Hounds that pinch

[Jenko109]

Now I do keep sighthounds, who I swear are bred to be thieves!

What's the worst or most bizarre thing your dog has stolen? Could be food or something expensive they have chewed up etc.

My lurcher stole a jar of coconut oil. The solid stuff that you cook with. She ate half the jar before puking it all up again

My whippet is only 16 months ish so is still fairly puppyish. He has never been one for chewing furniture, but we have to keep the toilet roll on a shelf in the bathroom as if its left where he can get it, he will shred the entire roll

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

Ivy (greyhound) loves coconut too!

Her biggest counter-surf wins have been a big block of fancy cheese, and a whole loaf of fancy bread (which she immediately threw up).

I'm not sure if she's more settled in and feeling less compelled to nick stuff, or if she's just trained us well to keep things out of the way but thefts seem to have reduced, apart from when she's hangry and we're not serving dinner quick enough - then she starts snorting and randomly grabbing things with her face. She does quite like picking up socks because she knows it's good for getting our attention. She did recently tear a book I'd been reading which was quite unusual for her. When we lived in a house with downstairs loo, she got a real thrill from sneaking in to steal look roll and bogging off (pun absolutely intended) down the garden with utter glee!

 

[millikins]

A friend had an Irish Wolfhound who stole a whole Christmas pudding, home made with fruit, brandy etc. Apparently he slept well afterwards but was otherwise unharmed. Daughter's beagle is clever enough to push things up to their kitchen units that she can then climb up to steal stuff.

 

[splashgirl45]

Now I do keep sighthounds, who I swear are bred to be thieves!

What's the worst or most bizarre thing your dog has stolen? Could be food or something expensive they have chewed up etc.

My lurcher stole a jar of coconut oil. The solid stuff that you cook with. She ate half the jar before puking it all up again

My whippet is only 16 months ish so is still fairly puppyish. He has never been one for chewing furniture, but we have to keep the toilet roll on a shelf in the bathroom as if its left where he can get it, he will shred the entire roll

My lurcher is just a year old and I’ve had to keep the loo roll on the windowledge until recently and for the last 2 days it’s been on the roll and stayed there. He may not have noticed yet. A friends lurcher got a tray of 12 eggs out of the van and dragged them to one of the stables, he was spotted and the eggs were recovered, he hadn’t broken one. A very clever boy ..

 

[splashgirl45]

When I was a child my mum had left the joint to rest and when she got back in the kitchen it had gone, my little dog had managed to take it into her bed … we had sausages instead of the normal roast dinner..

 

[kathantoinette]

Labrador…full loaf of Asda Tiger bread from the kitchen worktop. I swear you could see the shape of the loaf in her stomach.
And same Labrador stole mince pies from under one of those glass dome things. Glass dome survived. Mince pies didn’t

 

[Escapade]

She nicked and near polished off the 750g jar of Nutella a bottle of sunflower oil, an almost full sleeve of oat and cranberry biscuits. The biscuits were fair game though, they were left out unsupervised. Reconfigured the kitchen press layout and she hasn't been tempted since... or rather, she hasn't been caught...

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Rescue lurcher who was the sweetest boy!

A frozen loaf of bread… we had told my grandma that he would eat anything left out! He ate the plastic and all!

A whole tub of malteasers (you used to be able to get buckets of them at Christmas), he wasn’t even ill. Yes it was my Christmas present he ate!

He once memorably got into the kitchen and chewed the ‘child’ locks off everything. He ate the entire contents of the fridge and cupboards , it was carnage!

But I repeat he was the sweetest, most lovely dog ever.

 

[ycbm]

I was at a friend's house for dinner. Her great dane came into the lounge with a clear rectangular block of something half way down her neck, closely followed by my friend shouting "Polly!".

Polly proceeded to throw up a perfect block of butter on the hearth rug. We all joked about wiping it off and putting it back on the table.
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[scats]

JD used to steal things off the draining board and bury them in the garden. Mum would often be gardening and unearth a muddy fork or a dishcloth

 

[Glitter's fun]

Someone I knew made their own Christening cake. The dog ate all the icing and marzipan the day before the big event but was discovered while the cake was more or less intact. She hastily re-iced it & didn't tell anyone.
I've always been a bit wary of those bits of wedding cake you get given....

