--- --- # Dog Almost Burns House Down Attempting to Steal Pizza ## Video: Inside the Canine Mind [Watch (HLS stream): Inside the Canine Mind](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8) (2:08)  _Published 2009-09-11. Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 12, 2015 8:43 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 12, 2015 8:43 PM UTC Meet Brookfield, a black lab who, like many of us, really loves pizza. Brookfield, however, is willing to go to great lengths to acquire it. For example: almost burning his house down. When his humans were in a different room of their Connecticut home, Brookfield attempted to steal some ‘za sitting in a box on top of the oven. But he accidentally turned on the burners, promptly setting the greasy cardboard box on fire. Luckily, Brookfield’s humans dashed to the kitchen in time to put out the fire and keep everyone safe. And lucky for us, all of this was recorded on the security camera they’d set up to monitor Brookfield and her fellow dogs. Brookfield certainly isn’t the only pet guilty of this crime. [According to _Inside Edition_](http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/12834-watch-familys-dog-spark-fire-when-he-accidentally-turns-on-stove), pets start around 700 fires in the U.S. each year. ([h/t Daily Dot](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/dog-almost-burns-down-house-pizza/)) Dog Steals Pizza, Starts Kitchen Fire: Viral Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4110637/dog-pizza-fire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4110637/dog-pizza-fire/"},"headline":"Dog Almost Burns House Down Attempting to Steal Pizza","datePublished":"2015-11-12T20:43:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:56.464Z","description":"You do have to admire his commitment","url":"https://time.com/4110637/dog-pizza-fire/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4110637/dog-pizza-fire/","name":"Dog Almost Burns House Down Attempting to Steal Pizza"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside the Canine Mind","description":"Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dTemQHb7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-09-11T01:23:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4110637/dog-pizza-fire/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4110637/dog-pizza-fire/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```