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To think all dogs aren't this naughty???

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ICameOnTheJitney · 04/12/2013 13:44

Looking after my brother's dog. She's a naughty little shit. Sorry but I am so annoyed.

I'm in the kitchen with her in her bed....I made myself some pasta for lunch, grated some cheese on top, turned around to get a fork and when I looked back she'd silently got the whole block of cheese and returned to her basket with it. Angry

Do they ALL act like that? The cheese is now licked and bitten so in the bin...what a waste!

She's very tall so it's not much effort for her to reach the countertop...but really...to do it when I'm in the frigging room!!

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CosyTeaBags · 04/12/2013 16:18

eating tramp droppings Oh god, that's a whole new level of fresh hell! My dog never eats shit UNLESS ITS HUMAN - the adjacent toilet paper is the giveaway. I've had to scrub his tongue in a river on several occasions to get rid of the shit coating.

Why, oh why, oh why.....

I think my previous smugness over my dog not stealing food from the worktop was a little hasty...

Ephiny · 04/12/2013 16:20

My dog is very food motivated, but wouldn't steal something while I was right there in the kitchen - he knows it's not allowed. However if I actually left the house, and left him alone with cheese or something within reach, I wouldn't bet on it being there when I came back.

MiaowTheCat · 04/12/2013 16:24

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D0oinMeCleanin · 04/12/2013 16:28

My own dogs will not steal from right in front of me and Devil Dog has an awesome "leave it" command, if you tell him to leave it, he will, even if you leave the room (for upto about 15 mins anyway) and neither dog will steal food off the dining room table because I've taught them both that it's better not to.

However, if you leave the house it's different matter and they will steal food off the coffee table.

As we foster, it's still advisable to not leave food anywhere. I buttered my bread and left it on the counter top behind me while I fried my bacon a few days ago, when I lifted the bacon from the pan to put it in the bread, the bread had gone Sad Still, I suppose it wasn't my fags again

Different dogs are partial to different things and have different tricks, tin stealing dog was one of the best behaved we've ever had, but was partial to a block of butter. Current foster is one of the worst, but still not eclipsed by Puppy, who would open doors and wardrobes to chew your shoes and ate not one but 6 lunch boxes. I stopped replacing them and used carrier bags in the end.

LEMisafucker · 04/12/2013 16:33

Yes they are - YABU to leave the food in her reach. My dog once came bowling in and stole my egg sarnie from my hand :) And why are you putting her outside? poor thing

KateMoose · 04/12/2013 16:56

My previous spaniel stole some bolognaise sauce i had left out to defrost and I placed it far back on the counter. I actually thought I hadn't got it out of the freezer when I got home as he'd eaten the bag it came in.

Vivacia · 04/12/2013 17:22

"She's a naughty little shit"

Nice.

Anydrinkwilldo · 04/12/2013 17:34

My dog wouldn't do it in my presence coz I'm her master, but for anyone else she'll steal food all around her. She stole sil dinner one day, ate cling film and all (sil had dog and dinner in the car). She'd take food out of ds mouth if she could (he'd do the same to her lol) and even though she gets in trouble every day for it she'll sit and beg off dh when he's eating. It's a natural dog instinct to gather food.

ShowMeYourTARDIS · 04/12/2013 17:36

My dog is banned from the kitchen because he's a food stealer.

Anydrinkwilldo · 04/12/2013 17:39

But randomly, my dog won't eat chips. Cling film yes, chips no- explain that logic to me!!

Pixel · 04/12/2013 17:55

Crikey, we've always had dogs, all different breeds, and none of them would steal food. That would drive me mad. Even my cat knows he doesn't get on the worktops or kitchen table!

smokeandglitter · 04/12/2013 18:27

On the turning your back note - as a baby I used to wait until my mum turned her back and throw my food directly into the dogs mouth as he lay under my high chair! Grin The dog adored me, my mum despaired!

Cats can be almost as bad. One of mine is in love with a straw, a normal plastic drinks straw. It is chewed almost beyond belief. I have thrown it away 5 times, every time I come home she has gone into the bin, retrieved it and hidden it to play with later. We've come to the understanding that chewed-up straw is now part of the family!

