The differences between dogs and cats are striking, especially when it comes to burglary. Imagine the Cat Burglar who sneaks in unsuspected, hanging from a silk rope with a cache of thievery gadgets at her disposal. In and out with the jewels without setting off alarms and then jet-setting off to Monaco before there’s even a whiff that anything is missing.
Dogs are entirely different.
Take this Holiday Season “Dog Burglar” who stumbled into a grocery store in Murray, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. If felines are stealthy, well canines are a bit different.
This KSL-TV News story reconstructs the tactics behind a “caught on camera” heist perpetrated by a local and lovable dog.
Imagine if you were a dog, it was Christmas time, and you were like most dogs … hungry. Then you can imagine why this pooch traipsed through the front door of the local Smith’s Food and Drug. The strategies exposed in this video proves the great differences between Dog and Cat Burglars.
For one, a Cat Burglar wouldn’t walk into a location in the daylight during regular business hours. A cat would wait until the wee hours of the night when the security guard sits down for a little shut-eye. Then they’d scale the side of the building, carefully balance along the roofline until they found the secret point of entry that went overlooked by the security system.
The Dog Burglar in this video just hoofs it right in the sliding door not trying to cover its tracks or attempting any covert maneuvers whatsoever.
As the Grocery store security footage shows, the dog was recorded at every point of his entry. A Cat Burglar would never be picked up on security footage. The cat would most likely set up an elaborate computer hack in order to override the cameras with an innocuous video that covers up the crime.
But a dog? Just tramp right through the front door.
He doesn’t even attempt to hide his identity. He actually walks up to three little girls and sniffs them to say hello, giving the authorities three witnesses right from the jump.
A Cat Burglar will spend weeks, months, possibly years plotting and planning the heist down to the smallest detail.
After this canine crook’s very public grand entrance, it all came down to either turning left or right. He was just playing it by ear, or nose.
And was it just dumb luck or his super sense of smell that told him to take a right turn, which led him straight to aisle 16?
Luck or skill, the dog found the aisle of his dreams, the pet food & supplies aisle. All the dog bones, treats, and toys he could ever want were at the tip of his snout. He must have felt like a kid on Christmas morning.
The pooch selected a simple old-fashioned rawhide bone, nothing special nothing fancy. The plunder cost a whole $2.79, something a cat would just pay for.
He was about to find out that just as easy as it was to enter the building it was going to be even harder to exit.
The Cat Burglar has similar difficulties once she gets to the ultimate object of her gambit. She may have worked out a switcheroo where a knockoff is slipped in to replace a masterpiece. Whatever the grand scheme is, even for a cat it is always easier to get in than get out.
But a Cat Burglar has already figured out how to get the object out of the building, something this dog hasn’t even thought about.
Because the dog went to zero ends making this a covert heist, the manager was immediately notified of his presence. Just as the dog grabbed the bone, the manager confronted the old boy.
Smith’s Manager Roger Adamson confessed this account of the events …
“I looked at him, I said, ‘Drop it.’ I decided I wanted to keep all of my fingers so I didn’t try to take it from him. And he looked at me and I looked at him and he ran for the door and away he went.”
And like that the dog disappeared into the snowy afternoon with his loot.
You know, now that we’ve looked at the facts of the case and compared them to the stylish thievery of a typical Cat Burglar, it just might be that this dog is a way better thief than the cat. The dog doesn’t risk his life scaling a dangerously high museum wall, nor drop himself down by a thin rope from a perilous height. No, he just strolls through the front door in broad daylight.
The Dog doesn’t worry about creating some secret identity to cover his tracks. He’s a lovable pet, who just happened to stumble in from the cold. And who doesn’t love a dog? He has a built-in alibi. And Smith’s store manager ate it up.
As the cat must fence the stolen goods, this dog just needs to find the dumpster behind the grocery store and eat the evidence. No one is even looking for this dog. They let him go and haven’t even told the police.
The Cat Burglar jets off to the French Riviera, living a life of fun in the sun. Sipping catnip laced cocktails by day, and high limit gambling by night. The worldwide manhunt for her capture will always haunt her. Dreams of being hunted by dogs will interrupt her sleep. And after losing all the ill-gotten gains to the gambling tables, she’ll have to steal again.
It might be romantic but it’s not an easy life. Nothing at all like the joyful life of a working-class man’s best friend.
So perhaps the Dog was the better thief after all.
Watch his hilarious Christmas mission in action!
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