Having had dogs all my life, I have to say OF COURSE this has happened to me.
I used to have one who took shoes and chewed them - boy, did that make me mad!
And yes, I still have an 8 year old whippet who "pinches" thing, runs around with them and then dumps them somewhere.
Very annoying as I find things in the backyard and scattered around the hosue. She does it when she gets excited -many mornings when I start to get ready to go for our walk, she grabs something, run around with it for a few seconds and comes tearing back to me.