I must see this o_o

your dog sounds awesome OP. glad everything worked out well!

train your dog better, never had a single one of mine ever steal food

if I ever got a great Dane I would probably have put prison cell doors by the kitchen

Not sure why comment 59 is being downvoted so much. I don't care if you can get a "good laugh" out of the situation, a dog can get seriously ill from eating food meant for humans. Especially considering OP has admitted the dog is a frequent troublemaker.

The dog is still a puppy, you can't expect a dog to be fully trained before it's even a year old. If yours were, that's great, but not every dog is the same.

I have a 50lb lab mix whom I've obedience trained with a prong collar. She's a very good girl, but she's also sneaky and smart. I've learned never to leave food on the table unguarded and she always goes into her crate when I can't watch her. It's not always about training. Dogs are like kids, they like to push their boundaries.

I feel your pain OP. I have a 6 year old Great Dane who is 155 pounds. She's still a trouble maker... when she's not passed out asleep in bed anyway.

Omg I have a great dane too! He's a handful too :p

It is because people generally don't like having others assume that they have done something incorrectly and then being told what to do as if they were completely clueless on the subject. 59 overstepped her boundary, and the backlash which followed was rightfully so. Too few people know of said boundary.

There was no "assumption" on 59's part. OP herself said that all she did was put up a baby gate. Baby gates are meant to keep out 30 lb babies, not 120 lb dogs with the rambunctiousness of a puppy.

I know how you feel. We have a dog named Bob, and he would do that all of the time. He'd even steal jalapeno bagels. Then he made the mistake of taking a bite out of the center of dad's chocolate cake. Nobody messes with dad's cake. It hadn't been frosted yet, and was left on a counter to cool. He hadn't stolen food off of the counter for so long that my mom thought it'd be okay, but she did push it back thinking he wouldn't be able to reach it. Dad really yelled at him, he hasn't stolen food off of the counters ever since though, so I suppose it did the trick. He was around 9 months old, too.

Please don't mention Marley, that movie was so sad

I have 3 cats that are just as mischievous as any dogs I know. When I need to, I place dishes inside the microwave, inside the oven (turned off of course) and I utilized and lids or aluminum foil i need to keep them out of it...

I always lock my dog in the bathroom when I shower. She just lays quietly by the door and doesn't cause any trouble :)

#59 & #66 you are absolutely right and should not be thumbed down. #68 all dogs should be trained not to take food before 9 months old. If they are not you are not properly training. #80 there isn't any boundary, posting the FML asking for comment removes the boundary. OP, you need to really work with you dog and you need to properly confine her until she is trained. You're putting your animal at risk of illness and possibly death. No one like to hear they are doing things right but this is an animal the relies on you teaching them everything that's correct, and it can have dire consequences if you don't. I've known 2 dogs that died from over eating their own food because the owners didn't train them right. One was 10 months old and was "too cute" to discipline. Its truly sad.

No matter what, dogs are one of the greatest joys :)

#83, I totally agree that a good yelling can often help discipline a dog. It helped with mine. However, you got really lucky that your dog didn't get sick from the chocolate cake. From what I've been told by many (including a dog trainer we know) chocolate is REALLY bad for dogs, as well as grapes and other human foods.

Luckily I have a small dog. So it's easy to keep food out of her reach

85, I have 2 cats & I do the exact same thing... After the food is made, I bust out the pot lids & platter plates to cover everything. Dinner would be consumed well before either my Husband or myself ever got to the table if I didn't. & god forbid we have teriyaki burgers! I practically have to set up an electric fence around those suckers...

#90 it's actually only dark chocolate that can hurt them and even then, a 9month old lab wouldn't have gotten sick from just a bite. Milk chocolate doesn't have enough cocoa in it to make them sick, as long as they don't eat a ton. I had a friend who's dog ate an entire bowl of Halloween candy (all Chocolate) and the only thing she got was her name, Hershey.

Being small has never stopped our Chi-Terrier mix from getting into food and other things. Heights are only a small deterrent.

I have to say, OP, I can completely see this happening to me one day with one of my dogs, so I feel your pain on that one. Glad you were able to find humor in it after the fact though.

Depends on the cocoa content as well as blood/body weight. If I'm 200 lbs, I have more blood to dilute alcohol than a 120 lb person. Same thing for dogs.

I hate to sound rude, but some of you assume I don't discipline my dog, as well as assume I don't realize the risks of this. I am completely aware of these facts, and I do discipline and train my dogs. I have raised and fostered dogs for most of my life. I am aware. Lily is usually a wonderful animal, but as with many Danes, she is not the brightest. Danes are rebellious, tough to train, and very stubborn. She has been going through training for more than half of her life. I know what I am doing. None of the food I made was harmful to her, thank god, and she tore most of it up, rather than ate it. I also could've phrased this better. This "baby gate" is made of metal, and attaches securely to the walls. I used the term baby gate, because that's what we say in my home. It is more than enough to support her, and I will take more precaution in the future. Now, this is getting long. Again, I don't mean to sound rude, but your comment has pissed me off a bit. Don't assume. I am training my dog. You apparently don't understand breeds very well. Not every animal learns as quickly as another.

The cake was carrot cake. I don't remember actually saying chocolate...But if I did, my mistake! It was carrot, so no doggy poisoning worries.

I am sorry OP that there are so many people that think they know everything about animals, especially dogs, and honestly are just BSing it.

I have two trouble making dogs. One is 10 years old, with hip problems and he still manages to steal our food when we accidentally leave it out; and the other is a 5 year old who had a rough start at life. (Previous owners.. We saved her little puppy butt) I blame her bad behaviour on that & give her a hug. And to the person who said "train your dog- I forgot what number it was, some dogs just cannot be trained. In this case she's still a puppy, so she's still got some time to mess up. Wow long comment, I'm sorry :/.

Hey OP! I think my Great Dane, Kane, is your Great Danes older, yet long lost soul twin. Even when a Dane knows they've done wrong, the look they give you is too adorable to stay mad at for long!

I'm chiming in a bit late but I'm sure you did train your dog. Unfortunately animals only learn to do those behaviors when you are there. That's why as soon as you leave the house the cat scratches the couch or the dog pees on the rug. They haven't learned not to do things things ever just not when you are around. Animals are animals and they don't give a shit about what we want.

yes you can.

You really shouldn't encourage bad behavior with treats.

Wow. Note to self: never hire you as a dog sitter...

She did mention in a comment that she did put a baby fence up but the puppy knocked it down.

And you can't expect him to get better if you don't punish him. It's called reinforcement and it's essential in training. If you don't punish him, he won't know that what he did was wrong. But also, where did it say that she punished him? She's just complaining about it on FML.