Posted on 03/19/2007 4:52:49 AM PDT by Dallas59
Conan arrives around dawn, looking for something to satisfy his habit.
Conan makes a thorough search - he won't settle for just anything.
Is that the chocolate covered rice crisp?
A hungry bull terrier with a sweet tooth left his home to make a night raid on a gas station. The Statoil outlet's security cameras recorded the dog's stealthy hunt for his favorite type of chocolate, and a security guard busted the pooch without incident, newspaper Adressavisen reports.
"He is incredibly fond of food in general and sweets in particular. He has run off a few times before, and he always heads for food stores," owner Liss-Hege Jeremiassen told Adresseavisen.
Conan sneaked out the door Wednesday night and headed straight for only place open, a nearby Statoil station. The cameras picked him up sniffing around the candy shelves, poking his nose into the containers of sweets sold by loose weight, and snubbing all of these treats in search of his personal favorite, chocolate covered rice crisp. Here he stopped and devoured the contents of the container.
"When he was finished he let out this enormous burp," said Elisabeth Roel, who had the night shift at the station.
She tried to chase Conan out but the dog growled at this attempt to interrupt his chocolate raid. Roel then called the police, who turned the job over to Falken security.
"He's really a nice dog, but he doesn't have looks on his side. He spent the night next to a pit bull, but that went well. He's calm and friendly," said security guard Otto Olsen, who apprehended the hound.
Roel said she wouldn't have been worried if she had recognized Conan, but since he had escaped without his collar, she wasn't sure and wasn't about to take chances.
I'd fire the clerk for leaving the door open and letting all the A/C or heat out.
Isn't chocolate toxic to dogs?
I enjoy stories like this.
When we toured Alaska, the guide in Juneau said when they built the new supermarket in town, they put in the wrong kind of doors. The bears were able to walk right in at night and make delicious choices until they were full.
They changed to bear-proof doors.
It's baking chocolate that is the most lethal. What he ate isn't likely to cause him any real harm, the wrappers could probably do more damage.
She had a running mate, Charley, a wise old beagle, who would keep the peek as Albie and he went up and down the street looking for cars with open windows. Albie would jump in and take something, anything, a sock, a kids toy, a piece of paper, and they'd run off together to bury their new treasure.
Pretty funny to watch.
probably an automatic doors. Even birds use them to nest in the box stores.
The next time he found the eggs, he took the foil off. I found a little pile of foil behind the TV. He was still sick all over the house, just not with piles of foil in it.
AHA!
And all this time the space warp in the dryer has been getting the blame...
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