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| By Paul Stokes
Last Updated: 12:08PM BST 18/06/2008
A dog named Harvey who used a trampoline to escape over a garden fence has been reunited with his owners.
ROSS PARRY
Harvey disappeared from the back garden on Friday
The black and white Staffordshire Bull Terrier pulled off the stunt to bound
to freedom at noon on Friday.
But after this week's publicity, his owner Laura Kidson, 27, received a call
from the RSPCA on Tuesday night to say Harvey had been handed in to them at
the weekend.
He has now been reunited with Miss Kidson, her four year old daughter Chloe
and nine month old son Cole, who had been pining for him, at their home in
York.
Miss Kidson, who works as a dispenser at Boots pharmacy, said: "We're
delighted that he's back safe and well, but we're going to try and keep him
off the trampoline from now on."
Three year old Harvey often joined the children and their other dog a Boxer
puppy called Roxanne bouncing on the equipment in their garden.
Miss Kidson said: "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 neighbour's garden and got out.
"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 he's stopped all that."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2150377/Harvey-the-trampolining-dog-found.html
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By ROBIN PERRIE
A MOTHER duck braved traffic and a housing estate during a TWO-MILE chase to
rescue her babies from a sewer.
The six ducklings fell down an underground access and were swept away –
but mum could not fit through it.
 Danger ... ducklings fell into storm drain
So the mallard followed their frantic quacks overground across two main roads
and a railway line until they stopped under a manhole in Gosforth,
Newcastle.
She then sat quacking loudly for at least four hours until jogger Peter
Elliott, 59, and daughter Vicki Jefferson, 30, stopped to see what was wrong
with her.
They were amazed to hear the faint sound of quacking coming from under the
cover and, with the help of friend Jim Calder, lifted it off with a crowbar.
Journey .... where the ducklings went
They were even more stunned to see the six ducklings below — and lifted them
all out to safety with a child’s fishing net.
Northumbria Water staff used a laptop showing the sewage layout to work out
where the babies had got into it — and how far the mother had walked after
them.
They fell into the system at the Three Mile Inn in Gosforth and were swept
along the Great North Road before going beneath two schools divided by the
Metro line.
They were then washed below a sports field, a hospital and an estate before
ending up under the manhole in Barrasford Close.
After they were rescued charity boss Mr Elliott drove them to a lake near
Newcastle airport and let them go.
He said: "We watched them swim happily away. It was a lovely moment."
A spokesman for Northumbria Water said: "It was an unbelievable journey."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1300310.ece | | |
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