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.

When I was little, our game little mongrel came running into the house wielding a joint of beef, with the angry next door neighbours in hot pursuit 😳

It being a poor area of Yorkshire in the 1970's, my mum apologised profusely, the joint was wiped down, and the neighbours had their Sunday dinner!

We have a lurcher cross so theft is a daily activity. Worst was half the cheese board before guests came, though she once stole the left over beef roast (though got caught out when waiting at the back door with it to take to bury in the garden).

My cat is a fiend. He loves yeast and has stolen a packet of that before. We once thought we had a rat because something was chewing into ramen packets... it turns out that was him too and he was getting in the cupboard through a hole in the top. He has also swiped broccoli from our plates before and run off with it at close to the speed of light.

My cat would have tugged the turkey from my sandwich earlier if I hadn't been noticed his evil intentions - he was later given some shredded leftover turkey for his tea, but that sandwich was MINE, dammit!!

One of my mum's dogs ate a massive bag of mealworms. She was fine, but her farts were evil

My mums dog will eat lettuce if you throw it to him.

He is a very strange dog.

One of my Labs ate all the celebrations one year but left the bounty's. This lab wasn't a stealer, the chocolates had been at nose height for weeks.

Another lab ate a whole tub of chicken liver pate.

Same lab stole a baguette from a strangers shopping trolley at a food festival.

We have to be very careful about not leaving the cheeses too close to the edge of the worktop. Our cocker spaniel has stolen the whole block on a couple of occasions.

Good old spaniels and labradors. Buggers.

Things our 2 DCats have stolen (they work together)

• 1.5kg of semi defrosted ham
• A bit of practically every roast we've ever made, always while trying to clear the table
• Cooked chicken leg from someone else's picnic/kitchen
• Sweetcorn in a bowl ready to top pizza
• Peas off my plate swiped with a paw
• 5 bread rolls from neighbours
• Endless recycling

They like to hide their loot under our bed, except for the bread, they couldn't get that in through the cat flap so we found it on the patio.

My dog did a whole box of Lindor including wrappers one Christmas. She left one half wrapper on the sofa which was the giveaway.

She also once swiped an entire sausage and bacon baguette (one of those part baked ones for size). I was having leisurely breakfast on the sofa, she was in a completely different room. Bit of a noise in the street so put it on the arm of the sofa to curtain twitch a whole 3 steps away and with my back turned she’s appeared, got on the sofa and had the whole thing in her mouth like a bone. She was a little unpopular for that, especially as a Type 1 I had to rustle up something else with the equivalent carbs PDQ.

Thankfully as a big old beast she could cope with a reasonable dose of human food.

Friends Malamute also did half a chocolate cake off the dinner table once. Sneaky beings dogs!!

Our old pet rabbit once held up a jewellers and stole 24 carats.

When my mum was in her 20s she lived in a flat by herself, her dog and budgie. She worked factory shifts. Before her shift she bought herself a piece of steak and left it on top of the cooker for when she got in. The lab jumped up for the steak and turned the hobs on. The cooker caught fire. Luckily her neighbours saw and called the fire brigade but the dog wouldn't let them in so someone had to call my gran who had a spare key to let the firemen in. She made the local paper 'firemen save dog and budgerigar ' 😂

My family spaniel when I was a teen stole and ate a packet of raw risotto rice. Boy did he regret that - his tummy blew up and and he was very uncomfortable for a few hours. He was not blessed in the brains department.

When a pup, the dog had a play date with a friend's pug puppy.

It went awfully quiet and on investigation my pup being about 6 inches taller than his friend was able to reach a new pack of Baker's dog biscuits and between them they had eaten the entire box.

Pooper scooping the next day was not nice.

Yes! Too many times to count. We used to have 2 border terriers and the youngest one was a total food theif. During her 14 years she ate....

1. Licked the whole sugar bowl clean from the kitchen table
2. Staying with friends and she got on the kitchen table and ate the remainder if beef fillet, the butter from the dish and the camembert. A bad stomach the next day as expected but totally chuffed with herself
3. A packet of sugar coated ibuprofen :( needless to say she ended up in the vet on a drip for 1 week where we prepared for the worst but she pulled through eventually.

After the ibuprofen we learnt we could never leave anything on a kitchen table again. Lessons learnt.

2 spaniels now and touch wood they're not as adventurous in the kitchen!

The door from my dining room into the lounge used to be one of those you pushed shut but only had a knob not a handle iyswim. We used to shut the dogs out of there overnight so thought nothing of it when we left the presents under the Christmas tree and went to bed.

My then guide dog pushed open the door with his nose and ate two boxes of Belgium chocolate seashells. fortunately as they were milk chocolate they did him no harm, but he did go to the vets to make him be sick.

My current guide dog apparently ate an entire banana bread when he was in training. However, twice now he’s picked things up, once in the pet shop he picked up a rice bone and carried it with us to the till. There wasn’t a mark on it and he just gave it to me when I told him to drop it, I paid for it and he had it later. And the other day he picked up a mince pie off the plate on the coffee table. It was mangled only because where he’d had it in his mouth the pastry was soggy, but it was entirely in tact, and again, he gave it up without any fuss.

My childhood cat once nabbed a kipper from under an eye level gas grill. We were alerted to the crime by the stench of singed fire. Next cat loved sugar and ate a large piece of the side of a child’s birthday cake. I had to trim it from round to hexagon to hide the bite marks

Our cat came back with a sandwich in a sealed sandwich bag. Managed to climb over the fence with it! There were some workmen working just up the road, so we suspect they left their lunch out.

My friend once had her entire lunch stolen from her bag by a clients' badly behaved guide dog.

I've enjoyed this thread. Thankyou for all the stories.