How a Playful Dog Summoned The Police For Emergency After Dialling 999

Posted by Odinaka on Thu 23rd Jul, 2015 - tori.ng

A one-year-old pooch named Cino who had been playing with a wireless handset, had somehow dialled emergency numbers and summoned Police officers to his owners home.

46-year old Jillian Merrouche, was startled when two Police officers suddenly knocked on the front door of her business in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, on Tuesday evening after getting a silent emergency call. It turned out a one-year old pooch named Cino had been playing with the wireless handset and had somehow dialled the emergency numbers.

After confirming that there were no children in the house who may have dialled the number, the little dog's owner, realised that the house phone had been left outside. She eventually found her cheeky pooch playing in the back garden with the handset in his mouth.

Jillian said: "I don’t know how he managed to click in the numbers, but he did. I had left the phone on a ledge in the garden and he must have got hold of it and was playing with it.

Suddenly I had the police on my door saying that they had a call from my house number before the line went dead. They asked if I had any children in the house who could have accidentally made the call, and then I realised that I had left the phone outside.

I was a bit embarrassed by it – I hope the police saw the funny side. He’s just a mad cocker spaniel, he’s only young."

She took to social media to speak of her mortification about what happened.

A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: “We received a call, enquiries were made and all was in order.”

Cocker spaniels are notorious for misbehaving, and have a habit for chewing on household items.