Do You Trust Your Pet Around Food?
11-12-2013, 10:45 AM
#31
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Thumb of Michigan
Posts: 2,250
First things first. Since when can you go into Joannes and be out in 20 minutes? LOL
We have a rescue dog that is 12, only with us for 1. He gets into the garbage if we don't put it up. I came home from grocery store with a bag full of stuff to make sandwiches for the house full I had visiting. When I went to lay out the food, the pound of salami was not there. Oh, silly me. I thought I must have left a bag at the store. So I called up there. No, it wasn't there. She remembered me and remembered the salami; she was sure it was in the bag. Low and behold, I found the empty plastic wrap next to the dogs bed. A whole pound of salami gone! He got diareah, too. We are much more careful now. DH gets upset, but I just remind him that we have no idea what his first 11 years were like. Best dog ever, in spite of this "little" quirk.
We have a rescue dog that is 12, only with us for 1. He gets into the garbage if we don't put it up. I came home from grocery store with a bag full of stuff to make sandwiches for the house full I had visiting. When I went to lay out the food, the pound of salami was not there. Oh, silly me. I thought I must have left a bag at the store. So I called up there. No, it wasn't there. She remembered me and remembered the salami; she was sure it was in the bag. Low and behold, I found the empty plastic wrap next to the dogs bed. A whole pound of salami gone! He got diareah, too. We are much more careful now. DH gets upset, but I just remind him that we have no idea what his first 11 years were like. Best dog ever, in spite of this "little" quirk.
Originally Posted by EllieGirl
I had a wonderful dog for ten years. She was perfect!! She was MY dog. I could leave her in the car with groceries for a little bit and she never touched anything. Well……this evening DH & I went to eat for Veteran's Day. We had HIS dog, Molly, with us, who is wilder than a March hare! I had some left overs so I put them on the floor of the front seat and DH & I went to Jo Ann's (who had an awesome sale today). When we got back out to the car about 20 minutes later, my left overs were gone!!! I had forgotten we can't trust Molly, where we used to be able to trust Ellie!
11-12-2013, 11:56 AM
#33
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
Posts: 7,695
My cat Bruno won't touch a plate that has silverware on it, he will watch it very closely, but he won't touch it. With my dog King, all bets are off! If it smells like food, and he can reach it....lol.
11-12-2013, 12:07 PM
#34
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,845
Our last beagle couldn't be trusted around food at all. Even if you just turned your back for a few seconds she'd quickly snatch any food around. Once she actually opened a cabinet door, got out a bottle of spaghetti sauce and ate the whole thing. The two current dogs are a little better. They're not as quick to snatch food from under my nose but anything left unattended when I leave the room is fair game for them. 
11-12-2013, 01:15 PM
#37
Power Poster
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SoCal
Posts: 11,900
Hahahahaha! One thing I was told not to give my doggie coffee. She sounds like a healthy eater with all those vegetables.
Originally Posted by misseva
My little chihuahua will eat anything that doesn't eat her first. She particularly loves carrots, potatoes, turnips and my coffee if I forget and leave my cup on the table beside my chair. She can be sound asleep but as soon as I get up & walk away I hear her feet hit the floor and then I hear the drinking. She was a stray when my gdtr & friend found her and begged me to take her in. She was skin & bones but now she's up to 8 lbs.
11-12-2013, 01:16 PM
#38
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: SW Missouri
Posts: 2,988
If they smelled good enough, you couldn't trust me alone in the car!
Originally Posted by moonwork42029
I wouldn't trust any animal in a car with leftovers. They are different than groceries. The leftovers are meant to smell good and entice you to eat them. Poor Molly was only doing what she was baited to.
11-12-2013, 04:49 PM
#39
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Haw River, NC
Posts: 307
We had a great dane that eat a whole chocolate cake, I left it on the table, so he took advantage of it just sitting there. He also eat a pkg of chicken legs that were in the sink, defrosting. That cost us a lot, with the vet bill.
11-12-2013, 05:10 PM
#40
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Woodmere, NY
Posts: 1,422
It's a little funny, but my guy is not into food.. He eats to live, and not lives to eat.. I put human food mixed with his hard food.. He likes human food, but will leave food in the bowl when full. If my neighbors dog comes over, she checks out what he left over, and it's gone..
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Chasing Hawk
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
14
09-08-2018 05:03 AM
