Lost Pet Chronicles

A Different Kind of Caring A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Sherlock Bones was beginning to wonder if it was time to quit. The cases had become routine, the passion was fading, and he was losing sight of why he had started in the first place. Then Eli called — a young Israeli scholar living out of a van, with his golden retriever missing from the Berkeley campus and no money to pay for help. Before the...

Raggs, the Family Dog A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Seven hundred posters disappeared overnight. Someone wanted Raggs to stay missing — and Sherlock Bones had no idea why. When a white cockapoo disappeared from a locked Mercedes, the case made no sense from the very beginning. The owners' story began to unravel, every answer raised a bigger question, and the search led somewhere no one expected....

The Stolen Guard Dog A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Who cuts through a cyclone fence to steal a four-month-old puppy from a lumberyard? Sherlock Bones found the answer on a playground — with his dog Paco and a kid carrying more guilt than he knew what to do with. When Tony, a young guard dog in training, disappeared without a trace, nothing about the theft made sense. The clues led to a nervous thirt...

Foiling a Good Samaritan A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Some people find a lost dog and call the owner. Barbara Atwell had other ideas. When a ten-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback bolted during a thunderstorm, his owner had to catch a flight to Chicago for a family funeral and couldn't search himself. Sherlock Bones took the case and quickly discovered the dog hadn't just wandered off. She wasn&...

A Canine Con Artist A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Some dogs get lost. MacDuff got adopted — over and over again. A charismatic Doberman with a talent for charming complete strangers, MacDuff had an uncanny ability to convince people he belonged with them. Bars, restaurants, taxis — it didn't matter. Wherever there were people, MacDuff found an audience. When his owner called Sherlock Bones after...

No Time for the Rules A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Harpo the Weimaraner disappeared on a Friday. His owner had less than forty-eight hours before her flight to Montana. If she boarded that plane without Harpo, she would lose him forever. Sherlock Bones put up seven hundred posters and waited for the phone to ring. What followed was a midnight meeting in Golden Gate Park, two hundred dollars hidden...

Betsy, the Missing Basset Hound A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Two days after Christmas, a Basset Hound disappeared. Sherlock Bones was sick, exhausted, and in no condition to chase anything — let alone a dog who turned out to be surprisingly fast for an animal built that close to the ground. What followed was a neighborhood foot chase, two kids suddenly motivated by reward money, and one terrified d...

Sasha, the Three-Legged Dog A Lost Pet Chronicles Story She had been missing for ten days. By then, most people believed she was gone for good. Sasha was a three-legged German shepherd who rode to work every day with her owner, Ned. She never left his side — until one evening at a San Francisco job site, she simply disappeared. What followed was a city-wide search, a freezing five a.m. stakeout, a...

A Moggie for Michael A Lost Pet Chronicles Story Forty dollars. That's all a ten-year-old boy had — and he was willing to give every penny to find the cat his dying mother left him. The search led Sherlock Bones to a ramshackle house overflowing with cats, an eccentric Englishwoman named Mrs. Bentwhistle, and an unexpected friendship that changed two lonely lives forever. This story was publis...

How I Became Sherlock Bones A Lost Pet Chronicles Story He wasn't a pet lover. He didn't grow up with animals. Then one afternoon in a sauna, an unemployed Marine veteran spotted a $1,000 reward for a lost Chihuahua — and a ridiculous idea changed his life forever. What followed was a journey that began with one unforgettable sheepdog named Paco, led through overcrowded animal shelters and...