Arrgggh! The Dog Ate My Fondant Cats!

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greenhorn Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 4:56pm
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I left them out on the table to dry this morning, the kids are home from school, and no one even saw her do it!!! I spent hours turning blobs of fondant into blobbish looking cats (I am NOT artistic) for my dd's cake on Friday, and the dogs eats them! I hope the tooth picks are poking her on the inside!!!!!!!!!!

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gailsgoodies Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:30pm
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I spent hours turning blobs of fondant into blobbish looking cats


icon_lol.gificon_eek.gif OMG!! Too funny! Not really, but yeah it is!! Kinda like "the dog ate my homework".....sorry I'm not more sympathetic.......but, thanks for the laugh!!

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Doug Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:43pm
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LOL...

see, even dogs agree....

the only good cat is a dead cat!

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spongemomsweatpants Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:48pm
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OH Noooooo!! I am so sorry.
I do have to tell you though the complete irony of the situation is sort of amusing. Look at it this way if nothing more you have a great story to go with your dd's cake icon_biggrin.gif

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MSurina Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:49pm
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Thems are fighting words Doug. icon_lol.gif I have a Siamese that could kick any dogs arse.

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smbegg Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:51pm
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my dog at the only plastic Lala I had for my DD teletubbies cake. I was so mad, I cried. Her cake just didn't have a Lala.

Stephanie

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MikeRowesHunny Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:55pm
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LOL...

see, even dogs agree....

the only good cat is a dead cat!




You know, I used to really like you Doug, now I'm not so sure icon_wink.gif !

Greenhorn, get rid of the dog and get a cat icon_lol.gificon_wink.gif , on a more serious note - I'm sorry that that happened to you - bummer!

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ruralepicure Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 5:56pm
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SHe ate the toothpicks, too?? Have fun at the vet's office!!

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lpino Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 6:03pm
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Oh boy!!!! I'm too familiar with that...
I'm sorry it happened to you!!!!

I had a whole batch of Christmas cookies ready for delivery (packed and everything) and my beagles managed to get to them... the rest you can imagine!

At least you have practice now and I'm sure re-making the cats will be no big deal!!!! good luck! thumbs_up.gif

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smoore Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 6:03pm
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I know the feeling ... our dog ate half of my dd's b-day cake (11 x 15) last year. Of course, it was late and I was short of flour and eggs at that point. I had to run to the only grocery in our town at 9:30 p.m. and got back just in time to see the bag of flour infested with bugs - jumping everywhere!!! I still get the creepy crawlies thinking about it. I thought I saw more bugs than flour. Quick ran back to the store, which had just closed (we live in the hicks), banged on the door till they let me in to exchange it. They opened about 15 bags of flour right there in the baking isle, as I wouldn't take an exchange without being sure it wasn't infested either. Dd's party was the next morning -- the dog stayed in her kennel the whole night!!!! Got to hand it to her, though -- she's got good taste!

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raymona Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 6:31pm
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Sorry to hear about your loss! I can understand your frustration.

I have a dog story too. My sister's only son was getting married in FL and I the designated family baker live in NM. So of course I baked the wedding cake and grooms cake and transported them frozen for the event. The groom works for Lowes and wanted a Jimmie Johnson Nascar as his cake. I spent two days baking,covering and then painting this cake.

When I got to FL I stayed with my brother. The night of rehearsal dinner I left the grooms cake on the middle of dining room table in a cake box securely taped shut. We placed chairs and sheets of cardboard around the table to protect the cakes, because the wedding cake was also on the table.

When I returned home after the rehearsal dinner my brother met me at the car shaking his head. The dog, his 14 year old fat, crippled can hardly make up off the floor to go outside dog had caught eaten half of the Nascar cake. This dog had a thing for chocolate and at last there was a car he could catch. We think he must have been apprenticed to Yoda because he must have levitated to get this cake off the table. Only a corner of the box was disturbed the back half of the cake was still in the box.

It made a great story at the reception. On the grooms table I placed the remains of the car for viewing. The grooms cake was replaced with a chocolate ganache covered sheet cake with tire tracks and a green flag (Nascar apparently uses a green flag to start races).

Miracles do happen even for old dogs.

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tomsmom245 Posted 6 Jun 2007 , 7:08pm
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OK I am LMBO right now (sorry) b/c this happened to me not too long ago. I had the worst case of the stomach flu the week before my son's 1st bday. All the family was coming and staying with us (which means I had to clean the whole house!!)

I also had to make my son's cake and another one for pickup. Son's party was Sunday (after church and it happened to be baby day at church and since I am Nursery Director I had planned a huge stroller parade in both services)

I had DS's cake (full sheet 1/2 choco 1/2 white) thawing on the dining room table and customer's cake was iced with BC on DR table as well. Both were covered in towels (like I always do) I got up at 5 am on Sunday to do customers choco transfer and I was out of chocolate flavored melts (for black) so I used choco chips (note to self not to ever do that again!) So, choco was NOT setting up.

Took forever and got done just in time to put it on cake and throw clothes on to get to church in time....go into DR to get cake and can't find it ANYWHERE icon_eek.gif Then I look down and there are the remnants of it under the table under the cake board!!! I don't know how those stupid dogs managed to get it off the table but they are lucky my In-laws were here or they'd BOTH BE DEAD!!!!! (They were very sick for 3 days after that too)

Sorry it happened to you but at least it wasn't for a customer!

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greenhorn Posted 7 Jun 2007 , 1:45am
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Thank you all for your sympathy! I've been waiting all night for the dog to keel over, but no luck! I'm beginning to think that her eating the fondant is an omen...this is to be a whimsical cake (my first) and it is not going well. The birthday party is Friday, and if things continue the way they are going, we will have TONS of cake balls!

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moydear77 Posted 7 Jun 2007 , 1:49am
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My dog ate three very hard fondant bears. He was quite sick for some time. He did vomit the toothpicks that were about a half an inch long. Just FYI. you should feed him some pumpkin from the can. It helps bind and move all that fondant in the stomach. That is what I do when any pet eats something bad.

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lu9129 Posted 7 Jun 2007 , 2:38am
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Greenhorn,

I feel you pain. I had a duck in a washtub cake. Getting $80 for it. Dog ate it and my husband and I were up all night making new cake and fondant pieces. I too am hoping for death of the dog.

Doug,

You are wrong! I'll take a cat over dog any day!!!!
The cat's have sense!!!! lol

Lu

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mommachris Posted 7 Jun 2007 , 5:24am
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don't have a dog, but I have a four year old dd that cannibalized a fondant baby that was to be the topper of a cake I was making for a new mom at our church.

She bit the head off, ate one of its sweet little arms and then put it back on the pass through. I didn't find the carnage until it was too late to make another.

She's a sneaky one.

Our only pet in the house is a bird. It gave me a near heart attack this week when I flew in to the kitchen and landed on my head just as I turned on my mixer. I know I got a gray hair from that one. icon_lol.gif

mommachris

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laly Posted 7 Jun 2007 , 5:47am
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OMG!! icon_lol.gif I am cracking up!!lol That happened to me too.
I made this beautiful baby out of gum paste and left it at the kitchen table to dry up. when I went back my dog was eating the baby. I tried to take it away from him but he almost ate my arm too. I cried like a little baby. After so much work for nothing and the worst part is that nothing happened to him after eating the toothpicks.

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