The owner did not find it amusing at all.

A mum has received an apology from police after officers swooped on her Bradford home, wrongly suspecting she had turned her garage into a cannabis farm.

The officers, who had obtained a search warrant, went away empty-handed after finding nothing more sinister than an electric heater to keep Pam Hardcastle’s two pet guinea pigs warm.

Police forced entry and brought in a helicopter, yet they found only pigs.

Tempting, but I’ll skip the puns. Their search warrant was from evidence of melting snow on the roof. Heat has become a sure sign, as I have mentioned before, of something nefarious. The British obviously are not expected to use heat to keep themselves warm, at least not enough to melt snow.

Drug growers might be tempted to take a lesson and try adopting their own pigs as a precaution (couldn’t resist) and so the security race continues. When police see a sudden up-tick in guinea pig orders, they might bring cause for another warrant. The good news is that they now might think to question a local pet shop or vet before calling in air-support.