Houdini Hound
A greyhound, aptly named Harry, is the Animal Uprising's new secret weapon. Because Harry is no ordinary dog, no, siree. He's done the unthinkable and mastered the only thing that has kept dogs from taking over up until now.
A cheeky rescue dog has been dubbed Harry the Houdini Hound after he discovered how to open the door of his pen and escape.
Astonished staff at a rehoming centre in Darlington could barely believe it when they realised that Harold the greyhound could escape using his nose and paws.
They had been so baffled by a series of escapes by the two-year-old that they took to spying on his pen.
Sarah Shreeve, from Darlington Dog's Trust, said: "He was literally just looking around to make sure that no one was watching, then used his nose first of all to slide the bolt across, then put his two front paws to grip on the wire mesh and pulled it."
We're doomed. Now that we can't lock them in or out, there's no hope. Unless they can put him in chains, suspended upside down in a straight jacket in a barrel of water. Let's see him Houdini that! (There's video at the link. It's pretty funny, especially the way he looks around first to make sure nobody is watching him before he opens the door.)
By ajacksonian, Thursday, 16 November , 2006 @ 4:11 pm
You have obviously never seen what an Abyssinian cat can do to a doorknob. My sister owned one and after reading about the breed it all made sense: ‘Highly intelligent and agenda-driven.’
It required a hood and eye arrangement near the top of the door to finally keep that cat out of one room that it was not allowed into for various reasons. And checking once she got home to make sure that it had *not* figured a way around that.
Doorknobs? Piece of cake!
It never did get into that room… or the refrigerator, though it never stopped thinking about *both*. Luckily it could be fobbed off with a piece of melon… what a strange cat.
By Quilly Mammoth, Friday, 17 November , 2006 @ 12:06 am
My dogs Sweetie and Bart (whom Mrs. QM also calls Houdini Hound) also know how to open certain doors. They learned to scratch and pull at a knob until it turned, they learned how to hit the button on a storm door. They haven’t, as far as we know, yet learned how to throw a bolt.
By Quilly Mammoth, Friday, 17 November , 2006 @ 12:07 am
Mrs QM corrects me..it’s “Houndini”.