FOOD I don't know whether to be mad or laugh...

buff

buff

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I bought a couple ribeyes today to put on the grill...I know...meat on friday, but its not lent so....

anyways..i took them out and put them on the counter to season and get to room temp before putting them on the grill...I should have known better. then went to take a shower..

I have two labs...one yellow and one black. the black one has been known to counter surf for food, but never has he touched raw meat before..well...

came out of the shower and found him with a bloody snout and paws and both steaks half eaten on the floor...the yellow lab was in the other room on her bed...the look on his face when I caught him was totally priceless...talk about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar...

aw well...just ordered a pizza...
 
BigBadBossyDog

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buff said:
I bought a couple ribeyes today to put on the grill...I know...meat on friday, but its not lent so....

anyways..i took them out and put them on the counter to season and get to room temp before putting them on the grill...I should have known better. then went to take a shower..

I have two labs...one yellow and one black. the black one has been known to counter surf for food, but never has he touched raw meat before..well...

came out of the shower and found him with a bloody snout and paws and both steaks half eaten on the floor...the yellow lab was in the other room on her bed...the look on his face when I caught him was totally priceless...talk about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar...

aw well...just ordered a pizza...
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hehehehehehehe! Been there, done that!
 
Cardinal

Cardinal

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Dog is God spelled backwards. Always remember that (when attempting to eat meat of Fridays) ;)
 
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FlyLadyFan

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Yeah, both labs I've had were total chow-hounds; thieves and beggars the lot of them.

Let's see . . . a Christmas ham, several cheeseburgers, a 2-lb box of Whitman's (no ill effect), corn on the cob, french fries, pbj's, too many chicken nuggets to count.

FLF

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yinonyavo

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just the reverse for me. i baked a pizza and it was piping hot, i laid it on a box on my bed and went to answer the door (neighbor). When i came back within three minutes, my two newfoundlands had eaten the piping hot pizza.i guess they like cheese pizzas.
 
Seeker

Seeker

3 Bombs for Hawkins
Ahhhhhhh Buff, what a well-fed doggie you have - its such a joy to hear about owners who take such good care of their loving companions. :lol:
 
Milk-maid

Milk-maid

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I had a cocker spaniel that absolutely couldn't be trusted around food when we weren't around.

She who had been known to push a chair across the room to get up on the counter where the roast meat was sitting. Who chewed through a heavy Pizza Hut box to get to the left-over pizza inside. Who once was in the backyard at a neighborhood BBQ and when we left and all went swimming, completely ate the rest of the grilled chicken, hamburgers, etc, off the picnic table til she could barely waddle.

Yea, she was a good dog, but she loved our meat and chocolate.
 
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theoriginaldeb

theoriginaldeb

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:lol:Yes...labs are the worst. But ya gotta love how they tell on themselves....even when you don't know what they did.
Mine would eat things that were not meant to be eaten...just to make sure....I suppose no one else would eat it.
But I have sheep who will eat chicken and rabbit food if they can get to it.
Chickens and a turkey who adore dry cat food.
And cats who will eat any and I mean any human food they can get to if it is left out.....I thought cats were supposed to be finicky.
One of them will even eat a loaf of bread...just because its there...even when they have a full dish of cat food.
 
lectrickitty

lectrickitty

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At my house the meat is safe. My thief is a nutty barn cat that will walk right past the meat and viciously attack a loaf of bread!
 
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gunnersmom

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Labbies do love the counter food. I had a yellow named Kelly. Kelly came to us at age four from a family that divorced. She had been overbred and fed crap dog food her entire life. I started her on good proteins and people food because she had almost no teeth.

One day I laid a three or four pound roast on the counter waaaaay back to thaw and went to work. Hubby worked nights and was in bed. Called my MIL and invited her over for dinner. Came home at lunch to pop that baby in the oven. No roast. Asked hubby if he had moved it. Not. Found the pink styrofoam tray and the plastic in the living room with no meat or blood or anything. Found Kelly on my son's bed, in misery. She didn't move for two or three days, but when she did, she took the biggest poop I've ever seen.

Four pound roast, frozen, no teeth. Ya gotta love em.

We went out for dinner, MIL bought.
 
pops88

pops88

Girls with Guns Member
My German Shepherd knows not to even sniff in the direction of the counter or dining table. My sister had two cats that would knock stuff of the counter for her Cocker Spaniel.
 
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Amazed

Does too have a life!
Then there was my beagle mix that ate a whole box of All Bran. :eek: And yes poor ole Chopper was outside for the best part of 2 days. :lol:
 
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AnnCats

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lectrickitty said:
At my house the meat is safe. My thief is a nutty barn cat that will walk right past the meat and viciously attack a loaf of bread!
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We had two Mexican jungle cats that we rescued and bottle baby size babies when their mother was killed by hunteres down by Puerto Vallarta. THey weighed about twenty pounds and had the non-retractable claws and long teeth and funny ears that true wild cats have.

