If at first you don't succeed...

Mar 24, 2015 12:52 PM

Fritz the Retriever tries to catch a meatball

Fritz the Retriever tries to catch a hot dog

Fritz the Retriever tries to catch a chimichanga

Fritz the Retriever tries to catch a Taco

Fritz the Retriever tries to catch a donut

Fritz the Retriever tries and ALMOST catches a roll

Fritz the Retriever tries to catch a steak

Fritz the Retriever tries and SUCCEEDS finally!

Banana for scale, now you truly know how big a pup Fritz is!

doesnt matter, had hooman food

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is like a training montage

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My corgi can snatch a fucking bird out of the air (he's done it twice, both morning doves, both lived)

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

America so rich and wasteful we just threw 7 meals on the ground at a dog that we knew wouldn't catch them #FREEDOM

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 14

Fritz the retriever sucks at catching things

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fritz the Retriever gets diabetes

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Live a betes, die a betes.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You could say his spatial awareness is on the Fritz.

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Just saw this in facebook and thought... "I wonder when this will be on imgur?"

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I usually see this stuff on imgur first and then think, "I wonder when this will get reposted on facebook?"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm so glad this is the post of this dog that finally caught its way to the Front Page. Cannot upvote more so

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

He looks like he believes he's going to do it. Such misplaced confidence.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Except all of the food being thrown (except the french fry which he catches) is HUGE. I'd wanna see a video of a human trying to do better.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why he no catch?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How can she slap?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He definitely turns away from the taco. Like, oh yeah...wait fuck that's large food and it's headed straight for my face.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lol yeah, he definitely had it, but freaked out. Like little kids trying to catch a baseball, they freak out when they're actually close!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

my dog would love this.... 12 yr old golden... and damn she can catch anything

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

http://media.giphy.com/media/dWBqgGeMAfl5K/giphy.gif

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

wasted

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yea.. Sorry about that. :L

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can Fritz catch a break?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Terrible tosses.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Agreed, human needs more training

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

BEST DOG

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11 years ago | Likes 363 Dislikes 2

Fritz needs to get his shit together.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

WASTED

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'll gladly put the work into making this into a down vote gif...challenge accepted...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nope.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No. No no no no no. Not the pizza! Why? Why? Dogs don't even eat pizza. I'm so upset now.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dogs eat water balloons.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Whose dogs don't eat pizza?!

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

How was that one not include??? it should be a downvote gif

11 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 1

It does

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

What does it did?

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

It be like it be because it do.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Do it be?]

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because it do be do be do

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sometimes it don't be like it is.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Thank you

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That dog just can't dog.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Would still be the best Wide Receiver on the Kansas City Chiefs.

11 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

Sports

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Wide Retriever*

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

iseewhatyoudidthere.jpg

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, you could have opened up your wallets to Dwayne Bowe. ;)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm a Raiders fan, I wish the Chiefs did pay him. :X

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bowe isn't that good...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Understatement.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fritz the Retriever; not Fritz the Interceptor.

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Fritzard Sherman

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*not Fritz the receiver.

11 years ago | Likes 163 Dislikes 2

THANK YOU

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

No dog can match the speed of the Interceptor.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast, nigh uncatchable!

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The Black Merle!

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But what if the dog IS Interceptor ?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Intercepted by Malcom Smith

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That dog is an accurate representation of every time I try to talk to women

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Fritz the retriever eats better than I do.

11 years ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 3

I feel like all of that was a major waste of food. I'm having a hard time enjoying this post because i can barely afford groceries

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

As a student in a country where $2/hour is considered a good starting salary, I feel you. Also I feel hungry.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

As a student living in Vancouver, one of the most expensive cities in America... I feel you. I am also very hungry.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in California, minimum wage here is $9/hour. :[ but the cost of living is really high so I might as well be making $2/hour Dx

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

I feel you. I lived in Hawaii. Cost of living is astronomical, butinimim wage is still 7.25

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is, if he could ever catch anything.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He is like me: I am really bad at catching ball because I have keratoconus which makes really hard to estimate distance.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Poor old guy probably has cataracts. Try throwing hotdogs at your grandpa and see how well it works.

