Have your pets ever stolen any food they really shouldn't have, e.g. a roast chicken, a bag of flour ?

[WildRosie]

Our dogs generally only ate what was given to them; I concede there were some less than healthy titbits like cheese and chocolate. One Christmas, one of our spaniels decided to help herself to a box of chocolates that was wrapped up under the Christmas tree. What she didn't know that these particular chocs were the liqueur variety and she was decidedly off-colour the next day. Served her right, naughty pooch! These days, such an event would likely mean a trip to the vet for a stomach pump and other horrid things. But she lived another twelve years and didn't pinch anything ever again.

Years ago when our now fat, old cat was still skinny and had not been with us long having been stray he was a brilliant hunter of both alive and dead things.

DH and I had agreed to put up a chap overnight who was performing at a function we were attending. Never before or since have we hosted a stranger. We didn't realise that he had been to an artisan market on the way to us and purchased a large chorizo. Had we known I would have closed the door of the guest bedroom.

Cat was fine, we were mortified, guest was not happy.

My two little terriers are a nightmare for this. One has eaten several pencils and munched my safety razor which obviously looked like a tasty (if slightly dangerous) snack! Also several advent calendars and a whole bowl of minced meat and cheese. I didn't realise one dog had figured out how to jump up on a chair to access the table.
Worst was when we on holiday, I looked down and one of the dogs had an ice cream cornet in her mouth some poor child was probably crying about the horrid dog that had stolen her ice cream! Walking stomachs, the pair of them.

After promising I wouldn't pick at the half roast chicken that DP was going to use for the next day's curry, it was left in the kitchen. 10 mins later DP asked what I had done with it . We went in the garden and sat, looking really pissed off that she'd been caught, with our chicken was one of the neighbourhood cats! Bastard! She scarpered and left the bird that we didn't want anymore!

My brother’s cat is a thug. She’s massive, and has a very ladylike name which jarrs with the fact that she bites you for nothing, and brought in a warm joint of beef she had liberated from somewhere, and next door’s Guineapig, still alive, and was roughing it up in the dining room.

And my razor snaffling dog is obviously a kindred spirit of Sagaris's beagle! I am impressed by his tin of beans

Yeah my Border Collie got onto the worktop and grabbed a hefty leg of lamb that had been taken out of the fridge.

We had a cat when I was a teen that jumped through the kitchen window with a jumbo battered sausage from the fish shop. I can only think he stole it off someone's plate

One of our cats regularly steals unopened pouches of Whiskas from somewhere - carries them home in his mouth and then sneaks them into the downstairs loo, rips them open and eats the contents while we're out.

I feel a bad but have no idea where he's getting them from (and have checked with all the neighbours). They are all either 7+ or 11+ so there's some poor older cat somewhere nearby going hungry 😕

We came into the living room last night to find DCat nibbling the pastry on Father Christmas' mince pie. She is a terror for helping herself given the chance, so we are very careful with what we leave out normally. Her cheekiest steal was a piece of KFC chicken stolen from under my elbow. She was a kitten still then, and we managed to get it back before she got anywhere near the bone thankfully! It was after that that security was tightened. These days she has to make do with licking any plates left waiting to be washed up. She knows she isn't allowed on the worktops, so waits until we are well out of the way, although I do occasionally come into the kitchen to see a furry bum sticking up from the sink!

My old cat once spent a happy Christmas eve swiping the bacon, and only the bacon, from the pigs in blankets. He had previously stolen an Mr Kipling apple pie and whole iceberg lettuce.
My mum's first dog once drank/lapped up a glass of Bailey's. The dog then tattered across the living room.0p

My grandmother’s cat once came home dragging a koi carp nearly the same size as himself. He had a feast. My gran was horrified.

We had a rat stupid Rotty once. Like absurdly backwards to the point he would occasionally run into the wall without even noticing it was there. Hood eyes pointed in different directions and he was adorable but vacant. Once, just after we rescued him he stole a bowl of cereal off the Worktop. Spilled the lot and the bowl broke in half..... e we find him gnawing the bowl while the cereal and milk lay next to it. Then over Christmas I was doing mini sausage rolls. Taking one out of the over and over fell off the edge of the tray. He wolfed it down, vomited it instantly, ate it and puked it again. This carried on until I could chase him away with the brush and dust pan 🤢. Another time id took a frozen breast of lamb out the freezer and soaked it in a sink full of cold water to surf up the defrost. Thirty seconds B I was out of the room and I heard him choking. He's eaten the plastic bag that he had pulled from the still frozen lamb . Another time I couldn't find my work keys and I just knew it was him. Went to the vet and they told me not to be silly. I insisted on paying for a X-ray and they made me sign a waiver saying I couldn't get a refund and they didn't recommend it. They found my keys in his stomach along with a collection of plastic toys and a part of a cat collar (?!) in his intestines.

