we went out with some friends on friday night, and when we got home, there were larabars all over the garage floor.
you see, i bought 144 larabars in the great fundraising act back in july. (side note: susan’s cancer is GONE! thank you all for your help with the fundraiser! isn’t that awesome?!!)
anyway, back to friday night. these bars have been in a bag on a shelf in the garage since the end of july. we have been eating them, slowly but surely, and they have been high enough up that the dogs have not gotten to them.
well, until friday.
not sure how, after almost seven months, randy finally figured out a way to get the bag of bars.. but he did. i gathered up the bars from the garage floor and went inside to find a few wrappers on the dog bed.
does this scenario sound familiar??
we have no idea how many larabars the dogs ate friday night, but they had fruity breath so they definitely had their fair share. we wondered if maybe randy buried a stash for later, since that’s what he did with the full bars.
it was late and we were tired, so we scolded the pups with some firm words, they pretended to be sorry, and we all went to bed.
yesterday i got home from the mall and spotted something.
do you see what i see? need a closer look?
yes. that’s dried mud. on randy’s nose.
i went outside to see if there was any evidence that he’d been digging around in the dirt. when he buried the full bars, he did it so well that we couldn’t find them anywhere.
when i headed out to the backyard, i immediately saw a larabar laying in the dirt.
it was cashew cookie. my least favorite flavor. i don’t blame him for not bothering to conceal this one.
as i continued to look, i saw three suspicious looking mounds in the corner of the yard…
hmmm.. peculiar.
randy glared at me from the deck as i wandered over to the mounds.
i couldn’t hold my laughter when i saw something poking out from one of the mounds…
oh yes, friends, he did indeed bury some larabars on friday night.. but his dirty nose and poor execution blew his cover!
i had to wait for marshall to get home from the gym so he could have a laugh with me.. then he grabbed a shovel.
part of me wonders if penny has anything to do with these bar burials or if it’s strictly her big brother.
that one we found was chocolate chip brownie. a much better flavor to bury if you ask me.
BUSTED.
randy was super pissed that we discovered his hiding spot. you could see it on his face, we were totally messing with his territory and his hard work! i am sure he buried more throughout the yard, though, so if more larabars pop up in the next few weeks i will be sure to report back.
i love that randy buries things. penny gets a bone or a treat and gobbles it up immediately. she’s a total hog. but randy? he takes his bones and goes straight to the backyard, where he buries his treasures. then, a few days later, we will see a dirt-covered bone laying on the dog bed. clearly, he gets a hankering for a treat and goes to the yard to uncover one of his buried treasures. it’s a wonder that he remembers where he buries everything! it must be that powerful basset hound nose of his.
oh, randy, you are one of a kind. that’s for sure.
xo. janetha g.
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Hehehe that is SO cute!! Randy is one smart pup! This post made my night :)
Hahaha…that is the cutest thing! I don’t blame him on the cashew cookie either…lol
Haha, that is TOO cute!
hahah oh my gosh! How hilarious :)
Oh this is the funniest thing! Just so adorable. Poor wee Randy, he must have been gutted when he watched you dig up al his hard work! :)
I loves me some puppy mischief!
This just made my night!!!!
Oh my gosh, that’s stinkin’ hilarious. I absolutely love it!
Dear Lord, you have the smartest dogs. When mine was alive he could barely find his food bowl half the time.
Hahahahahaa I love the Randy burying stories. He’s hysterical!
How sweet!
Your dogs are hilarious! Animals are so smart it blows my mind. I wish I was more like Randy and could learn to save some of my treats for later instead of eating them all at once :)
I LOVE it when you post about your dogs! They are sooo adorable. This story made my night!
at least he has good taste :) my advice to you? Hide your Mighty Maple!
p.s. you should totally send this post to the larabar company. I bet they’d love it! I wouldn’t be surprised if they posted it to their site!
Lol Randy!
Murphy buries bones, but food he will eat right up.
That is hilarious!! What clever little pups :)
Awwwww….. You have to love dog personalities
That’s awesome! Silly dogs, larabars are for kids (in adult bodies)
I love Randy. End of story.
what a pimp! Randy is so gangsta.
Haha, those pups always seem to find your bars! Remember the care package I sent you of granola bars that they found and ate? LoL, at least they have good taste. :)
This is hilarious!
Love, love, love … my Dante hasn’t done anything like this … but I remember my doggy when I was a little girl kept coming back with dirt on her nose … we assumed she was playing in the yard until we started seeing all the plants in our house with some dirt beside them … further investigation brought us to a rawhide bone … she had forgotten the pot she had planted her bone in … love it … sure made us laugh!
