Hands up, whose dumbass dog...

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has managed to snaffle currants and/or chocolate this weekend? (And which dumbass owners let them find the opportunity!)🤚

On our way to the vet now. It'll be under half an hour between her wolfing the Hot Cross Bun and us all seeing it again. She'll be alright won't she?

Sounds like you need a behaviourist if she’s aggressively biting you around food. She needs proper training to stamp that out and in the short term, never to be around you when you’re eating. Clearly feels she can help herself

Glad shes ok! One of the dogs i know of who died of raisin toxicity was under a year old, absolutely tragic. The owners had been giving raisins as a healthy training reward without knowing.

In terms of her behaviour, you're doing the right thing by separating her whilst eating in the short term to prevent any incidents, but as the poster above said you really need to seek support from a suitably qualified behaviourist, especially whilst shes young and this behaviour is new.

Finding someone suitably trained and accredited can be a minefield, there are people out there who have done a £49 course on Groupon and set themselves up as a trainer/behaviourist - its not a protected term. Speak to your vets, the receptionists/nurses will have contact details for someone reputable in your local area. It won't be cheap, but definitely needed.

What breed is she?

I had a dog who once: managed to get a box of nine Cadbury Crème eggs off a shelf and eat the lot - foil wrappers included; ate a whole chicken resting on the counter straight out of the oven; licked up about two pounds of sugar when the lid on the ceramic container broke.
Same dog. No ill effects. Miracle.

Amazing ling not but she did manage to eat a slice of garlic that had been inside the lamb as it cooked. It fell and even though she’s getting old it was gone before it hit the floor.

For anyone needing an animal behaviourist, Petplan gave me this contact.

www.apbc.org.uk

It’s a register of properly trained and accredited therapists that you can search for by area.

Some dogs have a food trait, almost an obsession. Do talk to your vet; they will know who to suggest. Putting him out of the room will help endorse the message. Years ago i had a herb garden of which i was very proud, and was delighted when my alpine strawberries had a lovely lot of berries. ok they are tiny, but there was plenty to do something with on it.
getting up the next day most had gone from the plant. i put it down to slugs or similar bugs.
then one afternoon we were sat outside and our dog a collie x went over and snaffled the rest of the berries! after several years I gave up growing them!

Some dogs have a food trait, almost an obsession. Do talk to your vet; they will know who to suggest. Putting him out of the room will help endorse the message. Years ago i had a herb garden of which i was very proud, and was delighted when my alpine strawberries had a lovely lot of berries. ok they are tiny, but there was plenty to do something with on it.
getting up the next day most had gone from the plant. i put it down to slugs or similar bugs.
then one afternoon we were sat outside and our dog a collie x went over and snaffled the rest of the berries! after several years I gave up growing them!

Thanks guys! She has a vet appointment scheduled for Monday afternoon. She always kicks off when we're eating, yapping and crying in her playpen. She's well fed, to the point of actually being a bit on the chubby side. Weirdly she's not that fussed about actual training treats, and isn't terribly responsive to prompts.

Our old dog was a terrible thief. We once had the Mystery of the Missing Christmas Decoration (a polystyrene bauble thing off a wreath), followed the next day by the Mystery of the Gold Sparkly Poo. He was fine - it went straight through him, as did numerous Nerf darts over the years!

My (not remotely greedy at home) dog ran off and snarfed a hot cross bun from a family’s picnic blanket in the park 🥴

He was absolutely fine. Didn’t occur to me to take him to the vet.

Ours ate a kilo Christmas robin from hotel chocolat one year, we didn’t know until we looked for it and found some of the packaging in his bed, to no ill effect I might add but change his dog food just once and he 💩 for England. He even ate a vindaloo once and suffered no ill effects x