bloody dogs!

[misdee]

arrrgh.

bad day for mugs today.

2 smashed and its only just past lunch.

i need to buy new mugs.
anyone elses dogs tea-addicts?

i usually put the mugs where they cant reach or remove dogs from the room if i have to leave. but had two 'jump up and deal with it immediantly' emergencies today and the pups snuck in to raid the mugs

Get one of those Starbucks travel mugs

ooo good suggestion :)

i love the dogs really. but i swear they keep one eye on my tea every time i make one.

Lol - I used to have a terrier like that. Now dh makes me a pot of tea and leaves my mug with a little milk in next to it. It's then a race between me and the cat.

The cat usually wins

Can sympathise. One greyhound sent a coffee mug flying with an enthusiastic tail over the weekend, and we've got a serial water glass slurper here. He once tried my FIL's beer, much to the entire family's amusement, fortunately didn't take to it. They are bad enough sober.

I'm smugly chuckling at your naughty, tea drinking dog stories. :o

Then again, I still can't leave a cup of tea unattended, good as the dogs are. As soon as I do, a stealthy but large ginger paw dips into my cup... and again... and again... and again...

Clarence the cat likes a nice drop of Assam. :o

My old girl once carried 4 milk bottles - individually - round to the side of the house ( out of sight), tore off the foil tops and drank the lot

My friend has chickens and brought over a basket of eggs for me to help myself. The dog picked an egg from the basket, carried it to the back of the garden then cracked it open by using his paw!!!

"My old girl once carried 4 milk bottles - individually - round to the side of the house ( out of sight), tore off the foil tops and drank the lot"

"My friend has chickens and brought over a basket of eggs for me to help myself. The dog picked an egg from the basket, carried it to the back of the garden then cracked it open by using his paw!!!"

:o

Noooooooooo!!!

Cheeky devils! You have to hand it to them though, 10/10 for dexterity and ingenuity.

My dogs aren't that clever!

we went through a phase of using plastic drinking glasses as the coffee table was GSD tail height and I got fed up of clearing smashed glass almost continually - not to mention the cut paw hazard.

at the smarty pants dogs.

Val - I gave the milkman merry hell cos I thought he just hadn't delivered the milk that day. Took me a few days to piece together the 'evidence'

Our dogs love eggs. They always come over for a look if I am cracking them, just in case I am going to let them have the shells. My son stupidly left our last egg on the front of the worktop once when puppy was small, getting his school cooking ingredients ready for the next day and when he turned his back the puppy swiped it.

The dogs don't usually steal things now, but I did get my soup 'wagged' all over the place by a hairy Golden Retriever tail the other day. That'll teach me to sit with a bowl of soup on my lap near waggy tailed dogs...

No it's the cat that is the tea/milk thief in this house. Dd2 was in trouble for lying and blaming the cat for spilling her drink until dd1 piped up "But it was the cat mum. She put her drink down to eat her biscuit and the cat drank it and spilt it everywhere"

The dog has once stole and ate a full packet of fresh meatballs from the dining room table. I put them there while I was clearing space in the fridge so the cat (who was in the kitchen) couldn't get them. Who knew Fox Terriers could jump well?

When I had hens my dogs knew that 'cluck-cluck-cluck' that hens do when they've laid, and used to make a beeline.

Same with the cat litter tray

It is my dogs tail that I have to watch with cups of tea. It is so waggy and he seems to have no control of it. If the tail is anywhere near the coffee table, then trouble could follow.

"Val - I gave the milkman merry hell cos I thought he just hadn't delivered the milk that day. Took me a few days to piece together the 'evidence'"

PMSL @ Bella :o Poor milkman!

When I was about 10 I had a croissant which I ripped the soft innards out to eat and left the crunchy outer part of it. I left the table to get butter from the fridge to find the very old spaniel helping himself to the soft bit and leaving the hard bit

In his younger days he would wait till my dad had seasoned and bashed a steak before he helped himself.

My old black Labrador used to eat spaghetti bolognaise by taking a mouthful and sucking up the spaghetti in a continuous trail till the bowl was empty.

We went out a few weeks ago and our 2yo lab knocked 2 full pint bottles of cider off the side in the utility which broke as they hit the floor.

She then proceeded to lick all 2 pints up and spent the entire evening lying on her back with her paws in the air snoring and farting (Was an oddly familiar sight and sound, just blacker and hairier!).

The following morning she was very grumpy and thirsty and didn't want to get out of her basket.

My GPs had a lab who could open the fridge and I remember one Christmas morning hearing my G'ma shrieking. The dog had got into the fridge, taken out the crystal serving dish containing the chocolate torte, put it on the floor without breaking it, removed the clingfilm and demolished the entire thing!

And labs are supposed to be stupid not very bright!

Ha ha - that's fab, Olihan

Very, very funny from all of you - please can we have more stories?

Years ago my DH had a X breed collie/corgi dog, he was smart, agile and an absolute scavenger! It was Christmas time and DH's parents were down staying with us, a large bowl of chocolates were on the dining table, I thought they were out the way of the dog, for days I was blaming (silently of course) DH's Dad for scoffing all the chocolates, and stuffing the wrappers down the back of the table... The PIL went out for the evening and we had this thought that someone other than PIL must be eating the chocs, only other 'person' was this dog, or a chocolate burgler, so DH set up a video camera and we went off to the supermarket.

Came home, looked at video and saw the dog jump on the arm chair, climb onto dining table, unwrap chocs carefully and eat them, he then pushed the wrappers under the table where we couldnt easily see them!

We STILL have this on video, our whole families have seen it to witness it and the dog didnt even have the grace to be sick!

Rofl, Jax

I stayed at a friends house - forgot my contact lens case, so left my lenses in a glass with some boiled water overnight.
In the morning - empty glass, dog had drunk my lenses.

My dogs normally quite good but I still remember the time as a puppy he demolished 2 boxes of chocolates, a book and a bowl of potpourri (sp?)! They had been left on a high table and he jumped up, knocked them all off and proceeded to eat the lot.
I wasn't able to eat after eights for ages after that, seeing the wrappers shooting out of a dogs backside certainly put me off for a while! As expected he was on a mad sugar rush for about 2 days after that, I think its put him off for life though so some good came out of it.

My cousins dogs (they have 5) like tea so much that every now and then they get there own mug! You have to watch it while drinking at their house, the greyhounds will drink out of the mug even if you are holding it unless you are very careful.

My friend told me about the time they had left those big cartons of wine with the tap on them in their kitchen. They came back to find their dogs (one of them a guide dog puppy in training) had managed to open the cartons and had drank the lot! Apparently they were wobbling when they tried to stand up.

Oh God, we are responsible owners really, just the odd hiccup here and there

this is making me laugh so much! I am going to start taking my own lidded cup when I go visiting now!

I take bottles of water to bed now as I have woken up a few times to the cat drinking my water from my glass that I take to bed each night. Lazy thing cant be bothered going downstairs to her own bowl!

eeeww that is disgusting isnt it? How many times have I drank it and not known?