Dog 'Totally Shocks' Family by Disappearing from Home. 30 Minutes Later, the Pup is Ringing the Doorbell

After escaping from nan backyard, a pet pooch amazed his owners astatine their beforehand doorway by returning to ringing nan family's doorbell camera.

Kota, 9 months, precocious collapsed retired of his gait successful Crestview, Florida, and was gone for 30 minutes earlier he returned and utilized nan home's Ring doorbell camera "multiple times" to get his owners' attention. 

In footage provided to PEOPLE by Ring, Kota walks towards nan beforehand doorway and starts jumping up and ringing nan doorbell a number of times pinch what appears to beryllium his nose. The doorway past opens, and nan pup is fto inside. 

"Kota's a digger! He dug a spread nether nan obstruction and sewage done nan gate, past realized nary 1 was around, which led him to ringing nan doorbell," his owner, Ring customer Osric, tells PEOPLE of nan dog's flight connected June 17. "He likes to beryllium outside, truthful we don't mind him taking a fewer laps astir back. I had a emotion to spell cheque successful connected him, but ultimately, it was nan Ring notification that led maine to find retired he escaped."

Oric was "totally shocked and happy I sewage him earlier he sewage wounded aliases lost," he shares, adding that he recovered Kota's actions "funny."

"It was decidedly unexpected," Osric tells PEOPLE of nan dog's doorbell ringing skills. "We recovered it funny and truthful cool that he knew to property nan Ring doorbell aggregate times to get our attention."

"I person rewatched nan video aggregate times pinch family and friends," Osric continues. "We've gotten a batch of nosy and affirmative feedback some for nan business and Kota, alongside praise for Ring."

Osric adds that Kota has "scratched" astatine nan doorbell earlier and rang it by accident, but nan pet genitor believes that nan canine has nan fastener figured retired now and "did usage it to get maine to nan door."

As for whether aliases not Kota has made immoderate different awesome escapes since nan incident, Osric reveals, "As of now, he has not escaped since he's bigger, and he has not needed to ringing nan doorbell. However, I'm judge he will if request beryllium successful nan early aliases erstwhile he feels for illustration proceeding nan chime!"

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"Kota is arsenic happy arsenic tin be," Osric adds. "He loves our family and is nan existent meaning of a hilarious goofball."