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Show Pooch likes phone talk A Chapel Hill. N.C., couple thought they had a problem pro-blem on their hands with their bassett hound: they suspected he was having phone conversations. They made sure once and for all by taking the phone off the hook when they leave and moving it beyond the bassett's reach. Dog Chumley's adventures began when his master, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, received a call about a dental appointment. Robert Smythe wasn't home, so Chunnley answered in his own way, startling the dentists receptionists. One woman heard the canine bark, yowl and breath heavilv. Another told Chumley to speak, and he barked. bark-ed. Marianne Smythe suspects there have been other incidents. in-cidents. Several weeks earlier, she returned home to find the phone off the hook and draped over a chair. |