Funny girl! We had a dalmation once, Gilligan, who would steal things from our closest neighbor, a couple of hundred yards down the road. He started with children's toys like little cars and a ball, but then graduated to bigger things. A few of his "trophies" were: every dish or pan the neighbors fed their own dogs with (including a cast aluminum dutch oven), a hubcap, a bright red 5-gallon plastic gas can, and a fully grown ripe cantelope! When we figured out where all the stuff came from and took it back, the neighbor laughed and told us he'd been wondering why his dogs were hiding all their things. Also, he was glad to get his cantelope back. (it only had two teeth holes on the top and two on the bottom). He said he had been babying it in his garden and when he decided it was ready to pick, he went to the garden and it was gone! He thought a passerby on the road had stopped and stolen it.
I would have loved to watch that dog carrying such an odd array of items home along the gravel road. But once we carried everything back, he quit stealing. I think the neighbors just kept their things put up better. :)