Kitchen under lockdown from voracious dog

If it's not locked behind a dog-proof door, Rollo the chocolate Lab will eat it. If it's not locked behind a dog-proof door, Rollo the chocolate Lab will eat it. Photo: YouTube Photo: YouTube Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Kitchen under lockdown from voracious dog 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

No food is safe from Rollo the binge-eating chocolate Lab.

Toast still in the toaster in the kitchen of owner Sue Kirk's home at Sleaford in Lincolnshire, England? Gone.

Tomato hanging on the vine in her garden? Disposed of in a single bite.

Muffins secured in Tupperware? Plastic locks bitten off to get to them.

Apples still in the tree? Trunk pounded with paws to knock them loose.

If that doesn't work, Rollo has been known to mount a backyard trampoline next to the tree and bounce up and down, plucking fruit off the branches in mid-air.

The canine bottomless pit is so good at opening cupboards to get to treats that Kirk had to remodel her kitchen at a cost of $37,000 to make it dog-proof, to according to the Daily Mail. Rollo would even pop open the dishwasher door and lick the dirty plates inside clean.

Actually, that last one doesn't seem so bad. Sort of a prewash.

While his appetite is insatiable, Rollo's tastebuds aren't that discerning. He once snarfed down rat poison. A panicky Kirk called the a vet, who recommended Vitamin K as an antidote. She fed Rollo eight bags of spinach, and the hungry hound survived.

Another time, Rollo munched a whole jar of mincemeat — literally. He ate the glass jar too.

In fact, the Lab likes virtually everything, with two exceptions — onions and celery.

Here is a short list of other stuff iron-stomach Rollo has gobbled down:

—Five Christmas cakes in a single sitting. He then threw up over a sheepskin rug.

—Entire pack of yogurt containers, which he opened by himself.

—12 cauliflowers from the garden.

—Two lunches and a pack of cigarettes from the builders' van.

—A entire chocolate Easter egg and its packing.

—Kirk's partner's lunch, which he had enclosed in a lunchbox placed in his briefcase. As if such precautions would keep it safe.

You might have gathered that Rollo doesn't score high marks in obedience.

Dog trainers like Victoria Stillwell of Animal Planet's "It's Me or the Dog" tend to frown on such behavior, which they believe reflects poor training.

But Kirk is content to let Rollo have his way. Instead, she and her partner have changed their behavior.

"When I go shopping I have to bring in one bag at a time, and unpack them individually," Kirk told the Daily Mail. "We always have to make sure we don't leave anything lying around that he might be able to eat.

"He causes absolute mayhem — but we love him to pieces."