An Orem, Utah, man pan­icked when he received a call from his house while he was at work but he soon dis­cov­ered his dog had placed the call. Bruce Gard­ner said he had only been at work for about 10 min­utes Wednes­day morn­ing when he received a call from his home phone. “I knew nobody was home, so I answered it,” he said. “I said, ‘Hello,’ and all I could hear in the back­ground was all this rustling noise.” His first thought was, “I’m being robbed.” How­ever, Gard­ner and police arrived at the house to find there were no bur­glars. Sev­eral hours later, Gard­ner called police back with an expla­na­tion for what had hap­pened. It seems his dog had got­ten a hold of his cord­less home phone and in the midst of chew­ing on it hit the “redial” but­ton, call­ing Gardner’s cell­phone. Gard­ner found the phone lying face down in the gar­den after he called his home num­ber from his cell. After notic­ing tooth marks on the back of the phone, he put the pieces together.

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