What I would like to hear explained is...........

1. Why SY are ruling out Gerry as the person Mr Smith saw

2. What is SY's explanation of the dogs' reactions

Somehow I don't feel we will ever know the answer to those questions

We don't know for sure that they are ruling him out.  Even if they say they are.

keep referring back to the Mick Pillpott case (where they killed their 6 kids in a fire)....the police secretly recorded them at various times.  Unlikely in this case, as we know they seem to be protected from all sorts, but maybe, just maybe, they are putting the Smith sighting out there and listening to what the McCann's are saying to each other.  We can but hope!

Also, there has been no reference to the dogs at all.  So maybe the fact that they're not mentioning them at all is a good sign?  They haven't said that they are discounting the dogs.

Maybe I'm just an eternal optimist

The cadaver scent will be explained away as Mitchell has already said....'their is an innocent explanation for what may or may not be found'

My opinion on this is that Abduction has got to be proved at any cost; by any other person than GM.
 
it is vital that they must concentrate on Stranger abduction only, for now, it is a waiting game.
 
 
When or if stranger abduction is not proved then and only then can they take the next step.
 
 
 
 
1.  SY ruling in Gerry as the person Mr Smith saw
 
2. SY's explanation of the dogs' reactions

Somebody apparently rang up Crimewatch, said the e-fit looked like Gerry McCann, and got hung up on!

At first glance, this looks like fingers-in-ears, la-la-la.

On second thoughts, maybe that was the 1000th person that had phoned up that night, saying exactly the same thing, and the poor person on the other end of the phone had just had enough!

And there are apparently all these people who have phoned in with "the same name". We are not being told what that name actually is, though.