You may remember the tale of Scrumpy managing to find and eat a large bar of Fruit & Nut at Clarkie's house, when she was dog sitting for us in November. Which resulted in a load of charcoal tablets being given at the vets and a rather dejected dog being parted from her chocolate find…
Well – yesterday heralded a similar – but way more impressive – food scoffing event. And I can't believe it was even possible!
Scrumpy was home alone for one hour, one short hour. And when we are out, the garage door between the garage and house is usually locked – my fault, I left it open.
Somehow, the beast got in there. Wearing her massive plastic hood, as we are trying to stop her from licking the small sore patch on her ankle, and repeatedly turning it into a bigger, redder sore. Look at the size of the damn thing!
Despite having this on, she still managed to pull out the whopping great thick plastic tub, with clip-on lid, from right back in its place the bottom shelf (rookie error by us!) of the storage unit. Yup the huge heavy tub that she knows all her dog biscuits are stored in when the big sack of magic food arrives every 1-2 months or so.
And then physically smash her way into it – getting the big lid off, breaking the side panel of the tub, till she had it on the floor in front of her, and full access to about 10,000 nuggies. Which she clearly then tucked into… How??
I would LOVE to know how many she ate till she finally gave up defeated. 4 day boxes worth? 10? More??
Suffice it say, she spent the evening horizontal, belly distended, looking a bit disturbed at how full she was, farting and belching like a trooper. Including when we were both looking at her saying 'are you feeling a bit sorry that you ate all the food' – when she just looked us squarely in the eye, opened her mouth and burped her reply…
And this morning has – so far – delivered 6 giant poo piles. So I'm guessing the box took a hell of a beating till she was finally beyond full.
One spaniel in a hood of shame vs a heavy box with lid, all the way back on a shelf.
The winner? Scrumpy!! Man, that dog is determined when there's food to be nicked… x