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!

Lots of people can’t tolerate onions or garlic. It is a relatively common food intolerance. Two of my relatives get horrific diarrhoea if they eat either.

Our cat when I was younger was a great liberator of neighbours food given the chance. On one occasion he stole the steak they were having for Sunday lunch.

@sirfredfredgeorge

And if I was them, I would be seriously annoyed at the imposition of a restaurant voucher! a bit annoyed at a supermarket one, if it's any of that it's cash.

Have I misunderstood this post or are you generally ungrateful?

One of my labs, proudly came into the living room with a tortillia one day. Showed us what he had, as soon as we went to get it off him, he had inhaled it.

Dogs eh! When DS had a 15th birthday I got home to find the lhasa apso lying on a huge 18inch pizza that he had wrestled out of a hot oven.
DS had opened the oven to check it and not closed it properly,
Took forever to get the molten mozzarella out of his fluff.

Who makes Italian food without garlic or onion?

YABVU not to post a pic of said greedy dog Op.

I despise onion and I don’t cook with it all. I do use garlic but it’s perfectly possible to make delicious food without onion!

I have a greedy jack russell who would eat food out of my mouth if he could get close enough to me. He once grabbed a whole sirloin steak off my plate and shot under the sofa so I couldn’t get at him. I’ll admit I cried as he happily chewed on my long awaited dinner

@phishy

I would not have found this hilarious and would have had to throw the bowl.

Dog saliva. Urgh.

Have you not heard of washing up?

Bottle of wine, chocolates and an apology card comically written from the dog seems perfect to me

@ImprobablePuffin A voucher for a restaurant in an obligation, an obligation to go to the restaurant, or feel guilty for wasting it, an obligation to probably spend more at this restaurant that I wouldn't normally do, it's a waste, like all vouchers valued more by the giver than the receiver, for the receiver it's just hassle.

A supermarket voucher is less of an obligation, as everyone goes there all the time, but of course it still assumes that the supermarket is the same supermarket as you choose to visit, and what if it's one you specifically boycott for some reason?

So yes, if you screw up and want to make amends, don't make amends by forcing an obligation on people, it's not making amends in the slightest, you might get lucky, or you might just be hassling them.

If you want to give a voucher - give money, it's like a voucher you can use anywhere! (although of course even that is beginning to get more of a hassle)

If they're really into their food even a nice little hamper of cheeses might be nice for them along with a nice bottle of wine.
I'm a dog owner, and I would laugh if someones dog did this. In fact, my parents used to always do a big collection of dog food and treats for a local animal sanctuary and one day I got home from work to catch the neighbors rottweiler red pawed helping himself to the stash 😂 we all saw the funny side. These things happen sometimes.

I’ve had dogs all my life, never caught anything from their salvia, not that they eat from my dishes but it’s all over the place along with fur etc. I’d have laughed if a dog had done that to my dinner then been somewhat hungry 😋. If it was a common occurrence of the dog going to visit then it’s different but clearly the naughty dog has tried his luck and won the bingo he’s probably feeling very full now and planning his next escapade. You sound lovely op and mindful to keep dog away from their house in future the people could’ve kicked up a fuss I know many would have but I imagine they are just a bit bemused. And probably thinking of a plan b for dinner too.

My friends dog was missing from their tent one morning, they called his name and he returned about 5 minutes later from a distance, with a string of sausages from his mouth, no idea where from, none of the tents - we asked!

I’d say cash is the only way to go here. Enough to comfortably exceed the value of the lost food. Plus perhaps wine and a note of apology, not ‘from the dog’.

I can’t be the only one, surely…

Op, I need a pic to get my head round the fact that you have no fence 😱

Pretty please 😉

What kind of monster makes spag bol with no garlic or onions?!

[quote sirfredfredgeorge]@ImprobablePuffin A voucher for a restaurant in an obligation, an obligation to go to the restaurant, or feel guilty for wasting it, an obligation to probably spend more at this restaurant that I wouldn't normally do, it's a waste, like all vouchers valued more by the giver than the receiver, for the receiver it's just hassle.

A supermarket voucher is less of an obligation, as everyone goes there all the time, but of course it still assumes that the supermarket is the same supermarket as you choose to visit, and what if it's one you specifically boycott for some reason?

So yes, if you screw up and want to make amends, don't make amends by forcing an obligation on people, it's not making amends in the slightest, you might get lucky, or you might just be hassling them.

If you want to give a voucher - give money, it's like a voucher you can use anywhere! (although of course even that is beginning to get more of a hassle)[/quote]
No one is 'obligated' to do anything. So if someone offered to pay for you to go out to dinner, you'd be angry? Would you straight up ask for the cash instead?

One of my current greedy dogs is a lab/whippet. She uses her front paws like hands to swipe stuff into her reach. Everything has to go way higher or further back than you think before it's safe.

Waitrose gift card maybe? No one could object to that.

So if someone offered to pay for you to go out to dinner, you'd be angry? Would you straight up ask for the cash instead?

I would likely decline both, just as the OP's neighbours declined the offer of ordering food in. If it was the sort of posted through the letterbox "gift" that I couldn't decline, then it would just be hassle yes, and I would be more annoyed than the dog eating the food, as I passed on the voucher. At least if it was cash I could pass it on easily.

I guess they had to disinfect the entire kitchen too, if your dog had been sniffing all over the worktops in search of food and putting his paws up, shedding hair etc.

It's a dog, not a rabid rat. I think a quick wipe down would be sufficient...

My mum's border collie ate most of her home-made, dried fruit laden Dundee cake one Christmas. Suffered no ill effects thank goodness.
The next Christmas she hid it in her wardrobe but the dog found that too and was half way through snaffling it before being disturbed. It was the crinkling of tin-foil that gave it away.

Thank you for your post.
The dog is an animal, not a human being. It can do any activity like this. But we have to be aware of this.

@Summerisoverrated thinking I would be worried about what comes out of the other end during the night 😁😁