My mother in law once threw a slipper at her dog like 8 years ago, because he was about to run into traffic and she wanted to stop him.

She hit him in the face and his eye was hurting for a few days, so she was extremely nice to him, pretty much spoiled him. Even to this day, whenever she yells at him, he starts blinking with one eye, but he forgets which one it was, right or left, so he keeps switching them