AHA! Birthday Surprise!

[JewelFreak]

Not. DH toddled across the city for my birthday cake yesterday, a big heart-shaped Marble Slab Creamery chocolate ice cream cake. I've been on a diet since May, lost 36 lbs., so this was a huge reward without guilt. I drooled all week at the thought! He goes out to the garage where he left it to thaw a tad while we ate dinner, comes in, face all red. "Are you playing a trick on me?" "Huh? Uh oh..." thinks I.

Packaging on the garage floor, pristine clean. Ice cream vanished. Not a trace of drip or spot anywhere. Lightning flash: the next-door dog ate my birthday cake! Every single molecule of it! All $30 worth. Down her piggy little gullet. Grrrrrowl! She is the only dog around allowed to roam loose, a sweet pit bull mix with obviously too big an appetite. She probably urped it all up on someone's lawn, the very definition of spreading the wealth around.

--- Laurie

 

[luv2sparkle]

Oh no, Laurie!!!! Will hubby go get another? You waited so long! You will never look at that dog the same again! Happy Birthday, it was the thought that counts!

 

[rainydaze]

oh no!!! that totally sux Laurie!

one year for easter we hid the kids' baskets around the yard along with the eggs for the easter egg hunt... all the kids found their basket except one. turns out two neighbors let their dogs out to roam, and they had helped themselves. grrrrr....

one thing - you said the cake was chocolate? any chance that is a danger to the dog and worth mentioning to the owners.... i always hear mixed things about dogs and chocolate, but seems to me it can be fatal in large quantities?

 

[Amys Bling]

Oh no!!

Chocolate can be fatal to dogs so please let the neighbors know!

 

[Kalrik]

That's disappointing! However can't blame the dog, you guys left the food out outside, of course an animal will eat it!

 

[bright ice]

OH NO It is a little funny though! I am so sorry. I bet he enjoyed it!

 

[JewelFreak]

You're right, Kalrik, I'm not mad at the dog at all. She only did what dogs do. Must have thought she died & went to heaven when she discovered a special treat left just for her! She seems ok this morning so I don't think the chocolate was concentrated enough to harm her. These neighbors would have done nothing anyway; I won't rant about my ongoing feud with them over their neglect of their dogs. They don't answer when I ring their doorbell anymore, after I blew my stack at them a few times.

Rather than send DH back across town I'll just buy some Ben & Jerry's tonight & pretend it's in cake form. It's really more funny than tragic. She's quite a successful prospector!

--- Laurie

 

[Amys Bling]

Ugh. Don't even tell me about the dogs neglect.

Glad you ate getting another treat, congrats on the weight loss!!!

 

[minousbijoux]

Awww, thats too bad! I don't like thinking that you had your expectations high, had a good dinner and were waiting, really waiting, for the treat. Its unfortunate that your neighbors let their dog roam free. Its fortunate the dog is okay. Finally, and most importantly, you get the day to imagine all the things you might get to replace it. You can end up with Ben and Jerry's but in the meantime you can imagine anything you want Enjoy whatever you do have to celebrate and Happy Belated Bday!

 

[VapidLapid]

AH dogs and unattended food! ice cream cake has probably never tasted better. Im sure your DH will make it up to you. Mine has never had opportunity, but his x girlfriend, Squigi, a jack russell terrorist, jumped from a lying position on the floor to the dining table, grabbed the meatloaf sandwich, leaped off the table with the prize which she took to deep under the couch. And that was not the biggest of her transgressions on my account, but I'll not relive it here as I would only renew my upset. Yet she could look all spiritual and angelic as here, but it was all a front.


HAppy Belated Birthday Wishes

 

[tyty333]

That really stinks!

My BILs dog came home one day and urpped up a ton of brownish gunk all over his carpet. He had no idea what she had eaten.
Later his neighboor brought up the fact that he couldnt figure out what was going on with his turkey fryer because the peanut
oil was "evaporating". It appears that the dog went next door and drank the peanut oil out of the fryer then threw it up on
the floor. Gross right? I'm sure your chocolate cake tasted a whole lot better!

 

[yennyfire]

Oh no! I'm sorry that your neighbors dog ate your cake! How terrible (but kinda funny!). A belated Happy Birthday and congrats on your weight loss too, that's awesome!

 

[maplefemme]

Oh no! She must have thought her ship came in when she found that

PS> Happy Birthday!

 

[maplefemme]

AH dogs and unattended food! ice cream cake has probably never tasted better. Im sure your DH will make it up to you. Mine has never had opportunity, but his x girlfriend, Squigi, a jack russell terrorist, jumped from a lying position on the floor to the dining table, grabbed the meatloaf sandwich, leaped off the table with the prize which she took to deep under the couch. And that was not the biggest of her transgressions on my account, but I'll not relive it here as I would only renew my upset. Yet she could look all spiritual and angelic as here, but it was all a front.


HAppy Belated Birthday Wishes

They have to look cute, it's what stops us from strangling them!

(she's so adorable)

 

[Enerchi]

That must have been so heart breaking for you - waiting all this time for a reward like that, after such a successful weight loss, too! - and then knowing some loose dog scooped it up ahead of you! FUnny as this story is, and it sure is, it is still a bummer. Sorry you missed out on the cake.

On the upside, if you are frustrated with how the neighbours let their dogs run loose, hopefully he puked it up somewhere soft and warm and "white" in their house!!!

Karma has a fun way of playing games....

 

[baby nurse]

Happy Birthday, Laurie! Awesome accomplishment re the weight loss

 

[gammygam]

Oh no! Sorry you missed your birthday cake...but it's a very funny story nonetheless. I'm glad the dog sounds like he's ok. If there's Dairy Queen around, they sell ice cream cakes too and some grocery stores sell Caravel...not the same as your cake I know. Congrats on the weight loss!

 

[Dancing Fire]

very funny!!.. look on the bright side thanks to the dog you didn't gain any weight.

 

[tuffyluvr]

I would have cried. Literally. Ice cream is my favorite food ever and the disappointment of looking forward to it for weeks would have been crushing!!!

 

[JewelFreak]

That really stinks!

My BILs dog came home one day and urpped up a ton of brownish gunk all over his carpet. He had no idea what she had eaten.
Later his neighboor brought up the fact that he couldnt figure out what was going on with his turkey fryer because the peanut
oil was "evaporating". It appears that the dog went next door and drank the peanut oil out of the fryer then threw it up on
the floor. Gross right? I'm sure your chocolate cake tasted a whole lot better!

OMG, Tyty! Funny as heck on one hand, screaming frustration on the other! I'll bet that poor dog's pipes were greased stem to, em, stern. One of my dogs has eaten uncountable awful stuff (including most of a pair of glasses, wallpaper paste, part of a flashlight) but never anything so messily messy!

VL, that is the most adorable dog, meatloaf sandwich & all!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Oh, no!!!! Hubby learned a valuable lesson from that, I'd bet! I am glad you are a dog lover in this situation!