A classical Christmas cake in Germany is called "Stollen" and it is made from yeast dough with lots of butter, raisins and other dry fruit. So my granny was baking one and put it in the spare room to get cold. As we found out later the door must not have been closed properly because our first dachshund, Amsel (that means blackbird ) went in and ate all that warm yeast cake, about 2 lb of it!!! Her belly dragged on the floor and for an evening we thought she would explode- but she didn't.
When she was younger she even figured out how to get on a table- if a chair was close by