Dogsey

Frankly this kind of thing is not funny to me, nor is it entertaining. People wasting time on emergency lines really cause problems for people with REAL emergencies. Certainly NOT a joke.

Same as people going to the ER for non emergencies when people who have had serious heart attacks etc. really need the immediate help.

And in all honesty... this kind of sounds like some sort of publicity stunt anyway done by people who perhaps had nothing else better to do than make up some ridiculous story.

The dog called 999? Really? How can a dog playing with a phone call 999 randomly? Would he really press only those numbers first AFTER turning the phone on? Seems like a "rubbish" story to me.

P.S. nice choke chain

It is not a choke chain, it is a Martingale collar.

My mistake. Thank you for the correction.

It was a landline so wouldn't need to be turned on - and I can well imagine a dog mouthing such a 'toy' and the same tooth pressing on the same button three times (or even more).

I don't condone time wasters either but you can hardly accuse the dog of wasting police time, can you? At least they managed to see the funny side of it! I wonder how many toddlers and small children have done the same thing but with rather more intent - it's just one of those things.

True Pam - my nephew did it once and the police were fine about it. Love the dog

My daughter has also done this, when very young, the police were very understanding.

Although I know it is very serious to waste police time I can see the funny side

Was not accusing the dog, more the owners for blowing it off as just a naughty dog that steals phones sometimes. It's not funny at all to me. Also, since the phone is a cordless, it would still have had to been turned on before it could be dialed.

As someone who has had a true emergency having to wait for a woman who cut her arm lightly while slicing a carrot, I just can't find the humor in wasting emergency time. I just don't think it's funny at all.

It still wouldn't have needed to be turned on, most phones you just need to dial the number and ring so compleatly possible, and at the end if the day it was just a naughty dog stealing a phone nobody can be blamed,

There are plenty of other idiots out there wasting police time, not just a dog doing something random. I read one person dialled 999 to ask what the non-emergency number was.