I found my dog’s hidden stash today

[washedcleannyc]

Just a small rant for some laughs for some.

We have a dog who is on daily medication. Twice a day, every day, and has been for just about 10 months straight now.

This dog has learned to take his medication without treat or any sort of additional support, we can just give it to him and he swallows. We don’t normally do this, we normally do some sort of thing, but in a pinch, this has helped us greatly. It’s something we teach all of our dogs as best as we can.

Now last night we cleaned out his crate and did a full reset on it. New bedding, new blankets, even the cover and the mat were pulled out. We usually do this every two weeks, but due to my traveling and my husband’s work schedule, it’s been a bit longer than that.

As we start cleaning it, he has this growing look of concern on his face as we get deeper into the crate and then we found it. His stash. There is old stuffing and random bones that we didn’t even remember giving to him, treats, torn up paper, toys, the works. And on top of all of that, 15 trazadone pills.

The biggest kicker of it all, that morning, we put him on new medication because his trazadone stopped working.

I suppose, we can’t win them all.

Edit: for those who asked, the hoarder in question. He showed all the stages as we cleaned the crate, forced the medicine in, and then the aftermath of the temporary crate bedding

https://imgur.com/a/RhrgmDN

Thank you all for the wonderful stories. It’s nice to see some great stories about some wonderful pups.

 

[refei]

@washedcleannyc Trust but verify.

 

[ruzou]

@washedcleannyc Thats too funny he has a hidden stash, my dog never did that with medication but I have found hidden bones, one time she stuffed it in my pillowcase as I was going to sleep one night I felt something poking my head lolI got a look from her like “oh no you weren’t supposed to find that”. They’re too clever.

 

[leeyuhrae]

@ruzou Haha, my poor little inbred pup is not quite clever enough. She has the instinct to bury stuff, but has no idea how to. She just places her favourite ball on my bed and moves the blankets and sheets in the general vicinity of it. It never gets covered. She always appears surprised that I have found her ball.

 

[washedcleannyc]

@leeyuhrae My little girl does the same! It’s so cute, she just doesn’t quite get it.

 

[prophetictimes]

@leeyuhrae When my husky mutt was a puppy she tried to hide all her prizes, but she was terrible at it. We'd often find them placed carefully against a wall in plain sight, but her favorite hiding place was UNDERNEATH OUR OTHER DOG. Not a huge surprise that she now seems to believe that all hidden prizes eventually vanish, lol.

 

[washedcleannyc]

@ruzou That’s how he did it! He has a zippered case on his bed and it had the smallest opening and that’s where the majority of his hidden cache was. It was perfect.

 

[stokinbusuk]

@washedcleannyc Humiliation is being outsmarted by your dog. Humanity is being secretly proud of their smarts!

 

[washedcleannyc]

@stokinbusuk Exactly! When my husband and I first got him, we had arguments over who was not flushing the toilet. I mean this went on for weeks. This dog learned to use the toilet… we caught him once and laughed so hard and now every time he goes into the bathroom, we have to check! He enjoys humiliating us.

 

[zakknight]

@washedcleannyc Wait what?! Your dog learned to poop in the toilet all on his own?!

 

[washedcleannyc]

@zakknight I don’t know how he did it! He wasn’t even big enough to get up on his own, but he ended up using the tub and climbing up from the tub step. It was the funniest thing ever! And now that’s he’s bigger, he can lift a leg and pee in it. Much less often than he used to, but if I get caught up in a meeting or something, he’ll go straight to the toilet.

 

[vitalismbanda]

@washedcleannyc I just can’t with this dude.

 

[stokinbusuk]

@zakknight We underestimate the intelligence of dogs to a huge degree. There is so much they can learn from us, and even more that they can teach us.

There are multiple videos of dogs using the toilet.

This dog has a great aim and impeccable manners.

Teach your dog to use the toilet.

Teach any dog to use the toilet.

 

[pedianephro]

@washedcleannyc I'm impressed that he kept the pills in his mouth long enough to spit out into a secret stash. My dogs spit things out right away when they don't like how something tastes

 

[washedcleannyc]

@pedianephro Right?! We normally do peanut butter because he spends about ten minutes after licking the wall and then his breakfast which happens in his play room and then crated for like ten minutes while I get the others out to pee. It’s a good chunk of time that he holds them. I’m thinking it’s in his cheeks. They’re a bit floppy.

 

[daughterofgod99]

@washedcleannyc Smart pup!

 

[keziah37]

@washedcleannyc That's so cute!

When I first got my girl she was so terrified and insecure. She couldn't take and eat a treat if I was in the same room, so I would leave it next to her on the sofa (where she would glue herself) and then leave. I would come back and it was gone.

A while later I was gathering up the cruimpled blanket on the sofa to wash it and under that blanket I found all her treats! She didn't eat any of them. The look she gave me as I lifted the blanket and found all her treats was so pitiable! Her head was hanging so low!

Now I know how food-obsessed she is. More than any other dog I have ever known. So for her to not eat those treats in the early days shows how insecure she was.

 

[lucas93dude]

@keziah37 Please tell me you just put her stash back!

 

[keziah37]

@lucas93dude Well, I put them all right in front of her. They were under the blanket and slightly wedged in the sofa cushions before and so I didn't want to put them back in the cushions!

She actually did eat them after I gave them back (and left the room). Like 5-6 Milkbone-style biscuits.