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What Is Cat Poaching?
The Pet Detective’s Definition Verb The act of deliberately enticing a cat owned by another person away from its home usually with the lure of food. Cat poaching is an aggressive form of Cat Seduction but unlike Cat Seduction the wrongdoer is intent of taking permanent possession of another person’s cat. A Cat Poacher is…
Read MoreDefinition of Dognapped?
Pet Detective’s Definition of DOGNAPPED VERB: DOGNAPPED is the unlawful abduction and or confinement of a dog for the purpose of inducing the owner or person having lawful control of the dog at the time it was taken to pay a ransom for the dog’s return. Dognapping is not recognised as a crime in the…
Read MoreWhat Is Cat Seduction?
What is Cat-Seduction? Pet Detectives Definition Cat Seduction Noun ‘The action of seducing a cat tempting or attracting a cat.’ ‘Purposefully enticing a cat which already has an owner away from its home usually with the lure of food.’ Cat seducers fall into two broad categories. Feeders and keepers. The Feeders usually notice a cat…
Read MoreAvoid This Big Mistake When Searching For a Missing Cat
Making Changes to Your Cat’s home Environment will Discourage it From Returning Home My personal experience in recovering missing cats has revealed that the biggest mistake you can make when a cat first goes missing is to start making changes to your cat’s home environment and territory. Especially if you do not even know for…
Read MoreMissing Cat? Pet Detective’s Top 5 Search Tips on What do First
Top Five # Tips on What to do When Your Cat First Goes Missing I have been recovering Missing Cats for over 30 years and in the last Five years, together with my amazing Cat Detection Dog Molly have helped to reunite over 275 Missing Cats with their families. Discovering that your cat is missing…
Read MoreHow is Organized Crime Impacting on Dog Theft & Illegal Breeding?
In this article I will describe the growing influence of organized crime on dog theft, puppy smuggling and illegal breeding and address the question ‘where have all the stolen dogs gone?’ Dog Theft is an absolutely shocking crime, which was how the home secretary Pretti Patel described the offence before launching the Pet Theft Task…
Read MoreDog Theft: How Big is The Problem and How do You Prevent The Theft of Your Dog?
How Big is The Problem? There has been a great deal of speculation recently about the massive increase in the number of dogs stolen in 2021 with estimates ranging between 2,700 and 3,000 which is equivalent to ten dogs snatched every day. So, is dog theft really on the increase, should you be worried and…
Read MoreWhat is the Pet Theft Taskforce?
What is the PET THEFT TASKFORCE and are they about to draft another piece of Christmas Cracker legislation? The Pet Theft Taskforce is a governmental working group, with representatives from The Ministry of Justice, the Home Office, DEFRA, the Police, a handful of animal charities and questionable dog theft experts. The task force was established…
Read MoreHow to Prevent Dog Theft on a Country Walk
How to Prevent Dog Theft on a Country Walk? Every year numerous dogs go missing from rural carparks and on country walks and very few of these incidents are recorded as thefts. Many of these dogs are stolen by specialist dog thieves. In this article I will tell you how these crooks operate and what…
Read MoreHow to find a missing cat
There is a lot of misleading information on the internet on how to recover a missing cat and most of it is re-posted material shared by well-meaning people who are just trying to help their fellow cat lovers.
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