 

[Birker2020]

Our dog doesn't steal as such but she finds things in easy reach to bring to me as an offering when I come through the front door, even if I've only been away 5 mins. Its lovely. She's lovely.

Sometimes its an empty loo roll, a bic pen, or a sock, she's even brought me a stickly price label we've taken off a greetings card! Accompanied by the gift is much tail wagging and a funny whining noise which is excacerbated if I join in so it reaches a fever pitch and has us both laughing.

The worst thing she found was an unused Tena panty liner and a pair of my partners unworn boxers. I just thank God we didn't have visitors on those days.

My partners old beagle was one of the American Beagle types and was as wide as she was tall. I remember her visiting the house with my partners kids after his divorce when it was his weeekend turn for the kids. Partner opened the fridge and she was in like a shot, stole an open packet of ham and had gulped it down before we even had time to react.

Summer isn't your normal beagle. Apart from being super intelligent, very empathetic and kind, she's also very well behaved with things like that and because she's extremely fussy with both food and treats she wouldn't steal even if the opportunity presented itself.

 

[gryff]

My mum had been looking after my lurchers for a fortnight whilst I was on an expedition.
As she knew we'd been on rations whilst out trekking, she'd made us a massive 18inch x 12inch lasagne to have when we got home. In fact, she'd made two - one meat, one Spanish and ricotta.
One of the lurchers, who'd been found roaming the streets in winter, so hadn't had a great start in life, ate the entire meat lasagne, jumping up onto the worktop to have her meal. What was funny though, was that she'd obviously decided to have a start in the veggie option. Took two bites out of it and then gone, urgghhh, veggie, not for me.
All my lurchers, and I've had 6 as an adult, have all been food thieves, with butter and bread being top of their "to steal" lists. You'd think I'd jave learnt by now

 

[Annette4]

Fizz had half of a glazed ham joint and the toppings and cheese from a meat pizza....it took the second occasion for us to work out she was pushing the bin across the kitchen to use it to climb onto the back of the oven where we put food to cool.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

My parents first Lab became proficient at opening the fridge! The usual style for the time was to have a handle that 'unlocked' the fridge when you pulled it down! We just had to make sure that he was never left unsupervised in the kitchen.
Over the years, I've lost £10 note, shoes, riding boot, butter, eggs, chocolate, you name it all to Labs/Lab crosses.
The latest escapade was the current 3 stealing a punnet of grapes out of the newly delivered veg box. That was expensive but the vet got all the grapes back pretty much whole. The black one, who was the one that I saw with a grape so alerted me, had actually only had 4. The other 2 had shared the lot.

 

[pinkfluffy]

GSD stole 2 sausages on a plate in front of me whilst maintaining eye contact then ran off with them. Turned my back on cheese I was slicing to say something to my mum and heard eating - Labrador stood up at the counter licking the cheese up delicately off the plate. Did the same to roast beef - turn around to say something, dog on hind legs having early dinner.
Old GSD had a thing about my boots. No one else's. Just mine, chewed up just enough to make them unwearable but not completely destroyed.

 

[TheOldTrout]

Our last dog could open the fridge door until we put a bolt on it. Once he stole sausages, bacon and a quiche out of it. Another time, I had made a Bosnian style spinach and cheese pie for a fundraising sale and left it on the dining table. Found the dog had climbed onto the table and eaten about a quarter of it.

 

[millikins]

I had a rottie X who was the most vegetarian dog I've ever met, she wouldn't touch raw meat and had a passion for oranges. One summer I couldn't work out why I kept finding unripe tomatoes scattered over the lawn, in fact I blamed my small daughter. Later I watched the dog carefully picking the ripe tomatoes straight from the plants, she'd clearly had a few practice runs and realised the green ones didn't taste nice

 

[TheOldTrout]

Blue can gate a tissue out of my pocket better than any pickpocket, then shred it.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I had a rottie X who was the most vegetarian dog I've ever met, she wouldn't touch raw meat and had a passion for oranges. One summer I couldn't work out why I kept finding unripe tomatoes scattered over the lawn, in fact I blamed my small daughter. Later I watched the dog carefully picking the ripe tomatoes straight from the plants, she'd clearly had a few practice runs and realised the green ones didn't taste nice

We had a Rott who loved oranges, you could persuade her to do anything for a segment of orange.

