How would you react if you got a phone call from your home phone that sounded a little bit…well…dodgy?  

Imagine if you answered it and all you could hear were weird banging noises. What would you do? Chances are, at this point, most of us would panic and/or start freaking out over the possibility that our home was being burgled. We’d also probably ring the gardaí and tell them to get to our crib as quickly as possible so they could catch the intruder red-handed.

Needless to say, we can understand why a man from Utah wasted no time in ringing the police to tell them that he had gotten a phone call from a burglar who he believed was breaking into his home.

What would you do if you received a phone call from your dog?

Authorities from a community just south of Salt Lake City in Utah said that the man alerted the police on Wednesday after he answered a phone call from his home number on his mobile phone. The man started panicking after he heard banging and scratching noises on the line and assumed that an intruder had broken into his house.

The police rushed to the man’s house but when they arrived they didn’t find anything missing or broken. Basically there wasn’t a burglar to be seen.

Curiouser and curiouser. So what exactly happened? Well, here is where it gets interesting…

The man later rang up the police and told them that he had figured out the mystery. He said that when he returned home he noticed that his home phone was missing and that his dog was looking particularly guilty.

Apparently, the man’s dog had grabbed the home phone’s receiver and had accidentally hit the redial button while he was busy burying it in the backyard.

Is it wrong that we immediately thought of this internet meme when we heard this story?

The "yes, this is dog" meme has been popular for ages online.

No charges were pressed against poor Fido, but we imagine he’ll be sleeping in his dog house for the foreseeable future.