Animal Search UK - Pet Detective podcast

This week we chat with Wes from Animal Friends and Sarah from Joii, both have combined for Animal Friends pet insurance to offer a brilliant online vet consultation service for customers and it's seen extraordinary results so far.

We also talk to residents of Wigan where there is a mystery cat napper on the loose, so fat 10 cats from a small residential area have gone missing, and its thought they are being abducted! Worrying times for all concerned!

We’ve got an exciting update on the Pet Detectives who are now able to resume searches for missing pets, we will be joined by Saqi the call manager who can tell us exactly what the situation is..

And finally, we managed to grab a few minutes with Radio Legend and all-round great bloke and huge Animal Lover, BBC Radio presenter and ITV Long Lost family host Nicky Campbell joined me for a brilliant chat and to talk about his newly launched podcast ‘One of the family’ which looks at the way dogs affect our lives and how they generally improve our lives and prove to anyone who doubted that they really are mans best friends.

In this edition of the Animal Search UK Podcast.

This week we chat with Hermione from the PDSA as she stars in a new series on Channel 4, Unsung Heroes is a celebration of those who have continued to work during the lockdown, Hermione has kept working for animals and talks to us about filming for the series.

We also chat with Becky from Battersea Cats and Dogs, they recently launched a campaign to say how much your pets mean to you during the lockdown, and we all know how comforting a pet can be in times of stress!

Battersea legend Paul O'Grady also sends a message to all those at Battersea and gives us an insight into his days of lockdown with his new cuddly addition from the rehoming center.

And finally, Cats Protection give us some great advice if you are looking after or thinking of adopting a cat with sight loss or totally blind!

In this Edition, we hear the amazing work Medical Detection dogs are doing with Exeter University, training dogs to detect the Corona Virus, a fascinating insight!

We Chat to Anna Ewars Clark from the PDSA abou8t the very real issue of separation anxiety with our pets, as the lockdown eases how will going back to work affect our furry friends?

We talk about the RSPCA and their Adopt don't shop initiative

And a round-up of all the pet news this week

In this episode we chat to Ian futter at the Scottish SPCA about seeking vet advice for your pets during the lockdown, we feature the Dogs trust who are running a dog fostering program, we hear from some of those who have fostered a dog and how they feel about this valuable role. We chat to The Mayhew animal welfare officers who look after the sick, injured, and abandoned animals in their shelters, they are amazingly committed and provide a brilliant service. 

In this edition, we talk to Chief Vet officer at the Scottish SPCA Ian Futter about your cats dental health, we also chat to Carole Adam from Pets as Therapy about how animals can help those with health issues or need the comfort of an animal for therapeutic reasons, there is also the story of Ziggy a cat who went missing for nearly 6 weeks, we find out exactly how Animal Search UK helped to reunite Ziggy with his desperate owners and we launch our brand new YouTube series Animal Search TV

In these worrying times of Corona Virus, we have decided to give you a bit of a break from the slightly bleak news, so we've put together a podcast that only contains good news!

it's a packed show, We speak to Alison whose cat Bella went missing for over 2 years, we hear what it was like to get Bella home and how it feels to lose a pet for that long!

We speak to Jo Middleton who is the CEO of Dog first aid franchise, an amazing idea that sets out to train volunteers in dog first aid, the story is a great one and Jo tells us how she came up with this brilliant concept.

We are joined by podcast royalty (for us anyway) Saqi brings us some great good news stories, including a man who spent an incredible amount of money thanking those who helped save his beloved dog, and we are not talking a few quid!

New music streaming service for pets, yes you read that right, and no it's not all Bach!

Finally, the story of a cat called Missy - and we think this could be some kind of record, but she returned to her owner after 11 years! Mind-blowing!

We hope you enjoy!

In this episode, we hear an amazing search with Andrew, Nell a little Cockapoo went missing on a walk, for 5 days her owners and Animal Search tirelessly searched for her, then almost when all hope was ebbing away she was found, you can hear that amazing moment and how Andrew felt, it's fair to say he might have had something in his eye!

We hear from Sean Wensley a senior vet at PDSA, we cover some of the things you need to do as a pet owner and if you are self-isolating, a difficult but very important aspect to coping with Corona Virus

Finally, we chatted with Alex from Animal Jobs direct, she tells us some of the brilliant online courses for anyone who wants to work with animals, as well as information on their 
job website and how to sign up and enroll in one of their great courses.

We talk to an owner who's cat went missing and called on our missing pet search team, and the outcome was a good one!
We also talk about PETA wanting to ban the word Pet, we get your reactions.
We head out and gauge reaction to cats being walked on leads or harnesses, the great British public has their say.
And we round up all the Pet news including Coronavirus, and we look back at some of the pets that have been found and one after 14 months missing!

In the first Episode of the Animal Search UK podcast, we are with our Pet Detective team as we investigate the disappearance of Giles a cat in London, we get a tip off from a local resident and the pet detectives try and find out if it is Giles?

We also chat to Saqi Richards, the Animal Search call manager who talks us through what type of calls we get and how it all works

Cats Protection and PDSA are both campaigning for compulsory microchipping of cats in the UK, both organisation believe it's important that cats are chipped to help when they go missing, or cats are found by someone else, and to help reunite owners with cats. We speak to both charities and talk about how important it is that cats are microchipped.