A lifelong Bradford City fan almost bit off more than he could chew when he took his dog to work with him at the club's ground.

Self-employed builder Kim Brown, pictured, thought no harm could be done when he left his mischievous new puppy in his vehicle while he went to work on the stadium expansion at Valley Parade.

But left to his own devices, six-month-old Jack chomped through the handbrake, leaving the Hyundai careering through the Bantams players' car park.

His shocked owner returned to find the vehicle had smashed into the back of a Rover.

Twenty-five-year-old Kim, a season ticket holder at Valley Parade, said his new companion had been fine when he went to check him at 11am.

"When I went back at midday, the car was about 25 to 30ft down the hill in the back of someone's car," he said. "I panicked and went to see if the dog was all right - he was just sat up in the car. He'd chewed through the brake and knocked the button off."

The damaged vehicle had belonged to a bricklayer on site, he added.

"I was fortunate. I think Benito Carbone's Porsche was parked next-door-but-one to me and the car it hit was next to a Mercedes."

Kim, who owns Croft Builder Maintenance, and his wife Amanda fell in love with the abandoned mongrel when they visited Bradford's RSPCA one month ago.

But Jack's canine capers have now cost the couple more than £500 in car repair bills, including £400 worth of damage to their own Hyundai.

"I took him to my mother-in-law's in the afternoon on the same day," said Kim. "She let him out in the garden, but he got under the fence and into the opposite garden. She ran round to find him in somebody else's car with his nose in their shopping.

"He's not really done things like this before, just the usual puppy things.

"He's a lovely dog and usually quite obedient. It must have been something he ate for breakfast."