 

[Birker2020]

We had a Rott who loved oranges, you could persuade her to do anything for a sement of orange.

Gosh how unusual. We used to tease Summer with the rind, she'd throw it in the air and act all stupid.

I never knew dogs ate orange. You learn something new every day.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

My friends dog has eaten numerous joints of meat that were on the kitchen side he even pulled the slow cooker down once and ate the contents of that as well, emptied the whole bin over the floor then ate alot of it got in her cupboards he was a nightmare.

 

[islander]

Obviously not a sight hound but my Airedale took an omelette and chips off a plate which was (stupidly) left on a low table. She left the peas though.

 

[Cortez]

I used to have two Jack Russells, they ran an excellent bait-and-switch operation, but their finest hour was when they each grabbed a hearing aid from the nightstand of an elderly relative and chewed them beyond recognition or further use. Thousands of pounds worth of auditory technology reduced to little pink jellybaby-like blobs.

ETA - my whippet is the world's finest thief, but since she was picked up as a starving stray and had to fend for herself (we think stolen and escaped from her captors) I tend to forgive her. She loves workmen who arrive with lunch sarnies in their cars or vans, and tend to leave their windows down......

 

[ArklePig]

My little delight stole a pair of my worn pants and paraded them around my in laws house. Food she's pretty trustworthy with but I would have traded her anything in that moment.

 

[dottylottie]

my mini poodle is a thief, but he doesn’t tend to chew things up. pinches anything not nailed down, but just to add to his toy box, and usually anything soft - slippers, socks, you get the gist.

one day my nana went to the loo, came back and he’d chewed her glasses up so much they wouldn’t stay on her face anymore

 

[rabatsa]

My first greyhound overdosed when he stole my new asthma ventolin inhaler, we thought he was going to die and I never want to go through that again.

I then had to explain to the doctor why I needed a new inhaler less than two days after the last one.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Zak was a shocker. Nicked my phone, shoved it under the shed all chewed. Nicked my OH’s wallet and chewed up the £200 he’d just got out to pay for some work we’d had done. He was far better as he grew older, would steal things but just carefully lay them neatly on his bed, it was an attention thing. He once stole the correctly labelled Christmas present from the bag, unwrapped it and pressed the button to make it play ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ to let us know he’d nicked it. He was a terror for running off with a shoe then he’d lose interest and you’d have to trawl the garden to find it.

Current dogs stole my blood thinners (I found all but one pill), my fault leaving them in reach. Mitch took the roast beef off the side one day. They will nick receipts etc that drop on the floor. Goose loves socks so they need to be hidden under the rest of the washing when I’ve paired them.

Brig once tipped over a bloke’s tin of sweetcorn he was using as bait and hoovered it up. He stole a little boy’s sausage roll at the park once, it was mortifying, I had no money on me. The mum didn’t seem to mind, he’d been very gentle.

 

[EventingMum]

We have Jack Russells, a previous one loved my son's rugby gum shield, he would sneak into his kit bag and somehow manage to open the box and take the gum shield out, we were visiting the dentist all the time for replacements until I convinced son to keep his kit bag locked in the wardrobe. The youngest of the current pack is an unashamed thief, his favourite things are ballpoint pens, slippers and dish towels. He chews the pens but fortunately hasn't burst the ink refill ........ yet. He has been through three pairs of Mr EM's slippers this year already and pinches towels of the aga and lays on them, presumably as they are warm and chews a corner, it's a good thing we love him! The two older dogs are much better behaved, the eldest will take socks and bizarrely glasses (specs) but doesn't chew, he just holds them very gently in his mouth "guarding" them from some unknown predator.

 

[SOS]

Our whippets are fine thieves, with the stealth and long nose to reach into bags and deep corners, but the innocent eyes to deter you from accusing them.

Currently the youngest likes to steal pants and socks out of the washing basket and hide them. She then likes to reveal them when guests are over… the less we know the people the more likely she seems to be to bring out a pair of hidden pants!

*Note she does not chew the pants or eat them, just hide, else I would be more concerned about her taking him.