That dog was adored but he was exhausting and very very expensive.

Our old cat once sauntered in with an entire cooked chicken leg off someone's bbq

We had a cat that came running in with a freshly roasted leg of lamb one Sunday lunchtime. My Mum gave it a rinse and we had it for lunch. Another cat ate an entire fillet of beef that had been left out to defrost. She kept sicking it up but carried on until the only thing left were regurgitated piles of beef.

One year my DM thought that the turkey would could safely be defrosted overnight on top of the tall freezer where it would be out of reach of the cat. She was wrong.

A family Labrador ate an entire plate of mince pies once.

Our cat, when I was a kid, stole the neighbours' soon-to-be-roast chicken, which was thawing/resting/whatever, in their utility room with the back door open. Bloody twat cat brought it to ours over the fence! MORTIFYING.

Current Cat would die in a warzone/nuclear apocalypse, as completely refuses to eat any human food. Not interested in fish, even tuna. If it doesn't come in a highly-processed cat kibble then he's not interested. Much to my surprise, he's developed a taste for raw chicken in recent months, including a very out of character act of blatant thievery when my back was turned for 5 seconds when preparing dinner. He now knows I'm cooking chicken for dinner, even before I've made the final decision myself.

Stupidly left a new bag of cat biscuits in the kitchen instead of putting them in the cupboard. Three of my cats worked together to open the bag and I caught them finishing off the contents...

From neighbours house: their meatloaf (they did use to entertain dog with treats so.....) from other neighbours their cat Food cans...opened their cupboard.... again they liked to put their leftovers in the garden?! Dog food tins from campers, actually munched through them ....survived with a few cuts to mouth that didn’t put him up or down. Sausages from a beach bbq. Tray of cakes for a cafe, the cake makers sandwich (that made her mad) again she had been encouraging him with titbits!

Basically he was a pretty silly dog but come to food he could find it anywhere and was an awful thief!

We never left food out but if someone dogsat him he’d always manage to steal something they forgot to place safely!

He could spend hours looking woefully at the door waiting for it to open so he could finish off any of the cat food outside!

@WildRosie

Some stupid animal will one day glue their jaws together when they are clueless enough to steal flour.

I actually had a pet raccoon that found a tube of superglue in a handbag when he was looking to steal sweets. He literally chewed the bottle up but thankfully after many vets calls it turned it out wasn't the sort that would stick to mucous membranes. Thank good. Again, loved him but bat shit crazy what some animals will do. I also had a pet tortoise that was addicted to trying to eat oboes so big they would barely fit in his mouth. His habit eventually killed him. I've also had foster dogs that would eat through tins given the chance. It's amazing what an animal that has been denied access to food will do

Yes I got DD a giant personalised cookie with a printed picture for birthday and the cat licked half of it off when I had put it out to display in the kitchen before she even saw it, I called the cat many bad names, not that he understood or cared.

I had a whippet who stole and ate all the chocolate coins from a stocking. I knew it was her due to the foil wrapping in her vomit. Replaced coins and she bloody did it again (the thievery of that dog was amazing)

Anyway she didn't get the memo about it being poisonous as she was fine too.

I was eating a dinner on a coffee table once and before I knew it, my old cat went up on his hind legs and took the whole piece of steak from my plate in his mouth and ran off down the hallway.

Once took 4 chicken breasts out to defrost in the morning. Came to cook and there were only 3? Searched everywhere and ended up convincing myself I just have only taken 3 out after all.

Found the remnants secreted in the cats bed 2 days later.

Yep, our cocker, Charlie, snaffled a kilo of very expensive beef fillet one Christmas morning. We briefly debated having Charlie en croute...

We recently got a new rescue cat. On the first night I woke up to a bump and found the cat munching his way through a lovely fresh loaf of tiger bread. We still have to make sure everything is stashed away. ...