Posted on 12/27/2016 7:13:10 AM PST by C19fan
A greedy dog ruined her family's Christmas after scoffing the turkey intended for their festive dinner. According to the pet's owner David Barrett, from Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Bubba, 5, a Chi Apso, (a cross between dog breeds Chihuahua and a Lhasa Apso), snuck into the kitchen on Christmas Eve and stole the food, which had been left on the side. The family had no idea what their hungry pooch had done until she suddenly collapsed bloated on the floor and unable to move.
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“Another time I had made fudge and left it on the island in the kitchen.”
When my golden was a puppy, he got into the chocolate cake we baked for 20 people. Walked into the kitchen and there he was , with a big hole in the cake, cake all over his face and a look on his face that said, “this isn’t going to end well.”
We put him in his cage so we could watch him. A few minutes later it all came up. Plus things we didn’t even know he ate. He spent that night at the vet.
Our newfie learned a lesson when he put his paws on a hot burner. Never did that again, knock on wood.
The cats are another story. Can’t leave anything out with them around. Have to even put the bread in the pantry or microwave so they don’t tear the package open when no one is watching. They know better than put their nasty paws on mama’s counter so they wait until the coast is clear.
Reminds me of a story from a Navy SEAL. In 2001 after 911 the SEALs on a mission came across a starving dog tied to a stake. They let him loose and fed him a whole chicken, he ate it all and then flopped down asleep. The dog then followed the SEALs and was adopted by them, they called him Jdams. There are more stories about this but I cannot find them on the net:
http://kitup.military.com/2011/10/the-dogs-of-war.html
The unit was Task Force K-Bar. CAPT Harward, the TF CDR once jested that the dog Jdams had his own press section.
Jdams was headed to USA (along with a female dog called Cas) in April 2002. However an issue between the 4 stars at TRANSCOM and SOCCOM waylaid them in Germany, I never heard the end result except for now it appears the dog made it to Bragg.
Somewhere I have some photos of me playing with Jdams as I am a dog lover.
I caught my princess in the act of stealing my leg of lamb once but he didn’t get a chance to eat it.
The owner of a store where I used to work would bring his dashound in to work. One day, the dog snuck in to the pizza shop next door and ate a whole bunch of dough
We watched the dog lay on the floor expanding for two days. I think we had a pool going over whether or not the dog would explode. We never called the news.
Anyone with dogs who leave unattended food in reach of their animal deserves what they get.
Social media has trivialized “news”. Just watching the morning news shows confirms this.
Our cat ate half of our gingerbread batter one Christmas...to no ill effect.
Looked pretty smug about it, actually.
I had to design and build a 4’ high gate of PVC tubing to keep my kitty Zizu out of the kitchen. She came off the street at the advanced age of 7 months, so she has a food complex. Although she gets fed premium cat food, she still tries at every opportunity to sneak into the kitchen when I open the gate to enter or leave, to snatch the odd crumb off the floor. Before the gate was finished, she did jump up on the kitchen counter and snatched a chunk of cooked turkey left cooling there. When caught entering the kitchen and told to leave, Zizu immediately rolls over on her back and puts on the “Big Eyes”, like Puss n Boots. It may have worked in Shrek, but it don’t work on me. She is still ejected from the kitchen before I trip on her, accidentally step on her, or she steals something she shouldn’t.
I went to a British forum, and found the following:
“Scoff” is a verb meaning “eat”. It carries a connotation of being somehow “cheeky”, as if you are eating something you are not entitled to.
Scoff is a UK military slang term for food rations as in, ‘Have you eaten your scoff yet?’
Furthermore I’m sure I’ve heard ‘scoff’ being used as a synonym for lunch (or a sandwich, or similar) in the north of England, almost certainly by men who might be described as working class. This recollection goes back a while.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=545329
I think they forgot the ‘r.’
You can scoff at a dog scarfing down food.
Of course, I can warsh things instead of washing them, so maybe it’s just my Midwestern twang.
Leni
‘Of course, I can warsh things instead of washing them, so maybe it’s just my Midwestern twang.’
Bol! I love regional dialects. I had a friend who said ‘warsh,’—as you noted, originally from the Midwest.
It will be a remembered event more that all the turkeys before. And I assume dessert was safe. Life is good.
I remember watching my cat jump up on the table with the turkey. You should have seen the look on her face. Her plans were thwarted, but it was funny.
Tryptophan OD?
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