A Sprocker Spaniel gets £5 a week pocket money from his owner to buy toys and treats.
42-year-old Grant Ellis started giving his Sprocker Spaniel, Bracken £5 a week pocket money and a wallet to keep the cash in after he took away his wallet.
He bribed Bracken with a £5 note to get his wallet back. After the incident, he started giving three-year-old Bracken £5 every Friday to buy toys and treats.
Watch the pooch who gets £5 a week pocket money
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Grant said: “All spaniels just have to have something in their mouth whether it’s a sock or a pair of pants and Bracken is just the same. One day I was lying on the sofa and he came over, stuck his nose into my pocket and came out with my wallet in his mouth.”
“Usually if he’s pinched something then we bribe him to give it back with a cocktail sausage but we had run out of them that day. So just for a joke I pulled out a five-pound note and said, “right I’ll give you this fiver if you drop the wallet”, and he did.”
“My wife started laughing and then said, “go on, you’ve got to give it to him now”. Ever since then it’s become a bit of a tradition to give him five pounds every Friday.”
Bracken also contributes to the cost of his swimming lessons with the money he gets every week.
Bracken keeps his money in the same wallet he took away from Grant.
As he gets £5 every Friday, he managed to save £75 at one point. When he saves enough money, Grant and his wife Cheryl take him to the shops where he can buy cuddly toys and treats.
Bracken picks whatever he likes, puts it in his mouth, runs up to the counter, and they buy it for him.
He often chooses cuddly toys and treats.
Bracken is also taking weekly swimming lessons at a pool in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, near Grant and Cheryl’s home in Sheffield.
Bracken contributes to the cost of his swimming lessons with the money he gets every week.
Grant said: ‘We’re always buying him things anyway, he’s such a spoilt dog, so I thought why not just give him pocket money so he can buy things himself”.
“When I got a wallet I gave him my old one so he has one of his own now. Every now and then we’ll take him to the shops to get toys, he especially likes puzzle-type games where you have to solve something in order to get a treat.”
“And he absolutely loves water so we take him swimming as well, which is great fun. Our niece absolutely adores Bracken so when we go on holiday we buy her a stick of rock out his pocket money for him to give to her. I wanted to give Bracken £20 a week but the wife won’t have it”, he added.
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