Meet Crackers — a determined little troublemaker who will stop at nothing to help his friends.
Crackers, a 5-month-old Lab/St. Bernard mix, lives next door to his three canine cousins, and as far as he’s concerned, the fence between their yards is simply an inconvenience.
“He’s very energetic and persistent,” his dad, Jessie Matney, told The Dodo. “He doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer when he wants to play.”
The yards are separated by a simple picket fence, which usually does its job … except when Crackers decides it shouldn’t.
Recently, Matney walked outside and caught his pup in the middle of yet another jailbreak operation.
“My sister’s retriever/Pyrenees mix, Budders — the one Crackers likes the most — had already pushed the picket loose at the top,” Matney said. “When I walked out, Crackers was finishing the job, pulling it the rest of the way down. Then the other three dogs tried to squeeze through at the same time like the Three Stooges.”
And this definitely wasn’t Crackers’ first attempt.
“This was probably the fifth time it’s happened,” Matney said. “There were one and a half successful attempts — Punkin made it through once, and his sister got halfway, but her butt wouldn’t fit, so I had to remove another picket to get her out.”
Matney now keeps a stash of spare pickets handy, knowing full well that Crackers will try again.
“At this point, I’m used to it,” he said. “I just laughed when I saw what he was doing.”
One thing is certain: as long as his best friends are close by, Crackers will never stop plotting his next great escape — all in the name of extra playtime.
