Pizza Thief!

[Augie Dog]

Friday is pizza night now so we just got done doing diner with "papa john" We gave Aug a treat of a pizza crust, he loves the chewy ones!

Well, we had 1/2 a pie left and Shenn put it on a plate on the table a few inches away from the edge ( as always ). I went into the living room and turned on the weather channel for a storm update.

Just then I heard a boom-thud. Shenn starts yelling, not words just jibberish. I fly into the kitchen thinking something bad happend like she cut herself!

Jibberish changes to four letter words as she pointed to the floor. It now seems that Aug is three dogs long. He can now stand on his back legs and now knows he can use his longer than usual arms to reach further than is tounge. The pizza, now on the floor, was about to be the property of Mr. Augustus Bratwurst!

Shenn's yelling now begins to form coherent thought and words. "YELL AT HIM!", she screamed! I looked at her, looked at the splattered pizza on the floor, I looked at Aug, and said, "uh..... bad dog?" and broke into histerical laughter!<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm42.gif" border=0>

How can I yell at him when he is being so inventive!<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm34.gif" border=0>

D S & A

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[dutchman]

Hi David,

Yep the joys of long bodied friends. I remember my folks first dachsie Missy was an expert at invention. Not too long after we got her she manages to get to the dinner table when no one was int he room but a full beef roast was on the table. She must have used a chair to get on the table but when she was found she was huddled over the roast ripping off pieces as fast as she could swallow.

Tom and the boys (Frank and Tanner)

[Timber]

I hope Timber doesn't see this! He has longer than usual legs too. I don't want Timber getting any ideas since tonight is our pizza night.<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm28.gif" border=0>

[~Jen~]

Rosie has short legs but shes still a theif...

The other day my hubbby was working late so i ordered in subs from Jersey Mikes for my son and i. We were being lazy and eating in front of the 'tube since daddy wasnt home. I set my sandwhich on the end table to go get a refill on my drink when i came back it was GONE 3/4ths of a footlong sub vanished. I heard little paper rattling nosies and growls comming from behind the couch. I pulled the couch out and there was Rosie scarfing down my sandwhich with Sunni looking on... Grrrrrrr! It was too late to scold her much because the sandwhich was almost gone. I just cleaned up the mess and went to bed slightly less full..lol

Jen

[Susan'sFreddie98]

<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm42.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm42.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm42.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm42.gif" border=0> These stories are crackin me up! Never underestimate a Dachshund!<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm26.gif" border=0>

~Susan~

[WOTANSMUTTI]

Do you realize that if WE ate that amount in equvilancy, we'd be putting away at least 1/2 a cow or a 100 inch pizza by ourselves!

Dachsie's are more than just greedy greenies, they are able and willing to do damage to human food in seconds when it is unprotected. Maybe they have hinge jaws like snakes? Could you eat something bigger than your head in a few seconds while growling at others and gloating?<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm7.gif" border=0>

[loving two dachsie's]

What funny stories http://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

This reminds me of a move Bailey pulled a couple weeks ago. It was a Monday night (I believe Westminster was on). Hubby was watching the downstairs TV so I decided to watch TV upstairs. So I brought a stawberry yougart upstairs with me for a snack. I had it opened ready to eat, put it on the table next to bed , went to the bathroom. When I came back I heard this slurpy noise, a very loud sloppy, slurpy noise. Needless to say Bailey found my yougart. The whole thing was gone , and he had it all over his face from sticking his snoot in the cuphttp://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/facelick.gif

At least he got his calicium intake for the dayhttp://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

Linda

[heyweird]

i have to turn the garbage can around backwards so that my avery doesn't flip the lid up with his nose. he's very resourceful.

[wireweiners]

It is a known fact of nature that a dachsie intent on getting food from a counter top or table can stretch to 3 times their normal size. That is how they got the idea for bungee cords.<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm26.gif" border=0>

[LisaH]

Yesterday I put a few chocolate chips on a stack of magazines on the coffee table (okay, chocolate is my vice) and then went to the front door to get the mail. While I was out of the room, I heard a crash of paper. When I returned, there was Annie, chewing as fast as she could in the middle of a pile of magazines on the floor. I've never known her to filch anything but tissues off the coffee table! She seems to be driven to be bad when I leave the room. <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm7.gif" border=0>

[Wienergal]

I ove these stories! Sonja, I think you're right about bungee cords, LOL! And David, I would have done just what you did--how can you do anything but laugh when they work so HARD to get at the goodies??

