One moment Harvey, a three-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, was alone in the garden, the next he disappeared.
Laura Kidson, 27, is convinced the animal used her children's large blue and black trampoline next to the wire fence at their home in York to make good his escape.
Harvey has not been seen since last Friday and Mrs Kidson, a mother of two, said she had called the police because she was growing increasingly desperate to find her pet.
"He couldn't get over the fence on his own and must have used the trampoline to bounce himself into my neighbour's garden and got out," she said.
"He's something of an escape artist and has got out before, but we were just starting to think he had stopped all that.
"We have phoned the police and the council dog warden but no one has seen or heard of him and we're getting desperate."
Mrs Kidson said Harvey used to play on the trampoline with her four-year-old daughter Chloe and like to lie on it in the sun.
"The fence isn't all that high, but he couldn't have climbed over it on his own and must have used the trampoline to bounce himself into my neighbours garden and got out," she said.
"He liked to bounce on the trampoline with my daughter Chloe, but he rarely went on it on his own. He liked to sit on it and sunbathe.
"I was just putting the shopping away and Harvey was in the garden. One minute he was there, the next he had gone."
Mrs Kidson, who has a nine-month-old son Cole, works as a dispenser at Boots chemist and said her daughter was really missing the dog.
"It was Chloe's fourth birthday party on Saturday and she was devastated that Harvey wasn't there for her birthday. She misses him so much."
She said the family's 14-week-old Boxer puppy, Roxanne, has also been pining for her playmate.
**Update - Harvey has now been reunited with his family :) **
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