Thieving Buggers
Today’s post will be short and sweet. The dogs, in all their glory, have figured out how to pick raspberries from our garden. They have also figured out that only the red ones taste good, so we are combating not only bugs and birds, but our dogs, in the war to keep some bounty for ourselves. I am afraid of what will happen when the tomatoes and cucumbers ripen.
Mylo “innocently” inspecting the garden. As soon as we turn our backs he will launch himself into the raspberry bushes and only his tail will be left sticking out.
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Afraid it’s a Golden Retriever speciality!
I love that he passes on all of these things on to our other dog. 😉
Uhoh……my Mom is glad I don’t like fresh tomatoes because she’s been picking beautiful ones all summer. Too bad your dogs have didiscovered how yummy the berries are!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
Ours are still green, but both dogs adore tomatoes so I have a feeling that we are going to have to guard them carefully when they turn red!
Adorable! You just can’t stay mad when it’s so hilarious!
I know! And with two, as soon as I dig one out of the bushes I find the other one in there on the other side. It’s almost a hopeless battle.
They surely know what’s tasty lol
On one hand it’s good because I can feed them fruits and veggies as treats (healthier and cheaper), on the other hand I find myself with far less harvest than I had hoped. At least they make things interesting!
LOL! So funny and sweet!:)
Thank you! 🙂
Uh oh… someone is going to be grounded!
Hahaha, if only that meant something to them.
Very true!
I have never been interested in what they grow in the garden, now I know you can grow stuff to eat I will be working on them to do more than grow herbs!!
I need a dog to pick raspberries for me 🙂
Not sure Beloved would fall for that one though.
Oh, many wonderful things grow in the garden but it takes a special nose to figure out when they’re ripe!
I had to put up a tiny fence to keep the Howler out of the garden… he is SUCH a thief. LOVES them tomatoes…
Hahaha, unfortunately I would need a 6 foot barbed wire fence to keep them out, and then my garden would look more like a prison.
haha!
I am very thankful the Howler is a wiener dog and short.
Mylo is obviously very concerned about perserving his cognitive well-being.A cup of berries according to researchers will decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia by 2 years.Enjoy Mylo!
How interesting! You never know, I always end up finding out that he is smarter than he seems.
Hehehe that’s one smart doggy!
Sometimes I think that they are telepathic and silently communicate about how they can drive me insane, haha.
Too smart for their own good, some animals. I’m sure their belly’s won’t agree with all those raspberries.
We try to feed them as much natural food as possible anyway, so they seem to be fine! 🙂 I agree though, much too smart!
Hahahahaha!
Oddly enough, none of my Goldens were ever garden burglars. But I once had a dachsund who would steal the cherry tomatoes.
Hehehe, my Golden seems to like to eat anything and everything.
It is just next to impossible for any living critter to pass up on that wonderful bounty you have growing. Hope you get to enjoy some of it. 🙂 Hugs
This is true! Thankfully the fence keeps everything else out and we have been able to stow away some berries in the freezer! 🙂
Though, Mylo did just eat all that was left of the peas I picked this morning.
I don’t like raspberries, but I pick the strawberries when they are ripe.
I bet my boys would pick those too, if we had them.
Milo, you are smart to play it cool and then go nuts grabbing berries. When I see something yummy (or gross or moldy or poisonous) in my field, I play it cool and then snatch it up. Mom has learned to be quick, though and she usually yanks it out of my mouth before I enjoy it much.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Eugh, Mylo also likes to eat things he should not. Like underwear. There’s a whole other post about that incident!
With our dogs, it the apple tree! It’s always something.
I enjoyed that post of yours. Dogs are always getting into things they shouldn’t, and ignoring things that they should get into.
My first dog, Misty, was a Golden. We’d see her “spy-hopping” like whales do to pick apples off my grandparents trees. The raspberries were never safe from any of the dogs… and even the blackberries! I found it too cute to try to stop them.
Hahaha, good thing we haven’t got an apple tree! Golden’s are such scavengers! I let them too, raspberries are good for them, and they enjoy it.