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.

The rescue greyhound stole a Xmas cake and ate it. Dm just couldn't get her head around how far into the counter the pointy theif could reach!! She was v sick!

My bulldog ate santas cookies yesterday, the rat.

Dog ate a tub of lurpack. Didn’t take long to vomit that up everywhere 🤢
Same dog ate a green glittery (salt dough I assume) star that was made at nursery for the Xmas tree. Glittery poo for days 🤣✨

Yes I cooked a lasagna put it on the side and she managed to jump up and eat the lot

Bah I am on call tonight and tomorrow and am bracing myself for all the chocolate eaters, tinsel eaters, whole turkey carcase eaters and the pancreatitis-s due to eating a load of general crap.

I made a dog vomit a few weekends ago that the owner thought may have eaten rat poison. Well it puked up every type of material- chunks of wood, plastic, tinfoil, paper, grass, stones, dog food, human food- but no rat poison.

My terrier was caught on the dining table having finished off a whole chocolate gateaux and then couldn’t get down so stood there looking extremely guilty! Strangely he had no ill effects from it!

He’s also eaten a whole batch of iced biscuits that my dd had left to set but managed to get himself back off the table that time!

My old cat once arrived home with a whole slice of toast and jam. It was still warm.

My cat once stole and ate a whole cooked ham from someone, came home and threw it all up (including elasticated netting stuff) in an awkward corner.

The next day he had some string coming out of his bottom 🤢, forgetting it was elasticated I pulled it, it stretched and twanged him on the bottom, poor boy!

One of my cats stole a pack of sausages, which once she'd opened it they were all joined so she was running around the house with a string of sausages like a greedy cartoon character.

Baked bean can eating beagle also caused another domestic incident! He ate a packet of butter out of the butter dish one bank holiday. DH decided to pop to the shops and get some more - on the way there an articulated lorry drove into his car and wrote it off!

My friends cat ate the chicken that was defrosting in the kitchen for Sunday dinner. We ended up with a takeaway instead.
And my chihuahua ate half an easter egg with no ill repercussions. I wasn't best pleased...

Our long ago dog ate an entire turkey carcass I had boiled to make stock. I was horrified and very worried. The vet said feed her rice and hamburger for a few days. Thankfully it had been boiled for ages, so it was soft.

Same little devil ate almost a whole tray of cheese, crackers and meats put out for the guests we were greeting at the door. Scarfed it down off the tray on the coffee table.

It was just far too tempting.

Our son's current absolutely huge dog ate almost a whole angel food cake.

They can be so fast and so sneaky.

When we took on our Dalmatian, we didn’t realise she could open oven doors . Until we saw her disappearing across the patio with a pretty much done roasting chicken in her jaws , wings akimbo . She ran into our field and we had egg salad for dinner .

Same dog used to lay behind you when cooking , but she was like a ninja , and would sneak up and then flump to the ground like a comatose sausage , so you would trip over her . One Christmas she did it just as I had got the turkey out of the oven , turned round and fell over her . This catapulted the turkey out of the tray and aided by butter and roasting juices , it them slid the length of the hallway , pursued by not only the spotty demon , but by the clueless but enthusiastic greyhound cheerleading alongside . DH then wrestled it from her , crying “ I didn’t spend £35 to feed the fucking dog “ and we rinsed it under the tap , bunged it back in the oven for a quick blast and in-laws who were two sherries up didn’t notice a thing !

My husband text me when I was at work once saying he had decided to do a roast chicken dinner and he had left the frozen Yorkshire puddings on the side and my cat jumped up and stole one, ran off with it and ate it
My mums dog once ate a load of after eights which wasn't good, he was really sick afterwards bless him. Luckily he was ok!

Box of mince pies one Xmas eve - spent evening at emergency vets, and then had to pick them up late on Xmas day - nice big bill!

@Sagaris another beagle owner here. I was preparing a large dish of mac n cheese for visitors and she ate a quarter of it. I left a large galaxy on the coffee table having eaten a few squares, when I came back in the room there was just a bit of soggy wrapper left. Another time we were getting snacks out to watch a film and I went to get something from the kitchen and she ate a whole bowl of cheese puff crisps! She must have inhaled them! She also ate a starfish on the beach once and regularly eats fish guts 🤢 She's never sick!

We had a cat when I was young that once stole a whole leg of lamb from a neighbour who had made the unfortunate decision to leave it to rest after cooking with their kitchen window open.

The neighbours recognised the cat as ours so popped round to regale their bemusement at watching our tabby leg it across their garden and scale the garden fence - joint in jaws - all while being chased by their two dogs. Rather than being furious they actually praised our feline's endeavours, and said he deserved his reward 😂

I have three cats, two are thick as mince and one is clever. He has learned how to lift the lid off the slow cooker and helps himself to any meat cooking. He loves human food and will steal toast.

A resident pub dog I used to know could hear a crisp packet opening from anywhere in the pub, regardless of ambient noise. She would duly present herself in front or next to said patron and wait patiently. I think the vet put a stop to that as she started to get tubby.

Ddog2 had a pack of contraceptive pills once. Vet was decidedly blasé about it and said to bring him in if he sprouted boobs but otherwise he'd be find, just keep an eye on him. He also knocked a bottle of gin over on the kitchen floor and licked it up while I was in the bath. Came down to find him pissed as a fart trying to pick up his own back leg and falling over.

He's eaten hamster food plenty of times too.

Ddog1 is somewhat more mature and just looks at him from her bed with utter contempt.

My hamster somehow devoured half a Christmas tree branch! Hamsters must have a mary poppin's bag for stomachs.

Funny how spaniels crop up often here Ours was a terrible thief - chocolates, Easter eggs, jugs of milk, cream, cheese, steak from under the grill (whilst cooking - no idea how he didn't burn his nose), bacon from the frying pan (again, no burns to nose), cakes, biscuits, sandwiches from unsuspecting families picnicking on the beach . In fact you name it, he stole it/ate it. He lived a long and happy life, dying at 15, after many non foid-related escapades too. I still miss him very much. A wonderful character.

@Moonface123

My rehomed lurcher has embarrassed me beyond belief in the past. Good job l love her. Thankfully she is much better behaved now.

My wonderful lurcher came home with a freshly roasted leg of lamb. I never dared ask the neighbours (nearest ones were half a mile away) if it was theirs! She’d pinch anything, including trying to nab a red hot fruitcake I’d just turned out of the tin 😳

Oh, and one Christmas everything was out on the table for dinner when we had a call to say the cows were out. Someone DH didn’t shut the dining room door so we came back to 3 dogs finishing off the entire dinner.

One of mine can jump onto the kitchen worktop with ease so a whole chicken, various breakfasts and all sorts of other stuff.
Funniest was years ago when my sister still lived at home. Made herself a bacon & egg sarnie for breakfast. Sat down to eat it only for water to be pouring through the ceiling. She'd left the plug in the upstairs sink and it was overflowing. When she got back the dog had eaten her breakfast !!