Have your pets managed to steal any food this Christmas?

[TheTecknician]

Our dogs and cats years ago didn't usually get the opportunity but one year, one of our cocker spaniels snaffled a box of liqueur chocolates from under the Christmas tree and she scoffed the lot. I expect she suffered but lived to tell the tale (15 years old when she died). Chocolates weren't that attractive to her afterwards!

Not this year but our last dog (very clever but very small-corgi cross) used our built-in wine rack to climb up and steal the turkey resting on the work surface.

It was the first year I was hosting the ILs. I ended up serving scrambled eggs and they thought it was hilarious, bless them!

I'm not really a pet person, but Taming Twins on Instagram reposts her video every year of discovering her dog eating the ham. Highly recommended if you want something funny to watch!

Animals can be quite resourceful when there's food involved. The greater the obstacle, the higher the reward!

A pile of chopped bacon while my back was turned, which was ready to go into the stuffing.

A few years ago, my boy rag doll, who loved potatoes and gravy, got so excited at seeing me plating up Christmas dinner that he leapt onto the table and landed splat right on my plate!

We have pet rats, who are let out of their cage for a few hours a day - we've made a couple of rooms mostly rat-proof. Extended family gave us gifts in advance, which we kept for Christmas Day in one of the aforementioned rooms. They don't usually give food. However this year DD got chocolates. Well, she got most of them... She did think it was funny!

Our 3 month old puppy ate 5 raw cinnamon rolls which were proving by the fire. Emergency vet appointment required and £450 poorer. She looked like she'd swallowed a football.

The stupider of our cats snaffled a couple of Pringles and darted away under the Christmas tree with them to loudly crunch on.

Dcat hasn't been bothered about stealing food, but DS got a little hamper with straw packing inside that she's fascinated by. She takes a piece of straw, one at a time, and chases it all over the floor, bless her ❤

We have a mum cat (2) and her kitten (6ish months) who came to us from a rescue centre in October. Mum is very food orientated and was rescued from her original home by the police due to neglect so we understand why she's like this. I dutifully stashed all.meat etc out of their reach when I heard her doing her weird 'I've caught a treasure' cry. I saw her wandering round with something big and cream coloured in her mouth and thought she must have dug up a bone in thr garden.

Nope. Little bugger had rooted through my cauliflower cheese and helped herself to the biggest peice!!

Yep, dh was on the phone to his brother this afternoon in the kitchen, but didn't close the door.

Dog got 2 stuffing balls and all of the remaining pigs in blankets!

Yea we had a selection of biscuits that my son left beside the sofa and wandered off. I couldn't understand what the dog was doing scrabbling about but she had knocked them to the floor and ate the lot!

Our dog ate a sandwich that I’d made for DD, not a major incident, but it was funny going to the table, realizing that it was missing, then turning around to see it clamped in his jaws!

Our neighbor’s Beagle tore open all the presents under the tree in his hunt for food. He ate a couple of chocolate bars and some sweets…no ill effects at all, but they decided to exchange gifts early as everything was already unwrapped. 😂

On Christmas Eve I caught our cat licking bacon fat off the grill pan after we’d had bacon sandwiches. That went straight in the dishwasher. Yesterday he hopped up on the side while DP was plating up the turkey, but was thwarted. He did get his own turkey later.

Wondered why Ddog was at the top of the stairs on Christmas eve morning with a weird smile on his face.

Turns out the smile was actually a whole crumpet carefully and quietly lifted off DS plate while my back was turned from the kitchen table.

DDog managed to reach a whole smoked salmon side which was left close to the edge of the worktop by ExH. She managed a couple of bites before it was rescued and the end cut off.

Luckily no ill effects.....

The funny thing is if you had put it on her plate she probably would have given you 'that' look and walked away!

My kitten is ten months old and incredibly stupid.
He decided he was going to try and make his way through a bag of Reeses pieces that were in one of the kids stockings.
This was after he chewed a hole in the pocket of my shorts on my bedroom floor because there were dog treats in there and he obviously needed those too.

Yes. Our dog snaffled his first jammy dodger when I left the room for all of 5 seconds.

Not a Christmas thing, but our orange cat will steal toast out of the toaster and eat it

We had two kittens who broke into the room where we were setting up a cold meat and salady type lunch for some friends. Clever cat stole a whole slice of ham and then hid under the piano in the next room and growled at us. Stupid cat panicked but wanted to steal something too so grabbed some cucumber off the salad and hid next to her brother. My god she defended that cucumber slice like it was the finest meat you've ever seen.

Oh that is so cute. It reminds me (slightly) of one of our dogs who was also a rescue and food oriented. When I cooked a roast I used to also serve up a little plate for the animals. She would pick up bits of caulifower cheese, carefully move the morsel around her mouth until she had extracted all these cheese sauce and then ever so politely deposit the now denuded caulifower neatly by her plate.

My dog stole a Brie and cranberry filo parcel (I was quite pleased with myself making these from TikTok). She appeared, triumphant, and ran off to the other room, not very discreet, they're very crumbly.

Not my current dog, but my last, who was generally very good about not pinching food (I can count on one hand the other things she stole in 8 years!) had a real, real weakness for walnut biscuits. I bake them every Christmas, and whether it was the dough or the end result, turn your back for a second and she'd wolf them!

My cats don't like vegetarian food so my dinner is safe but my aunts cat used to somehow get at the turkey every single year and my aunt would be filling the hole with stuffing and hope nobody noticed.