finished work, took dogs out then went Asda just to get some milk and ended up buying a raspberry trifle for tomorrow. Got home, unpacked shopping, went for a shower and on my return to kitchen found said deerhound and Freddie puppy both licking the empty trifle plastic dish (!)

Don't you just lurve 'em Murray is bound to have the runs tomorrow - oh joy!

Oh dear! Benny would be exactly the same have to make sure the kitchen door is closed at all times.

Ha Ha, they are little tealeafs aren't they. Can't turn your back on our lot for 5 minutes.
Hope there's not too much mess tomorrow!

It would have had to go straight in the fridge here as Lockie would have made fast work of it.
I had to laugh at Lockie tonight as he decided that the African curry I made smelt good so he tried the sauce out that was left in the container. He came out of the kitchen with his lizard tongue going ten to the dozen to try and cool it down. It was so funny, the silly dill.

When Ben was quite young he licked by plate which had some hot chicken curry left on it. He gave me such a look as if I was trying to poison him, he has never been tempted to try curry since. In fact Ben rarely likes the food we eat, other than meat and cream, which he loves but we have to ration that as too much gives him the runs.

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Yes I have learnt now than anything goes straight in the fridge or cupboards. Laughed at your description of Lockie's lizard tongue. Sadly I haven't found anything that Murray doesn't like yet

Hi Brollachan, since I,m just an apprentice chef,can you tell us what an African curry is all about and what,s in it.

Mmmm that's a tuffy. The African Curry powder was given to me for Christmas but it did have a strong smell of Cinnamon? or maybe it was nutmeg. It was hot. The rest I did by looking up African curry recipes on the net and noticed that sweet potatoes and tomatoes are popularly used. It was a trial and error thing. I was wary when making it so only used a tblsn of powder but when I make it again I will use 1.5 ( if for just me I would use 2 but hubby has a sensitive mouth)tbsn. I think next time I will also use coconut cream. I didn't use it this time as I also made a Malay curry which had that and I didn't want them too similar. Sorry I can't be more specific about the powder but it was yummy.

I Like the sound of African curry!
Murphy would eat it, he eats all our leftovers, unless it is chips or something unsuitable, infact he thinks it's his right. We cannot scrape any food in the bin as he can open it, anything not meant for him has to go in the green recycle bin and the kids have been trained to put bones in there straight away. Bought a new bin Friday, Murphy proof, or so I thought, he mastered it in 48 hours.

He eats anything spicy, loves chilli and bolognaise is his fave! He hates sweet things, like the kid cereal, unlike his owner!

Our lurcher - Fynn, would certainly try the African Curry, would love the Raspberry Trifle, but his favourite thing to steal is butter or spread. The number of tubs he has swipped when my back is turned is unbelievable! Bad results later the same day, though!

Our son made mince pies at school, just before Christmas. He proudly brought them home and we dutifully ooohhhhed and aaahhhed over them. As we had to go out to his carol concert that evening, we decided that we would try them when we got home.

Unfortunately, when we got back we discovered that Fergal had broken into the sitting room (through the barrier resembling the Berlin wall that we have to build every time we go out), upended the cookery bag, destroyed the container and eaten all 24 mince pies - through his muzzle! The effect the next day, on his already hyper sensitive gut, was dramatic.

At the moment, he wears a muzzle when we are out as he has eaten a large hole in the wall, had a good chew on the dining room table and chair legs and is particularly fond on knawing on a large metal doorstop (to name but a few). As we live in an open plan cottage, it is impossible to remove everything out of his way!

On the other hand, you could go out and leave a plate of food on the floor in front of Callie and she wouldn't touch it. Her ladylike manner denotes that her food should be in her bowl and she looks very embarrased if it is offered any other way

The Very Honourable Lady Callie!

And Fergal, the ASBO kid!

Well fergal seems to be aright character Lana our d/h is a real lady like Callie everything she is given to eat has to be just the right size she is very fond of cheesr sandwiches! brown bread and red leicester with lurpak which is then cut up into small squares it is then as with all food it is sniffed and better sniffed and then she eats it very daintely!

aren't our hounds funny - Murrays favorite 'treat' is garlic cream cheese from a teaspoon and hot buttered toast with the crusts cut off and a smigin of brown sauce. I really don't know who he thinks he is!

It's funny that Callie is very particular about what and where she eats - her sister Dileas won't eat more than a few mouthfuls if anyone's looking. Tavish and DownJess pile in and devour everything that's not nailed down, including the cats' food in Jessie's case, but Dileas gets terribly embarrassed if she thinks you're watching her eat and skulks off to her bed until the coast is clear. Despite this she seems to maintain a reasonable body weight for her size.

Sympathy to Robert over the mince pie episode, by the way. I can only imagine the horrors that resulted the next day, but I take it Fergal's better now and been forgiven?

We have been lucky with Lockie. The only serious damage he has done hsd been chewing the bed end rail but he hasn't destroyed it, only ruined it asthetically wise. Of course he has destroyed numerous bed and pillows etc but they are easily replaced. Xena has cost us a fortune in quilts, sheets and pillows, and Bree has never destroyed anything, not even a fluffy toy. The others have made up for it a hundred fold.

My previous post "Sick" was about Murphy having a bad bum over Christmas, now I know why, he stole a load of mince pies, some homemade and some Mr Kiplings and ate the lot. That must have given him that dodgy tummy overnight. He steals things too, we have 2 babygates, one at the bottom of the stairs and one on the lounge as he will climb all over my nice white bedlinen and when he was a puppy he chewed terribly and the thought of him being in the living room while I was out was just too much to bear!
He destroyed a garden table and chairs, we used to get splinters in our bums when we sat on them (replaced with steel ones) he chewed all the kitchen chairs but the worst was my shoes and handbags, he broke into the kitchen to get them, so we had to put a bolt at the top of the door. He never chewed his beds, but our Border Terrier does that for him, poor Murphy cant have a nice soft bed, he has 2 layers of carpet to lay on, Paddy on the other hand Lords it up in his posh costco throne type bed, though he has nibbled the sides, mainly in protest if I leave him!

Ben hasn't ever stolen much food and is very good now with chewing.

It was a different story when he was younger. He destroyed dozens of shoes, a garden table and chairs, chewed our expensive coffee table, kitchen table. He rarely chewed beds, pillows and things like that although he chewed many holes in the walls of the house, I understand it was the bone meal that they use to make plaster. He was never very interested in dog chews or even bones and would much rather chew some wooden furniture or leather shoes. He's also partial to licking iron and steel but luckily he can't do much damage to it, I don't know why maybe its a mineral source of iron.

Like Sid's dog Dileas he doesn't eat when you're around to see him but sneaks back later. He does have a good appetite though for most of the time.

I think mince pies contain a lot of raisins which are supposedly very bad for dogs. Our son eats raisins all the time (its bordering on an addiction) and we are forever picking them up to stop the dogs getting them.

They have eaten quite a lot without any consequences so far.

See here for more information about raisins being toxic to dogs. I’m not wanting to worry anyone and it might just be one of those legends (like dogs cant look up - or is it pigs).
I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows more about this (the raisins, not the looking up thing, although actually..).

Yes, remember that now you have said it, overheard a woman in Tesco's nonce, laughing as she said to the cashier how she had fed grapes to her puppy 'cos he liked'em' and he ended up in the vets very ill.

Something to remember for next year then, hide the mince pies!! I thought my daughter had given him the Xmas pudding at first, thankfully she hadn't!