Tracker Harry Oakes, from Longview, Wash., traveled north to the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby with his dogs to hunt down Luna, a one-year-old gray tabby cat who disappeared from the home of clothier Robin Hoare and his wife, Burnaby Now reported.
Hoare paid Oakes $1,000 to conduct the search, saying the pet detective claims a 95 percent success rate in hunting down missing pets on his Web site.
"We brought him in maybe five days after she went missing as … a last resort," Hoare said.
Earlier this week, the dogs abruptly lost Luna's scent in a park, but Hoare said he's not giving up and would post signs in the area offering a small reward.
"We were originally fearing that coyotes or something had got her, but from what (Oakes) tracked, it looks like maybe a transient or someone picked her up and put her in his cart," he said. "We're hoping whoever has her will travel that route back."
Im going to skip the urge to just go ballistic on the fact that somebody is willing to pay $1,000 to conduct a search for a fucking cat. Here I am rubbing sticks together, begging somebody for a job blogging and this guy is shelling out my life savings to find his precious little jinxy-cat.
Instead I want to discuss Mr. Harry Oakes here. He is a real life pet detective? There is really a pet detective thats name isn't Ace Ventura and he makes $1,000 dollars a case? Where the hell was my guidance counselor on this one? Like instead of convincing me to apply to college, sign my life away in student loans, then sit in a cubicle for the rest of my life.....why not just say "go be a pet detective."
