Dog Looking For Pizza Turns On Stove - Burns Down Kitchen

[matcom]

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Skylar the goldendoodle couldn't wait to get her paws on the cold pizza perched atop her owner's stove.

With her owner gone, the 3-year-old golden retriever/poodle mix from Naperville found a way up near the stove top on March 7, touching off a blaze that almost took her life.

Apparently, Skylar smelled the pizza and tried to get at it sometime after her master, Fred L. Chip Haines IV, left for work that morning. In doing so, the designer pooch probably turned on a burner with a paw.

The burner ignited the cardboard underneath the pizza, producing flames that spread quickly to a nearby, heavy-duty plastic cutting board, and then to the cabinets above the stove, Naperville fire officials said. Haines said the blaze was confined to the kitchen but still did an estimated $50,000 in damage.


http://suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-dog25.html

[kid a]

1. golden poodle?

I clicked just to see that

[Misunderestimator]

2. He was planning to eat a pizza he left out all day?

$50,000? That's some expensive kitchen. :wow:

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

3. Yeah, but...

...maybe that's just what he told the insurers?

[Misunderestimator]

4. Ohhh... and maybe he actually set the dog up to do it...

So that he could get a "freshly renovated" kitchen prior to his fiancee moving in with him. :think:

"Skylar and Haines are temporarily living in Carol Stream with Haines' fiancee, Ginger Whitson. Haines and Whitson, 37, plan to wed in November and, with luck, move into what by then will be Haines' freshly renovated home."

[no name no slogan]

6. Well, it is Naperville

which is fairly pricey, even for Chicagoland...

[underpants]

5. After reading this and rereading this and analyzing its contents

I have come to the shocking revelation that there were THREE Fred L. Chip Haines's before this one.

:wow: :scared:

[SOteric]

7. Bad Remy. No biscuit.

:hi: