onto the ceiling tiles.

It wouldn't have been so bad if the dog had fell through where it first went onto the ceiling tiles, but it went into a panic and started trying to save itself. As a result, it got further out to where the ceiling tiles weren't suspended as well as they were near the well.

That also means that it tore up a bunch more ceiling.

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We have three people at the office who bring dogs to work.

P___'s dog is small, well trained, and very little trouble.

L___ brings two dogs. One big dog and one small dog. The big dig is too rambunctious and the small will go pee in people's offices when they aren't there. I try to keep my doors closed.

C___ bring used to bring two dogs, but one was really old and died a few months ago. So now he brings one. It's a pointer about a year old. That's the one that came through the ceiling.

I don't mind dogs around the office as long as they are calm and well trained. Only P___'s dog fits that description.


The dog that fell through a few minutes ago was the same one as before. This time it was in a different part of the ceiling and did a lot more damage as well as landing on some computer equipment.

I hope this isn't an annual event.



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28 Jan 2013, 4:18 pm

It would make my job a lot more lively if a dog fell through the ceiling, as long as it wasn't hurt and didn't land on my head. :D I'm more likely to have an engineer fall through my ceiling, though.

Most of the purebred pointers/setters I've encountered have been dumb as stumps.


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28 Jan 2013, 5:13 pm

Holy cow. It fell through the ceiling?

Where I work, we have a program that trains service dogs for people with disabilities and my department shares comon walls with the dog program, so lots of barking, whining, dog smell, etc. As cute as they are, especially as puppies, it can be a distraction when you are on the phone with someone.

So, I feel your pain, but am really feeling lucky it hasn't been raining dogs here, lol.



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28 Jan 2013, 5:35 pm

Last time a dog dropped through my ceiling I was on 4 hits of acid.



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28 Jan 2013, 6:05 pm

I lived in a bedsit for 5 years.

One evening I could hear an animal scampering around above my ceiling and the light swayed as something was pulling on the cords, the light barking the animal made convinced me that the fella above me has obtained a puppy dog, and was hiding it from the landlady underneath his floorboards.

A day or two later however, I heard that same barking on my windowledge and looked over to see a squirrel.



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28 Jan 2013, 9:50 pm

I had to read through the title three times, kept thinking I had read it wrong :lol:

Closest I have come to that is fishing a cat out of my wall. Twice. Not fun, not only did I have to deal with the rash caused by the insulation, but cat bites/scratches from a panicking feline :roll:


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29 Jan 2013, 12:03 am

LOL, that's an awesome story!! I agree I totally wish that would happen at my work! Although I wouldn't want it to happen at home...roofs cost a lot to fix ya know!



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29 Jan 2013, 12:06 am

I'd love the furry companionship! C'mon, powers-that-be... send me a furry creature falling from the 'bove! :D

On the plus side, my new volunteer job tomorrow has a big ol' friendly dog wandering around the factory floor! :D



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29 Jan 2013, 12:07 am

I hope the dog's okay. Sweet Pea and Sid hugs for the dogImage :O)


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30 Jan 2013, 9:48 am

The only time a dog would fall through the ceiling is if I was on drugs.


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30 Jan 2013, 10:46 am

Ha ha,once I had a horse kick the screen door in,it was on the porch.


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30 Jan 2013, 10:50 am

It's raining cats and dogs.



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30 Jan 2013, 4:28 pm

Misslizard wrote:
Ha ha,once I had a horse kick the screen door in,it was on the porch.


I was sitting in someone's house when their kid rode his horse through the door into the house. The parents didn't seem very about it.

I later found out that my oldest brother did that once before I was born.



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30 Jan 2013, 6:28 pm

I have not had a dog fall through my ceiling.

But there were some birds, finches or sparrows I think, that used to fall down the chimney in the summer, and get stuck in the (cold) wood-stove. It took a while to figure out where the scrabbling noise was located. The moment the door to the wood-stove was opened, the panicked bird landed on the ceiling fan, and just sat up there going round and round and round. (After a while we turned it off & got the bird back outside.) half an hour later it happened again.



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31 Jan 2013, 8:56 am

alpineglow wrote:
half an hour later it happened again.


It must've thought the ceiling fan ride was fun. :lol:


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31 Jan 2013, 3:19 pm

Mindsigh wrote:
alpineglow wrote:
half an hour later it happened again.


It must've thought the ceiling fan ride was fun. :lol:


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