Dog taken into custody after escape, pizza theft
SALEM, Ore. – Don’t mess with his food.
That’s the message a 5-year-old Siberian husky had written on his collar when he jumped into a Salem family’s car and ate the pizza they brought home for dinner Wednesday afternoon.
Marion County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Don Thomson said a Salem woman and her family returned home from grocery shopping at WinCo when she saw the dog in their neighbor’s yard at around 3 p.m.
As she unloaded her grandmother’s wheelchair from her SUV, the dog jumped in the back seat and started devouring the cooked pepperoni pizza the family bought for dinner.
The dog aggressively barked when she tried to scare him away, so she called the sheriff’s office, Thomson said.
A deputy arrived to find the dog still eating the pizza in the back seat. He couldn't get the still-aggressive dog out of the car, so the deputy called the Marion County Dog Control Unit. A Dog Control Officer got the husky out of the SUV and took him to the county dog shelter.
Thomson said the dog was wearing a collar with the words “don’t mess with my food” written on it.
At 4 p.m., the sheriff's office said the dog's owners posted a lost dog report on the county website earlier in the afternoon. The husky, named Eysak, escaped from his back yard. The owners headed to the dog shelter to pick up their dog.
A three legged dog walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'm lookin' for the man who shot my paw......"
It's baaaacon! No wait it's piiiiiizza! Nom nom nom.
Or as Obama calls it "fattening up the hogs".  Pizza fed canines are soooo much tastier than kibble fed. Michele has an excellant recipe for 'Sauteed Siberian" that's to die for!
Now this is a great news story! <3 I bet the owners are barking mad! ~Bad Dawggie!
that dog looks a little husky. shouldn't he be on a diet?
Yeah! He is! He's on a see food diet.
They didn't pay for the pizza ? Come on !
The dog did come with a disclaimer on his collar.
food aggression is not tolerable.
Hey, I get pretty protective about my pizza, too.
And If he was a pitbull,..they would have shot him instead of taking him to find his owner.
Handsome boy !!!
Seems to me the woman who left her doors open to allow the dog into her car would have known who he belonged to and could have just as easily called them to get their dog. And asked for a replacement pizza.
 @Yamhill354 huh? It is obvious by the story they didn't know who the dog belonged to...
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I had a beagle that jumped on two salmon steaks stuffed with crab! She never looked happier in slight of our anger which didnt last long. She napped for hours........
My cat loves to try to steal pizza from any plate left unattended. He just prefers the crust though...
"At 4 p.m., the sheriff's office said the dog's owners posted a lost dog report on the county website earlier in the afternoon. The husky, named Eysak, escaped from his back yard. The owners headed to the dog shelter to pick up their dog."
And hopefully they also paid for the pizza eaten by their dog - and bought them another dinner as well.Â
Perhaps Purina could come out with a new flavor: Pepperoni Chow?
Dog gone good pizza.
That's awesome. I totally love that dog, his message, and his bad behavior.
Well, that's what you get when you leave you vehicle open.
 @wondering Well, you do have to open your vehicle to get out of it. Unless you know of another way?
Beautiful dog..! Â Â Shame he's a little bit lacking in manners... not nice to steal other peoples' food, y'know... Â Hope the dog's owners replaced the family's pizza for them... Â Â :-)
Sllllowwwwww news day, Big Deuce!
Heck, by the time the Dog Control Officer got there, the dog was finished. Probably came out with a wagging tail and a messy face. Hate to see what the owner has to clean up in the backyard tonight though, once that pepperoni starts to pass.  Yuck!
Did he get any beer to go with the pizza?
Lmao. Ahahahaha.
When they finally extricated the dog from the SUV he was heard to bark, "Mama-mia that's a good pizza".
Hopefully the owner will replace their pizza.
"A deputy arrived to find the dog still eating the pizza in the back seat. He couldn't get the still-aggressive dog out of the car..."Â Should have given him a pitcher to wash it down. That might have mellowed him out a bit.
LMAO!! "Pizza! Gotta have a pizza!" -- Eysak the Husky
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Glad he's headed home.
Dog came with a warning... what do you expect! Â ;)
Seems to me that the owner of the dog should pay for the pizza...just saying.
Or from the state crime victim's fund?
Will he end up doing community service?
 @jpk  Delivering pizzas to the homeless?
Nope, more like pizza-less to those at home!
 @jpk  Well, maybe just the boxes. It is the rainy season, after all.
It's not funny...It's hilarious. HAHAHA
Lets hope they also bought the people a very nice family size pizza as well.
Yup! Maybe the pizza he ate was dog-size?
 @jpk I thought my lab had no food limit until I left her in the car forgetting there was a Costco chocolate sheet cake in the back. When I went to get the cake I found a small piece about 4x4 still left. First time she had not completely finished a food item and may explain the diarrhea all over the floor that night:)
 @margay1    @wondering  @jpk   Your welcome! :) I admin at Koivet. I've learned to look up chemicals and articles in regards to the critters over the years. I always check on stuff like that as so much hoax mail goes out. But I have vet access since the forum owner is a vet also who from time to time sends us warnings on given items.  I'm on a need to know things basis though what with admining at the forum. Dogs will eat fish foods etc.. and some of the meds are toxic also used in ponds. Its a catch 22 area...
