Reds Under the Bed: Lurchers are Shifty Teeves, Shock Horror, It's Official

It was great to see Dominic Littlewood of Revenge TV dealing with the case of 'Red' the enterprising Lurcher dog of Battersea and a dab hand with doors, gates and locks.

My own Lurcher Dog Hooch might have been separated at birth both in his lunk-headed good looks and his houdini instincts. Quite capable of opening our front door by pawing round a classic Yale, and able to open an inward opening door through his advanced grasp of mechanics, he has thankfully been baffled by the new-fangled USA style Yale deadlock.

Hooch has been in the cells of Trafford Police just the once. After being told off mightily by the desk sergeant for he not having a dog tag, and insisting he did in fact sport one, I then listened while the sergeant collected the doggie and wrestled with him to remove his tag off stage. Terrific!

ABOVE: "Red" the resourceful lurcher; BELOW: "Hooch" the resourceful lurcher. Or vice versa.