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Cats who get outside are horrible to try to find, especially if they are in a environment that they aren't familiar with. They don't generally come to their humans even if they are close by. They try their best to stay hidden even when it isn't the best thing for them. Excellent story; middling writing. Butcher’s writing is a bit on-the-nose—meaning, he explains minutely as if he doesn’t think the reader understands or remembers what he explained in the previous chapter. Lots of repetitive pet rescue stories. Of course, dedicated readers will wish for more. Then, for most of the stories, the happy reunion when the cat or dog is found as in these bits from different stories: Despite never tiring in the fight to see Molly again, Ciara says the family “never want to antagonise anyone in the process”.
You also get to hear about many cases of missing animals. Not all of them have happy endings so beware. I also didn't know that in England dog theft is a big criminal activity to the point where the author's agency doesn't get involved much anymore after all the credible death threats they have received.
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If you love cats, you will be moved by the tearful reunions between the felines and the humans who love them. 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. The section in particular, where Molly, Sam and Colin stop by to assist with locating “old Chester” and encounter the sister’s, Katherine and Margaret . Reading about such a strained relationship, and learning how Margaret’s child would not come to visit her unless Katherine was not at home, broke my heart. I immediately realized just how much those kittens meant to Margaret, and her loss of Chester broke my heart a second time. I was literally in tears over the entire scene. Being Molly’s first location of a lost pet who was no longer alive, her reaction, Colin’s assurance to take care to comfort Molly and the owner of Chester, it was so emotional. The story was so symbolic of how she must feel about her daughter’s avoidance of their home.
A breakthrough moment for Molly who finally accepted a cuddle from granny Barbara Nelson, 90, (Image: Emma Nelson) 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. And tomorrow, November 17, marks four weeks since the incident, and with just one sighting on October 21, Emma, says she is still desperate to bring Molly home.
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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.” We have so many photos and videos of her and Millie. And it was very important for us on the campaign to always be able to produce some new content about Molly that would make people feel like they knew her.