stories<\/a>. \u00a0He managed to sneak quite a bit of food off of tables and counters. \u00a0He was always found out though because he had the worse poker face ever. \u00a0As soon as we came inside, we’d find him cowering at the front door, ears back and unable to meet our eyes and we’d know that he’d found something to eat. \u00a0The girls learned that snack bags and milk cups left unattended were fair game. \u00a0I learned anything left near the edge of a kitchen counter was also likely to disappear into the bottomless pit of his stomach. \u00a0Even Kat and Josh have their own repertoire of missing food stories during Artie’s overnight visits. \u00a0These episodes range from the moment we got him to the moment he left us. \u00a0My last clear memory of a food snatch was only a few months ago. \u00a0I had recently discovered the joy of baking no-knead bread and had left a large mound of uncooked dough to rise on the counter while I went to pick up Leina from school. \u00a0When I can back, Artie was looking guilty as sin. \u00a0I quickly went into the kitchen but didn’t see anything amiss. \u00a0No ripped open plastic bags, no tipped over trashcans or gnawed milk cups. \u00a0But as I walked around the kitchen, I noticed that the ground felt very gritty – like it was covered in sand. \u00a0It suddenly dawned on me that there was a fine scattering of cornmeal all over the floor. \u00a0The same cornmeal that my rising bread dough should have been resting on! \u00a0The whole dough pile was gone and Artie was desperate to get outside. \u00a0I can only imagine what his stomach felt like that day!<\/p>\nI often used to joke to Kevin that between our compost bin and Artie, nothing organic was thrown out in our house. \u00a0He was better than a Dyson when it came to cleaning up spilled food and you didn’t need to pre-rinse your ice cream bowls. \u00a0Artie was more than happy to lick every last ice cream drop out for you. \u00a0And the kitchen table? \u00a0He learned how to put his front two paws on a chair seat and we’d catch him painstakingly licking every last inch of our table top. \u00a0Totally gross but totally Artie.<\/p>\n
I found this video of him I took a few years back. \u00a0Kulia had dropped her apple and Artie knew the house rules. \u00a0He couldn’t take the food out of the kids’ hands but once it hit the ground it was fair game.<\/p>\n