REAL PET DETECTIVE

A real life fur cop hunts for the lost cat Mystic Mog, barks up the wrong tree, and tells many waggy tales of cat-astrophe and Sherlock Bones but manages to stay pawsitive in his search for lost pets. That's enough of the puns! Tom Watkins is a former police officer turned true-life pet detective and here is his story of 20 years of missing pets, their owners and adventures as Tom's team of pet investigators zip up their high visibility jackets and comb the local area village by village on their limited manpower and resources. One is the case of the Shetland sheepdog Spencer, missing for 12 hours. Tom?s team of eight set to work. From recording the owner's voice and luring cats from their hiding places, to organising a fly-over and a Crimewatch-style reconstruction of the dog-snatching of Toby the terrier, where an unsuspecting young man who came to the rescue hands over little Toby through the car window of a dog thief. Tom and his team will do whatever it takes to get the nation's pets home, safe and sound to their agonisingly worried owners. 279pp, colour photos.