Like any visitor in your house, it takes a while to discover their habits and true nature. When you arrive home from a 10 minute trip to the corner store and your house guest won't even look at you, you know that they broke something, spilled wine on something or ate something they shouldn't have, or drank your booze. Such was the case with my Foster Boy Hunter today. He had a little scuffle with the cat last night. There was a lot of hissing, barking, yelping and screaming.....most of that coming from me. No injuries. Just bruised egos.
So today I locked the cat in the office and popped out to buy bread. Leaving BAD BOY alone in the rest of the house. I arrived home to him creeping across the floor commando style, unable to look me in the face. I got out the camera and he would not look at it. Shameful he was.
A quick survey of the damage led me to the realization that my boy is a COUNTER SURFER. Yep that's a term the Lab Rescue people use. My teenagers were counter surfers too....but at least I could leave them alone for a bit. He ate an entire box of dog treats. And a good thing I went to buy bread because he also ate the last of the loaf. Ace Bakery, Multi grain with pine nuts.
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| I couldn't photograph the bread as it was gone. photo www.food network.com |
I scolded him. Gave him a time out, but he kept trying to run upstairs where I discovered he had been about to have dessert. I had two boxes of Bailey's chocolates upstairs on the top of a dresser. Both were on the floor, one ripped open and the chocolates all over the floor. This worried me as chocolate can be very harmful to dogs. I quickly opened the new box, counted the chocolates then counted the left overs from the opened box. He seemed to have only eaten one.
I think the cat quite enjoyed watching the scolding. He couldn't look at me for half an hour.
He's now had belly rubs, a good walk and he's only getting half his dinner this evening.
he's a real sweetie isnt he?
ReplyDeletea handsome dog!
Oh and I bet he's a charmer too. Makes it hard to scold them when they are so darn cute and charming.
ReplyDeleteToo funny Chania...I know you couldn't stay mad long!
ReplyDeleteOh I am so sorry....I am laughing.....our labradoodle counter surfs too....now we have a name for it! Her last counter surf victim... A plastic cup that is TORN up! Despite his naughty behavior...he is so cute!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh I am laughing all the way through, dear Hunter.... You do Know digestive troubles may soon follow? Watch out! That's A LOT of fiber lol
ReplyDeleteMy bad girl Justice eats kleenex and paper out of trash cans. She surfs cans...
still laughing
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Naughty boy. It is funny though.
ReplyDeleteSo do you think he stood up on his hind legs to get the goodies or did he actually jump up onto the counter? Our dog is only about a foot high (if that) so we don't have any problems like that - just other ones ;)
ReplyDelete"Counter Surfer" huh? Probably should call him a naughty boy but I am SMILING a whole lot!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, a true Lab who loves to eat! I bet his beely bloats with all those biscuits. Lucky he only had one chocolate. It would be hard to keep angry with him though :)
ReplyDeletewhoops, I meant "belly"
DeleteAwww. My friend's Rottie once ate an entire batch of chocolate cupcakes...metal coated paper liners and all...yikes! She, the Rottie, lived to be a ripe old age, so hopefully one chocolate won't harm your counter surfing boy!
ReplyDeleteKat :)
He's a fantastic looking hound - difficult to scold. When I was a sprog we once accidentally left a whole joint of meat on the kitchen table and left our dog in the kitchen while we went out for a couple of hours. We returned to find her sitting on the floor in a puddle of slobber, looking up at the untouched meat! The look on her face was so amazing that she got a hefty chunk of the joint just for not touching it ... (and we were more careful in future)!
ReplyDeleteI'm chuckling while I'm reading this - those darn doggies always make me laugh. Our Martha wasn't tall enough to be a counter surfer but she did like to get into the bathroom garbage and chew up Kleenex when we were out.
ReplyDeleteHaha we had a counter surfer too. It was really bad when he figured out how to use his paws to open the cupboard door. The mostt embarrassing time was when I had friends for lunch. We walked in the kitchen and there he was finishing off the salad that was on the table. I miss that bad little dog.
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Ahhh, the Joys of "pup motherhood" .. I remember when we thought Tate had eaten some chocolate, I was in such a panic, watching him every minute for hours to see if he was going to live .. turns out he did not eat it, I was so relieved, he wasn't even scolded for getting into the garbage ( it was my fault for leaving it there, how was he supposed to know ?)
ReplyDeleteThat is worse than children! How are you NOT going to keep this dog? His antics might fondly grow on you.
ReplyDeleteOhhh what a little stinker he is (but so hard to stay mad at such a cute boy!) I noticed in the background of your dog biscuit photo that you're reading the happiness project- I'm only into February thus far but it is a good read, are you liking it?
ReplyDeleteOMG...love this post today! Hunter the stinker!! Love that phase, counter surfer and that the cat enjoyed his getting in trouble (they really do too).
ReplyDeleteOne of mine has started just recently getting in to trash cans. It's the ones only for paper (we keep the other trash where they can't get to it).
He's started bringing his stash to his bed in the living room and just collecting items there. It only started a few days ago. It was funny at first, now it's gettin annoying that we can't throw anything away in those trash cans. I enjoy your blog, Chania.
I'm betting the cat was egging him on behind the closed door. Poor Hunter will have quite the eliminatation. Ann
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