It was night. A dark figure carefully unlockedthe door and went out. He looked around. Was there anybody there? No, all was quiet. He ran quickly to some other doors and opened them. Then he went straight to the kitchen... Last month, strange things began to happen at London's Battersea Dogs' Home. Every morning when the staff arrived they saw that a lot of the dogs were out of their cages. It was mystery. "It happened so many times,' said Amy Watson, one of the staff. "We even thought that perhaps it was the ghost of Mary Tealby." They say urat Mary Tealby, who started ulie Home in 1860, comes back at night to haunt it. So they put cameras in all the cages and filmed what happened. Next day the staff watched the film. They were amazed at what they saw. Red, a four-year-old lurcher, used his teeth to open the door of his cage. Then he did the same for his friends in the next cages. Allthe dogs Rot out and had a great time. Am told us, 'They ate lots of food, had lots of fun and games, and made lots of mess! Reporters from Japan, Germany, and America came to film Red, and 400 people phoned because they wanted to give him a home Red's a famous film star now. "He's a real celebrity!' said Am
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