/ 9 March 2001

WHO?RE YOU GONNA CALL?

A KENYAN businessman trying to trace his mobile phone rang the number from his house telephone – and heard the gadget ringing inside his two-year-old German Shepherd’s stomach. When the mobile telephone went missing from the bedside table he thought his toddler son had removed it. When he dialled the number, he said, he didn’t expect to hear it ringing “inside my dog”. Snoopy underwent surgery to remove the gadget, and both dog and telephone are ?doing fine?. – AFP

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