Dog ate a kilo of neighbours food

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Sitting here mortified, our dog has gone into the back garden and next door, through their open door, must have jumped up on the counter and has eaten a huge, round tupperware box full of their dinner 🙈😵it was spaghetti and meat (no garlic or onions she said) so our dog should be okay.
Dp has been round and apologised profusely and offered to pay for the food/pick up some nice Italian food from a restaurant nearby, they won’t accept.
They’re sort of laughing but mainly just gobsmacked, suffice to say that our dog can’t go in the garden again until they’ve gone (their house is a holiday home)
What would you do? It was a kilo of food!

@TattiePants

Years ago a friend went into her kitchen to find her cat sat in the middle of the floor devouring a roast chicken. She wasn’t cooking chicken. They looked out of the window and could see a long grease mark up their path where the cat had dragged the chicken but had no idea which house it was from!

That's possibly my chicken! Years ago I'd made my wife a roast chicken dinner, it disappeared from the counter while I was in another room. There was a vase knocked over by the open window and no chicken to be found.

She was not amused to come home from a long shift to be greeted by a chicken dinner minus the chicken.

For years afterwards she would remind me to shut any windows when I was cooking a roast.

I mean, they sound pretty nice if they're laughing... is probably going to be one of their holiday anecdote of the future - "do you remember that time when next door's dog came and stole ALL of our spag bol ha ha ha ha".

Being a dog lover, I'd probably have laughed too.... but being a hungry bugger, then also taken you up on your takeaway offer.

A bottle of wine, a box of nice pastries, maybe see if anywhere does Cannoli if they're into Italian food?

@category12 It’s a shared garden, we’ve fenced off the front and don’t mind doing the back, but we all agreed it would be larger if not fenced and they’re here tops 3 x per year. They have no problem with her roaming around their garden when not here, or even when here usually as they say hello and pat her etc and I bring her in and they say it’s fine. But she’s staying in now whenever they’re here as this obviously isn’t acceptable

You reimburse them the money the ingredients cost. notes in an envelope
Mn solution to everything is a gift and bottle of wine. That doesn’t cut it
Your slobbery dog ate their dinner. Apologise and reimburse them

Make sure your garden is more secure and gutsy dog cannot go marauding for food

@cherrybonbons

Who makes spaghetti without garlic or onions?!

Is it wrong that that's where my mind first went as well? 😃

This has made my day 🤣🤣🤣 if I was your neighbour I think I’d still be laughing at this. Naughty dog!
Flowers and wine is a nice idea.

My mil is a tame eater doesn’t like forrin or spicy that inc onion & garlic

Ecven if it had onion and garlic in the dog will be fine. The quantities needed to have side effects are much bigger than what would be in it

[quote Summerisoverrated]@SheWoreYellow Lab/whippet cross 🤣[/quote]
Ha ha!!!

Our next door neighbours cat once came through our kitchen window and ate some of the beef joint that was cooling on the worktop. Caught him in the act and I was so shocked that I just stood and stared at him!

I think lots of people would feel they have to refuse the offer of a replacement meal. So in your situation I'd just go round with a bottle of wine as an apology and say that the offer of a replacement meal is still there and that you really would like to do so.

Our cat went into our neighbour's kitchen and swiped 2 fillets of salmon- it was all plated up and ready to eat

Apparently labradors are genetically predisposed to being constantly hungry.

lol something I bet they will be laughing about in years to come.

You've already tried to make good by offering the Italian. You sound very apologetic and have already done the right thing.

I'm sure they will appreciate any further tokens such as flowers or chocolate.

Give them money to reimburse the cost of meal
Not pastries,or cake,or wine or flowers. That’s all about being conspicuously gushy
They did not lose cake,wine, flowers or pastry so no don’t introduce these as inadequate substitutes

All the people shocked and dismayed by lack of garlic and onions - I don't use them at all in cooking (my DD can't eat them for medical reasons) it's quite possible to make interesting tasty food without them.

And of course it is much safer for any passing greedy hungry dog

@EspressoDoubleShot

Give them money to reimburse the cost of meal Not pastries,or cake,or wine or flowers. That’s all about being conspicuously gushy They did not lose cake,wine, flowers or pastry so no don’t introduce these as inadequate substitutes

Per the OP, they have refused money and replacements...

I'm glad your neighbours have a better sense of humour than some of the posters on here!

I had a lab a long time ago. I made a couple of quiches as I was having visitors, left on the side to cool down, went back into kitchen a couple of minutes later and DDog had eaten all the filling and just left two empty pastry cases.

One of my long gone DCats stole a whole cooked chicken from a neighbour, no idea how he got it over two fences and back into our garden. I have since moved.

@randomchap and @TattiePants Hahahaha! You have found each other 🐈

Instead of foisting flowers,wine,pastry,I’d stick a £20 in envelope through the door

they'll be dining out on that story for years to come

When we were not looking, our little miniature poodle managed to jump on the kitchen table, eat a whole tub of butter in its entirety. We found him on the table minus the butter

I would keep an eye on your dog OP because if dogs eat too much in one go they may get a condition called bloat which can be dangerous and need veterinary treatment.

I have to say - I have had many dogs over the years, the only one that stole food was my labX - they are walking dustbins. I have a poodleX at the moment and he is really fussy, if I buy him treats chances are he won't eat them - so they go to next doors daft grinning lab who gobbles them up without even checking to see if they are a foodstuff

Similar happened here, but it was my greedyguts cat Lupin - an opportunistic thief who saw their open kitchen window and decided to saunter in and gorge on their resting roast chicken.
They refused to accept anything and laughed it off, said it was “a good job he’s cute” though I did slip a Sainsbury’s gift card through the letterbox and insist the next roast is on me!