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Greedy, free-loading dog

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justcly · 10/01/2020 23:02

My best friend is working abroad for a year and I have agreed to foster her dog. We have dogs of our own, but they are small terrier types - a Maltese cross and a Poochon. This dog is a greyhound/labrador cross. Who is driving me nuts. He just hoovers up anything remotely edible - his own food is gone in seconds, then he steals our dogs' food, then the cats' (they are mightily unimpressed). He's a damn nuisance if anyone is eating (snatched a cheese and tomato sandwich out of DS's hand and swallowed it whole) and yesterday I found he'd managed to open the fridge and eat a massive chunk of Cheddar. I'm at a complete loss here. My friend feeds him custom food from tails.com (which she is having delivered here). Should I switch his food? I don't want to bother her and have her worrying, but at this rate she's going to come home to a massively fat dog. Sorry to sound so pathetic but my two just don't behave like this. He's called Arthur, btw. He's kind of adorable.

OP posts:
spotcheck · 22/05/2022 07:49

My greyhound was fantastic at opening containers, and was tall enough to reach them. I definitely could not have had cat food down, as she would have had it.

Sounds like you are finding solutions OP
By the way- what a nice friend you are 😊

Theoldwoman · 23/05/2022 14:07

I read through the whole thread before realising it was an old one.

I, too want to know what happened to the dog at the end of the year?

Jollyandbright · 23/05/2022 14:16

We have a lab, they are impossible to fill up, they are absolute food monsters, it’s why they are so easy to train well.

This sounds entirely like the dog is poorly trained.
our lab would do anything for a dog biscuit, but if I left one on the floor in front of her she would sit there drooling and staring it it longingly until she was told she was allowed to eat it, because she is well trained.
she has never stolen anything, I could leave the fridge wide open and she knows not to go near it.

the dog definitely needs to be trained properly.

Jollyandbright · 23/05/2022 14:18

Damn it, I fell for the ZOMBIE THREAD 🧟‍♀️

why would someone resurrect this two year old thread?!

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