The Missing Pom Mystery by Donna Doyle

Author:Donna Doyle [Doyle, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PureRead
Published: 2021-01-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Courtney stepped into the attached garage and pushed the button, watching the door rise and let the morning sunshine in. It’d been a relatively uneventful last couple of days at the shelter, with no break in the case or even word from Detective Fletcher. Courtney now had the day off, and she was going to take advantage of it.

The air was thick with humidity as she pulled out of the garage, but the sunshine and a gentle breeze made the late spring day absolutely beautiful. With no appointments or real agenda, Courtney toured her neighborhood. The few blocks surrounding her place were all full of more apartments, some of them small duplexes and quadplexes and a few others larger brick edifices. These gave way to little bungalows and ranches with nice yards, perfect for small families. The streets were all perfect grids and named after trees and historical figures. Children played on the sidewalks or even right out in the streets, skittering out of the way of oncoming traffic and running right back out onto the pavement once the car had passed. Dogs barked behind fences, and people lifted a hand in a friendly wave as they watered their lawns or picked up the paper.

On the outskirts of town, Courtney found a neighborhood completely unlike what she’d already seen. The streets wound around in confusing curlicues and cul-de-sacs, all named after birds. Large homes sat proudly on massive lots of green grass, proudly sporting far too many gables or ridiculous columns. A golf course with a country club was yet another stretch of greenery, the flags fluttering in the breeze. It was all nice, but Courtney couldn’t help noticing that there was nobody in sight. Wherever the kids were, they’d been kept indoors. The only people she saw outside were from lawn service companies, hired to mow the grass. All the cars were parked in garages, without any left out on the street. It was an entirely different world here where the wealthy folks lived.

As she headed downtown, Courtney realized that the two sides of the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue were basically the same way. On one end were those who could afford all the luxuries in life. Their owners were never faced with bathing, grooming, and nail clipping, because they could pay someone else to do it for them. The dogs and cats had fancy collars and microchips, although they were never let outside without being directly supervised. Courtney wouldn’t doubt if some of them had never gotten to go outside at all.

For the rescues, they were just getting by doing the best they could. Jessi had told her the story of Gus, a pit bull who’d been found digging through a dumpster in desperate hope of a meal. Someone had brought him to the shelter instead, where he got a bowl full of kibble that he was always exceptionally grateful for. Gus always gave a little lick on the back of the hand to whomever happened to fill his bowl.

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