Oh man, that story just made my day! What a clever little pup you have. How could you possibly be upset at such an adorable face as his. It’s a shame about the Larabars being eaten, but at some of them found a new home out in your garden. Maybe if you leave them out there, a Larabar plant will begin to grow. That’s the kind of yard work I’d be willing to help with the upkeep :)
haha that would be rad.
Omg, please never stop telling these stories! I think I find them especially funny because it’s someone else’s dog being naughty for a change.
Your dogs have some seriously good taste! Great laugh for the night! :)
Your dogs are seriously so damn cute but so damn bad!!! hahahaha! <3
hahaha your doggies crack me up!
Oh my gosh – that is so cute!! It wouldn’t be quite as cute if it was my own dogs of course, but what a fun story either way. :)
I’m simply dying over here. LMAO!! Go, Randy.
That is absolutely hilarious (though admittedly probably funnier to the rest of us than to you, haha)…what a sneaky pup!
oh no, i am with you, i am laughing!
omg i’m dying over here…i can SO see bunker doing something like that and giving me the sassiest looks ever!
I love this story so much. Jason and I had the worst day, and this gave us a laugh. thank you <3 (Jason had a basset growing up, so he loves seeing Randy Photos).
Omg! I died when I read this! My dog Charlie is a basset hound/german shepherd mix and he likes to hide his bones around the house and “pretend” to cover them with dirt.
ahahah! randy does the SAME thing inside the house!!!
I think Penny is in on it. How else could Randy reach the bars with his short legs? They’re in cahoots for sure.
What cuties :)
Bahaha TOO FUNNY!!
Your dog is a bit smarter than my dog…Abby hasn’t yet figured out that dirt is the best place for digging and burying. She’ll scratch at her metal cage for a half hour trying to bury her bone and then will move onto the couch if we’re not watching her!
ohhh he’s so committed to his cause! my cattle dog is into the “bury and dig up at a later date” thing, too. You can always tell she’s up to no good when she’s raking the flowerbeds with her nose. but can you be mad at those little droopy puppy eyes? no way!
This post made my night. :)
I’m crying reading this from laughing so hard.
Randy is out of control and I kinda love it!!! Hooray for Susan’s cancer being gone!
I’d been holding out on getting a dog, but I think you just pushed me over to the “done deal” side. Sheerly for entertainment.
This made my night.
I’ve seen and heard it all now…LOLing!
OMG so hilarious! My dog is like penny: gulp! gulp! SUCH a hog. I didn’t actually know that dogs really buried things! Very observant of you to notice his muddy nose! Dogs can be so devious and naughty!!
Seriously hilarious. Andy and I read this on my phone (I showed him since he was wondering why I was laughing so hard.)
Randy just loves bars so much.
Oh Randy dog you little scamp! I love reading about your shenanigans ….you really are a pretty clever pup!! I laugh so hard an your escapades :-)
I vote we do a fundraiser so surveillance cameras can be set up to record your every move!!
Love you Randy pants xoxo!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!!! This is amazing!! Your dogs are hilarious!
And larabars are my favorite so I don’t blame them for hiding them for later… ;)
I love this! My phone was dead last night, but scout was digging in the bed the same way randy was in the video you sent me awhile back! This is hilarious though, his busted face is priceless!
Hahaha, that is so cute!!! I am kind of wishing my dog buried things right now, just for the cuteness of it. Although I should probably be careful what I wish for :-)
This post made my morning! Randy is so cute, and hiding the Larabars is just hilarious. I’m not sure my dog would have the foresight to take extra bars and hide them.
Oh my goodness! This is too funny that he is burying the larabars in the yard! What a clever pup he is!
hahahahhahahahhahah ohhhhhhhhh, randyyyyyy.
I love your dogs :)
All I’ll say is Randy is a model of patience and self-control.
lol Susan!
Oh. My. God.
Thanks for brightening my Monday morning! HAHAHA
Wow, Randy is really good at delaying gratification, and…you know…being a total sneak. :)
Ahhhh the Basset nose at work. It’s hard to stay mad at a dog that is so intelligent huh? My hubby takes our basset’s to work at a horse barn with him during the day and Flash will get a bone or toy or something and bury it in the shavings in one of the horses stalls and the hubby will find it when he’s cleaning the next day.
It is impossible to stay mad at those big sweet eyes. This I know all too well…
I love this!! I have a mischievous pup as well. It is so hard to be mad and not laugh at them!! Thanks for sharing! This made my Monday morning!
hahahaha your dogs KILL me! you need to write a children’s book about them or something :)
Ha Ha!!! Love your dogs!!! Randy is something else!!