(Though saying that yes, both cats do know the worktops are out of bounds, like Pixel's!)

mrsjay · 04/12/2013 20:08

I remember with last dog i left butter out on the side came back to paw prints prints coming from kitchen to livingroomnd dog and cat in the livingroom licking the butter i reckon cat knocked it off and dog took it through the livingroom and they both threw their load HEAVE

GolfingWoes · 04/12/2013 20:21

I have one who will quite happily take the icecream out of your hand, and one who would look longinly at a discarded icecream on the floor waiting for permission to eat it.

Neither would raid the tables or units though.

twinkletoedelephant · 05/12/2013 14:09

Mil dog and cat teamed up to open the fridge and eat half a cooked Turkey and ham last Christmas....... They both were exceptionally pleased with themselves :)

MyBaby1day · 06/12/2013 05:26

They're animals, don't know the difference from right and wrong IMO, h ate food=survival!. YABU.

MyBaby1day · 06/12/2013 05:26

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froubylou · 06/12/2013 05:51

We have a whippet.

I am sure they are named whippet because if you turn your back they will whip it.

She is very food obsessed. And drink too. You can't leave your coffee on the table and nip to the loo. And we had to move the recycling bin before she ended up an alcoholic. She would take a lager can out, hold it with her paw with opening facing downhill and tilt it just so to get the dregs out.

She raids handbags too.

But by far the most disgusting thing she does is raids DPs shitbag bin. DP has a stoma. Whippet steals the bags out of the bin, brings them downstairs and rags them all over. Shit up the walls, curtains, sofa, , Carpets etc.

On the plus side she has the best recall I have seen on any dog. As long as she knows you have some catchme goodies in your pocket.

Jinty64 · 06/12/2013 07:16

My lab loves his food but the only thing he has ever taken was a venison steak out of the fridge when ds3 left the door open. His biscuits sit on the work top above his bed. If you say "do you want a biscuit" he looks up at them but, although he could reach them easily, he has never touched them.

My Mums dog used to swipe things off people's plates when no one was looking and even took a hot pork chop off the grill once and yet was not even one for clearing his own plate.

They are all different!

Pixel · 06/12/2013 17:20

Froubylou, do you remember Cannon and Ball? Whippet? No I bought it...

froubylou · 06/12/2013 18:54

Lol pixel. DP says that all the time and I never knew where it was from!

MissBetseyTrotwood · 06/12/2013 19:45

PMSL at the greyhound who steals left shoes. For a breed not, erm, known for their intellect this is pretty good going!!

My grey is super tall and his head can easily fit onto the kitchen table. He only snaffles stuff when we are not looking though and for such a lazy bugger can despatch a 750g block of cheese pretty quickly. Or the naice prosciutto bought from the deli for the picnic lunch. Or all the butter.

Still love him tho. Grin

MissBetseyTrotwood · 06/12/2013 19:49

Our cleaner came into the living room to discover that he'd opened her bag and was banging her lunchbox on the floor to get it open too! That was when he first arrived from the kennels though. They have an understanding now as he knows her routine.

  1. Lots of fuss of each other while she has a coffee and a natter with me before I go to work.
  2. He goes upstairs, she does downstairs.
  3. Vice versa.
  4. Lots of fuss while she has a coffee and a biccie.
PatTheHammer · 06/12/2013 20:08

We have a recently adopted grey girl and she is tall enough to snout around on the sides and kitchen table so we just don't leave anything out at all.
I put a chair in front of the bin and her sack of food is locked away in the downstairs loo.
She's not hugely greedy but cheese would just be too tempting....they lurve cheese. She's recently worked out that nice stuff like chicken and ham comes out of the fridge (never seen appliances before as she's not lived in a home just kennels) so we'll have to watch that one I expect.

Despite vigilance she has so far swiped some toast crusts from Dd's plate, her fault for not taking plate out, and she's split a bin bag open in the garden, DH's fault for not moving bin bag to front garden.

The thing is not to assume that dogs will know what you consider to be right and wrong. They are dogs, and if they have had no training it makes no sense to them at all.

I'm loving the shoe stealing houndGrin

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 06/12/2013 20:30

My whippet x staffie used to be terrible. He ate a bag of oatmeal once, whipped (ahem) from the worktop. Came home to discover entire floor covered in oatmeal. At 2am I was woken by what sounded like a groan - let dog out and he did 3 massive oatmeal craps which were impossible to pick up and stayed in the garden all winter untouched by snow or rain.