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Would rather she did not vomit right behind me whilst I am eating my lunch of carrot soup and bread.
It turns out she had eaten the avocado pip when she raided the bin the other night!
She has a habit of helping herself to things in the top of the bin, I am still trying to get other half to remember to shut the kitchen door when he goes through it.
We will get there.
 
My dogs have never raided the bin and friends are aghast when they come and see my sack of dog food on the floor within easy reach. I wish I could say it was down to my fabulous prowess as a dog trainer, but actually it is just the way they are and nothing I have specifically done.
 
if a crumb of any description hits the floor my dogs grab it, but even the lab does not raid the bin. I was a bit worried as we have moved to an open plan house so there is no where downstairs to shut the dogs- who used to be in living area behind a baby gate when we went out. but touch wood, they have not tried to open the bin. but out on a walk lab is a pain for finding anything vaguely edible, although he rarely brings it back up except in the garden.
 
Of all my dogs only my lurchers have been food thieves, before them I used to keep dog food in a sack on the floor but that is now a distant memory.
My other half used to keep a sack of dog food on the floor and the spaniels never touched it which is why he is struggling to adjust to a lurcher thief, I remember struggling to adjust too, it's so bleddy annoying.
If food drops on the floor she waits to see if she is allowed it, food on a plate on your lap she won't touch but the bin is obviously fair game..
 
I have a slender lurcher, the food in the bowl will be left, the food in the bag will be snacked on.
He is has some deerhound in him so is tall so work tops are no problem, he is also a silent sneek, and hand bag raider for anyting you have forgotton from shopping and work.
I do love him but I will not another, he is the most self interested, lazy, sneek and lives life to do exactly what he can get away with the least inconvenience to himself.
 
Levrier said:
I love this thread :D I haven't had a dog-accessible bin for 30 years..... I would never dream of leaving a sack of dog food unattended..... I never, ever leave anything at all on the kitchen worksurfaces. I assumed that was normal and everyone did it :p:D:D:D
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We’ve never had a bin raider until Bo came along! Learning this lesson fast. No food is left on worktops, because if Aled didn’t get it, the cat did. Have to keep the sack of dogfood locked in pantry as Bo, and Aled when we had him, would definitely scoff the lot. Luna is pretty good really.
 
i used to have a deerhound so even the back of the worktop wasnt safe.....when she was staying with my mum the doorbell rang and mum went to answer it and when she came back her ham sandwich had been eaten but the plate was still at the back of the worktop. i did tell her that she should have known what would happen as many years ago my first whippet lurcher managed to take the roast joint off the plate which was on the worktop and was eating it in her bed. mum had only left it to rest while she was setting the table....we had an interesting sunday dinner with tinned corn beef :(
 
Magnetic Sparrow said:
Dog sick greeted me on Monday morning. It contained pieces of well crushed coconut shell. I cannot fathom why she thought coconut shell was even edible, let alone food.
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I came downstairs this morning, in my socks, and trod in a pile of sick in the dark. I have no idea what it was as being a good labrador Pen (she was the only one in the hall) had eaten all the solid bits and just left the slime
 
She is so sneaky, never knocks the bin over.
My last lurcher stole the bread I had buttered to make sandwhiches, I did not move away from the bread, I just half turned to reach the ham, I did not see her do it but the bread had gone!
She also stole lunch sandwhiches that were in the food bags, the next day a panicked looking lurcher came at me full pelt when I was fencing up the field, yep, she had a bag hanging out her bum from where she had been having a poop, one of the vets laughed and said it bought new meaning to 'shit bag'.
I loved that dog.
The current one nearly had the turkey the other Christmas, to be fair she had not been in a house long and my mum left the kitchen door open, moved the turkey to the front of the work surface and turned her back to it! Luckily I walked in before the dogs jaws made contact, the mouth was open ready to take the offering though.
I love this dog too, she makes me laugh everyday and tear my hair out too.
 
Oh you do have my sympathy. Button must have eaten something yesterday because she now has a sicky tummy. 1am, 4am wake up calls and still a bit sick today.

If she’s no better soon, she will have to trot along to the vet as she’s the old bird. He will think I’m trying to kill them all because the other two were poorly while we were at the seaside just a few days ago :rolleyes:
 
deb_l222 said:
Oh you do have my sympathy. Button must have eaten something yesterday because she now has a sicky tummy. 1am, 4am wake up calls and still a bit sick today.

If she’s no better soon, she will have to trot along to the vet as she’s the old bird. He will think I’m trying to kill them all because the other two were poorly while we were at the seaside just a few days ago :rolleyes:
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Hope it turns out to be nothing.
 
My first greyhound took the weetabix from the dish whilst OH was reaching across the table for the milk.

My first GSD started as a bin raider but a metal tray with all the car and house keys heaped on it, balanced on top of the microwave, taped to a bit of string which had the other end fastened to the bin lid worked a treat.

The clatter when the whole lot fell had her rushing out of the kitchen and me out of bed, as OH had set the trap and failed to tell me.
 
rabatsa said:
My first greyhound took the weetabix from the dish whilst OH was reaching across the table for the milk.

My first GSD started as a bin raider but a metal tray with all the car and house keys heaped on it, balanced on top of the microwave, taped to a bit of string which had the other end fastened to the bin lid worked a treat.

The clatter when the whole lot fell had her rushing out of the kitchen and me out of bed, as OH had set the trap and failed to tell me.
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That is a good idea. :-)
 
i was lucky as none of my lurchers tried to get stuff out of the bin but if i had any cooked bones or anything i knew they would find very tasty they were wrapped up and put in the dustbin which is in the front garden so not accessible for the dogs..
 
deb_l222 said:
Oh you do have my sympathy. Button must have eaten something yesterday because she now has a sicky tummy. 1am, 4am wake up calls and still a bit sick today.

If she’s no better soon, she will have to trot along to the vet as she’s the old bird. He will think I’m trying to kill them all because the other two were poorly while we were at the seaside just a few days ago :rolleyes:
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Hope she is ok
 
JennBags said:
Always wear slippers!
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Then you what my other half did when his spaniel crapped on the highly patterned (not our choice) living room carpet, now remember this is a spaniel, they cannot stay still even when crapping and spin in a little circle and walk off whilst performing, that crap ended up on every carpet and lino in the place cos other half did not 'feel' it, I would rather he had had bare feet and yes it does appear that he has no sense of smell before his first coffee in the morning.
 
Now that is totally a man thing Twiggy, they are all the same - "HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE NOTICED???!!!! ARE YOU TOTALLY STUPID???!!! OH, BUT YOU WANT ME TO CLEAN IT UP NOW DO YOU???!!!!"

But of course they make so much bloody fuss that it IS easier to clean it up yourself as it takes half the time with none of the melodrama....

ETA - slippers? Do most people wear them? No wonder I have holes in my socks
 
As this is the 'my dog is a dirty so and so' thread, I'm going to over share what Willow did to me this morning, the dirty article.

To set the scene, she pulls (a lot) on the lead, so she wears a gencon. She does however still pull with the gencon and when her feet touch anything other than concrete it gets worse. She then has a tendency to get all rabid and frothy at the mouth.

This morning, lovely morning, nice stroll along the side of the canal. She was springing and pulling and being a complete wally as usual. Frothing and snorting like a pug with hayfever - you get the picture. I feel a sneeze coming on, she shakes her head, I open mouth to sneeze, snot and froth fly off her all over my sneezing face and mouth. Absolute perfect bloomin timing :oops:

Dogs, who'd have 'em!
 
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