Very bad dog! 🐶

We had a dog who brought in a freshly roasted leg of lamb, I still have no idea where she got it from - our closest neighbours were 500 yards away!
She was a rescue and would nick anything vaguely edible, she drank fat from the chip pan, a block of butter ( both were on the worktop, leaping up there was easy for her!), raw potatoes, the chocolate decorations from the Christmas tree (poo’d foil for days afterwards).
Everything had to be kept out of her reach and the kitchen door kept shut.
She never had any side effects!

My dear little dog who just loves any food is too small to reach a worktop but I’ve left food on a coffee table and he won’t touch it bless him….he accepts the rules.
A larger dog we once had once pulled a marrow down from the worktop and ate half of it. However, biscuits he knew not to touch until we said ‘you can have it’. We used to have pine stairs and being late for an appointment one day, we left a bonio on the stairs and rushed out without saying the magic words. When we got back the bonio was still there with dribble marks round it. Poor dog, must have been so tempting for him.

Our Springer Spaniel must have jumped up on our kitchen table, then up onto the high cupboard and pulled the frozen (thawing) chicken onto the floor and was sharing it with our cat when we got up in the morning.

He also ate a slab of butter and was very ill afterwards.

He didn’t learn though, got into all sorts of mischief and we still miss him 26 yrs later.

Years ago, our dog had been vomiting a lot, so off we went to the vet, and were given some medicine for her.

The next day, my daughter had left her bedroom door open and the dog got in and ate a family sized bar of Cadbury s chocolate.

I called the vet who said to give her a spoonful of (I think - it was a long time ago) washing soda crystals to make her sick.

The irony that we had spent a king's ransom for medicine to stop her being sick the previous day was not lost on us.

I left my puppy with a daughter overnight and she found and ate a whole large Easter egg. The vet’s painful injection to make her sick left her with a phobia which makes vet visits an absolute nightmare.
And I had to pay the bill.

BlueBalou

We had a dog who brought in a freshly roasted leg of lamb, I still have no idea where she got it from - our closest neighbours were 500 yards away!
She was a rescue and would nick anything vaguely edible, she drank fat from the chip pan, a block of butter ( both were on the worktop, leaping up there was easy for her!), raw potatoes, the chocolate decorations from the Christmas tree (poo’d foil for days afterwards).
Everything had to be kept out of her reach and the kitchen door kept shut.
She never had any side effects!

Was it the same dog? 😁
We had one who came back with two lamb chops in his mouth when we were in the beach. He cleared nearly all the sandwiches and cakes off the bottom tier of a tea trolley. He also ate a half pound packet of butter.

Another dog used to ask for raw swede and carrots. If I got out the peeler, he was there, sitting at my feet.

My dog doesn’t bother with stealing food, he goes for something easy like a sock and just stands on it until swapped for a piece of liver treat

Callistemon, our old dog never cared for dog biscuits* or even human ones - not that I often buy those anyway - but she adored raw carrots. And even when she was very old the vet said her teeth were still very good.

*I once ate one of the spurned Bonios for a bet. In fact I quite liked it!

Oopsadaisy1 Methinks maybe the cat was the guilty one.
He’d find it much easier jumping up onto tables. Poor doggie getting the blame 😉😆

He was a tiny cat and it was an an enormous chicken. Our dog was a Springer, (the clue is in the name ) and it wasn’t the first time I had heard the table crash as he leapt on it.

Plus the cat looked very innocent and the dog very very guilty!

But you could be right….

Oopsadaisy1
🤣

You have to hide poisons such as chocolates from dogs. Labs are intelligent and quite large so naturally they will get poisonous temptations that you leave on the floor.

Do keep chocolates, hearing aids, grapes and raisins well away from this dog!

We had a cat that thought he was a dog - he was born in a house with a Great Dane who used to look after the kittens in his basket when mother cat went for her daily constitutional. He loved bones, would sit on command and offer a paw. Two doors along from our house there was a butcher's shop with a freezer in a building out back, and the butcher was always chasing our cat out of the freezer. One morning, we awoke to the sight of a fully frozen leg of lamb on our lawn with a happy looking cat sitting nearby guarding it. How he managed to carry it out of the freezer and into our garden we never found out!!

Caleo

You have to hide poisons such as chocolates from dogs. Labs are intelligent and quite large so naturally they will get poisonous temptations that you leave on the floor.

Do keep chocolates, hearing aids, grapes and raisins well away from this dog!

Yes, in the fridge!

Some dogs are very clever and very greedy.

What dog can do magic?

A Labracadabrador!!!!

Sorry - couldn’t resist!

For those of you who haven't seen this video before. A lab and Alsatian Spaghetti Eating Contest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYTSS14SFY0

I should have said Golden Retriever vs German Shepherd!

Used to have a Border Collie who ignored her big bag of biscuits stored in a recess in the kitchen. She was the most ungreedy dog I've ever seen. She never bothered anyone for food and ambled over to her dish when food was put out. I was horrified at first when visiting dogs made a beeline for the bag of biscuits which was always then put away at these times. She never chewed anything and was most loved. She set an incredibly high behaviour bar without any formal dog behaviour.

Yes Callistemon21. She’d been horribly ill-treated and starved before we got her, and I guess just had to grab food whenever she found it 😢
She was a lovely dog, I still miss her.

I’ve been careful with the raisins, chocolate, grapes and onions. She loves raw carrots which is fine. Malt loaf (with vine fruits) has such a strong appeal for her that I have to eat it standing up-or in a different room!

Hands down everytime! No contest.

Squiffy

For those of you who haven't seen this video before. A lab and Alsatian Spaghetti Eating Contest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYTSS14SFY0

Hands down. Every time. No contest!
Sorry quote didn't appear above.

BlueBalou

Yes Callistemon21. She’d been horribly ill-treated and starved before we got her, and I guess just had to grab food whenever she found it 😢
She was a lovely dog, I still miss her.

Oh dear, poor thing.
I don't know how people can do that 😥

Our spaniel was well-fed but just greedy!

Many years ago my in laws dog licked all the chocolate off a box of chocolate Brazil nuts, nuts were left intact 😂

I understand the thing about labs is they tend to think they're on a seafood diet - as in, they see food and they want to eat it