From SuburbanChicagoNews.COM:

Close call for canine ‘counter surfer’

By Bill Bird
Attention, David Letterman: if you’re interested, Skylar the golden doodle has learned the stupid pet trick to end all stupid pet tricks.

Unwittingly abetted by her master, Fred L. Chip Haines IV, the golden retriever/poodle mixed breed recently figured out a way to reheat frozen pizza.

The props she would need to recreate her trick would include several slices of pizza, one cardboard tray, one stove top and one easily manipulated burner control.

Unfortunately, that very combination of foodstuffs and gadgetry brought the nearly 3-year-old “designer dog” into a harrowing brush with death, and reduced part of Haines’ house to cinders in the process.

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