I love learning new things. And last weekend, I learned something new about bloodhounds. They can be sneaky, they can be tempted to commit petty theft, and they apparently like peppermint. Here's what happened. I'm currently taking a disaster preparedness training course in my community known …
Pet Detective Blog
Meghan’s Message
This is Meghan. She is loved, she is spoiled, and she is back home after being displaced for seven weeks. Meghan's family sent a written testimonial to Missing Pet Partnership, thanking us for the information on our web site because it offered the recovery tips and encouragement that enabled them …
CERT MAR: A New Direction
I've been a bad blogger. While I had every intention to blog every Friday, the past 6 weeks have been a complete BLUR for me! The great news is that Missing Pet Partnership has had new doors literally FLY open for us. We went from having just a few dedicated volunteers and little hope for immediate …
Rejoice With Those Who Rejoice (Tabu’s Story)
THIS is how to recover a lost dog. We call it an "Intersection Alert" or a "Lost Dog Protest" and it grabs the attention of people. Missing Pet Partnership (MPP) has had great success with this recovery technique, including the rapid (15 minute) recovery of a lost Chihuahua named Sukhi at the 4th …
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Lani’s Christmas Miracle
Making a "walk up find" on a lost dog using a tracking/trailing dog is one of the hardest types of cases that pet detectives work. Hundreds of hours go into training a dog to trail lost pets and it takes a special dog and patient handler to be able to effectively train a K9 pet …
Love They Neighbor (And Their Cat)
One of the easier types of pet detective cases that I work is when I’m asked to find a “displaced” cat. Cats become displaced when they end up outside of their territory, like when an indoor-only cat escapes outside. Typically these cats are panicked and hiding in fear. The easy part of recovering …
The Story of Otto
Look at this picture and tell me what you see. An abused dog? A neglected dog? A dog that deserves a better home? If you found this dog wandering in your neighborhood and he was wearing a collar with an ID tag, would you call the owner and return this dog to that family? Or would you work to …
The Hole Truth
Recently I worked a case involving a missing cat named Ginger. Christina from Seattle had fostered the stray Siamese but as soon as she brought her into her home she discovered that Ginger was afraid of her Labrador. So she closed Ginger off in her bedroom and all was well. But a few days …