My husband cooked a lovely baked chicken with all the goodies like onions and potatoes and carrots and then went upstairs while dinner was cooling on the counter.

He heard something suspicious and came out to find the cat AND the chicken half way up the stairs and when he tried to take the chicken away from the cat, he was in danger of being sliced, diced and mangled.

He let the cat have the chicken.

We had that cat for about eight years and when it got very old looking way too young, as far as we were concerned, we went to the San Diego Zoo. We wanted to see if they had any suggestions because they had the same kind of jungle cat in their exotic cats area.

Turns out they wanted to interview us because they'd never managed to keep that particular type of cat alive in captivity for more than 4 years.

I still think the roasted chicken had a lot to do with the happy and long lived kitty.:kat:
 
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patb

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My granddaughter had a black, longhaired, green-eyed cat who thought he was people. He once ate a half box of powdered sugar donuts. Don't remember that he had any ill effects. Although I didn't ask. :groucho:

Patricia
 
buff

buff

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Well at least it wasn't the tootsie rolls from the cat litter box.
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well...they have a "thing" for small furrys..they each weigh about 130 lbs..

kittys, squirrels, and bunnies don't last very long around them.
 
Kent

Kent

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pops88 said:
My German Shepherd knows not to even sniff in the direction of the counter or dining table. My sister had two cats that would knock stuff of the counter for her Cocker Spaniel.
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Funny, we had a GSD that was the same way, you could leave meat on the counter and go away, it would still be untouched when you got back.
 
Walrus Whisperer

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
THIS is why we put anything defrosting or waiting to be eaten in the microwave. We call it "The Cat-Proof Box".
The deaf white one trys to gnaw herself off something on the counter and proceeds to knock it off the counter into the waiting jaws of the fat corgi.
:whistle:
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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Neither Hermione nor Odin will counter surf. BUT - once the food is on my plate, I get "mooched" so ferociously that I only get a few bites, and they get the rest. They'll sit there 6" from me, staring with those "begging" big brown eyes. And if I'm not real careful, they'll steal a bite right off my plate.

But anything on the stove or counters is safe.


Oh, and Odin decided this evening that he likes Snickers bars now....
 
nanna

nanna

Devil's Advocate
My first cat, Reece, decided she liked cake.

Took a big chunk out of some angel food cake I was eating, yummy.

I think she liked the way it felt in her mouth.
 
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big kumara

meh
Once put a leftover baked chicken in the fridge...couple hours later, I opened the fridge to get something to drink and found the cat inside, curled up next to a pile of very clean chicken bones.
 
IndyGirl

IndyGirl

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IF YOU THINK THAT IS BAD LOOK AT DOODLEBUG, THIS IS AFTER HER DADDY(TONY) CAME HOME FROM WORK FOR DINNER...........SHE IS A TERRIABLE BEGGER!!!!!!!!!!!










BTW BUFF.......SORRY ABOUT YOUR STEAKS......IG
 

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Rescuedog

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I have three labs who counter surf, one of them (Bear) can open the bread drawer and crack open cans of cat food. I can't leave anything on the counter, including fruit because they eat it. They even eat the cherry tomatoes off the vine and the raspberries off the bush.

They're are our pig-dogs!

RD
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
The best gift might be tomorrow Buff. If your pup isn't used to eating raw meat she might get the runs real bad. It will really make your day if you get up in the morning and she has crapped all over the floor and the carpet as well!!
 
Krymsonowl

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I had a cat who was such a junk food addict I had to put child proof locks on the cupboards or he would get in and help himself. I remember coming home to a pile of oreo crumbs minus the filling as he liked the filling and then there was the day I came home to peanuts in a pile as a result of his finding the M&M's with peanuts. Mr Humphries was a treasure. Oh he also went to the neighbors house and snuck in and stole a cooked porkchop off a plate on her counter and ran back home with her behind him yelling.
 
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dash8200

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About ten years ago my dogs got in the house when the family was not home. It was almost Christmas, and we had boxes of chocolates wrapped under the tree. We came home to rather fat and happy dogs. I thought chocolate was supposed to make them terribly ill, but apparently they did not get that memo. They both more than doubled their life expectancy. One is still with me. She is fourteen. What does not kill you will make you stronger???? :dpaw:
 
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Tennessee gal

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Dennis Olson said:
Neither Hermione nor Odin will counter surf. BUT - once the food is on my plate, I get "mooched" so ferociously that I only get a few bites, and they get the rest. They'll sit there 6" from me, staring with those "begging" big brown eyes. And if I'm not real careful, they'll steal a bite right off my plate.

But anything on the stove or counters is safe.


Oh, and Odin decided this evening that he likes Snickers bars now....
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Dennis we have a couple of moochers at our house too. My nieces laugh their heads off because when we fix omlets for breakfast and our Lab and Border Collie get one too. Hey, what's good enough for us is good enough for our girls ! LOL
 
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We have four Austraiian Shephards.

They pretend to sleep, while we are eating. But as soon as the last fork goes silent...they assemble. Quietly.

