The truth about the failed marking of cuddle cat by cadaver dog Eddie

[John]

The truth about the failed marking of cuddle cat by cadaver dog Eddie

This video contains footage recorded inside the Vista Mar Villa, Rua das Flores, in which the McCanns lived from 02 July - 09 September 2007. This video was recorded on 02 August 2007.



Madeleine McCann's Cuddle Cat toy.

Before making any comment about this event lets have another look at the actual video.

Video: > Eddie in McCann's rented villa.

[John]

Lets have a look at the sequence of events...


First of all from 00.55 we have Eddie being introduced to the bedside wardrobe. 

He shows no interest in it whatsoever.

[John]

Next sequence from 01.20 sees Eddie taking an interest in some toys which have been laid out for him on a table in the lounge area of the villa.

Again he shows no interest in any of them.



 

[John]

Next sequence from 01.40 has Eddie running around the apartment lounge sniffing before he comes across the toy bucket containing Cuddle Cat.

[John]

At sequence from 01.47 Eddie pulls Cuddle Cat out of the bucket...



...and drops him unceremoniously on the floor...



...before having a good sniff at Cuddle cat



...and then leaving without the slightest response whatsoever yet again.



Following this failure to mark Cuddle Cat, Martin Grime attempts to encourage him back around again but he is not interested. 

This is where the video is conveniently cut before recommencing at the next sequence.

[John]

The next sequence from 02.17 finds us back in the bedroom again and with attention yet again being drawn towards the bedside wardrobe.   Grime opens the door of the wardrobe to let Eddie in and some 20 seconds later out he comes without making any response.  Grime puts a pink towel back in which Eddie had displaced.




From 03.50 Eddie then goes into the lounge area again and starts barking in front of a sideboard after sniffing what was on top of it.




Grime then summons the dog back into the bedroom again and the bedside wardrobe.  Again, Eddie shows no interest and leaves before being called back yet again.

Again the dog wanders off and is called back for what must be the umpteenth time.  Again no response.

From 05.30 Grime then takes the dog back to the lounge and sits him down.  He goes to the sideboard at which the dog had earlier reacted by barking and opens it to find Cuddle Cat on the lower shelf.



Grime hold Cuddle cat up for the camera as if it was some sort of trophy.

[John]

Point being in all of this is that Eddie was quite content to play with Cuddle Cat and never once identified him as a cadaver mark.

This event is referred to in the second Report made by a team of independent analysts from the Central Department of Criminal Investigation (Central Division of Information Analysis - PJ), dated from February 2008.

Snip

From the screening of the videos, referred previously, done when the dogs were working, some doubts arise. We don't want and we can't take the place of the trainer, we only wish to alert, with this paragraph, to some facts, that according to us, need further clarification.

If the dog is trained to react when he detects what he is looking for, why, in most of the cases, we see the dog passing more than once by that place in an uninterested way, until he finally signals the place where he had already passed several times'

On one of the films, it's possible to see that 'Eddie' sniffs Madeleine's cuddle cat, more than once, bites it, throws it into the air and only after the toy is hidden does he 'mark' it (page 2099). Why didn't he signal it when he sniffs it on the first time'

Apart from all that was said about the dogs, we must also take into attention the results of the forensic analysis that was performed by the experts on the Scientific Police Laboratory on the day immediately after the facts, and already mentioned where no vestige of blood was found.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/OUSTROS_APENSOS_11_VOLUMES.htm

[John]

...or to put it another way...a complete balls up!!   

[ferryman]

...or to put it another way...a complete balls up!!   

Yes, even in what we see, Eddie had ample opportunity to react to the toy.  Before it was edited, the video made clear he had even more.

Yet (as with the Renault) it was only after repeated coaxing and ample opportunity that he finally "alerted" ...

[James]

If I was a sceptic i would be saying that Cuddle cat was planted and had nothig whatsoever to do with eddie alerting at the cupboard.   

[debunker]

Sometimes I wish that the McCanns had been charged so that we could have seen all the evidence totally demolished in court (if ever allowed to be admitted as evidence!)

No reliable dog alerts

No reliable DNA results.

Just happenstance, hearsay and police mismanagement.

[Redblossom]

Sometimes I wish that the McCanns had been charged so that we could have seen all the evidence totally demolished in court (if ever allowed to be admitted as evidence!)

No reliable dog alerts

No reliable DNA results.

Just happenstance, hearsay and police mismanagement.

Now that will have been interesting indeed

[ferryman]

Sometimes I wish that the McCanns had been charged so that we could have seen all the evidence totally demolished in court (if ever allowed to be admitted as evidence!)

No reliable dog alerts

No reliable DNA results.

Just happenstance, hearsay and police mismanagement.

Now that will have been interesting indeed

I suspect you would have lost interest very quickly ...

[Carana]

...or to put it another way...a complete balls up!!   

There are a few more sequences pointed out here:

http://madeleinemccannthetruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/cuddle-cat/

I can't do an accurate frame-by-frame freeze. If anyone else can, once Eddie knocks over the bin the CC on it, and loses interest, the camera's view seems to be blocked by the armchair, then CC appears in the middle of the living-room floor.

Out of curiosity, was this continuous filming, or was there a cut between CC being knocked over and then reappearing in the middle of the floor?

[Redblossom]

Is he next installment the truth about Eddies false alert in the parents bedroom? cant wait.