Our dog, Buttons, is a thief. A food thief. He cannot be trusted, trained or rehabilitated. There is no hope for him in this regard. I know this because criminals who typically show remorse don’t commit the same crime again. Buttons pleads the fifth every time and shows no remorse.
His short list of stolen food is as follows: one large pizza, half a bag of cookies, one raw potato, one 16 oz. block of aged cheddar that he tried to swallow whole, one large chicken breast, one pumpkin pie, one ham bone, one bag of potato chips, one bag of caramel corn, two filled Easter baskets and multiple sandwiches and bagels.
The other night, he added one more morsel to his growing list of offenses when he stole the last crucial ingredient for my pimento cheese dip. A very large, very plump jalapeno pepper! He snatched it off the counter and swallowed it whole! I yelled at him but he just looked at me an licked his lips.
This crafty counter surfer may have outsmarted himself this time. I am guessing he will be one “hot dog”!
