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.

Ah, you haven't lived till you've seen your cat dragging the chicken you would be cooking for lunch across your rain sodden garden. As your invited in laws look on bewildered. Cheers

Oh, another one. Our old black and white cat died last year but we found some empty miniature bottles of whisky hidden behind the cat litter boxes.

Labradors eh? Definitely pays to have a posh dog. Excellent taste. They'd probably have ignored an Iceland delivery.

An almost full box of after eights that dh left in the sofa by accident when he went to bed. I was greeted with a pile of black vomit under the dining table. Thankfully she was ok.

Another time she stole half his roast beef and horseradish sandwich which he out on the table almost in the middle. She has never done that before or since. Well, she has, but food not left out of reach.

My Labrador is naughty she sits beautifully looking like butter wouldn’t melt but turn your back and she’ll pinch a pack of something of the bunker and run away. Sometimes I only realise when I find the packaging. She doesn’t really care about her biscuits much prefers people food despite my best efforts.

@SpookyScarySkeletons
“Your dog is the very hungry caterpillar 😂😂”

Love it 😂

At a friend's house one afternoon, in her big tiled kitchen. Her cat comes racing in through the open back door, a small rotisserie chicken in her jaws, tailed by two other cats and a jack russel. The whole menagerie is barking/mewing/hissing - fur flying, running and skidding about, the other animals trying to wrest the prize from my friend's cat's mouth.

We eventually heard from neighbours (owner of the jack russel) that the little parade had run the length of the road a few times before ending up at my friend's.

Friend was finding grease smudges around the kitchen for weeks.

We got a rescue dog when I was a child who had an iron stomach. A sample of what he ate: a whole roast chicken just taken out of the oven, a 12 pack of Cadbury crème eggs, foil and all (was on a high shelf don't know how he managed it), and about two pounds of sugar. It must be from when he was on the streets starving that he would eat like that. He never begged at table or anything, but you could not leave food out anywhere. No ill effects from any of his misdeeds!

Whole box of Thornton's as a young dog, called vet who don't worry as a medium dog and there's not enough cocoa in Thornton's classic selection to worry about (tells you something about so called chocolates!)

Yes my cat jumped up on to the table and stole a lamb chop off my plate

She was so quick it all happened before I realised what was going on

I was upset but had to admire her agility and style

I went to take it off her (not to eat) and she growled at me. The one and only time

If I leave the lid off the butter dish my cat will help himself

Recently ds was eating very buttery crumpets the cat jumped up shoved his hand out of the way and helped himself

He was always polite and would do his cute look and wait now in his old age he no longer feels he needs to be polite

@WildRosie

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

Mine would have you believe that

When he was a puppy my Labrador ate all the courgettes in my mums greenhouse

Not food as such, but over the course of a week, our long departed cat raided a neighbours pond of all their Koi carp. Each morning we’d come down to a fish on the back door mat. 8 of them.

Many years ago, when preparing a Sunday roast, I whisked up a Yorkshire pudding batter, and left it to one side ready to go into the oven when the time came. Turned around later to see my little tabby cat with her head deep into the bowl finishing the whole lot off. Amazingly she suffered no ill effects.
I do miss that naughty little kitty.

I don't have any real pets, but my one of my Playmobil families has a naughty dog called Apollo who is always snaffling sausages!

My parents Labrador-Retriever would take bites out of cabbages and carrots that were growing in their garden. Occasionally she'd sample the potatoes too.

And occasionally ice cream!

I was cooking pork chops on a barbecue in a field and a huge seagul ran over and pinched one and ran away with it.

My Labrador ran into my aunts house, jumped on the kitchen side and legged it with a huge cooked gammon joint.
Her lab ate a cooked leg of lamb on her bed. Made an awful greasy mess.

Good job we love our animals.

When my parents' lab was about two he was running off lead across a field, his recall was usually pretty good, but he suddenly shot off into the trees/bushes, thinking he'd gone after an animal of some kind we ran after him to find him nose deep in an abandoned picnic bag wolfing down iced buns, he must've sniffed them from a good few hundred metres away

We used to have two spaniels and they'd empty the kitchen bin at any opportunity (had to keep it shut inside a cupboard). One of them also ate half a huge birthday cake - it was a rich iced fruit cake and we had no idea dried fruit was bad for dogs. She had the runs but no lasting effects.

Yep today dog, pinched ds’s pasta

Mum's late greyhound was a food thief of spectacular means... On various different occasions he ate three quarters of a simnel cake including the disciples, six bird fat balls, mince pies, he smashed a bottle of wine to get to and eat a box of chocolates, he ate my sisters muesli while she had gone to the loo, took my nieces empty bowl of soup to his bed and licked it out.. One afternoon he had been sniffing in the garden after his dinner and after our gardener had been strimming. The next morning we took the dogs for a walk after breakfast. We got back and he lay on his bed and started retching... Mum panicked. He suddenly went BOAAAAK and he vomited something that bounced across the floor... Mum panicked and told he he'd swallowed a battery.. She picked it up and squeezed it... It wasnt a battery it was a wine cork and he'd found it after the strimming...

A whole freshly baked loaf of bread.