WTH? My dog stole a roast out of the fridge!

[Skywalker]

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments and stories.

I do feel good after calling the vet, he said pretty much what you guys said, just be prepared for some, um, cleaning up today.

Yes, it was a lean beef roast - no pork. It was a top roast too! The kind we only buy like once a year, lol.

This dog is a Springer Spaniel / Husky blend...interesting combo to say the least.

I think I'll just give up and go to McDonald's for supper now. The dog gets the premium roast and we get the crap. You gotta love some days.

 

[MontanaZoo]

My flat coat retriever has us convinced that he's not all that smart - he always has a look with his head tipped like I understand those are words but I have no idea what you're saying. Yeah, it's an act. He's managed to get the cabinet door open to get in the garbage. He also figured out how to quietly get out of the room and on to the stove/countertops and eat something and then he comes into the living room and does victory laps with his ears back (he just did this with 4 polish sausages at my parents' house). The only safe place in the house is on top of the fridge. He also likes to grab dishes and utensils out of the sink that aren't washed yet and take them into the backyard or living room to lick and chew them. I came downstairs once to find a knife in the living room and I just found a spatula in the backyard.

The other night I was downstairs watching tv and the dogs water bowl must have been empty cause I heard the dog in the bathroom trying to open the toilet lid with his nose and paws to get a drink.

 

[justjudy]

Years ago, my Akita took a package of SOLID FROZEN chicken breast off the counter and ate it. He was fine. I was shocked. HA!

My border collie did the same thing! I had taken the chicken out of the freezer, put it on the counter and took my DD to her flute lesson. Came back and I was "Where is the chicken? I did take it out of the freezer, didn't I?" I thought I was really losing it when for some reason I walked into the living room and saw the little pieces of packaging all over the place! The dog was fine. This dog ate EVERYTHING, including my DD's watch, so chicken was nothing for him!

 

[Aimeedyan]

Threads like this make me thankful that my largest dog is only 40 pounds. They still get into lots of trouble but things shoved to the back of the counters aren't harmed at least.

I hope your pup doesn't have too much of a yucky tummy... on the other hand, it would serve him right if he did feel pukey today

 

[lillygator]

your dog can open the fridge?

 

[binny]

we had a Standard Poodle growing up who would pass up any meat for the bread drawer. If you left that drawer even cracked you could be sure whatever ever contents were in it would be gone by morning!

Best dog ever though

 

[MosMom]

I just spent $165 today on my Golden Retriever because she ate a roll of toilet paper and was having bloody diarrhea. Consider yourself lucky.

 

[Skywalker]

your dog can open the fridge?

Apparently?

And he is not normally too bright either. I don't know what got into him. It's not like he was starving and made a move out of desperation. I don't even know how he could smell the roast in there. Then again, he probably saw me put it in there and waited for his chance, lol.

 

[LindaR]

Oh JEEZ! We need to have this thread deleted before my toy poodle, Millie, reads it and gets even MORE ideas of ways she can get in trouble (and blame it on the big dog)!!!!

 

[Master Mason]

for those with issues with their dogs getting stuff off the counters, I would like to suggest trying a "can Monster"

Get yourself a few aluminum cans that are empty, and put a few pennies in each one. Then attach a string to all of them, should be 18 inches to 2 feet apart. Then attach something that the dog will go after. When they take it the can monster will come down. It only takes a couple of times.

ETA this learned after my lab got 2lbs of bacon that I had sat on the counter when I went to the other room to get something.

 

[diz4ever]

There must be something in the air lately. Got up this morning to find out that my dog (great dane) had eaten the wall. Yes, the wall. A 2 x 2 foot square of drywall, paint down to the insulation. Then she had thrown it up all over my clean carpet. This is her second time at eating a wall (it was 1 year ago that she ate the wall before). And to top it off, she doesn't start at a corner, she eats the FLAT wall. Go figure!!

 

[wilderness01]

There must be something in the air lately. Got up this morning to find out that my dog (great dane) had eaten the wall. Yes, the wall. A 2 x 2 foot square of drywall, paint down to the insulation. Then she had thrown it up all over my clean carpet. This is her second time at eating a wall (it was 1 year ago that she ate the wall before). And to top it off, she doesn't start at a corner, she eats the FLAT wall. Go figure!!

Sorry your dog did this. We had a little dog that would eat the wall as well, but started with the corner and worked her way inward. Brat!

To the OP, glad your dog will be ok. He is one smart cookie!

 

[koolaidmoms]

I had a St. Bernard who would eat anything. A 5lb. bag of wrapped Halloween candy (my backyard looked like someone threw confetti on it); 5lb. tub of butter (never even lifted his head when the pizza man rang the door bell after that one); a whole moldy onion out of the garbage and 2 bars of Ivory soap (his breath sure did smell great!).

I also have 2 $150 ea. x-rays of his intestines when he swallowed a baby diaper whole. I threaten to hang them on my walls sometimes as the most expensive thing I own!

Our vet was VERY familiar with us. If in doubt call them.

 

[Aisling]

The title of this thread is hilarious! And cute!

 

[LuvN~Travel]

So, are you planning own buying him his 'own' roast next week too?
Boy, that must be one happy dog! lol
Kim

 

[stacy347]

LOL, that is so funny (hope he isn't feeling too yucky though )!

My current dog will go after anything that is left out now that he is on steroids ~ I had no idea what those do to a dog's appetite! We keep everything out of his reach now.

Growing up we had a crazy dog that would eat anything as well. One year, I picked out candy gifts for both of my grandmas for Christmas (chocolate covered cherries) and wrapped them and put them under the tree...he unwrapped both packs and had them gone the same day. Another day we came home and he had eaten my stereo ~ half of the cords were gone and it was still plugged in! I don't know how that dog lived so long.

 

[SeeVee]

When I was a kid, my lab came home with a fully cooked, still smoking bar-b-q chicken!

I still laugh when I think about some poor dumb sap going out to his pit to get his chicken and it was gone.

 

[DISshopkeeper]

When I was a kid, my lab came home with a fully cooked, still smoking bar-b-q chicken!

I still laugh when I think about some poor dumb sap going out to his pit to get his chicken and it was gone.

OMG!!! I cannot stop laughing now!

This whole thread is hysterical!

 

[Laura24]

packages of yummy, gigundo muffins you buy at Costco or BJ's? Well I left the house with a full package sitting on the counter and came home to find all of the muffins on the outside edge of the package gone and the tops of the other two rows gone. Yep, my Akita had eaten all that she could reach. Now if she had been as crafty as the dogs mentioned here that open refrigerators, she could have helped herself to some milk to go with those muffins.

 

[LuvN~Travel]

Oh ours recently 'helped' herself to a loaf of apple bread I had just picked up at Walmart, then just a couple of weeks later managed to get a package of Nutter Butter cookies off of the counter that had just been placed there after we got home, and ate all of those too, before we found her.
Yep, she is part Lab too.
Kim