Hundreds offer a new home for Red

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BBC News


Home staff are expecting more calls over the week

Battersea Dogs Home has been inundated with calls from people offering a home to a cunning canine who has been unlocking his own kennel.

Red regularly unbolted his cage door and released his favourite canine companions for midnight feasts.

The lurcher's tricks were found out when staff installed cameras after arriving each day to find food everywhere and dogs running amok.

About 300 people have called in since Red's antics appeared in the media.

More cunning lurcher:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3716750.stm

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1. This is a sign

Animals everywhere are about to rise up against us. Mark my words!

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2. Interesting - Lurcher is a "Greyhound" mix bred so as to be Lab like!

The versatility of the lurcher is unsurpassed being both a hunter and companion. Possessing the gentlest of nature the lurcher is also a hardy dog able to gallop across country without sustaining injury. Happy at the foot of his master or the tail of a hare.

The lurcher is a silent hunting dog used for hunting and running down game. Usually a cross between a greyhound (sometimes a whippet or saluki) and other breeds. The lurcher is not a breed of dog but a type, produced by customising the greyhound to the specific needs of the lurcher owner.

Those involved with the lurcher are often called lurcherman and the sport they pursue lurcher work or lurchering. The type of lurcher used by individual lurchermen varies according to terrain and the quarry species they hunt.

For instance a lurcherman who hunts rabbits on land where there is plenty of cover might very well opt for a bedlington whippet lurcher, while the lurcherman hunting the same land for fox could very well use a bedlington greyhound or an American pit bull terrier, lurcher.

Yet another type of lurcher is the all-rounder. Almost any type of lurcher can be used such as the bedlington greyhound, collie greyhound and the whippet greyhound. The all-round lurcher is expected to hunt, jump, kill and carry game back to hand, in the same way as a spaniel or labrador would.

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3. they showed the video on CBS this morning

it was so cute. He just went around letting all his friends out. He'd unlatch the door and then push it open. Then they'd all go running around getting into the food and having a party.

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4. Battersea Dogs' Home was convinced the place was haunted...

until they installed cctv and outed the lurcher....