Pet dog 'uses trampoline to escape'

A pet dog has vanished from his home after using the family's trampoline to spring himself over the garden fence and escape, his worried owner said.

One moment Harvey, a three-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, was alone in the garden, the next he disappeared.

Laura Kidson, 27, is convinced the animal used her children's large blue and black trampoline next to the wire fence at their home in York to make good his escape.



Harvey has not been seen since last Friday and Mrs Kidson, a mother of two, said she had called the police because she was growing increasingly desperate to find her pet.

"He couldn't get over the fence on his own and must have used the trampoline to bounce himself into my neighbour's garden and got out," she said. "He's something of an escape artist and has got out before, but we were just starting to think he had stopped all that.

"He liked to bounce on the trampoline with my daughter Chloe, but he rarely went on it on his own. He liked to sit on it and sunbathe."

Update: Harvey has now been found and reunited with his owners.