I divide the offerings into four portions. Maybe 8 or 12 if they are lucky.

I make them sit. and sing the song...

"Anything you can eat, I will eat also,....Anything you will eat I can eat too,...."

And then each one gets a fork full...

It really does not matter how much they get... it is just a matter of the pack leaders sharing....

They are wolves. really, after all!
 
Terriannie

Terriannie

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Boy my Yorkie would be soooo jealous! He literally hangs by my feet constantly hoping and hoping and hoping just one teeny, tiny, little tidbit will fall. Doesn't matter if it's an diced onion or bell pepper.

I do have to say it does pay off though. About 5 years ago I was fixing ham sandwiches and a slice slipped right out of my hands and it fell into his open mouth!!!
 
GingerN

GingerN

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Dennis Olson said:
Neither Hermione nor Odin will counter surf. BUT - once the food is on my plate, I get "mooched" so ferociously that I only get a few bites, and they get the rest. They'll sit there 6" from me, staring with those "begging" big brown eyes. And if I'm not real careful, they'll steal a bite right off my plate.

But anything on the stove or counters is safe.


Oh, and Odin decided this evening that he likes Snickers bars now....
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I have a pair of horses that way. We can't leave drinks or snacks on the tail gate when they are in the pasture. They will steal them. The only thing Rebel won't eat is a chicken leg. He grabbed that off the picnic table got one taste and flung it away like he couldn't bear to be near it-this is the same horse that steals pizza sticks out of your hand if you are not careful. Renegade, who is the best mannered horse under saddle will turn around and go back to the truck no matter how much you fight if he sees a Coke can there or a jar of Tang. Rebel will sneak up behind you (1100# QH and he SNEAKS) and steal what you have in your hand. He loves PEEPS and bananas and tangerines. They can hear a candy wrapper from the back of a 5 acre pasture. My farrier ROFLOL when he saw the begging for tangerines.

Yes, we used to spend LOTS of time at the barn, lol
 
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gunnersmom

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CAgdma, my little mutties are just the same way! They NEVER beg while hubby and I are eating, though they do stay within eyeshot of us. As soon as we are done, there they are, at least my little boy. He absolutely insists on licking the plates, even if there is nothing on them. And I do hand feed my dogs at least four times a week, or I should say fork feed.

They sit there so nice and pretty, waiting their turns. When I babysit my friends dogs, a jack russell and a yorkie, they all four sit in a nice line by size and wait for their bites. Its rather impressive.
 
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WalknTrot

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Labs are great garbage hounds and counter thieves, but they KNOW that we can't help but love their sorry lug-butts...so they are safe!

Right now I'm living with a distinguished lady of a Malamute who would never think of doing such a thing. It's too eerie...so I am cruising the shelters looking for another lab X pup since my hound girl passed last month. Yikes. She was another bald-faced thief, but you couldn't get mad at her. "Just being a hound, Ma...it's what I do" :) Bless her little speckled self..still miss her awful, and somehow, all of those lost butter dishes are forgotten.
 
Wise Owl

Wise Owl

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Dogs beg for food because they are meat eaters and their diet is sadly lacking, "usually" in meat. Dog food is in general only partial meat and the rest fillers and that includes all the veggie stuff they add now days to make the humans think the food is adequate to feed to their dogs.

Our pup is raw fed and she gets REAL meat daily for her food. Along with raw edible bones and and organs. Yes, she will beg for some of our meals but she is getting what her body needs. MEAT......

Oh, she hates veggies. The only fruits she likes are apples and berries. I guess she is like her wolf cousins. They eat meat and will nibble on fruit if it is available.

She does not know what dog food is cause she has NEVER eaten it. But give her a chicken leg quarter or a hunk of pork or other meat and she does it in shortly.
She is now 90lbs of lean, muscular dog. Strong as an ox and healthy. No skin problems or anything else for that matter.

She is a registered Malamute from raw fed Champion bloodline parents and grandparents, minimally vaccinated... They are also healthy and happy dogs.
 

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Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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Funny some of you should talk about fork-feeding. Since Hermione was a pup, she would take food off a fork WITHOUT HER MOUTH TOUCHING THE TINES. She would delicately pull the morsel off the fork and eat it, never dropping any. When Odin came to the house, he couldn't do that. Well, after watching Hermione for a couple of months and "practicing" (heh), he's now as good at it as she is.

It's funny as all heck to see these two huge German Shepherds deftly plucking food bits of a fork....


ETA: As to why dogs beg and mooch, I have to disagree with WO on this one. IMO they mooch because WE are the pack leaders, and they want a little "manna" from the leader as a sign of our love for them. A little "boon" from the alpha, dontcha know. The food I feed them is ultra-premium and mostly meat meal. There are (of course) lots of other things in it, which I firmly believe provide essential nutritional components. ANd I add hamburger, steamed rice, peas or green beans and rotisserie chicken for Hermione and summer sausage for Odin (he's allergic to poultry products). They are happy and healthy, and their fur is soft and shiny.
 
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