Pat Wells got her dog Fritz, a Corgi-Terrier mix as a rescue dog 13 years ago. He's now 15 years old. She got Fritz because her other dog had a severe separation anxiety so she got Fritz to keep her company. Her other dog is a hound mix named Isis and they are best pals.

But Fritz is special. "He's known by all the vets we've ever had as Houdini," she said, "He has the ability, and they don't know how he does it, to get out of the holding cage when I've taken him in for procedures." Perhaps it's his age, and with it the experience he's developed but, "he's drugged and all of a sudden they hear, 'click, click, click, click, click and there he is!"

A vet in White Center told Wells, "I've found his pedigree, It's Houdini." The vets all think there is something wrong with their cage. Recently he was injured and she had to take him to the vet every week because he would find a way to take his bandage off. He's a genuine escape artist. She had to spend a lot of time barricading her fenced in yard to make sure he wouldn't get out and go to the neighbors to visit. "He likes to go when he wants to go," she said.

And Fritz has one more unusual trait. When she first got him she had a large chocolate cake at home. NOTE: Chocolate is not good for dogs .Wells got a call from her husband at the time saying, "Do you know what your dogs have done?" When she came home she found a heavy glass cake dish on its side on the table, the top was on the floor with a little chip, and the cake was totally gone. "He's quite a jumper," Wells said, "Between him, the other dog and two cats there was no cake." Fritz was OK.

He eats things he shouldn't. One time Wells forgot and left a 2 lb. bag of raisins out and he ate the whole thing. She came home to find him in the yard throwing up. "That's the good news," Wells said. "He eats what he shouldn't but so far he just throws it back up."

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