Listening to Radio 1 today, I heard Fearne Cotton play a clip of a man shouting at his dog “Benton”. Even though I could only hear the audio, the sound of the owners screams becoming more and manic made me chuckle. Fearne was in absolute hysterics listening to clip, and before long #benton was trending on Twitter so I had to locate the video for myself!

The video above shows a tourist filming deer at Richmond Park in London. In the background you can hear the shouts of “Benton” getting louder and more manic, when suddenly a herd of deer chased by Benton the dog zoom past followed closely by the owner. It’s an extremely funny video although admittedly it looked quite dangerous as the herd of deer run across a road.

Maybe there will be a follow up video with an interview of the Benton the dogs owner. Having been in a similar situation myself in the past (it wasn’t filmed – to my knowledge!) I know exactly how the poor guy feels. I can just imagine him getting home after the incident, and telling his wife what had happened only for her to say she had already seen it all on YouTube!

Hopefully Benton didn’t get into too much trouble afterwards – although I imagine the walk home would have been awkward!

During the Christmas period we set off a few fireworks to celebrate, and one of our dogs scared the hell out of me when it escaped from our house and ran over to the live fireworks and started barking (trying to protect us from invaders to our home!). Thankfully it was all bravado, and although she barked at the fireworks and did a few pretend lunges towards it, she never actually got closer than a few feet away. Afterwards once we realised everyone was safe and our dog hadn’t set on fire, it was actually quite amusing and it reminded me of this funny video with another canine friend!

This video features a dog on the 4th July picking up a live firework, and then running around while it’s still live, narrowly avoiding the terrorised family around it. Once old fellow only just jumps out of the way of the firework as it shoots out from the side of the dogs mouth! My favourite bit about this video is the women shrieking in the background at the end – I know it’s bad, but it really tickles me. As usual the dog has absolutely no idea about the havoc it’s caused and do doubt believes it has also saved it’s family from danger!

I found this video while looking for the “Puppy vs Aibo” clip (Aibo is a robotic dog from Japan with good AI) and thought it deseved an add! In this video a puppy is trying to assert territorial dominance over a WowWee roboquad robot, which has been set to ‘autonomous mode’ with it’s agression levels set to high (this means it is acting on it’s own with no human control). The video is very entertaining as in true puppy fashion, it barks and leaps forward at the robot until it is scared by flashing lights or sudden movement! It is made even funnier by the fact the author of the video has edited it into an “epic battle” with retro computer game sound effects, scores and slow motion replays! In the epic battle for territorial dominance, who will come out on top – Puppy? or Robot?