Molly the Pet Detective Dog: The true story of one amazing dog who reunites missing cats with their families

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Delightful, adorable, enjoyable and informative. I smiled, I laughed, I cried. There were moments of heartbreak. It was harrowing reading about animals in jeopardy – injured, mistreated and abused, and not all the searches had a happy ending. For the most part though, Molly’s journey was uplifting and remarkable. She's also extra special, because she was a rescue dog. The intensive six month scent-match training programme Molly underwent made for interesting reading, and I am in awe over the amazing team at Medical Detection Dogs, and their massive commitment to Molly's success. The BBC documentary Bring Molly Home shines a light on the spate of dog thefts across Ireland and the UK brought on by the pandemic, when the demand for pets outweighed the care for where they necessarily came from.

Molly is the vice president of the club, with Li'l Petey as the president, who are both working on their comic, Squid Kid and Katydid. Four years previously I’d first set out to find and train a cat-detection dog, and had figured that it would take me just six months. I’d spent hundreds of hours researching canine cognition, traveled thousands of miles to meet the country’s top experts in this field and overcome a great deal of resistance and hostility. So many people have told me that it couldn’t be done and had implied that I was foolish and delusional.' The team suggested (without any prompting from us), the best way to manage Odin. He is now going to have a brush every week at MM, then after the third week, he’ll have a full groom. We welcomed this idea, and have booked the “schedule” up to Christmas to see how it goes. In a previous job, I actually selected all the books that went into both PetSmart and Petco for three years. At that time I didn't actually have a pet, which made me somewhat unbiased. But honestly, I am biased towards cats, even when I haven't owned one. Yet most books published are about dogs. (Yes, you can argue there are more dog owners, but there are more cats as pets as cat owners more often have multiples. We have two.) So when I saw my company was publishing yet another dog book, at first I nearly scrolled right by it, but the subtitle caught my eye. Wait--what? This is a book about a dog who finds cats? Yep! Our rescue groups across Northern Ireland do a fantastic job and are under huge pressure but I’m worried that she may have been missed, she may have been rehomed despite having a microchip.Molly-Mae and Tommy defend themselves as dog dies five days after being imported from Russia (Image: @mollymaehague) To each their own, these are real people who have every right to happiness in their relationship, etc. but I don't want to read about this particular relationship dynamic, especially when it involves someone being a jerk to a precious dog. Doubly so, this annoys me when excuse after excuse is made and praise heaped upon Sarah for ultimately accepting Molly. Wow, congrats, she reached the baseline of not being mean to an innocent dog anymore. Someone give her a cookie! 🙄 Every mention of Sarah just dragged the book down for me, perhaps because she made such a sour first impression that I just couldn't care less about the 'progress' she made. Nor could I understand why Butcher would put up with her nonsense when they were clearly very differently aligned on the dog lover vs. dog hater spectrum. Mail Online reports that Tommy bought the dog through a Cheshire-based business which is licensed by Cheshire Council but not a Kennel Club assured breeder. Next, the book moved to how Mr. Butcher decided to start his own agency and eventually found and rescued his partner, Molly. Molly and Mr. Butcher's relationship throughout the book is incredibly touching and made me miss my dogs who are home while I'm on vacation. There were many times I wanted to give them a snuggle and smattering of kisses because this book is for any animal lover for sure. I’m sure it’s going to be financially better for us, but most importantly Odin will not have to spend so many hours in one go at MM (that’s me reading his mind, he might actually like being pampered for hours).

But for a long time, Colin was the only one who believed in the idea. It took him years to find anyone who thought it was possible to train a dog in such a way, and even longer to find anyone with the ability to train a dog in cat detection. But he didn’t give up. He found the right trainers, and then, eventually, they found the right dog.This psychokinetic baby frog has the ability to move things with her brain. But her greatest superpower may be her ability to irritate grownups. Personality [ ] We're not asking for any kind of sympathy. What's happened is awful. I'm asking you to understand that the dog travelling from Russia is not the reason he died." There before me, in the living room, lay a vision of domestic bliss. Sarah was curled up on the sofa with Marian Keyes’s latest novel and a glass of wine and wrapped around her feet was a snoozing, snoring Molly. I couldn’t help but smile. Once upon a time, Sarah—an avowed cat-lover—could hardly bear to be within a yard of this hair-shedding, handbag-snuffling rescue mutt, but now here they were, snuggling like a pair of old friends.’ I thought you’d gone forever!” she squealed, flinging her arms around him and smothering him in kisses. “You’ll never know how much I missed you.” People don't really do their research if they're desperate for a dog, that's all that really matters to them - and it's just a haven for illegitimate breeding and sales.”

Colin was in the active in Royal Navy, then became a police detective, and then, with the love of animals, created a UK Pet Detective Agency. This book details how Colin and Molly came to be, the training they endured together, and all of the lives they touched. Together, they help find lost cats by scent and return them to their grateful owners. I can only imagine how impactful Colin and Molly truly were to all of the people they helped. The fact that Molly was a rescue dog who turned out to become a successful Pet Detective makes this book even sweeter than it already is. Rescuing dogs is so important for our lives and the pets! We are far more far more cautious now since Molly went missing. We've had CCTV installed surrounding the whole house. We have new gates that are about six or seven foot tall. We secured our yard a lot more than it had been.

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He decided to get her a Pomeranian puppy but tragically the dog died within days of the young couple welcoming him into their home, with Molly- Mae tearfully revealing that the dog, who they called Mr Chai - passed away due to his skull not being fully developed. Thanks to NetGalley and Celadon Books for the advanced copy of Molly, a fascinating and heartwarming book in return for an honest review. Thanks to NetGalley and Celadon Books for the advanced copy of Molly in exchange for my honest opinion. In Mothering Heights, she gets a new robo-suit called "Mecha Molly", and even has her own theme song with drums provided by Dippy.

It's a bit much and completely detracts from the awe of Molly's skills and the entertainment value of reading about a dog who rescues cats. I'm here for some heartwarming (and sometimes heartwrenching) tales of pets and their owners, not snap judgments on people who are dealing with fear for their pets' lives.But the journey she had to travel to build trust and confidence was going to be a very long one and I decided that there was no way I was going to put her through another home after ours. That reminds me of some funny stories of cats that go into other cat’s homes through the cat door and steal their food. I didn’t realize they would do that! Unsurprisingly, the atmosphere around the breakfast table that morning was fraught. A teary Lindsey was inconsolable—“How can I carry on without Simba?” she kept repeating—and both parents, sitting on either side of their daughter, tried their utmost to reassure her.’