I wanted to relay a personal story about my malamute/shepard 
mix. He was a better escape artist than Houldini. He would 
pull me on my skateboard to the local strip mall, about 1 mile 
each way. Our (his) main destination was the Italian Deli. 
Eveyone gave him something. The surrounding steets are heavily 
traveled with numerous traffic signals. I trained him w/o a leash 
and to wait at intersections for the green lights. Well one day 
after escaping, he walked himself to the deli. He was captured 
on film crossing the busist intersection, on a green light, in 
the crosswalk, by himself. I was amazed to see his picture in 
the small local paper with a similiar caption.