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!

I would refuse any offers of money or food if the same happened with a neighbours dog or cat but I'd be delighted with a thoughtful gift of some kind like wine or flowers in way of an apology although I wouldnt expect it.

They are great opportunists, they wait until no-one is around and then pounce and swallow. Dog-Dastardly, has had a fish pie (8 portions) 2 birthday cakes and a plate of sausage rolls.
Its when you get distracted (usually in my case by guests) and temporarily forget that she is waiting and watching and ready to pounce, bless her!

@Flyinggeese1 A kilo of meat? 🤷🏻‍♀️ When I go to the shop I ask for 400/500 g or just hand a kilo maybe..no?

*Half a kilo-eg-mincemeat

@HazelBite They really are

[quote Summerisoverrated]@LittleMissnotLittleMrs I feel a bit dodge putting a pic up as would have to show the back of both our houses to show the garden. Basically, the back garden is a shared one, so both our back doors and back patio doors go out onto the garden. We could put a fence down the middle to totally separate us, but decided not to as they’d prefer not to and it’s beneficial for us as they’re rarely here (holiday home) so we have a larger garden the majority of the time, we have a Dd so the big space is perfect for her daughter playing etc. Even when they are here, they don’t go in the actual back garden itself. So our dog went out into the garden and just walked round to their back door, which was open as it’s a heatwave where we are, and the cheeky mofo walked into the kitchen and ate it all in a flash. Neighbour said she had only literally walked into the lounge and came back through to the kitchen and was like ‘Where the hell is the food’ 🙈she said there were no signs of mess and the tub was licked clean almost…this doesn’t surprise me![/quote]
I meant a drawing 😁 - see all parking threads!

My neighbours cat once came home with a small, cooked joint of beef in her mouth on a sunday afternoon
I watched her walk over our wall with it. Ha

@LittleMissnotLittleMrs A drawing 🙈🤣 can you not kind of see what I’m saying, don’t want to be rude but don’t know if I cba

@ShowOfHands

I'd only buy wine if you know they drink. Ditto chocolates, do they eat them?

People buy a bottle of wine as a gesture all the time and it makes me uncomfortable as a house of teetotallers. Don't eat much chocolate either. I know it's a nice gesture but to some people it's useless. I've got a Merlot, a Shiraz and a Pinot Grigio in the cupboard. I barely know what they are and have no clue what to do with them. They're from well meaning neighbours for various reasons. I don't know what to DO with them. I offered a couple of them to friends but they "don't drink that". It's too easy to assume alcohol tastes.

@ShowOfHands - could you use the wine in cooking? I'm not a big drinker and had a couple of bottles of wine left over from Christmas which I've been using in cooking.

@ShowOfHands Can you not give them as a gift to people? Always very useful when you need a last-minute gift for someone’s party or even a friend/teacher/colleague/whoever.

Once upon a time I splurged on a nice A5 wagyu steak.

I'd just finished cooking it and set it on a plate to rest, turned round to put another one on the hob and my elderly dog with hip dysplasia who can't even hop proved me wrong and had snaffled the whole thing off the plate on the countertop.

We do laugh about it now, because it was quite funny. Like Houdini had come and swiped my tea.

I imagine the neighbours feel the same. I'd buy them a good hamper if they love cooking. Fancy pastas, tinned tomatoes, fresh vegetables etc.

My dog (lab) was a terrible thief. Next door had a freezer in an open sided shed (very rural, not in the Uk). She learnt how to open it to take frozen meat. Once a leg of venison. My friends lab was caught on cctv entering the back door of the village shop and stealing bread and another friend had a lab who ate a bag of lamb feeding milk powder which is hugely calorific. It was their own powder and she had broken into one of their sheds.

I would think it was hilarious, my dogs have never snaffled anything important from the work tops. But my cat brought home a brace of pheasants once, still tied together and they were stuck tight in the cat flap next morning. Someone had left them to hang somewhere, in a garage or barn never to be seen again. No neighbours mentioned it!

I need to defend my fellow IBS folks here!
Me, I'm the kind of freak who cooks pasta sauces without onion or garlic as, as delicious as make things, I prefer not running the risk of shitting myself after eating them. Garlic flavoured oil, celery and asafoetida all help de-bland things.

I have popped back in to say that this thread has reminded me of the time my old dog (GSD x Kelpie) decided to “help” my mother who had pre-prepped a dinner for my Dad’s business colleagues, and thought it was safe to have a shower and get changed. She ate a leg of lamb which was resting up high at the back of the stove (covered with an upturned baking dish) after being roasted (studded with garlic & rosemary of course…) and nearly a kilo of cheese which was neatly arranged on a platter and left all the crackers and artfully-arranged grapes and apricots, etc. strewn over the kitchen. The cheese left her bunged up for a couple of days, but she resolved that by breaking into the pantry and eating an entire bulk bag of dog treats, and left piles of doggy diarrhea like melting sandcastles in the laundry room she slept in. (Thank god it was tiles.) Dad got up to let her out in the morning and yelled “Oh fuck! HELP!!!” That dog had the skills of a dexterous mountain goat where food was concerned!!! (We put child locks on the pantry, and roasts were never left to rest unguarded again.)

That’s a really vivid image, lakes of doggy diarrhoea

I would cook them a replacement spag bol…..and one with onion and garlic in so they can discover what it’s meant to taste like!

Thanks all,

Dog was fine 🙄and Dp took round some nice chocolates and bottle of red I bought, they don’t drink 🙈but we’re very happy with the chocs, but said it was silly and we didn’t need to.
Bit sad for our dog as it’s summer, we sit in the back a lot and she has to be inside..at least until they go home 🤣