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

@vicbarbarkley my dog does the same with any butter or margarine! I only have to turn my back for a second and she's swiped it! Marmite too interestingly...

My mum's GSD constantly noses her tomato plants, so the ripe ones fall straight into his mouth!

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 first springer caught a mouse while we were walking him, and sat there with the tail hanging out of his mouth. "Mouse, what mouse?" He also used to eat raspberries straight off the cane. You could see how high he could reach by the lack of fruit.

Our hamster.
I walked out into the hallway one evening and found our cat stalking her curiously. In horror I grabbed the cat and locked him away pleased that it hadn’t turned into a ‘bad’ situation. I went back to the hamster to find her climbing back into her cage where she proceeded to empty her pouches of bloody cat biscuits. It was clear it hadn’t been her first journey of the evening. There was pretty much a whole bowl of cat biscuits in her cage. I put it down to a one off incident (maybe I hadn’t closed the lid properly after her exercise) but two days later I found her in the kitchen again perched on the cat bowl filling up her pouches.

I sellotaped that lid down. Hamsters are actually quite intelligent and she got up to a lot of shenanigans!

Our beloved Moo was notorious for counter surfing and all manner of ingenious food theft despite the care we took to try to prevent it. One Christmas Eve night she got into a closed fridge and help herself to a raw turkey. We had gammon and a combination of donated pieces of the turkeys of others that year after I posted about her on fb (not as a campaign.. family and friends just sent some round )

She had a habit of butting closed doors with her head, she knew which ones she could force open that way and once ate 4 of my daughter’s Easter eggs and on another occasion, a whole bucket of Trick or Treat sweets and chocolate 😳

On another occasion still she got into a kitchen cupboard fixed shut with a toddler lock and gained access to her 5kg bag of dog food. I came home when she was about half way through.. thank God 😳.. and found her miserably but resolutely munching away with long snakes of poo all around her on the dining room floor where her body had been desperately trying to accommodate it all!!

Yes we sought vet advice for some of these.. and yes, you guessEd it, she was a Labrador. Also lived to a ripe old age (14 years 9 months) and God knows how! Labs apparently are genuinely lacking in the aspect of the brain that tells you when to stop eating ~possibly I may also lack that~

Current lab puppy is being training not to be such a glutton.. touch wood ..

Dog no1
Next doors roast chicken and basically anything in our house he could, edible or not.
Dog no 2
A whole birthday cake (hidden in office) 5 mins before party. You couldn't turn your back for second with this dog!
Dh's childhood dog ate a full packet of dried pasta, which then swelled in her tummy, trip to the vets needed.

All labradors which if you've ever had one you'll understand😂

Pizza. The youngest one really likes pizza. I only turned my back for 10 seconds...

Cat, this is.

My Mum's little tortoiseshell did this too, especially when she had a full milk coffee with a teaspoonful of whisky as a nightcap.😻

My cat steals milk from unguarded glasses or the milk jug by dipping in her paw and then licking her paw.

Milk is now called paw wash in our house!

My beautiful old boy who we lost a few years ago had a talent for putting his nose inches from a plate and waiting.
Here he is in action on holiday. where he could reach the table, staring at DH's dinner 😂

@SnagglePuss37 - when my mum was a girl, they had Siamese cats, and one of the stole a glass of sherry (it was left on a low table, and he drank it all). He then went upstairs for a nap, and no-one realised what he had done until later on, when he came downstairs again, still pissed.

He did alright at first, until his back end started going faster than his front end, and he tumbled end over end down to the bottom of the steps, where he picked himself up, and walked off with as much dignity as he could muster - “Me - fall downstairs? You must be mistaken!”

when my mum was a girl, they had Siamese cats, and one of the stole a glass of sherry (it was left on a low table, and he drank it all). He then went upstairs for a nap, and no-one realised what he had done until later on, when he came downstairs again, still pissed

I remember my childhood cat getting drunk one Christmas from eating a load of brandy cream!

She raced around the room utterly possessed, wide eyed then suddenly collapsed, apparently lifeless and glassy eyed, we thought she’d died until she jumped up and started racing round again.