"Golden Thief"

[kmohin]

My 3yr old golden has a habit, which I find not only hysterical, but very intruiging. She goes into my middle son's room EVERY day and steals something...it ranges from stuffed animals, his slippers, school shoes. She even brought the sheet off his bed the other day! rofl3 She never damages them, she either plays with them, or just leaves them at the bottom of my steps. :confused: Anybody else have this happen? :204

[prl]

Daisy steals lots of things, but doesn't chew them or try to hide them. She happily will prance by with the stolen item in her mouth and her tail wagging furiously. She'll give it right to you when you ask, but this game could go on and on, she never tires of it.

[Dogrunner]

Berr will steal Rachel's things but not my son's. He will also offer her a choice squeaky toy when she comes in, which is something he doesn't do to the rest of us.

Of course, she's also the only one willing to have 88 pounds of fur and dog spit sit in her lap while they listen to music together. :cool:

[Brandy and Charlie's Mom]

Brandy's favorite is one of my husband's socks. Sometimes she'll want to play keep away, other times she just wants to parade it then give it up easily.

[Sandy's mom]

Sandy does it. Socks are the absolutely favorite of her. We're all at risk. She also has a liking for a bookmark my son has that is made of that foamlike paper stuff...can't think of the name of it right now..it's early and I'm old.


**EDIT** Ok she seems to have gotten horrid about this since I posted. It was just the occasional item here and there.....but in the past 20 minutes it's been 3 socks, a toilet paper tube and a work glove.

[Skokie]

My golden doesn't take our things, just hers, but my neighbour at the cottage has a golden who loves shoes. One morning I went to go down to the dock and one of my flip flops were missing from the shoe rack ourside my back door....yes my neighbour's golden. He doesn't chew them, just likes to walk around with a shoe in his mouth. I took it as a good sign. we're he's extended family next door. :doggface

[Janet]

I lOVE these stories!! My Marley does many of the same things.....takes things, not to chew them up....but to prance by looking straight ahead as though on a covert mission....not realizing that the wagging tail is a dead give away.....or a slipper she only wants to take to bed with her.

I can't say it enough.....these dogs are so wonderful, so sweet, so endearing, so comical, so soft and cuddly and so able to make us feel special!

Sorry, didn't mean to get sappy :p

[gnhykn]

Every morning I put on my glasses and take Reggie outside. Last weekend I was taking a road trip... so I didnt put on my glasses, planning on sleeping a little more before that long drive. few hours later, I woke up and no glasses. I almost cancelled the trip, Im very vision impaired! Husband found them several hours later in the backyard... totally unharmed. Cant imagine how they got there????

[2blondebabes]

My two LOVE to steal things from the kids rooms - BUT they love to chew them! We have to keep the kids' doors closed at all times! :eek:

[Jasmine Skyes Mom]

Hubby socks here are prime targets for sure! Dirty or clean, doesn't matter! She is very sock obsessive! Hubby took off work one day last week and he left the laundry room door open which had a basket of clean socks sitting there. He got engrossed in his game play on the computer and when I got home my house was showered with socks all over the place. I love the wiggle butt dance they get going on when they think they have really scored something!

[WendyGirlfriend]

Dish towels from the kitchen or anything out of the laundry basket. She prefers T-shirts (I joke the kids that she's trying to pick out their clothes for them) but occasionally she'll get a big blanket or sheet. Then she gets confused as to why she's stepping on the thing while it's in her mouth. :confused:

[Apolitical]

When Sunny was much younger about 3 months old - I lay on the couch to nap and put my glasses on the coffee table.

He woke me up - he retrieved my glasses for me. He had never seen me without them.

Afterwards I thought - he likely thought I lost part of my face and was giving it back to me. He had carried them still folded and not a mark on them.. He is a very careful dog with an extremely soft mouth.

Apolitical

[kmohin]

Thanks for all the stories. I'm glad to know that she's not the only one who does this, but I just can't figure out why, in a family of 5 people, does she target only his stuff. You can actually hear her at night come into each bedroom, with his always being last, and then she makes a mad dash doggiex1 down the stairs. I always say to my husband, "she's got Chris' stuff again!" Sure enough it's at the bottom of the stairs the next morning :laugh2 She does have a sock fettish as well, but those have to be clean from the coffee table (where I put the closthes as I fold them) I usually have to wash more socks than my family even wears ;)

[eggo]

maybe female dogs like males and male dogs like female stuff?

[Cypress]

My golden loves the stinkiest, dirtiest socks she can find to steal out of the dirty clothes pile -- she loves softball season when the pickin's are easy.... ugh.

Had a part shepard mix when I was a kid, an outside dog, who stole other dog's bowls from their yards and other neighbor's shoes. It embarrassed my mom to death. She'd put the stolen item by the front of the house by the street and the owners would claim it. We never could break her from that. :laugh2