While out walking I was astonished to hear a dog, tied up in a nearby garden, call to me: "Oi! Over here! Come over here!"
I raced to the fence and listened, unbelieving, as this dog went on to tell me his name and how he'd worked in a circus for many years before a soldier bought him and took him to be trained as an explosives sniffer-dog, following which he went with the Army to the Gulf and Somalia, where he helped to save many lives. He was then awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal and retired on a generous pension.
I ran and knocked at the door of the house to be answered by a small untidy man who looked at me quizzically.
"Your dog!" I gasped: "He just SPOKE to me! I simply couldn't believe my ears" I said...
"Don't", he said :"He's a bl..dy liar!"
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