Thought I should add another one. My previous Dally - Leroy - was the master of escape. We should have known this as we found him wandering the streets ......... he got out of his previous home, but no matter how much we advertised we had him, they didn't come for him. So we kept him to ourselves 
He jumped (or climbed) our 6ft wall, and used to visit all the other dogs in the neighbourhood! He also used to sit ontop of the wall like a statue, waiting for an unsuspecting person to walk by. They, of course, would not be looking up for a dog, and he would bark at them .... giving them the fright of their lives! Then he would slobber them to death!
He also tore through rubbish. On rubbish day, initially, all the neighbours put their bags on the sidewalk, and the rubbish men took them away. Well, the first rubbish day with Leroy, he tore every single bag in the street open - including for ours! So, the following week, we put our bags on top of the fence, and he did not touch them, but opened all the neighbours bags again.
Of course, I had to clean up the mess he made - NOT HAPPY!
By the 3rd week, I had been to each and every neighbour, and asked them to put their rubbish on top of their walls! And they did! Leroy ignored all the bags!
He also had a habit of sleeping on the roof or bonnet of my car!
AND if I left the boot open whilst taking shopping out, he jumped in there! He jumped onto the roof of a friends very expensive BMW once ...... 
I loved him dearly, and we only had him one short year - as he had an agressive cancer that took him from us within months of diagnosis.
I miss him still
M!
"No dog is born either vicious or friendly, but rather a blank slate that is moulded, for better or worse, by the owner."
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