 @Khre'Riov Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu  @wondering  @jpk ~  Many thanks for the links.. interesting info!  I'd never really studied this, mostly because I don't have a dog...
I've never had a cat that was the least bit interested in chocolate, although
some of them did like other items of "people food"... Â I'm just as happy that they don't want people food; most of it probably isn't all that good for them anyway... Â
 @FreedomRocks  @Opossum Girl  @jpk I have two girls - same mom, different father- 2 years apart. They are Lab, Bordie Collie and G. Retriever. The older girl looks Border Collie, the younger looks more lab & G. Retriever. Both love their food, but neither are aggressive. Gentle, happy bounce off the walls and into the nearest mud puddle, creek & stream!
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The older guy is half Akita,half shepard.. - I worked with him and used the alpha omega which does work. I also used "your on the doggy doo-doo list" to scold him. To this day (he is 13) all I have to say is Doggy doo-doo and he wilts. It breaks his heart to get scolded. But it works, he isn't the only big dog that can have a stubborn streak. We had a chow/lab this also this worked well with. :) It takes time and you really have to work with them, but I also taught them not to leave the yard.. and thats a lot of consistent staying after them. :) If you have the time, it does work. :)
 @FreedomRocks    @jpk I just gave a couple of links to jpk, margay and wondering above that explains the differences hun! :) Different chocolates, different levels of xyz content... Â
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Combine with your vet said, makes sense.. :)Â
 @wondering @margay1 @jpk Different chocolates have different content levels.. These explain a bit more..
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http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/question348.htm
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http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/guide/dogs-and-chocolate-get-the-facts
 @jpk I'm not sure about cats on that. However, I do recall a problem with the chocolate bark dust also. That was in the news. All one has to do though is google it ..
 @jpk dodged a bullet...ask any vet ; )
 @Opossum Girl  @jpk Yep found out Chocolate labs like raw eggs the hard way two. I got in quite the battle with her trying to keep her from eating the rest.
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Luckily she is not aggressive over food I have regularly had to stick my hand in her mouth to remove stuff. It is more of a battle of her trying to eat it or not let me pull it out of her mouth while I try to get it out but she knows not to bite down while my hand is in her mouth. My last dog a standard poodle was not quite so docile and you might have a missing finger trying to take the food from its mouth.
 @jpk  @FreedomRocks The mess was processed cake:)
 @wondering My left ill affects all over the house from both ends after eating a bag of Halloween candy.
 @Khre'Riov Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu  @jpk Ya the vet said it is like an allergy and what will kill one dog just makes another sick. Luckily for my chocolate lab she is not that allergic.
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She once also ate an entire bag of my kids Halloween candy and what she did not throw up came out the other end. It was a lot of chocolate and make a lot of mess.
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I could not eat chocolate for a month after cleaning up that and the wrapper hairball that came out. Never did figure out which end that came out of but it was nasty!
 @FreedomRocks  @jpk I went into the library after grocery shopping, carefully checking that all food was safe to leave with my dogs. Not so.  Came out to find scads of furry little balls all covered with green leafy stuff.  Well, Clifford got into figs and parsley.  Sure looked funny; and was glad I didn't have to explain the "greens" to the law.
 @wondering That's just as bad as when our dog ate all the playdough... we had a very colorful back yard
Ya gotta make believe you hide it, so they think they found it all by themselves; not put it in front of them. LOL
 @wondering ~  Oh, maybe that's it... I know I've heard that somewhere about dogs and chocolate...  Thanks for the add'l info..!  :-)
 @jpk  @margay1  @FreedomRocks ~  My cats have never been at all interested in chocolate... they just sniff it, look at me like "Mom, WTH is THAT..?!?" and walk away... Â
@margay1  Only the real chocolate (eg; dark chocolate) is poisonous. Milk chocolate does not have the same effect. I had a lab/shepherd mix that ate 1 1/2 cases (paper and foil wrapping included) of fundraiser chocolate bars. No ill effects whatever. It was very easy to find his poop for pickup the next few days cause of the shiny foil content.
@Khre'Riov Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu I'm not so sure about that. My cat once helped herself to one of those milk-chocolate bricks that was all wrapped up in cellophane and put on the mantelpiece. Only the wrapper was left. No problems with the cat at all.Â
 @jpk  Toxic, and so are raisens, and that sugar free gum..
@margay1 @FreedomRocks I don't know how dangerous chocolate is to dogs and cats, but maybe chocolate labs like it?
 @FreedomRocks  @jpk  ~  Oh wow... I've always heard that chocolate was poisonous to dogs... if that's true, you were lucky that diarrhea was all that happened...  Â
@FreedomRocks Was the mess the result of eating all the cake, or the cake itself?