This very sad news story is all over the news media online today but we don’t know an awful lot about what actually happened. Donald Patience, 45, was found dead at his home in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester last Tuesday. He owned a Labradoodle dog and …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story is a terrible indictment of the state of play in the UK on the issue of dog theft. Brandy is an eight-month-old dachshund who belongs to a Ukrainian family living in Lviv. They gave up Brandy to a UK friend, …
NEWS AND COMMENT-SONOMA, CALIFORNIA: This is one of those classic cases where the people who stole a cat have been identified but they won’t give the cat back. This makes it very difficult for the owner. The police can be unhelpful. Update about 10 days …
Here is some more interesting information about dog thefts in the UK. This is a hot topic because of the pandemic which reportedly caused a surge in thefts because of dramatically increased demand by impulse adopters who were confined to their homes under social distancing …
COMMENT-NEWS: The title to this article is speculative but it is based upon the words of Sarah Covell who believes that her 3-month-old Jack Russell dog named Crumpet was stolen 10 years ago for breeding purposes. When she could no longer have puppies, it is …
You may have read about the murder of a police community support officer, Julia James, in woodland in Kent while walking her Jack Russell dog. The last I heard the police had come up with nothing in their investigation to find the perpetrator. However, it …
There is cut-throat competition among beekeepers in France because France’s 60,000 professional and amateur beekeepers are unable to keep up with demand for their product as there is a 35% annual death rate of bees due to pesticides, global warming and Asian hornets. The cut-throat …
Inline with many recent news media stories about pet dogs being the new currency for criminals because they’ve become so valuable due to pressures on the marketplace brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, police have seized 83 allegedly stolen dogs on a travellers’ site in Suffolk, …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is an update on the viral news about the surge in dog thefts in the UK and I assume in other countries. The dramatic increase in dog thefts has been brought about by the Covid pandemic which has encouraged people to …
