She returned to her home in Plymouth, Devon, to find the chocolate coins gone and wrappers strewn across the floor, before rushing Hugo to a nearby PDSA pet hospital.“I’d only been to the shops briefly and came back to find torn-up packets and bits of foil all over the floor, with the chocolate gone,” she said.

Amie rushed him to a People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) vet, who sedated Hugo and gave him an X-ray, revealing the dog’s stomach was full of foil and needed surgery.

That’s when inspiration struck: ‘When Jordan got the hoover out [to clean up the mess], he started barking at it and we remembered how scared he was of it,’ says Georgia.They plan to keep the vacuum cleaner as part of their Christmas decorations for years to come, unless Hugo starts behaving.

Hugo has been given a local hero award (Picture: SWNS) Lucas, 4, held Hugo’s lead while his dad saved Brian (Picture: SWNS)Locals helped to keep Brian warm by giving him their coats while the group waited for an ambulance to arrive.

Hugo meeting Aayla, one of the grey seals, who loves people to watch her from the underwater viewing area (Picture: PA)Staff at an seal sanctuary have come up with a novel way to cheer up their residents after they became lonely without visitors.

Kelly, who now works from home most of the time to keep tabs on Hugo, says that not only has he become a master escape artist but he has also eaten £300 cash, chewed several items of clothing, cupboards, skirting boards, pens and homework.

Hugo, five, and Huxley, eight months, snuggle together over morning coffee (Picture: Caters)Their Instagram account @hugoandursula now has 82,000 followers.Hugo reading a paper in the coffee shop (Picture: Caters)‘As my followers grew so did my ideas and I tend to upload ten to 12 photos per week to my account.

Hugo was found hanged over a motorway bridge (Image: RSPCA) Hugo, a black and white ragdoll cat, was seen by a member of the public on Sunday morning hanging over the bridge on the M62 westbound near junction 33.

Whoever did this must be covered in scratches.”Claw marks could help provide a clue to the identity of the culprit who hanged Hugo from the bridge with a piece of blue twine.RSPCA inspector Thomas Hutton is appealing for witnesses after being called out to the incident.Police, along with the Highways Agency and local fire and rescue service, were at the grisly scene to recover Hugo’s body.