Hungry Cooper

Yeah, he looks innocent, but let me just tell you about this puppy. I don't know how he does it, but if there is something that he wants (on the counter, say) he will find a way to get it as inconspicuously as possible. Saturday, there was an Arby's roast beef sandwich sitting on the counter in the kitchen. I was saving it for when Dowell got home. There was 4 packages of Arby's sauce, a little tub of barbeque sauce, and possibly some ketchup (you see where this is going). When we left the house that evening, I pushed the sandwich all the way back, where I thought he couldn't get to it and didn't even think twice about the sauces because they were all individually packaged and there was no way that he would eat those anyway...or would he??

When we got home, the paper that wrapped the sandwich was on the kitchen floor...with NO signs of the sandwich. I immediately went to get the fly swatter and I noticed something reddish on the carpet. I stopped and got scared (Cooper has a sensitive stomach) because I thought it was blood. But NO, it was a trail of Arby's Tangy Barbeque sauce from the kitchen into the living room and slung all over the wall! When I saw this, I looked back on the counter for the Arby's sauce and ketchup...gone. He had eaten the packages whole!! Needless to say, he got into some serious trouble. You'd think he'd learned his lesson...

Yesterday, I made cornbread muffins for dinner and had set one on a spoonrest at the back of my stovetop while I put Reese to bed. Well, when I came back into the kitchen to eat...there were merely crumbs of cornbread on my stove. Somehow, he had quietly pulled the spoonrest to the edge of the stove and enjoyed a cornbread muffin without me knowing. You'd think the boy is starving! I have to say, it cracks me up how smart he is.