Pet cat enjoys 10-mile round trips on local bus

A pet cat regularly travels on his local bus and sometimes racks up 10-mile round trips.

Dodger - who was named after the 'Oliver Twist' character Artful Dodger - hops on and off the public transport as he pleases and tends to sit on passengers' laps from time to time to enjoy a better view.

Bus drivers even know at what point to let him off the vehicle when he gets back home and returns to owner Fee Jeanes.

Fee said: "We moved here 19 months ago and our house backs onto the bus station. He is an old boy and is very friendly.

"At first Dodger kept going to the bus station because people there fed him tit-bits and scraps of food. But then he started climbing on board the buses because they are almost like greenhouses when it is sunny.

"Then last week I found out he had travelled to Charmouth and back, which is a 10-mile round trip."