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Kathy "Kat" Albrecht is a
former police bloodhound
handler, crime scene
investigator,
search-and-rescue manager,
and
police-officer-turned-investig
ative pet detective.

Since 1997, Kat has solved lost pet investigations by
using law enforcement-based techniques and
strategies that are normally used to solve lost person
investigations. What began as an "experiment" to see
whether or not her search dog Rachel could be
trained to track lost pets, quickly led to other
discoveries. Kat used high-tech equipment such as
infrared cameras, amplified listening-devices, and
search cameras. She pioneered the use of "search
probability theory" and deductive reasoning for
missing cats and Feline Behavioral Profiling, a system
of predicting patterns of feline behavior similar to how
FBI profiles criminal behavior. Kat discovered that
behavior is a critical barrier to the recovery of lost
pets and has identified predictable patterns of
behavior in lost pets such as "The Silence Factor,"
"The Threshold Phenomenon," and "The Lost Pet
Triad." Kat’s memoir The Lost Pet Chronicles:
Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective
(Bloomsbury, April 2004) tells the inspirational story of
her struggle to make the risky and unusual career
change from police detective to pet detective.

Kat and her search dogs have appeared on NBC
Nightly News, CNN Financial News, EXTRA, To Tell
the Truth, K-9 to Five, Miracle Pets, Dogs with Jobs,
Pets: Part of the Family, Breed All About It and in the
pages of People Magazine, Parade, and Reader’s
Digest.

In 1997 when Kat first came up with the idea to
develop lost pet services, a friend told her she was
"having a pipe dream" if she thought she could make
a living as a pet detective. Kat's vision immediately
expanded from a small business concept to
developing lost pet services worldwide. In spite of
struggles and setbacks, Kat has pursued her dream.
She is the founder of Missing Pet Partnership www.
missingpetpartnership.org, a national nonprofit
organization that is working to research lost pet
behavior and provide training on lost pet issues in the
animal welfare industry. Missing Pet Partnership
operates the world’s first pet detective academy
where Kat and her staff train and certify Missing
Animal Response Technicians and search dogs to
track lost pets. She lives in Clovis, California with her
two dogs and two cats.

Combining the thrill of C.S.I.’s forensic detective work
with the warmth and charm of All Creatures Great and
Small, Kat Albrecht, the nation’s first law-
enforcement-based pet detective, shares her often
inspiring, occasionally heartbreaking, and always
engaging journey from working as a beat cop to
becoming the world’s foremost expert in locating lost
pets.

For millions of people, a pet is more than just an
animal that shares a living space. These millions will do
anything to recover a four-legged member of the
family when it goes missing. Unfortunately, most
people just don’t know where to look. Kat Albrecht is
the person they call. Unable to pass a "Lost Pet" poster
without stopping, she has combined a natural gift for
training animals with an extensive background in
investigative crime search techniques to create proven
strategies for finding lost pets.

Using investigative techniques such as probability
theory, behavioral profiling, and physical searches by
trained dogs, Albrecht has helped over 1,800 pet
owners locate their lost dogs, cats, snakes, turtles,
ferrets, and horses. Along the way, Kat has faced one-
of-a-kind challenges in her work: technical issues such
as teaching her trained search dogs to pursue missing
pets, unexpected roadblocks (How do you convince a
forensics lab to conduct a DNA test on a cat’s
whisker?), and the surprising difficulties associated
with living in the shadow of the comedic "Ace
Ventura" image her job title inevitably conjures. Those
challenges are balanced by unique joys, though, each
time Kat helps reunite a missing pet with its owners.

Lost Pet Chronicles tells the fascinating and heart-
warming story of Kat’s unlikely career path—and of
how, along the way, doing the work she loved
transformed her from a dissatisfied, disaffected cop
into a woman who has found her true calling.