A family noticed their dog was missing – to find him wandering round on the ROOF.

Kyle Barrett, 32, was visiting family with his wife, children and pooch when everyone noticed their dog, Samson, had vanished.

But nobody expected to look up to the roof and spot the 60kg St Bernard sniffing around on the roof of his mother’s bungalow on Saturday (20).

The family, from Lymm, Cheshire, then had the job of coaxing the pup – who is just one year old and expected to grow even larger – back down again.

Dad-of-one Kyle, who works in IT, said fortunately Samson was surefooted and fortunately got down with ease – although Kyle was slightly nervous the “dozy” dog would fall.

The family realised after that the curious pooch had climbed up a tucked-away set of stairs by the garage

He said: “We could hear this loud banging and realised at the same time we couldn’t find the dog.

“I was a bit surprised when - it's not every day you see a 60kg St Bernard wandering around on the roof.

“I did panic a little that the dozy bugge r might fall off, but luckily he’s fairly surefooted.

“I guess he just wanted to have a bit of a wander.”