Hell or high water

rowing up one my favourite films was . For the uninitiated, it tells the tale of a kid who inadvertently gets left behind during the christmas holidays and wrecks his home while foiling a burglary. When furry ones joined the brood, my imagination ran wild. For paw-rents of “latchkey” furkids, there’s always this niggling feeling that there’s some mischief underway when they’re away. Thankfully, the worst that has happened when I was not at home was a stuffed toy getting decimated and its “innards” scattered around—until