One Smart, Determined Beagle
Dog gets up high and opens a hot oven to break out the chicken nuggets cooking in it. Amazing.

One Smart, Determined Beagle
Dog gets up high and opens a hot oven to break out the chicken nuggets cooking in it. Amazing.
No, I'm sorry, but Mosley is my favorite dog video of the week.
Not because pajamas.
Because of the way he shows his outside-arc face cheek to the inside-arc cameraman during the flybys at :06, :10, & :13. I recognize the taunt from grade school... That animal is mocking me.
As for the greyhound's pirouettes, there's something ironically endearing about a lesser vertebrate behaving in a manner that's batshit insane.
See also.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at January 11, 2014 2:26 AM
OK, watched the video, the dog is pretty freaking incredible.
But why do people with kitchens that gorgeous, and with dogs that smart, eat nuggets?
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at January 11, 2014 2:33 AM
Love Mosley's zoomies and love how dogs can be so happy just to be alive and be dogs. My dog does that thing Mosley does -- turns around a bunch of times in place.
Oh, and big dogs look really fucking stupid in clothes. Says the girl who dresses her tiny dog in a Ralph Lauren-like cable-knit sweater stolen from a teddy bear.
Very good question on the nuggets.
Amy Alkon at January 11, 2014 5:57 AM
They also -- in my opinion -- have a very ugly chair.
Amy Alkon at January 11, 2014 5:58 AM
But why do people with kitchens that gorgeous, and with dogs that smart, eat nuggets?
I generally eat what I enjoy. Some days that's prime rib, other days it's wings with hot sauce. Chicken nuggets aren't my thing, but I'm not going to cast aspersions on other people's food cravings.
I R A Darth Aggie at January 11, 2014 8:53 AM
Something ain't kosher here. The dog put his paw inside of a toaster oven door. If nuggets had truly been "cooking" in there, that dog would have third degree burns on his paws.
Sorry, but calling B.S.
Fake, fake, fake.
Patrick at January 11, 2014 9:28 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/01/11/one_smart_beagl.html#comment-4192161">comment from PatrickThe dog probably put his paw just on the nugget. He could feel it was hot in there.
Amy Alkon
at January 11, 2014 9:48 AM
Does anyone really believe this wasn't carefully scripted, and the dog painstakingly trained? As Weird Al once said, "I hear they got it on the seventeenth take."
Rex Little at January 11, 2014 10:17 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/01/11/one_smart_beagl.html#comment-4192219">comment from Rex LittleActually, I find that my dog is remarkably smart and we want to leave the house and leave an iPhone on Facetime so we can watch what she does.
Amy Alkon
at January 11, 2014 10:28 AM
Rex is correct. Set up with a trained dog. Besides, what idiot leaves things unattended while cooking in the oven?
And that dog pulled out the rack with his paw, plus placed his paw on the inside of that oven door. The dog also ate something hot out of the oven. What's the cooking temperature on chicken nuggets? Isn't that 350 degrees?
Fake-a-roonie!
Patrick at January 11, 2014 10:33 AM
I had a dog that was perfectly angelic 99% of the time. But he was smart. And the smell of food temps a dog like no other thing in existence. Even dog pussy doesn't hold the same allure.
He would follow people around, never begging for food. You left something on the countertop? Well he would follow you to the next room and act like he had no clue. You better believe he plotted exactly when to go eat it. Because he would sneak away when you weren't paying attention and sneak back.
He would sit in your lap calmly as you ate food and talked with friends. He wouldn't beg. He would wait until he knew you were too engrossed in conversation and sneak appetizers. Look around the table. Quiettly grab them and very slowly chew them.
He once unwrapped individual chocolates-an entire holiday box and ate them, licked the wrappers too.
He would sneak out of the house , introduced himself to every neighbor and eat whatever they offered. People I never met or knew would come up to me and ask me how he was and why he wasn't visiting during dinner. These were complete strangers and it was the whole neighborhood.
He even befriended a rich family who wanted to take him on vacation.
Ppen at January 11, 2014 4:14 PM
Chicken nuggets = food for kids.
Note the microwave placed at child-height, for DIY snacking.
Also, ovens can be set on timers - that oven wasn't necessarily hot yet.
Michelle at January 11, 2014 4:16 PM
Patrick,
You must not have a dog. They are not like people, they will eat whatever they can whenever they can. A few months ago I dropped a homemade meatball on floor right after I took the pan out of the oven and my dog ate it before I could even bend over to get it. She also ate a boiling brussel sprout that I also dropped on the floor. She also ate piece of frozen chicken. She eats anything she can get he paws on as long it is people food.
Sheep mommy at January 11, 2014 7:25 PM
Yes, it is true; dogs will eat almost anything. One dog we had ate everything except pickles - she just didn't think they were food. But, being hot, cold, frozen or right out of the oven, or from the stove top - she would eat it if she could get to it.
Ha, several years ago, after we put down our last dog I dropped some celery on the floor as I was cutting it up for a salad; and I said to my friend: "damn, I guess I now have to pick that up since I don't have a dog to clean up my mistakes any more."
That being said, I do find it quite remarkable that the dog knew to push the chair to the spot to use it as a step. No dog I ever owned or knew of was able to use "tools" in such a way. This suggests to me that it was somehow or other was faked or the dog was trained.
Any dog owners care to claim that their dog was able to use tools in such a way? Push the chair to the correct spot that is, not just use the chair as a step.
Charles at January 11, 2014 9:02 PM
We had a dog who would take our backpacks off the kitchen counter, *unzip* them, and pull out our brown bagged lunches. And eat them.
He could also turn door knobs and pull doors open with his nose.
Michelle at January 11, 2014 9:43 PM
My dog, almost a year old, smooth collie-hound mix, has escaped her playpen 3 times. She clearly figured it out but does not remember...or cannot get the details right. I suspect that will change but it is fascinating to me that she has done it...but doesn't know how to repeat it consistently.
Katrina at January 12, 2014 6:41 PM
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