Caught on Camera! Jake’s New Year’s Resolution Too Much; Turns Him into a Blatant Thief

Sure, Jake may have curbed his begging a little, per his New Year’s resolution he reported on a few days ago. But he is now supplementing his caloric intake with a new technique: raiding the compost bucket. Last night I heard him breathing in an odd, hollow-sounding way as he tiptoed past me in the living room as I was reading from my new Kindle. He sounded like a short Darth Vader.

I looked over as he walked by and saw his mouth open to the point that it looked like a shark’s unhinged jaw. In his mouth he held what he surely considered the most fantastic treat ever: the gingerbread house my daughter and her friend Elton put together three weeks ago. It was from a Trader Joe’s kit, and it had been cute, but it didn’t taste very good so we used it purely as decoration, picking off little candy bits as the days of Christmas came and went. Last night, while starting  to dismantle our Christmas decorations, we decided it was time to put the gingerbread house in the compost bucket in our kitchen. Within 10 minutes it was in the stealthy jaws of our ceaselessly food-obsessed yellow Lab.

I had my camera close by and wanted to catch him red-jawed, as it were, but Jake wanted to keep moving toward the backyard with his quarry. So I called for Laura, who ran out of her room and grabbed Jake for his mug shot.

The compost bucket will be on the counter from now on.

I hope the New Year’s resolutions are going better in your household.

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Quick-Thinking Owner Uses Metal Detector on Diamond “Thief” Dog

Barney the diamond thief and his clever owner, who looks like a close cousin of Hillary Clinton...

Who knows why he did it. What counts is that he did it. And that his owner, Karen Woolley, was smart enough to figure out that diamond heirloom family rings don’t just simply walk off of the side of the tub on their own.

Woolley may have saved Barney’s life when she started suspecting that a ring that had gone missing after she had taken it off to take a bath could have ended up in tummy of her six-month-old spaniel mix. The quick-thinking bed-and-breakfast owner got out an old metal detector and passed it over Barney’s chest. BEEP! Twenty minutes later, BEEP! right over his stomach. The ring was winding its way down his digestive system.

If nature had been allowed to take its course, the three large diamonds that stick out could have ruptured his intestines. Barney could have died. Not taking any chances, Woolly rushed Barney to the vet, who was able to surgically remove the ring before any real harm occurred.

Barney is recovering nicely, according to the Sun, and Woolley has learned her lesson about leaving small objects near voracious puppies. “I’ll make sure it’s put safely in a drawer when I take it off in future,” she said.

And maybe Barney will stop craving such a rich diet…

Dogsters, do you have any stories about your dog eating things he or she should not? I’ll get the party started: Within two weeks of getting Jake when he was about 6 months old, he chewed up a can of pepper spray. Let’s just say that we couldn’t even walk into the same room to help him. Meanwhile he was lying there with a stunned look on his face and foam literally pouring from his mouth. All ended well, but we learned our lesson about watching what Jake “The Mouth” could get hold of…

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