Once observed a dog running down the road with a wrapped joint in its mouth, which was considerably larger than the thief! Must have been some very confused people in that household, working out where dinner had disappeared to!
My own Springer, sprung out of the car ( probably to avoid his sandy body being introduced to clean water) , knocking DH over, promptly wandered down to the high street, entered the hardware/ pet store, stole a pigs ear and then simply plopped himself down in the sunshine, in their garden centre area with customers and the owners cooing over this thieving cheekiness. They even brought him a water bowl! DH in blind panic, sweaty, sweary and bruised trying to find ‘my’ dog. Fortunately live in small village and we knew the owners of the shop who found it all hilarious! Can an opener be prosecuted for shoplifting by proxy?
Spaniel again escaped out of the house trotted over to my work, wandered into the staff area, very politely begged, upon realising better and more biddable clientele outside, went and sat politely on the deck with room 3, doing the I’m starved routine. A colleague casually came to my office and said ‘ you have a large spaniel, don’t you? Room 3 are currently feeding him scraps from their lunch boxes.’ I don’t run, hate exercise, but made Usain Bolt look slow. Spaniel perfectly happy accepting pats, scraps and kisses ( thank goodness for soft mouths!) and was VERY grumpy at having his collar felt and dragged to my office. Fortunately, our parents are mostly sensible and there were no complaints at all ( we are not in the UK).
Please note Moo is properly fed twice a day, everyday... he is not starving despite these behaviour faux pas.