Superdog Oscar is on the run after ripping through a kennel door and leaping an 8ft-high security fence. The four-year-old German wire-haired pointer made his athletic escape after owner Jackie Carney put him in kennels for the weekend.

Oscar got out of Gamegoer Kennels, at Heathfield Farm, Bletchingdon, a fortnight ago and has not been seen since.

Jackie, 32, a financial accountant from Langford village, Bicester, said: "Staff there are very upset about what happened and all I want to do now is get Oscar back. I've had him since he was six weeks old and I'm getting very worried."

Jackie has put up dozens of posters around Bletchingdon, Kirtlington and Steeple Aston hoping somebody might have spotted him.

Oscar is brown and white and stands two feet tall. He wears a dog collar and tag.

She added: "He is quite a rare breed and I obviously want anybody who sees him to get in touch with me.

"He must be somewhere in that area. I don't think he would have crossed over to the other side of the M40."

Kennel owner Graham Watkins said it was the first escape he had encountered in 12 years running the business.

He added: "We have purpose-built kennels here and he just ripped through the weld-mesh panelling of his kennel and jumped over the fence.

"He's extremely athletic. I've had hundreds of dogs here and nothing like this has happened before."

Mr Watkins said a dog like Oscar could survive in the wild and live off pheasant, rabbit and other wildlife.

Anybody who has seen Oscar can contact Jackie at work on 01869 256387 or at home on 01869 324230. Roamer's a top dog RAF police dog Roma and his handler Cpl Ian Smith had their day when they won a national competition.

Cpl Smith, 36, and Roma, based at RAF Brize Norton, were in one of eight teams from RAF stations across the country competing at Halton in Buckinghamshire for the title Champion Team of 1998.

The dogs and their handlers were put through a series of tests of agility and attack work and at the end of the day Cpl Smith and Roma carried off first prize overall, as well as two specialist sections.

Cpl Smith, originally from Yorkshire, worked as a heating engineer before joining the RAF in 1980. He lives in Brize Norton with his wife Shirley, a sergeant in the RAF and personal assistant to the station commander.

Some 300 dog teams are deployed worldwide to help guard RAF property. Handlers come from the ranks of the RAF Police and undertake stringent training. Only the top eight teams are selected for the final stages of the trials. Five famous superhounds LASSIE - Ultimate canine crusader in series of sickly movies, Lassie could do anything from fetching help (with a full description of rescue equipment required, injuries that needed tending, etc) to ending the Cold War (only kidding).

SCOOBY-DOO - Eponymous hero of cartoon adventures in which three human smart-alecs (Fred, Daphne and Velma) and a suspect hippy dropout (Shaggy) pretended to solve crimes while actually it was dim-witted but heart-in-the-right-

place Scooby who actually got things done - by accident, mostly.

SHEP - Real-life supermutt who probably regretted all her life that she got picked out at the pound by 1970s Blue Peter action man John Noakes. Subsequently accompanied him on many adventures ("I'm jumping out a plane at 30,000ft - get down, Shep!").

MUTTLEY - Sidekick who always ended up getting the better of his master, "the evil Dick Dastardly", in variety of Hanna-Barbera cartoons including Wacky Races and Stop The Pigeon. Serious speech impediment.

BEETHOVEN - Large, slobbering St Bernard in movie of the same name which proved yet again that so-called "comedy" films with animals are about as funny as what mutts leave on your shoes. For more evidence, see also Turner & Hooch, Paws, Every Which Way But Loose, etc

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