A MAN built a privacy fence to try to keep his dog in the garden - but it has backfired massively.
Owner Matt Waldman had erected a six-foot fence in the hope that his pooch Lexi would be untempted to hop into neighbors' yards.
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Lexi the Jumping Dog (@jumpdogusa) has 255,000 TikTok followers and regularly posts amusing videos of the pointer cross scaling walls.
The most recent video, entitled 'When you build a privacy fence to keep your dog in,' features Lexi's owner with a clown face filter as his plan to keep his pooch contained in the yard falls apart.
Sprightly Lexi is seen behind her owner peeping into the nextdoor's yard.
Matt revealed that Lexi started showcasing her athletic side at around a year old.
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"She started jumping four years ago," he told Newsweek.
"She jumps to the top of my six foot privacy fence but could go way higher!
"She jumps everywhere she goes but mainly on the fence.
"She had natural ability and started doing it on her own.
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"She got over one time and that's where I trained her to just stay on top and not go any further."
Viewers flocked to the comments to draw parallels between Lexi and a certain other domesticated pet.
"Are you sure you've got a dog and not maybe a large odd looking cat?" one user queried.
Another said: "Your dog was a cat in its past life."
"Sir you have a cat," a third quipped.
