Boing boing gone! Dog’s trampoline exit
A SUPER- intelligent dog has devised how to escape when his owner leaves for work – by bouncing on a children’s trampoline to get over a 6ft fence.
Thomas McCormack was puzzled when his labrador- collie followed him to his train to work one morning. Four- year- old Paddy trotted after him before boarding the carriage and leaping up on a seat beside him.
A stunned Thomas, 34, could not understand how the dog had got out of the fenced- in garden. The other mystery was how Paddy was waiting for him to return from work – sitting outside his front door.
All became clear when neighbours said they saw the dog bounding on the trampoline to get over the fence just after Thomas left in the morning.
He said: “I was just on my way to work the other morning and I jumped on the train and the next thing I know Paddy comes in and sits on the seat next to me. I was shocked. He just looked at me as if he was saying ‘ Where are you going?’ He obviously followed my scent all the way to the station and jumped in the seat next to me, that’s the only explanation I have. I’ve also been coming home from work recently and finding him sitting outside the front door.”
He added: “I was thinking ‘ How did he get over there?’ He was in a kennel in my back garden and the fence is six feet, so he can’t jump it.
“Then the neighbour told me he was bouncing on the trampoline and came flying over the fence. That’s how he got out. He’s bouncing on the trampoline with the kids all the time – that’s where he must have learnt it. He’s a clever dog.”
Thomas, a father of one, said Paddy was usually kept in the house in Croy, Lanarkshire, and stays in the back garden.
He added: “My guess is that he has been following me a few times but never managed to find me until the other day. That morning he obviously caught me.”
Mr McCormack said he would now move the trampoline away from the fence to put an end to Paddy’s high jinks.
ACLEVER labrador- collie cross bounced on a trampoline to get out of his garden and follow his owner on to the train he caught to work every day. As we all go back to work after the Bank Holiday weekend one can only marvel at both the dog’s ingenuity and his enthusiasm for getting on a train to work.