Rerun from the DOOM Spaniels’ Facebook page, August 2017:
He brought it to us like a trophy.
When the dogs were home alone last week, they managed to steal a jar of alfredo sauce off the kitchen island, somehow open it without breaking the glass, and devour as much of it as their snouts could reach. Impressive.
Every incident astounds me and gives me more places that I can’t leave food while the dogs are unsupervised. Granted, this one was an accident–jars are not normally kept on the island, and we just got interrupted before we finished putting the non-refrigerable groceries away. Oops. One of these days, they’re going to work out how to open the pantry.
Still. We found the ¾ empty jar, and had no idea how they opened it. We could not find the lid–we looked in all the normal stashes, but it wasn’t there. Wherever he hid it, Merlin dug it out the next day and was carrying it around proudly.
Now that we have the lid, I *still* don’t know how they opened the jar. It’s bent, and battered, and pierced, but none of that would pry it off the jar.
… Word of warning: canine alfredo farts are deadly and persistent. Do not, under any circumstances, repeat this experiment intentionally.