Murphy used up one of his lives the other day. We were up at the local shop for a few messages. I don't put Murphy on the lead as he would chew through it - he's very good at standing at the door waiting for me (although it's an automatic entry door so if he stands in the wrong place it ends up opening and closing constantly til I get back)
Anyway, he was mooching about across the waste ground over the road from the shop and I was waiting for him to cross over so I could settle him before going into the shop. There's a zebra crossing and I was standing at one end of it. As he approached from the other side the delivery lorry came round the corner and started along the road. Of course Murphy didn't see it and they didn't see Murphy. I was yelling at him to stop but he's pretty deaf now and kept going.
Luckily they were crawling at about 5 mph, as he only stopped when the lorry was literally at his shoulder. He'd just about started to cross the crossing, so kept going once he realised it was stopped.
Their faces were pretty bemused - why is there a dog using the zebra crossing?!!
(PS. I don't cross the road now until he's with me - I don't know if a dog has as many lives as a cat but I'm not testing it!)
