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.

Two fillet steaks. I was not impressed

Our old lab once helped himself to two packets of 'fat balls' intended for the bird tables. That was not a happy sight the next morning 🤢

A tray of frozen cocktail sausage rolls which I had baked and left to cool disappeared down the dog's throat in the time it took me to put the rubbish in the outside bin.
A guilty looking dog sat licking his chops told me where the banoffi pie went.
A trail of grease across the kitchen floor, along the patio and down the garden found a joint of beef which had been resting and a dog that looked pissed off at being caught.
A cat that turned into a seagull and swiped my cod from my fish and chips which I was eating from the paper on my knee.

Two terriers. Half a big pack of dried pasta ( ouch )
Terribly unwell for around three days but recovered.
One terrier the whole of the top layer of a big tin of chocolate biscuits one Christmas. Went quite mad and almost delirious but fortunately started vomiting pretty quickly. The vet had to sedate him and he recovered by the following day.
One terrier ate a Mole which she promptly threw up. That was gross

Rubber washing up gloves, marmite, tomato puree, sugar puffs, chocolate spread, uncooked pasta.

The dog has issues and our cupboards were fancy open shelving.

My beagle caught and ate a rabbit on a walk once - I was secretly quite impressed

In the house - quality street, half a loaf of bread, croissants, toast, half a pack of those chocolate marshmallow tea cakes, some chocolate out of a selection box, Baileys from a glass, trifle out of DH's bowl...

The cats are also prone to it - one will lick butter straight from the tub and the others like milk, mayonnaise and bacon!

Anyone would think these animals don't ever get fed by their owners.

I was unknowingly sharing my coffee with my Shih Tzu for a good 6 months before I realised he was drinking a good quarter from my mug when I left the room 😖

Our old dog once scoffed half a box of Black Magic, and then threw it all up. That was fun! 😩

This was a former dog, but I once left a dish of leftover roast chicken on a kitchen table (as I thought) out of reach, while I nipped to the shop for onions.
Came back, couldn’t find the dish of chicken anywhere. Thought I was going mad, had put it in the oven by mistake, etc. - until I spotted former dog hiding under the table with a very shamefaced expression, and a beautifully licked-clean dish beside him.

But he was a lovely boy, RIP long ago now. ❤️

Another one - years ago I had a rescue cat, a tabby, he was a very well behaved boy! Until one Boxing Day, he came back after his afternoon walk with a complete cooked salmon, a huge thing! I asked the neighbours if it was theirs, so I could try and make amends - none of them had lost one. I have no idea where he got it from, but I'm guessing there were some hungry lunch guests somewhere fairly close by!

Sister's dog grabbed and ate a Babybel wax wrapper the very first time I looked after him...I've never had a dog, cue frantic googling to find out if I should take him to a vet. He was fine, it re-appeared 2 days later the exact same red as it went in Which was another shock in itself because my brain jumped straight to 'omg is that blood?!'

When my now almost ten year old dog was a five month old puppy she managed to open a small floor level fridge in my old house. While I was out.
Upon my return it transpired she had eaten a whole block of cheese, a whole cucumber, most of a tub of lurpak, a packet of ham and an entire punnet of raspberries the latter which were still obvious around her muzzle and teeth

She was absolutely fine if a little full

My cat has helped herself to:-
A frankfurter sausage
A whole tin of tuna
A raw, defrosting chicken breast
Liver and bacon
Green olives in brine

Cat- a huge bowl of raw lovingly hand deshelled king prawns, I literally left the kitchen for a few minutes to answer the door to guests, and a whole pork fillet wrapped in prosciutto and stuffed with mushrooms that I'd made and was waiting for the oven to come up to temp, went to empty the bin, came back to the cat dragging it around the kitchen floor gnawing at it. He's a dick.

Oh and the day we got him he lunged at DH and tried to steal a tuna roll en route from plate to mouth

Left a new loaf of bread out and our cat decided to bite through the packaging and eat some. He'll try anything.

Cats of mine regularly would lick butter if given a second’s chance. Also any and all cheese including blue. One adored pasta sauces particularly if very garlicky. If plate was ever left for a moment there would be attempts or, many times, successes.

I have a little toy poodle who is a total scavenger/thief. Mainly he gets left overs from the bin. He knows how to open it so we now use bulldog clips to keep it shut.
The worst thing he ate was some chewing gum which required a trip to the emergency vets - although luckily I intercepted that one fairly quickly. Lots of strawberry scented vomit.
He broke into a pack of posh chocolates and ate about 10 of them one night whilst we were asleep. He left the white ones though.
He didn’t steal it - but one of the funniest things he did lately was get his bone and take it up to my mums bed - eating it on my bolshy pompous step fathers side and leaving the scraggy bone under his pillow. Who’s a good boy then?

Dogs are thieves, expect it, they can't help it. Various boxes of chocolates, friends' school bags in which they've neglectfully left the remains of their lunch, a large M&S apricot tart, half pound of butter, couple of steaks and, last week, a large panettone. Just the past year, the whole catalogue of thievery is too lengthy to note. The best account of dog thievery I have ever seen was a letter to the Telegraph from Lord So and So. His dinner table had been laid for guests early in the day with quantities of silver and crystal and included a whole Stilton on a silver salver with a silver dome over the top. When the dome was lifted to reveal the impressive cheese at the end of the meal, the Stilton was mysteriously minus a couple of inches of its crust all the way round. And the family whippet was cowering in a very guilty manner under the sideboard. It had had most of the day to carry out its skulduggery, nosing the dome up without dislodging it at all. Dogs!

@DebbieHarrysCheekbones

When my now almost ten year old dog was a five month old puppy she managed to open a small floor level fridge in my old house. While I was out. Upon my return it transpired she had eaten a whole block of cheese, a whole cucumber, most of a tub of lurpak, a packet of ham and an entire punnet of raspberries the latter which were still obvious around her muzzle and teeth

She was absolutely fine if a little full

Your dog is the very hungry caterpillar 😂😂

Yes, ddog isa greedy bastard. I'm sure that labs have no idea when they're full up and he would steal the milk out of your tea if he could. We have to be very careful but he still catches us out sometimes.

PIL's Bassett once ate a whole home made booze filled Christmas pudding on Christmas Eve, after a dash to the vet he was fine having vomited, he spent Christmas Day lounging around groaning, drinking copious amounts of water, and lying down with a paw dramatically draped over his face, then tried to swipe left over ham from the evening buffet table!

Our cat is a greedy beast. He's stolen various things which you wouldn't think cats would like: roast potato, almond croissant, the corners of some waffles still in the packets bread. The only food safe is the fruit bowl everything else has to be shut away.
He isn't overweight as we measure his food but he would eat twice as much and become overweight!

Looking at many of these posts, I think we got off very lightly in the pet food-theft stakes. I've no doubt our spaniels would have rated stolen roast ham and beef far more highly than Pedigree Chum but they either didn't get the opportunity or were too well-behaved. I hope it was the latter. Incidentally, we had a few cats too but I don't remember them pinching anything. Obviously happy with Kitekat, or whatever it was called.

We had some Christmas presents arrive a couple of weeks back and they were in multi parts. We have a large courtyard where vehicles pull up. One by one, I watched the delivery driver carry these items up to the front door. As he turned his back on his van, I spotted our two Labradors jump up inside and then carry out a very large Fortnum & Mason hamper which they manage to hide just behind their kennels.