Pets that Steal food (lighthearted)

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I left my sandwich on the side and my cat stole it was a first time for that as I went and did something for a few minutes and thought she was out

Did you a favour!🤮

If your dog stole a whole cooked chicken, or roast beef, did you let them have it, or some?.

My cat opened a frozen pack of mince and licked it. I think we had fish fingers that night.

My late cat stole chip shop chips.

Last year my kitten knocked off a pack of pastries with three left. When I got home the lid had flipped back shut on the floor and there was one left. I binned it and watched my dog like a hawk as they had had chocolate and raisins in them.

One of our old cats licked all the coconut buttercream off a cake that had made. DD never did get a piece as it all went in the bin after that discovery. Second cat fished out sausages out of the casserole left cooling (stupidly uncovered) on the side. We found paw prints and a half eaten sausage on the floor. Think the same one also stole cooked chicken portions that had been wrapped in foil and left to cool as we found a trail of foil and chicken around the house. We now secure it in the microwave!!
Current cat has a habit of trying to steal food off our plates. She'll sit up at the table on a spare chair and the paw comes out. She gets rewarded by the DCs though 🙄. She's also stolen ham, icecream and is rather partial to coffee buttercream.

Used to have a beautiful walking dustbin called Queenie, a long coated black retriever ex guide dog....she was ex guide dog because she used to drag Steve, her visually impaired person, across the road, over garden walls etc to seek and destroy bags of chips, partially chewed burgers, kebabs, chocolate bars, sandwiches, lollies, biscuits , cake, doughnuts etc etc...how he survived I don't know...she was anyone's for a biccie...

I've had plenty of cat and dog thefts of food.
My cat once climbed into a visiting friend's car and stole her uncooked sausages. She'd left the window a tiny bit open.
Another cat stole the still frozen fish fillets my mum had left to defrost on top of the tall fridge.
We had a cat who like to eat a particular french cake called a Quatre Quarts (4 quarters) so we called it Cat Cake.
Our springer spaniel stole the remains of a leg of venison off our dining table where we'd left it to cool down after the meal.
Same dog once age my freshly cooked flapjacks that I'd left to cool in the tray I'd cooked them in on the work top. Only the corners were left as he obviously couldn't get them out.
My husband was slicing mozarella on the worktop once, turned to do something on the other worktop and when he turned back all the mozarella had vanished. Two collies looking innocent.
We had a cat who could open the fridge (the one who liked Cat Cake) and she once opened it for the dog who gave our nice piece of beef a chew at one end. We cut the chewed end off and ate it anyway, and put a child lock on the fridge.
A border collie of ours stole just cooked roast potatoes out of the oven tray the moment they came out of the oven.
Another springer spaniel once helped herself to a whole bag of dog treats - never let that happen as it gives them severe diarrhoea.
Then we had a dog who helped herself to the crayfish shells in the bin which fermented in her tummy and were productive from both ends.
Another border collie decided light bulbs would be tasty. Surprisingly no ill effects from that one.
Our small dog once helped himself to a hot cross bun from the bin which cost us a lot of money at the vet as they're not supposed to eat raisins/grapes.
And as a finale, we looked after our son's spaniel cross who proceeded to eat his entire plastic dog bed, leaving bits of it in his poo along the lane where we walked him. Right down to a circle the size of a saucer.

My lurcher was feeling more decisive than usual last Christmas, stole and wolfed down a whole tray of home made pigs in blankets. He looked so innocent my mums spaniel got the blame. We knew it was him later from the farts!!!

One of my cats will eat absolutely any food left out. At Christmas I left the wax of a truckle of cheese on the kitchen side, ate my cheese and crackers in the other room for a few minutes and by the time I went back in he’d eaten cheese wax. He was sat licking his lips.

My mums cat got up in the middle of the night onto the supposedly impossible to reach shelf about a foot from the kitchen ceiling, that’s where the dreamies (aka cat crack) are stored. She knocked it to the floor and stuffed her face. And then threw up everywhere first thing as my DM came down in the morning

Omg and my greyhound used to be an absolute whizz at shredding potatoes - I often used to think I could hire him out to prep potatoes for rostis

Our brown Labrador has stolen and eaten an impressive list of food - steak, salmon steaks, butter, bread, a raspberry turnover, an angler’s sandwich, and a mars bar, to name but a few.

Her most meritorious theft was a whole box of Fortnum and Mason chocolate Neapolitans that we had bought as a Christmas treat.

Funniest was a bag of flour - she got it on the lawn and started eating it - but flour + dog slobber = glue, and her face as she tried to swallow mouthfuls of glue was hilarious!

I forgot one - she also got into the cupboard where we stored the big bag of her food, and ate 4.5kg of dry dog food. She only stopped because she was so full she needed to throw up, and was quite miffed that we didn’t let her carry on eating.

She looked like a brown, furry barrel on legs, and we didn’t feed her for days!

My dogs ate a whole tin of celebrations including the wrappers, but they left the bounties. Everyone leaves the bounties.

