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Comment by Mara, Sadie & Zoe on April 26, 2011 at 5:56am: Cheryl, the Mom of 3 foods says her thief is SIX years old! I had hopes that I would be able to train it out of her but the more she wins I think it is more of a challenge to do it again. Definitely she is better at 2 years old rather than when she was younger....you know, when she used to bring the prize to me. Now she mostly goes off somewhere because showing the prize means someones going to take it away. They are too smart!

Comment by Tanya Sheldon on April 25, 2011 at 8:08pm: We have two doodles and one is a theif and one is a giver. The giver runs and picks up a toy as soon as you walk into the room and she shoves it at you almost knocking you over and gives a awoooo sound until you take it.

Comment by Cheryl and Finnegan on April 25, 2011 at 8:03pm: Sadly no. And I only had them a week. Sadie sounds like she's not only a "quiet thief" but a very clever one. Throwing you off track like that!! Have you noticed that no one has said so far - oh my doodle used to steal things but they grew out of it? I think we're in trouble :)

Comment by Nancy - Opal, Meadow & Tariki on April 25, 2011 at 7:59pm: My girls used to 'smuggle' and you would find things in places... that you had no idea how they got there... you turn around and there is a bone in the mudroom. Meadow, my parchment Dood... steals socks.. ever so quietly. She does not harm them... but I will come dowstairs in the morning and there will be a pair of my socks in her crate... apparently she likes to sleep with them. Somehow she knows where they are and she is stealth at collecting them. For me, it is almost sweet.

Comment by Mara, Sadie & Zoe on April 25, 2011 at 7:12pm: Did your glasses make it unscathed? I got a great deal on a pair of sun glasses...5 minutes but they didn't survive. The Easter Basket with fake eggs.....she was eyeballing that the minute I took it out of the shopping bag. Pretended not to be interested...a few minutes later I found her laying on the sofa with basket between her paws.

Comment by Cheryl and Finnegan on April 25, 2011 at 6:33pm: I really am enjoying everyone's stories. And whoever said "you know the look" -- How true, how true. It's the look "who me?" with mouth closed but cheeks pooched out that tells me Oh oh! Are those my reading glasses in there?

(yes, he did steal my reading glasses among other things). The other day he took a sock. I called to him to bring it back. Finn did NOT reappear but said sock comes flying through the open bedroom door. Meanwhile he's off I guess for more treasure (no pun intended!!!!).

Comment by Ricki and Tara (doodle) on April 25, 2011 at 4:56pm: I'm enjoying everyone's tales of their "quiet thieves"!!! Tara would make a terrible thief though. Anytime she picks up something off the floor that she shouldn't have she brings it straight to me but keeps her head down and if I am sitting down starts tunneling under my knees! She does this EVERY time and it is the only time she does this particular behavior! Not very sneaky!!

Comment by Mara, Sadie & Zoe on April 25, 2011 at 4:56pm: SIX!!! You mean they just keep on doing this. Today she ate an entire loaf of Easter bread hard boiled eggs included, shells and sprinkles too.

Comment by Tanya Sheldon on April 25, 2011 at 4:55pm: That is very funny because just today on my walk by the river bed in which some houses back up to the trail, someone had thrown Easter eggs shells and all out on the trail and before I could catch my mini doodle she ate the shell and all and would not come to me till she downed it.

Comment by SD Suz - Mom of 3 Doodz on April 25, 2011 at 4:26pm: Since I almost never post, no one will know me (but maybe recognize the Doodles' OLD picture with Santa?). DH and I roared at the descriptions of the 'quiet thieves' in our midst. Keela (mini Australian Labradoodle) does that ALL the time. When DH brings them in from their evening walk she ran in to see me but wouldn't put her head up. When I pried open her jaws she had a very large empty egg shell clenched between her teeth. I think it was from a nest that had fallen out of the bushes--poor baby birdies :( So glad I read DK today--Now I don't feel so alone with my six year old thief.