Trampoline as Dog Escape Pod?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008A trampoline provides bounce for dog escape and is on the run in northern England. The brilliant dog, Harvey, catapults himself over the fence to doggy freedom.
Laura Kidson is the dog’s owner and her children were devastated by their pet’s disappearance. “The fence isn’t all that high but he couldn’t get over it on his own and must have used the trampoline to bounce himself into my neighbor’s garden and get out,” Kidson told The Northern Echo. (I would like to see pictures of this as I am wondering if the dog was able to just jump from the trampoline frame over the fence. I am having a hard time visualizing Harvey bouncing on a trampoline and then rocketing over the fence. I wonder if someone left a gate open???)
“He’s something of an escape artist and he has got out before but not for a long time and we were just starting to think that he’d stopped all that.” (Why would a dog magically stop using a method of escape? If I didn’t want to lose my dog I would have moved the trampoline. This story is in the news and it smells fishy to me.)
The three-year-old Harvey had been known to bounce on the trampoline before with daughter Chloe and her cousin Morgan as they practiced their highest leaps.
“My daughter won’t stop crying and I’m really worried someone might have him and be mistreating him, because he’s such a lovely gentle dog,” Kidson said.
“I got him just after I had Chloe and she loves him. One of my real worries is that they are the most stolen dog. I hope no-one has picked him up off the street to sell him.
“I have phoned the police and the council dog warden, but no-one has seen or heard of him and we’re getting desperate.”