Dog gets £5 pocket money every week

A barking mad dog owner gives his pampered pooch £5 pocket money every week - so that he can buy cuddly toys and even pay for swimming LESSONS.

Grant Ellis, 42, began giving his spoilt sprocker spaniel, Bracken a weekly allowance after the mischievous mutt pinched his wallet in December last year.

He was only able to get it back by jokingly bribing Bracken with a five-pound note - asking him to drop it so he could swap the two.

But from that moment onwards, Grant, who works as a dog walker, vowed to give his three-year-old pooch a fresh note every Friday without fail.