Hounds that pinch

[meggymoo]

We had been out once and when we got home we couldn’t find our first greyhound. We finally found her on our bed (she’d never been upstairs before) with the duvet covered with what I first thought was poo. Turned out it was chocolate. She had found a chocolate hamper I’d made up with all my dads favourite chocolate, dark chocolate, whiskey truffles, chocolate biscuits - the lot. Yes I know it’s poisonous hence it being upstairs. I think she had a hang over but otherwise was ok.
First lab took a whole leg of lamb off the work top. Also had a complete block of butter.
Current lab: cuddly toy, pair of riding socks, pair of Ariat gloves and something unidentifiable. That lot required surgery. Then on three other occasions, a pair of roeckl riding gloves, a tube of iron cleaner (yes there is such a thing) and the last time 8 waxy ear plugs, that is, wax coated, not covered in ear wax as the receptionist thought I meant. All that lot was returned following pukey jabs!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

For pinching but not eating, the same lurcher mentioned above had an obsession with shoes. He never chewed them but you could never find a pair together. The funniest though was in summer and we had the back door open we found a line of wellies on the lawn and be stood up on my parents bed .

 

[Esmae]

My whoppet is a toad for chewing the cold cinders from the fire in the morning. He only does it after his piece of toast. I have no idea why.

 

[Unicorn]

My whoppet is a toad for chewing the cold cinders from the fire in the morning. He only does it after his piece of toast. I have no idea why.

Maybe you need to burn his toast more

 

[Esmae]

Maybe you need to burn his toast more

I did wonder about that. . He crumps away. Daft dog.

 

[Cortez]

I did wonder about that. . He crumps away. Daft dog.

My lurcher puppy dives into the (cold) fireplace at any opportunity. Charcoal is pretty inert, but it makes an awful mess, especially when it's on your pillow.....

Fireguard is in use now.

 

[Escapade]

My lurcher puppy dives into the (cold) fireplace at any opportunity. Charcoal is pretty inert, but it makes an awful mess, especially when it's on your pillow.....

Fireguard is in use now.

Mine has been known to push the fireguard out of the way for a nosey, I'm not sure what she expects to find ‍♀

 

[Cortez]

Mine has been known to push the fireguard out of the way for a nosey, I'm not sure what she expects to find ‍♀

Treasure......

 

[CMcC]

Lurcher and Saluki too many food thefts to mention.

Previous Lurcher nearly set the house on fire - she always walked over the kitchen worktops so no food left out. But I had left the kettle on the induction hob. I came home to hear the kettle whistling and kitchen full of steam. She had managed to walk across the hob, turn it on (it was very fiddly to turn on so don’t how she managed) select the ring the kettle was on and put that on high.

Kettle was mm from boiling dry.

I discovered that induction hobs have a lock on, probably designed for children not dogs.

 

[Magnetic Sparrow]

Saluki-based sighthound managed to get hold of a coconut shell containing a mixture of fat and seeds that I had hung high in the apple tree for the birds, and ate the lot.

The resulting poo was full of seeds and quite extraordinary in appearance. She threw up the pieces of shell.

 

[Jenko109]

Well this has been a fun read

 

[Chiffy]

This is a great thread, sorry I am late to it.
These days I train my puppies right from the start not to touch anything that is not theirs and absolutely NO counter surfing.
BUT, I do have history… the best was making a sponge cake for the village fete. I left it in its two layers on cooling racks at the back of the kitchen top. Not sure I was out of the room for long but half of each layer was not there any more! Long legged lurcher, very happy! I had to cook all over again!
One of the best lurcher stories was a friend who held a very smart dinner party. As she invited her guests into the dining room to sit down for the starters that were already in place, each plate looked untouched but there were just triangles of brown bread and a piece of lemon. No smoked salmon! Every piece had been carefully removed without disturbing anything else! Happy dog!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

My whoppet is a toad for chewing the cold cinders from the fire in the morning. He only does it after his piece of toast. I have no idea why.

Zak and Bear would be heads in the cold woodburner eating burnt bits of charcoal. They’d clean up under the bbq, too, all the bits that fell out.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

Just remembered when Ivy, who is very low effort with her theft, uncharacteristically went rummaging in my work rucksack and stole my headset. Then extracted them from the plastic bag they were in and ate both of the foam earpiece covers.