Like a ninja that guy! (The photo of the three piles is what got me laughing out loud at my desk)
I love Randy. Every time you post one of these stories, I get all teary eyed thinking about the basset I had growing up. They’re the best dogs! So many times Walter stole things and buried them in the yard. Or pretended to bury them behind the couch. We always pretended we couldn’t see his bones there hahaha. Love these posts <3
Kronus chooses to bury things in our couch, especially socks. It’s not the dryer that takes them, it’s him..and his talent to pack 5 socks in his mouth at any given time. He dug one hole in the backyard once and totally got caught, now I am worried he will break his foot running like a maniac and stepping in it.
Oh those funny little 4 legged kids we have, never let us down for a smile.
This is flippin’ FANTASTIC. That is all.
Hahaha this post made me laugh a lot.
I die! That is hilarious! WHat a sneaky little guy! My dogs are inside dogs but Bella tries to “bury” her rawhides under blankets, under furniture, in between couch cushions, etc.
so funny! I love the photo of you holding the bar with him in the background! Hilarious :)
That is hilarious. I have 2 German Shepherds and they are very intelligent dogs, but I don’t think either of them are smart enough to do something like that!
That is crazy! Hahahhaa! What a smart pup. And he has good taste.
bahahahaa. best dog story ever!
bahahaha!!! Randy freaking cracks me up. This totally had me snickering under my breath at work.
ZOMG! I’m laughing so hard right now and can’t wait to see this to Matthew for him to read. Randy’s face in all the photos looks so GUILTY! Do you take him to the vet after episodes like these?! I would be worried about his little tummy, but I guess after all those Full Bars, he probably has a stomach of steel!
Oh wow! Too funny.
One smart pup :)
Katie
Absolutely hilarious!
Did you eat the Larabars that you dug up? Kind of like finding buried treasure! Ha, ha!
I was reading this from my bed this morning and crying I was laughing so hard. I just made my husband read it and was giggling the whole time he was reading – especially when he started laughing!
I wish my dogs were smart enough to bury things. They do have a lot of interesting habits, but unfortunately burying is not one of them. :)
sweet jaysus, I love Bassets. My basset used to steal my *cough*undies*cough* and bury them. for real. stalker style.
Lol I just KNEW from the title that they got into something!
bahhaha this is absolutely hilarious. Dogs are always so entertaining
This is sooooooo stinkin cute!!!! AHHHG! I want a dog like that hehe
Dude, fruity breath is far far better than garden variety (ha! lol!) dog breath!
Haha! Randy is quite the clever and sneaky dog. I fear for the day when Margot actually has a yard to dig in–she’s a terrier, so I know she’s just itching to destroy a yard.
That is so awesome! Go Randy!!
My dogs are not big on burying…..but we had a really stinky house guest stay a few years ago and they buried his socks in the yard! Serves him right for being dirty!
Oh Randy you are too cute!!
Lol I’m in bed reading this on my ipad and trying soo hard not to wake up my huband from laughing so hard. This was great. Dogs are hilarious.
hahahaha LOVE this! Randy is a smart one, but still couldn’t outsmart YOU! Thank you for sharing :) This made me smile.
Oh my gosh! I always love the Randy stories! He is the funniest dog ever. Although I would initially be pissed that he ate my LaraBars, I don’t think I could stop laughing when I thought about it. He is just too much!! Perfect for entertainment ;)
I can’t believe your dog, he’s hilariously smart!
I want your dogs! I just want to look into Randy’s eyes forever and pet Penny’s soft little head forever! I’ll just hide my larabars. And any other bars. And protein powder (he got into that, too, right?)
Sigh.. right… hahaha
Great post! You, or should I say, Randy had me rolling!!!
LOL! My husband and I both loved this :)
Boomer is a gobbler too…must be a female thing.
Oh my gosh, this is too [adorably cute] funny!!! I am literally laughing out loud :P I think that if we had a back yard, our little mischievous pup would totes try to hide things from us, considering he gets his nose into everything in our apartment and especially recently [I think it's the age] he is super nosy!
This was an amazing story! I love your commentary on Randy’s expressions throughout the whole thing – hilarious. :)
OMG hahahaha
I recently discovered your awesome blog. I missed this post the first time around, but I love love love it so much! I have often revisited the one where Randy crashed a few feet from the water bowl. I am a big fan of you, but perhaps an even bigger fan of Randy!
The close-up of Randy’s little muddy nose is freaking genius!
I am so glad you like Randy! He’s pretty rad.. and ridiculous :) Thanks for reading!