Dog runs on soccer field during important game. They can’t seem to convince him to get off the playing area!
http://www.asylum.co.uk/2011/10/28/pitch-invading-dog-copa-sudamericana/
Article includes link to a youtube video.
Favourite part:
At the 1:45 minute point in the youtube video, it looks like they’ve successfully decoyed him, but he decides he’s having none of that and charges right back in. 
I love that! At the end it looks like he is going to take a seat in the stands to watch the rest of the game.
“This is the best day of MY LIFE! Everyone is playing with me!” 
Brilliant, and gives me the perfect opportunity to post this:
Montage of dogs on pitches, with soundtrack from Half Man Half Biscuit.
At that point, he was the Happiest Dog On Earth.
Notice, too, that he’s not wearing a collar. And he’s obviously untrained. Obviously, his human is one of THOSE PEOPLE who love dogs, but who can’t be bothered to properly socialize them. I didn’t watch all of the clip, because it pissed me off.
Gee, you’d think a bunch of athletes could do something besides just stand there like mindless dolts.
The dog isn’t wearing a collar because he’s a semi-feral dog that lives near the stadium. No one brought this dog to the stadium, people! This is Colombia.
Also, the soccer players have been running around for 65 minutes. It’s a bit much to ask them to wear themselves out chasing a dog in the middle of a very important game. They were probably all very grateful for a chance to rest for a bit.
Is this a woosh? You realize this didn’t happen in suburban America, but at a soccer match in South America right?
I know that it happened in SA. What, they don’t put collars on their dogs there, and train them? I DIDN’T know that this is a semi-feral dog, I thought someone had brought the dog to the stadium.
I see and hear a lot about people who bring their dogs to all sorts of places, yet the dogs aren’t trained to IMMEDIATELY come when called. And I thought that this was someone’s dog, who was brought to the stadium and it got loose and was misbehaving.
Now that I know about the plight of feral dogs in South America, I want to do my part to help by adopting that dog. But only that dog in the video. If any other dogs are available in South America for adoption, I don’t want to know about them.
Not even if the other dogs survive the gas chamber?!?!?
You’re really this unaware of dogs without owners? It’s not even rare here in America.
<Points at title of thread>
It was really a natural assumption for Lynn Bodoni to make, considering what the thread is titled.
The important point here is that this is the most entertaining a soccer game has ever been.
The OP stated directly that the dog had an owner, even tho the writeup linked to had no interview with said (sheepish) owner, or even mentioned an owner at all. That’s Arnold’s mistake, not Lynn’s.
That dog would of went batshit crazy if a soccer ball had of bounced infront of him.
Too bad it didn’t happen.
I’m completely aware that some dogs don’t have owners. I’m aware that even in America, there are feral and semi feral dogs, and even some in my own area. I am unhappily aware that some people will dump their dogs or cats or whatever when the animals are no longer convenient to have.
Yes, I’ve been to the Humane Society. The animals in the cages are actually the lucky ones, in that they might possibly get adopted.
Yeah, I just assumed that the dog was someone’s pet dog.
“You bipeds are soooo lame.”
Well, okay, he probably would have thought that in Spanish.