‘They’re my kids’: pet theft, pet detectives and the rise of the ‘multispecies family’

From our offices to our beds, pets are infiltrating parts of our world they never previously inhabited. It makes the stealing – and retrieving – of them all the more high-stakes

Suzie Meakins was in Adelaide last Christmas when she received a troubling text from her housemate back in Medowie in the Hunter region of New South Wales.

“She took the dogs,” it read. “I can’t reach her. She won’t return them.”

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Law (Australia) | The Guardian