My dog is a real thief

BlunderWoman

BlunderWoman

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She likes to steal my things and bury them or find me and make me chase her. I drove to the store a few minutes ago to get money from the ATM machine to pay the lawn guy today. I put the money in the mail basket by my front door and went to the bathroom. While I was on the pot my chihuahua came running in the bathroom with a twenty dollar bill dangling from her mouth. I had to chase her as was until I got the money. She had jumped from couch to end table and had stood on her hind legs to steal the money. She's such a naughty bandit. I am grateful that was the only one she took and that she did not steal them all and bury them :D Had she stolen them all I would have been out a hundred dollars.

Anyone else have a dog that steals?
 

I used to have a dog that stole things from the neighbors and brought them to me. I suppose they were gifts, but it wasn't conducive to making friends of the neighbors. Best gift was a wallet, because I was able to find the owner easily. I also got a sneaker, a bath towel, some stuffed toys, two baseballs and an empty purse. While these gifts kept coming we kept filling in holes along our fenceline until we finally decided to keep him at the end of a rope. By that time the whole neighborhood had already reached theirs. We also got dead mice and lizards. He was a Cairn Terrier.
 

anodyne said:
I used to have a dog that stole things from the neighbors and brought them to me. I suppose they were gifts, but it wasn't conducive to making friends of the neighbors. Best gift was a wallet, because I was able to find the owner easily. I also got a sneaker, a bath towel, some stuffed toys, two baseballs and an empty purse. While these gifts kept coming we kept filling in holes along our fenceline until we finally decided to keep him at the end of a rope. By that time the whole neighborhood had already reached theirs. We also got dead mice and lizards. He was a Cairn Terrier.
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My sister had a border collie that did this. She'd come home from work and there'd be a set of car mats on the front porch that he had "herded home" from a neighbor who had washed them and hung them his fence to dry. He also herded lawn chairs, tricycles, doormats, laundry baskets and a host of other items. She'd go looking for the owners or they, knowing that Griswold was probably the culprit, would come down looking for them. I guess that since he had no sheep to herd home, he had to herd something. Just his nature.

My other sister has a "counter surfer" big dog. There's nothing safe from him and he can open the refrigerator if he puts his mind to it. She once sent me a picture of him laying on his back in the middle of her bed with a cantaloupe held in his paws, which he had gnawed open. Cantaloupe guts all over the bed and a mighty pleased dog......
 
I used to have a cat that craved mint chewing gum. I guess it's related to catnip...the mint family. I used to have gum in my purse, book bag, pockets. She would root through when no one was looking and I would find chewed remains on the floor. Fortunately the dogs don't steal. Sophie used to, it wasn't funny it made me grumpy.

She used to love my bras. Not the cheapy three for twenty five. No, the Victoria Secret ones at fifty dollars a pop were the most tasty. I'd find a beautiful knot of fluff surrounded by underwires, she killed another one...:( I solved the problem by always having bras in the machine, on the line, or in a drawer...way out of her reach.
 
For some reason, my last dog Harold (RIP) dog used to like to bury my TV remote. Fortunately, he wasn't very good at burying, so I'd find it sticking up out of the ground.

My present dog, Bonnie, will steal anything edible off counters or the table, so I've had to become creative about where I put things. If I drop dead, someone will wonder why I keep my bowl of fresh fruit in the microwave.
 
Dogs are so funny! When we had two, they used to knock the trash over and root through it if we forgot to put it on the porch before work. They had a party--it was strewn all over the house, what a mess. They never bothered with it at night or while we were home--only when they were left alone.
 
Oh I forgot one thing they probably still track down even now. My husband has " cheaters", reading glasses, in every room of the house. If a cat knocks them off a shelf or table I have to get out and replace them the next day. Our living room remote is fairly big and solid...but it does have a few tooth marks.
 
A few years ago our dog brought a live chicken to the house, where it came from, I do not know....anyway that chicken would follow my husband around in the yard and garden, my husband decided he wanted to get more chickens, so we bought about 6 more chickens, built the shed and fence for them, bought the chicken feed ....the whole nine yards...then about 2 months later he forgot to pen them up at night and the coyotes got them.
 
My sister and her husband have one of those Sleep Number beds. Their dog bit through the hose that inflates the bed! My BIL was able to replace the hose and the dogs' life was spared, hahaha. (Only kidding)
 

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