Peaches ate my entire dinner once. I'd had a long, hard day, and made myself a really good dinner--roast chicken, roasted potatoes, and some of those fabulously expensive baby pattypan squashes. Set my plate on the coffee table, all set to enjoy it with "The Antiques Roadshow."

Knock at door.

Super has to ask me a question.

By the time the question is answered and I return to the sofa, I find a squeaky clean white plate!!! She didn't spill a DROP! And she ate every goshdarn morsel, including the baby squash!!!

She was hiding under the bed, licking her chops. Tried to scold her. Couldn't help laughing. http://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/lol.gif What can you DO???

[Mandy]

Our guys are the epitomy of dachshundness....

I was tired of having the garbage can in the acbinet under the sink....so we spent about two months trying to find the perfect garbage can.....it had to have a lid, it had to have a locking lid so that we had to manual push something to get it open......we looked at the cans that have the step lever, but knew that would be too easy.....we finally found one that had a lever on top which locked the can lid....Perfect....or so we thought....

Dash, our foster comes into the picture.....he's a little longer and taller than our guys.....so, while he is standing on his hind legs to look at what I am preparing on the counter....he rests his paw on the can (the lever, to be exact), and up pops the lid......<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm36.gif" border=0>

And you can forget baby locks at our house....we had to put those in when Henry was a puppy....he also learned how to work them as a puppy....and taught Jake when he came along

Drinks must be strategically placed when left...and food is never left anywhere except the kitchen counter (they haven't figured out that the ottoman can be pushed through the living room, down the hall, and into the kitchen yet.....PLEASE, Don't tell them! <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm31.gif" border=0>

[Meemoo]

Okay how's this...

Chiefy jumps into the fridge if we're not careful...when we open up the door...Watch out for what's on the bottom shelf...it'll be gone in a flash. Now we dont' put anything on the bottom, if we do, it's fair game for him!!! Rest of fridge is packed!!!

He also jumped up on the table during Thanksgiving and snatched an entire apple pie with powdered sugar on top!! Now that was a sight! Wish I took a picture!!


Loren

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[Mickamack]

With our last dachsie Buddy, Chris and I were eating a late lunch/early dinner. Living in MD, we were having yummy crab cakes, with baked potatoes, broccoli and a nice salad.

While eating, we realized that we needed to get to the post office before it closed, so we just left everything where it was and ran out to the post office.

Well Buddy was always an opportunist and while we were gone, he jumped up on one of the chairs, then onto the table. He got a whole crab cake (crab meat at $19/lb, by the way!!!), 2 baked potato skins, the rest of the broccoli, whatever was left of our salads (except for the green pepper which he didn't seem to like too much)...and a 1/2 stick of butter(which we were using on the potatoes).

He pretty much cleaned the table for us. We couldn't believe all that he ate. He was only 12 lbs himself and the amount of food he ate was incredible! He didn't even get sick! He was just really sleepy for the rest of the night...and he had TERRIBLE gas! I guess it was the broccoli.

Needless to say, that was the last time I underestimated the power and ingenuity of a dachshund!

[LisaH]

Oh, Wienergal, I empathize! Roast chicken, potatoes, squash, and the Antiques Roadshow, all vanished!

And Mickamack, I love the Buddy story. Poor little guy had a gassy tummy after eating dinner for two!

Years ago my cousin had a pet-store dachshund that was the strangest animal I've ever seen. Her tongue was too long to fit inside her mouth; most of the time it protruded about an inch, and as she mooched around the house it got all dry and dusty and curled up. Eventually she'd pull it back inside her mouth and SNAP! you'd see it flap all the way around her muzzle and then snap back in like a window shade. If she did manage to get it all inside her mouth, she looked like she had a wad of gum in her cheek.

You couldn't teach this dog anything, but whatever she had to do to get food, she'd do it. She once managed to filch a rotting fish out of an outside garbage can. Ate the whole thing and like it, too!