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This dog is not very old. Really more like middle-aged, maybe 7 or 8 years old, too young for cataracts.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

His eyes look fine from here. And my Grandpa is dead so yeah he's bad at catching things these days!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

THAT'S MY FETISH

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Every holiday dinner, the same thing.. gah

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fritz and my grandpa both catch diabetes just fine.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

My grandpa is dead and this shit is hilarious.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did...he wasn't too happy, I must admit...

11 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

What kind of hotdogs were they?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Please also take video of that.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ha! He just frowned at me and walked away. 4 stars.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No it's not cataracts I do this with my golden. If you toss it up they can't catch it but if you throw it directly at them they'll catch it

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Drive by dinners, pizza works best! !

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I dunno, only one of my dogs was ever really good at reliably catching food

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's Labor Day and my grandpa just ate seven fuckin hotdogs

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Oct 4, 2018 10:32 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

And I'll never talk to you again.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Unless your dad will suck me off... wait.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the memories

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I can't throw food at a graveyard. Last time I tried... Long story short, I'm a menace to society and on the FBI's most wanted.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I have tears coming out of my eyes right now. Omg. Lol.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought this was a penis joke... interneeeeeet!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do your research Silence

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He's a pup not an old dog

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I threw them overhand and, for the record, he caught them all. In the face.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

scratch that, throw steaks at me instead!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hmmmm, if it gets me internet points, guess I'll get my shovel out!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's a Youtube page of these clips if you search for Fritz the Retriever. Apparently not blind in any way just no ability to catch ;)

11 years ago | Likes 186 Dislikes 1

Can I get a link?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My golden has the same problem!!! Thanks for posting. We loved it and couldn't stop laughing!

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

If someone on the internet tells you your animal is sick then it is. Deal with it.

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 3

I assume that, like people, dogs can have poor depth perception & motor skills.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I have a perfectly healthy dog who sometimes walks into walls. It takes all kinds...

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

CAT? WHERE!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fritz is gonna' have a heart attack eating like that.

11 years ago | Likes 410 Dislikes 5

And the worst poops

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would just like to acknowledge how relevant your username is.

11 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 0

Or at least pancreatitis

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And the worst poops

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He won't if he cannot actually catch and eat the stuff.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Vet here, pancreatitis for sure

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/aKKm9XO

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This feels like a pun

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So you're saying Fritz's heart is going to go on the fritz?? ba-dum tisk

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I opened this comment chain just to make that joke :(

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This post made me hungrier than I'd like to admit

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

DAT taco

11 years ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 3

seeing it splatter was just perfection

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I lol'd out loud at work

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I lol'd in loud at bed

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

lost it at the fucking taco

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That was the one that killed me lol

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Me too! He closes his eyes and moves his head cause he knows its about to slap him in the face. Lol

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Please don't feed your dogs these. They are family but their bodies can't handle processed foods especially pork, and milk.

11 years ago | Likes 80 Dislikes 31

Who's this party poop? ^^^

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

This needs to be higher. Don't give your dog this shit. Seriously. wtf.

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 12

Man people just hate to hear information that they've been feeding their dogs food that will make them sick and have medical issues

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'd like to know how dogs managed to live with humans for the 6900 years *before* dog food was invented...

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Eating fruits, vegetables and raw animals not tacos with high fat, cheese and processed taco shell

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Neither can our bodies, really. Especially that quantity.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Oh, hush.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I KNOW! DOGS CANNOT EAT GMO FOOD!!!! ORGANIC ONLY PEOPLE!!!!!!!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 13

On the youtube comments the owner says he intercepts the food & only gives him a little. Or maybe he just knows what to tell the internet.

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 1

So he gives the dog a treat and then takes it away. That's way better.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

Yepyep. I believe the only good thing was the banana. Some fruits are alright/good for them, just don't over do it. And no raisins!

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I gave my dog a banana once he had squirts while walking. It was hilarious Imagine a dog walking a leaving a liquid trail of poop.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

That sounds like a mess...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It was but hoe can one clean it up on black top?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The banana is fine, unseasoned steak too. However raw steak would be better.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

So an animal that evolved by following humans around and eating their scraps can't eat scraps?

