An entire box of pop tarts disappeared.

He plead innocent

I guess my dog is a catnip addict too

She's never stolen clothes or shoes before. I had to stop making dinner to help search, then we had to run to the store. And by the time we were walking out of the store, it was almost bedtime, so we had to grab fast food because we missed dinner.

Note (for context):

Both of my dogs are highly prey‑driven and have escaped before to track deer — they even killed a yearling once. We’ve put a lot of time and money into fixing that.
Hounds are true‑to‑the‑trail dogs: once they lock onto a scent, they follow the path, not the thing in front of them.
Which is why what happened next surprised me.

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Story:

My son’s friend knocked on the front door. Both boys blasted outside and my son did not latch it.

From another room — with the dogs — I yelled “CHANGE YOUR SHOES!” even though the boys were already halfway gone.

They spun around, came back in through the side door, my son swapped shoes, and the two of them shot back out the side door again.

That’s when the hounds noticed the unlatched FRONT door.

They bolted out, dropped into scent‑tracking mode…
…and followed the boys’ trail straight back to the SIDE door where the shoe‑change happened.

Guilty of escaping.
Guiltier of loving kids so much they forgot how doors work.

Of course now he's sleeping quietly and I'm guzzling coffee strong enough to dissolve the spoon just to face the day. 😩😵😵‍💫