42-year-old Grand Ellis decided to give his dog weekly pocket money of £5 and also his own wallet to store his cash in.

Bracken the sprocker spaniel started receiving £5 per week after the mischievous pooch pinched his owner’s wallet last December.

Ellis jokingly bribed his pooch with a 5-pound note, trying to take his wallet back. Ever since then, he promised to give his dog some pocket money every Friday.

Bracken uses his cash savings to pay for everything – from buying toys to making payments for his weekly swimming lessons.

Ellis also ended up giving the pooch the wallet he had stolen before so that he can save his money safely in one place.

When he has saved enough money (he managed to save £75 at one point), Ellis and his wife take him to shops where he can pick what he wants to buy by taking the item with his mouth and walking up to the counter.

This means Bracken is spoilt with dog treats and cuddly toys! But aside from that, some of his savings go to weekly swimming lessons near their home in Sheffield.

“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,” Ellis said.

“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.”

He added: “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.

“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.”

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