# Could You Disarm Your Dog With A Hamburger? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912 "2012-01-09T11:33:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912/61 "2012-01-09T23:46:02Z")
> [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#): > > We have a small, cowardly beagle who surely doesn’t guard anything, but she does alarm at the top of her lungs. She gets sufficiently freaked out about strangers that a hamburger may or may not shut her up. She might possibly choke to death while trying to bark and swallow the hamburger at the same time. Not long ago the doorbell happened to ring during the 30 seconds she spends scarfing down her dinner, and it was comical to see how torn she was between the food and the doorbell: barking hysterically, with her head in the bowl, trying to eat even faster than usual. Last year I had a foster beagle/spaniel mix who was the noisiest thing ever - simply walking in the door elicited an ear-splitting volley of happy howling and squealing; and he was also one of the most hysterical-about-food dogs I’ve ever encountered. He’s since been adopted, thank God. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912/62 "2012-01-10T20:21:12Z")
> [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#): > > We have a small, cowardly beagle who surely doesn’t guard anything, but she does alarm at the top of her lungs > [@chiroptera](#): > > Last year I had a foster beagle/spaniel mix who was the noisiest thing ever - simply walking in the door elicited an ear-splitting volley of happy howling and squealing Yeah, beagles are not only loud, they _want_ to make noise. Years ago I had a little black-and-tan beagle who taught herself to bay standing in the basement, facing into the corner, where there was a set of empty steel shelves. The empty shelves vibrated and magnified each sound. She’d bay once, then turn and look at me to see if I’d heard, then turn back and bay again, then turn around with smug self-satisfaction. ---
**Author:** ![beanieboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@beanieboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanieboy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912/63 "2012-01-10T20:49:17Z")
KFC chicken works well. On a trip to ohio. My wife and father inlaw were going thur colorado. And a state trooper pulled them over, no tickets were given so we suspect it was for the CAL plates on the car. My wife was wearing A biker leather jacket and the trooper must to had time on his hands he wanted to search the car as the search was for nothing he decided to bring in the dog. They put him on alert and let him go in the car. The car A older wagon had A bucket of KFC chicken and thats what the dog found. The trooper was all pissed off and that ended the party. So A burger would do as well. I would say yes a burger would put the house up for grabs. Donald Teeter [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912.md?page=3)