The dogs are good as gold, I can leave anything in reach and leave the room and they won't touch it. I spent a lot of time reinforcing it as I spend so much time at work dealing with dogs that have eaten things they shouldn't with not always good outcomes. The cats on the other hand are a law unto themselves - they'll lick butter if it's left out, will try to mug you if you have a tuna sandwich, and one of them once ran off with a frozen garlic baguette (still in the wrapper), took it up onto their cat tree and growled ferociously at anyone, human, feline or canine, that tried to come near his prize

Our dog will steal off the cat. Once the cat brought in a live mouse and quick as a flash the dog caught the mouse in her mouth and swallowed it whole. She had a bit of a problem with the tail and we could see it hanging out of her mouth as she tried to swallow it!

Our dog is too scared of CatBastard to steal from him. CB, on the other hand, was once found in the dog’s food (it was in an open cake box, on top of the microwave), knee deep in kibble, eating around himself, with the world’s smuggest expression on his furry face, whilst the poor dog looked on in absolute horror!

When my dog was a puppy he stole a sausage from DH’s plate, which was hilarious. Then a few weeks later he stole an entire sirloin steak from mine. I did not laugh so hard at that

He is almost 7 now and hasn’t done anything like that for years - until now! He is on a course of steroids and antibiotics, which is making him thirsty and ravenous. Yesterday I lifted my ham and coleslaw sandwich to my mouth and he leaned in and ate the corner of it 😂

My old dog ate a tub of quality street one Christmas complete with wrappers.
Our garden sparkled for weeks afterwards.

A few years ago I baked oatmeal biscuits for the primary school cake sale. I left them in a box on the kitchen table, my dog is a dwarf breed with tiny legs who can't jump or climb but he managed it during the night. He looked pregnant he was so stuffed full. He has a special diet because of sensitivity to grains and dairy, the farting was the worst thing I ever hope to smell and went on for DAYS.

When I was a child our cat managed to get into the pantry on 23rd Dec and take a big chunk out of the side of the turkey. My Mum nearly went into meltdown as we were hosting about 14 people for Christmas day.

We had a Weimaraner who was the king of this. He could absolutely not be trusted around food. He used to love a Sunday morning walk through town hoovering up takeaway spring rolls off the ground.

My parents keep their butter out of the fridge during the day and he got the butter a few times (1kg tubs as well) made himself really ill. At night we darent leave any boxes of chocolate out as they’d be gone in the morning with all the wrappers scattered around. He used to get in to the bin and drag containers out, he was insatiable.

A couple of times when I was walking him he put his head in a hedge and came out with a pie or a piece of Flapjack or a Mars Bar. It was like he had a food radar. Once he picked up the best part of a jumbo sausage and I told him very firmly ‘drop it’ and he swallowed it down in one rather than give it up .

My Dad used to take him fell walking and they had a club called the Stupid Club which was for everyone who had ever had food stolen off them by our Dog. It never took newcomers very long to join the club!

Another time he took a sausage out of a little boy’s hands while my dad was walking him. My and was absolutely mortified and cut his walk short as punishment!

My dog doesn’t steal food straight from me, but he does wait for his first opportunity as soon as he thinks I’m not paying attention to food on the side, or if I leave the room, and of course he doesn’t need to steal from DS as DS just shares anyway 🙄
My old dog was the worst though, she was a large dog so could reach up on the kitchen side, which everyone seemed to forget when they left things out and she’d demolish it within moments. The best was when my stepdad left out an expensive steak to rest before cooking; he was bleating on and on about this steak he couldn’t wait to eat, and chatting on about how to cook a steak to perfection (he has it well done every time 🤦🏻‍♀️), only to return to the kitchen and find the steak gone and the plate licked clean so it looked as though there’d never been one in the first place 😂😂

Our cat once made himself very ill indeed by eating half a pound of butter that was softening (for baking purposes) on a high shelf in the kitchen.

The other cat stole 3 tins of DH's beer once. Managed to get the plastic ring holder thing round his leg and dragged it into his cat-bed. DH had been looking for ages and found it there. He was outraged, I was 😂😂😂

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Our cat is a thief too.

She has no shame and will swipe food from plates and counters, sometimes she sits next to you and pulls your food holding hand towards her mouth with her claws 😂

Her strangest one was when we used to keep chickens, we had a trough of oats outside and were amazed that three chickens could get through them so fast, then one day I looked out the window and saw our cat balanced on the trough eating them all!

We had to put a child lock on our fridge because our neighburs cat would frequently manage to open it and steal food from in there. (sliced meat, the leftovers of a cooked chicken etc) our cats never managed to open the fridge, but they'd join in with the feasting, after chasing the cat away. The cat never managed to open my neighbours fridge... just ours.

Our cats used to bring us things they'd found in the bins. They didn't eat them, they just left us them as gifts... a bag of mince that had gone off... or a pork steak that my husband had left on the side while he went to answer the phone, cat jumped on the side and got the steak, husband found it on the floor, put it in the outside bin, half an hour later found it back on the kitchen floor!

I've just walked into the kitchen to find some melon skin with a huge chunk out of it. Dcat claims it wasn't him.....