He did! It always amazes me. They’re not strongly scented — I just store them in a tin with a tsp of catnip in a muslin bag at the bottom. Usually they’re hidden in the main part of the garden where there are some shrubs & bamboo, but this time I tucked one behind a drainpipe on the outside wall of the house. When I let him out of the house, he went racing towards the shrubs, then skidded to a halt, turned back to the house & went straight to the mouse.

Dogs can detect a whole world-view that is just not there for us.