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Video shows dog outsmarting lock on shelter door to escape and run home
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| 01/08/2025
| MSN Video
Posted on 01/09/2026 6:56:48 AM PST by Pol-92064
At about 2:30 a.m., a shelter dog named Dawson escaped from his gated enclosure and then used his teeth to open the front door of the animal shelter in West Virginia, slipping quietly into the night.
When staff at Huntington Cabell Wayne Animal Shelter arrived at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 4, they were puzzled to find the front door unlocked.
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I gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing I ever do. :-)
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posted on
01/09/2026 6:56:48 AM PST
by
Pol-92064
To: Pol-92064
That was my class theme song at ‘kollege’.
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:02:01 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: Pol-92064
Good dog!
We need smarter dogs in this world. Probably easier than getting smarter humans!
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:04:01 AM PST
by
Buttons12
( )
To: Da Coyote
Ours was “School’s out for the Summer”
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:08:39 AM PST
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: Pol-92064
I have a cat that can open his cage door , when we first got him we would keep him in a cage so the other cat would get used to him but he said nope , I had to use some string ,LOL
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:09:44 AM PST
by
butlerweave
(Fateh)
To: Pol-92064
Who let the dogs out…woof!
Did Dawson hitchhike home or take a bus?
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:10:54 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
To: Bob434
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:12:03 AM PST
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: butlerweave
You moght wanna check you gas levels in the car each morning. The cat might be joy riding at night lol
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:12:53 AM PST
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: butlerweave
Doh, sorry, thought you said it could open “garage door”... my brain aint working this am
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:13:45 AM PST
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: Pol-92064
His name is Rufus. just like ChakaKhans first group.
The article sort of rambles on and on, Im still not sure if Rufus has now been returned to the owner or what.
I had expected to see a Husky or Malinos Shepherd breed.
Both love to escape and wander. They will return to their owners if and when they feel like it
To: Bob434
Silly. Cats don’t drive. They don’t have drivers licenses
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:17:17 AM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: j.havenfarm
To: Buttons12
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:30:02 AM PST
by
alstewartfan
(I AM Charlie Kirk. ❤️✝️)
To: Pol-92064
With all of the events going on in the world THIS is considered newsworthy?
/rhetorical question
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:33:49 AM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Pol-92064
I knew this would happen. Put it up on the web and other dogs will see it and learn this trick. What have you started !! Rampant jail breaks to follow.
To: Pol-92064
It’s a shame what a certain element of the population has done to the pit bull breed.
To: Pol-92064
AOC tried the same thing and was stuck there for days "How do I open this damn door??"
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:38:42 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: Pol-92064
Sorry I don’t want to spend several minutes downloading several megabytes of ads and have to deal with them to see the cool dog. It is like giving money to the media.
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:39:25 AM PST
by
jroehl
(And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
To: philman_36
Lighten up! This is a general chit/chat thread.
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:39:36 AM PST
by
Pol-92064
(tax)
To: j.havenfarm
Cats don’t drive, they have drivers.
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posted on
01/09/2026 7:46:24 AM PST
by
tet68
("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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