A York family believe their trampolining pet dog has bounced over their garden fence to freedom.

Staffordshire bull terrier Harvey's disappearance has left a little girl heartbroken, reports the Northern Echo.

Owner Laura Kidson, 27, said: "The fence isn't all that high but he couldn't get over it on his own and must have used the trampoline to bounce himself into my neighbour's garden and get out.

"He's something of an escape artist and he has got out before but not for a long time and we were just starting to think that he'd stopped all that."

Miss Kidson, a dispenser at Boots, said her four-year-old daughter Chloe Beattie was heart-broken.

She also has a nine-month-old son, Cole Kidson, and the family has a boxer puppy called Roxanne who has been pining for her playmate.

She said: "My daughter won't stop crying and I'm really worried someone might have him and be mistreating him, because he's such a lovely gentle dog.

"I got him just after I had Chloe and she loves him. One of my real worries is that they are the most stolen dog. I hope no-one has picked him up off the street to sell him."

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