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2naSalit

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4. Good thing you caught that...
Fri Nov 10, 2023, 01:29 PM
Nov 2023

Before he ate it!

I've got one for you. The story of Wolfie* and the Thanksgiving roast.

Once upon a time, when I was in college, I was enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with a favorite professor and family who had sort of adopted me. They had this 80lbs terrier, we think, looked like a baby Huey kind of Benji dog. He was an awesome dog about whom I have many stories as he was notorious for several things. Wolfie, my cat's best friend.

Well one Thanksgiving we were having a large feast and I brought roast someone had given me, as an alternative to the Goose we also had. When all was ready, we feasted for a couple hours, Wolfie was outside to keep him form annoying people. As it turned out, we all went for the goose and the roast waited in the kitchen until we divied it up during cleanup.

After a bottle or two of wine and visiting, the hostess and I were too tired to mess with all that so we packed things into the fridge and she was going to put the roast in a separate cooler so we left it on top of the stove and she walked me to the door.

I was home, six blocks away, for about two minutes when she called and asked if I had somehow taken the roast home. I had not and it took another 30 seconds for both of us to realize Wolfie had choked down an entire 6lbs roast in the time it took for her to walk me to the door and return to the kitchen! (45ft round trip)

The beast! He wasn't very hungry for a couple days and had a very guilty look whenever he saw us looking at him. Mostly we laughed about it. He was still a great dog in spite of his thievery.





* Wolfie, one of his notorious talents was that he was a master kleptomaniac, he could slip the covering, like aluminum foil, off a dish of food, devour the food and put the foil back in place almost. We put up a camera and saw how he did this, it wasn't someone covering for their sneaking a snack or anything. We had to marvel at his creativity in acquiring his prize and then covering up the evidence!

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7 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

Thank goodness he didn't eat the butter! Diamond_Dog Nov 2023 #1
My granddog (a lab, of course) ate 2 sticks of butter while my daughter was unloading groceries Freddie Nov 2023 #7
Naughty, but still a goodboi. tblue37 Nov 2023 #2
A guy's gotta MOMFUDSKI Nov 2023 #3
Good thing you caught that... 2naSalit Nov 2023 #4
OMG this is so funny. CousinIT Nov 2023 #6
To add to the humor... 2naSalit Nov 2023 #8
. . . CousinIT Nov 2023 #9
Butter.... Bayard Nov 2023 #5
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