From Withington, UK.

It was the most sinister of 999 calls - a whimpering noise followed by a shout of: ‘Come out, or else - I’m warning you’ before the line went dead.

Fearing that a murder might be in progress, the operator phoned the number back - and discovered the culprit was a mischievous dog with a fascination for telephones.

The 14-month-old golden retriever, named Bailey, had crept into the bedroom of his owners Jodie and Jamie Halfpenny while they were downstairs watching television and picked up their cordless phone in his mouth.

Bailey, who has previous form for breaking mobiles, then came bounding into the lounge and when the couple saw he had the phone they chased him to try to get it back. He ran outside into the garden, at some point having managed to bite the 9 key three times.

‘He was so keen to keep hold of the phone that he got himself wedged behind our shed and by this time we could hear someone had answered his call,’ said 20-year-old Mrs Halfpenny, a care worker from Withington, Herefordshire.

As she and her 24-year-old husband tried in vain to make him come out, their shouts and Bailey’s whines were heard by the police operator.

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