Ain't Nothing but a Pound Dog by Jeannie Wycherley

Author:Jeannie Wycherley [Wycherley, Jeannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bark at the Moon Books
Published: 2019-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

Toby clattered through the dog flap into the kitchen to find Clarissa anxiously checking the time on her mobile.

“You had me scared!” she reprimanded him, even as she knelt and held her arms out for a cuddle. He gladly took her up on her invitation and folded himself into her embrace. “I thought you’d scarpered, or been caught, or you’d run under a bus, or—”

“You might try a little positive thinking,” Toby suggested, extracting himself from her hug. “Be more dog.”

Clarissa guffawed, relieving her tension. “You’re right. So what happened? Did you track them down?”

“Yes. I know where they live, and I can take you there. Then you’ll need to find a way to get Miss Phoebe out. They are definitely not her real owners. They’ve taken her out of the Sanctuary just so that they can sell her on to someone who wants a dog of that breed.”

“You’re sure?”

Toby nodded. “And worse than that, if poor old Miss Phoebe isn’t bought and paid for by this evening, the man human, Craig his name is, wants to pass her over to use as…” He stopped. “Well, it isn’t very nice. We need to rescue her, Clarissa.”

“I could go to the police.” Clarissa picked up her phone, pondering who to ring. It wasn’t what you’d consider a proper emergency, so what would be the best number?

“But would they even believe us?” Toby asked, worried that someone might investigate the pair of them, before arguing they could do nothing to help, and then he’d end up back in kennels and they still wouldn’t have rescued Miss Phoebe.

Clarissa thought for a moment. “It would help if we could track down Miss Phoebe’s real owners.”

Toby looked at her, his eyes full of hope. “But the kennels already tried that and didn’t have much luck.”

“How hard did they try?” Clarissa reached for her handbag on top of the work surface and extracted a tablet from it, along with a spectacle case. “I mean, she’s an unusual breed of dog and presumably her owners were looking for her too. They must be worried sick.” Taking a seat, she flipped over the cover of the tablet and it lit up.

“You’d have thought so,” Toby agreed.

Toby climbed onto the chair beside her so he could watch what she was doing. He couldn’t read, but all things being equal he could study the photos. Clarissa placed her notebook, pen and mobile on the table, and popped a pair of rainbow-coloured spectacles on.

Toby stared at her in surprise. They lent her a professional and studious appearance.

Clarissa began to tap the screen.

“I’m just googling dogs missing in this area for starters.” She pointed at the screen. “There’s a surprising number of hits for a small town. We need to narrow it down.” She peered over the top of her glasses at Toby. “What breed did you say she was?”

“A Bedlington Terrier.”

“That’s right.” Clarissa entered that information into the search engine and tried again. “Mmm. Not locally.” She wiggled her fingers over the keyboard.

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