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 7

While humans and dogs are omnivores doesn't mean we can eat the same things. Humans have evolved more and can eat processed and gmo food

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 7

Prime example grapes and chocolate are poison to dogs and undercooked pork gives dogs worms and dogs are lactose intolerant

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Oh really? So the pork we buy in stores is just riddled with worms? That's what you're going with? We're going to play it stupid?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

The odds of getting trichinosis is so miniscule in store bought pork as to be practically zero.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

That doesnt even make sense. We would eat pretty much the same thing they did. There wasn't any processed food then.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Yet ALL dog food is processed...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

For DOGS in mind.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yes but it's designed for dogs to eat it, we don't eat dog food do we? No, just as they don't eat human food.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

How about we revert back to how we bred them, raw meats, creek water, etc... You have a problem with that way too, huh?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

There's ALWAYS one of these in every thread. Just realx, yeah?

11 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 14

The best dog I've ever owned died young of heart failure because my lazy mom loved feeding him junk (people) food all of the time.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

When videos/ gifs go viral people copycat. I'm informing the public that it's not good for their pets to eat that.

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 8

And dogs, bred for 10,000 years eating dried kernels of hyper-produced junk is their normal diet?

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 16

Let me guess your pets are free ranged organic vegans.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Actually no. Dogs have shorter lives than humans and can't digest half of what he gave it.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feed my dog meat just not tacos. The steak is fine. Is anyone debating that giving a doughnut is okay?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At least he tries. Mine just let's the food bounce off her nose and looks for it on the floor.

11 years ago | Likes 1191 Dislikes 0

My dog will open his mouth a little to make it seem like he's trying, but really he's just waiting for it to hit the floor.

11 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 1

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100% accurate.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And then sometimes I still have to literally point it out to him. His eyes are fine... he's just a dumb lovable asshole.

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Lazy or smarts?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

ded

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So does mine. I once through a slice of ham for her and it just slapped her in the face and she sat there with it around her eyes and nose.

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

"He keeps throwing food aslong as I don't catch it" This dog smarter than all of us!

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Mine will take the hot dog in his mouth, then drop it on the floor and look at me like it's a trap. Then, he'll eat it. Eventually.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I totally learned how to train a dog to catch that stuff! Throw it, if she doesn't get it, don't let her have it until she does. It works!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My friend does that with her dogs! But one of her dogs won't catch it the first time if she doesn't know what it is. Could be poison.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I request a slow-mo video of that

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My dog will catch anything like a boss

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I put treats on my dogs nose and he'd hit them off and catch 'em. Now he just let's them fall to the floor.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Work smarter, not harder.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My Boxer, Link, actually makes some heroic catches. Which is a huge surprise--as he is not really good at anything else dog-like.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If my friend's dog doesn't know what's being tossed at her, she'll let it hit her in the face. For all she knows, it could be poison.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think the dog cares either way. Food is food!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And you still have to walk over and point at it 3 TIMES. At least that's how my lab did it. "Oh! It's there? Are you SURE? Point again."

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mine closes her eyes and turns away like I threw a lamp at her. It's food you dummy.

11 years ago | Likes 156 Dislikes 0

Is your dogs name George Michael?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This made me laugh

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To be fair, if a giant dog threw some steak at you your last instinct would be to eat it there and then on the spot.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

You don't know that.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not if the dog lived with and cared for me my entire life.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Having binged 30 Rock for the umpteenth time, I read this in Dennis's voice

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mine too. When it's in front of other people it makes me feel like they think I hit her!!

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

I had this fear for years. By then, everyone knew she was just lovably stupid.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

My Rotty tries to catch it with his front paws...well, he used to, when he had both front paws.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like there's a story here... and a sad one.. that I don't want to hear. Or this is a joke that I just don't get.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He's got osteosarcoma and lost his right front leg to it.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

His cousin...

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Not-so-golden retriever

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I was actually thinking his relatives would look more like this:

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

if thats real, that is very sad

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

he ded

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

I was hoping this was gonna be the gif of the girl getting a bunch of hotdogs to the face.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

My dog is scared of frisbees, like if you throw one over her she freaks out and runs and hides.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

*PFF* "OOOOOOOOOOOOOooH!"

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't be the only one that's sad because his cousin isn't a black lab.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is literally my favorite picture ever, btw.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I knew exactly what this was going to be and I still laughed heartily. Thank you.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

His owner:

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11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Oh what a tangled web we weave

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

This is my favorite picture on the whole internet.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

His son:

11 years ago | Likes 206 Dislikes 1

Hmmm...so that's what a Can't Even looks like.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dog.exe has stopped running.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

lmfao

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wasted

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Igetthatreference.jpg

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