 

[Jenko109]

My late whippet learn to open the bin by stepping on the foot pedal. We had to keep something heavy on the bin at all times.

No worry about that with my current whippet. He's pretty thick and has not even figured out that you can push against a slightly ajar door to open it

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

No worry about that with my current whippet. He's pretty thick and has not even figured out that you can push against a slightly ajar door to open it

This is the level Ivy is at and I am so grateful for it!

 

[Esmae]

My lurcher puppy dives into the (cold) fireplace at any opportunity. Charcoal is pretty inert, but it makes an awful mess, especially when it's on your pillow.....

Fireguard is in use now.

Beau just moves the ruddy fireguard!! As I type he is doing that. Dog is bonkers!

 

[Esmae]

This is a great thread, sorry I am late to it.
These days I train my puppies right from the start not to touch anything that is not theirs and absolutely NO counter surfing.
BUT, I do have history… the best was making a sponge cake for the village fete. I left it in its two layers on cooling racks at the back of the kitchen top. Not sure I was out of the room for long but half of each layer was not there any more! Long legged lurcher, very happy! I had to cook all over again!
One of the best lurcher stories was a friend who held a very smart dinner party. As she invited her guests into the dining room to sit down for the starters that were already in place, each plate looked untouched but there were just triangles of brown bread and a piece of lemon. No smoked salmon! Every piece had been carefully removed without disturbing anything else! Happy dog!

My late old whippet girl did that with a sandwich I was making. I had put the bread lettuce tomato and slice of ham, someone came to the door. I literally halfturned to say come in and hello and turned back and the ham had disappeared! Nothing else disturbed. I had never left the sandwich. Very happy whippet with Mrs innocent face

 

[Ratface]

Many years ago, I had a GSD and an Afghan Hound. They were an excellent pair of thieves. The GSD was the brains, the AH was the gofer.
We had a pantry, with a cold slab, a meat safe and shelves above for dry goods. It was accessed by an old-fashioned pres down and push thumb-activated latch.
The GSD would case the joint, make sure that the humans were busy, then find the Afghan Hound.
GSD would do a semi-sit, put a weighty forepaw on the thumb rest and the Afghan Hound would poke his long, pointy nose in the smallest gap and push it open.
GSD would retreat to guard duty and the AH would remove anything that wasn't tinned or bottled and carry them out to the far end of the garden, where they'd be sorted into Eat Now and Bury For Later.
Eat Now was only recognisable by torn wrappers, bits of string, or (TMI warning) piles of undigested . . .?? Bury For Later was recognised by heaps of earth and any or all of the above. Occasionally, the gardener would complain about digging up a rancid chicken carcass.
The worse thing that they did was slink into the pantry unnoticed and eaten an entire luncheon menu prepared by my mother's cook, prior to a visit from my very difficult and permanently- disapproving mother-in-law. She always came with her own picnic "because you never have a clue how to do anything properly" including a thermos of sweet tea. This she insisted on eating/drinking having pushed the place setting into the middle of the table.
She hated going out for a walk. "Up one lane and down another!" Accompanied by a derogatory sniff.
I found it very difficult to warm to her and had to rely on my impeccable good upbringing.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Two days ago we were sitting minding our own business and enjoying our butties and coffee during a rest stop by a XC fence part way round the course while walking Badminton XC on the first dressage day.

We were sitting on the top tier of an otherwise nearly empty spectator viewing platform.

Suddenly a large light coloured dog (no collar or lead, despite the requirement that all dogs at the event should be on a lead at all times) came bounding up the steps from nowhere fully intent on snaffling our food .

OH shouted 'OiYouGetOffOutOfIt' (may be somewhat paraphrased ) at it to send it off.

Then we became aware that it was actually one of the hunt hounds that were on mounted hound exercise behind us! The huntsman gave OH an absolutely filthy look for daring to shout at a hound, even a thieving one .

 

[Landcruiser]

The worst thing our lurcher ever stole was my new glasses which were almost £600. I just happened to find them in the garden missing one lens and chewed up nicely. Second worst was a mince pie on New Years Eve, meaning a vey expensive after midnight trip to the OOH vets. 3rd worst - my OH's birthday cake, cooling on the side from the oven, 2 years running.