Very bad dog! 🐶

Mine was a little pug cross puppy and ate a huge Easter egg. Labradors actually have genes which make them forever hungry, poor things. When crossed with poodles they are often fussy and not at all greedy.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned there is an online calculator where you put how many grams of which type of chocolate they have eaten and the weight of your dog. It then tells you to what extent they may have had a toxic dose. The darker the chocolate the smaller the amount and obviously the smaller the dog the less they can safely eat. Obviously I wouldn't deliberately let them have chocolate, but mine have caught me off guard in the past and decided, using the calculator, that no action apart from close observation required x

Aveline, my mother had a part Siamese cat. They lived on an unadapted road with 8 houses. Neighbours all had to get containers because she took the lid off milk bottles and ate the cream. She once arrived through the open kitchen window with a cooked leg of lamb she’d stolen from a neighbour. She also walked with mum and her dog. A local farmer once suggested mum might have witchcraft powers - you’re that woman who walks a black cat aren’t you. He said

My experience is cats are much cleverer than dogs. They’re also totally focussed on their own needs. Most dogs want to please their people. Even if they’re a work in progress like my young lab

Gosh! I'm glad we haven't a dog. What naughty boys (and girls). Mind you our doorbell went one day and it was a neighbour. She snippily handed over a salmon saying, 'That cat of yours has had half of it you might as well have the rest!!' 🙀

I understand the thing about labs is they tend to think they're on a seafood diet - as in, they see food and they want to eat it

Many years ago my in laws dog licked all the chocolate off a box of chocolate Brazil nuts, nuts were left intact 😂

BlueBalou

Yes Callistemon21. She’d been horribly ill-treated and starved before we got her, and I guess just had to grab food whenever she found it 😢
She was a lovely dog, I still miss her.

Oh dear, poor thing.
I don't know how people can do that 😥

Our spaniel was well-fed but just greedy!

Squiffy

For those of you who haven't seen this video before. A lab and Alsatian Spaghetti Eating Contest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYTSS14SFY0

Hands down. Every time. No contest!
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Hands down everytime! No contest.

I’ve been careful with the raisins, chocolate, grapes and onions. She loves raw carrots which is fine. Malt loaf (with vine fruits) has such a strong appeal for her that I have to eat it standing up-or in a different room!

Yes Callistemon21. She’d been horribly ill-treated and starved before we got her, and I guess just had to grab food whenever she found it 😢
She was a lovely dog, I still miss her.

Used to have a Border Collie who ignored her big bag of biscuits stored in a recess in the kitchen. She was the most ungreedy dog I've ever seen. She never bothered anyone for food and ambled over to her dish when food was put out. I was horrified at first when visiting dogs made a beeline for the bag of biscuits which was always then put away at these times. She never chewed anything and was most loved. She set an incredibly high behaviour bar without any formal dog behaviour.

I should have said Golden Retriever vs German Shepherd!

For those of you who haven't seen this video before. A lab and Alsatian Spaghetti Eating Contest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYTSS14SFY0

What dog can do magic?

A Labracadabrador!!!!

Sorry - couldn’t resist!

Caleo

You have to hide poisons such as chocolates from dogs. Labs are intelligent and quite large so naturally they will get poisonous temptations that you leave on the floor.

Do keep chocolates, hearing aids, grapes and raisins well away from this dog!

Yes, in the fridge!

Some dogs are very clever and very greedy.

We had a cat that thought he was a dog - he was born in a house with a Great Dane who used to look after the kittens in his basket when mother cat went for her daily constitutional. He loved bones, would sit on command and offer a paw. Two doors along from our house there was a butcher's shop with a freezer in a building out back, and the butcher was always chasing our cat out of the freezer. One morning, we awoke to the sight of a fully frozen leg of lamb on our lawn with a happy looking cat sitting nearby guarding it. How he managed to carry it out of the freezer and into our garden we never found out!!

You have to hide poisons such as chocolates from dogs. Labs are intelligent and quite large so naturally they will get poisonous temptations that you leave on the floor.

Do keep chocolates, hearing aids, grapes and raisins well away from this dog!

Oopsadaisy1
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He was a tiny cat and it was an an enormous chicken. Our dog was a Springer, (the clue is in the name ) and it wasn’t the first time I had heard the table crash as he leapt on it.

Plus the cat looked very innocent and the dog very very guilty!

But you could be right….

Oopsadaisy1 Methinks maybe the cat was the guilty one.
He’d find it much easier jumping up onto tables. Poor doggie getting the blame 😉😆

Callistemon, our old dog never cared for dog biscuits* or even human ones - not that I often buy those anyway - but she adored raw carrots. And even when she was very old the vet said her teeth were still very good.

*I once ate one of the spurned Bonios for a bet. In fact I quite liked it!

My dog doesn’t bother with stealing food, he goes for something easy like a sock and just stands on it until swapped for a piece of liver treat

BlueBalou

We had a dog who brought in a freshly roasted leg of lamb, I still have no idea where she got it from - our closest neighbours were 500 yards away!
She was a rescue and would nick anything vaguely edible, she drank fat from the chip pan, a block of butter ( both were on the worktop, leaping up there was easy for her!), raw potatoes, the chocolate decorations from the Christmas tree (poo’d foil for days afterwards).
Everything had to be kept out of her reach and the kitchen door kept shut.
She never had any side effects!

Was it the same dog? 😁
We had one who came back with two lamb chops in his mouth when we were in the beach. He cleared nearly all the sandwiches and cakes off the bottom tier of a tea trolley. He also ate a half pound packet of butter.

Another dog used to ask for raw swede and carrots. If I got out the peeler, he was there, sitting at my feet.

I left my puppy with a daughter overnight and she found and ate a whole large Easter egg. The vet’s painful injection to make her sick left her with a phobia which makes vet visits an absolute nightmare.
And I had to pay the bill.