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Kathy "Kat" Albrecht is a former police officer, field training officer, police detective, and K9 (police bloodhounds and cadaver dogs) trainer turned pet detective. During her ten-year career as a search dog handler, Kat and her dogs located physical evidence, missing people, and criminals. In 1996, Kat's bloodhound A.J. escaped from his yard and was missing. Kat brought in another search dog that she used to successfully track down A.J. This is what sparked the idea, "Why not train dogs to track lost pets?" In their first four searches, Kat and her search dog Rachel physically located two lost cats and one lost dog. Since 1997, Kat has effectively utilized law enforcement techniques and technologies to recover lost pets and has trained several other search dogs and many human pet detectives.
In 2001 Kat founded the nonprofit Missing Pet Partnership, a nonprofit organization where she worked to pioneer the concept of community-based lost pet services. In 2017, Kat formed the Missing Animal Response Network (MARN) where she currently instructs both professional and volunteer pet detectives as well as MAR search dogs (like those featured in her books) to locate lost pets. This training is all accomplished through online courses, a process that has enabled Kat to build a network of trained students and dogs in countries around the world.
Kat's first book, "THE LOST PET CHRONICLES: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective" (Bloomsbury) was published in 2004 but went out of print in 2012. Kat then revised, updated, and self published that book under the new name "Pet Tracker: The Amazing Story of Rachel the K9 Pet Detective" where it is available as an eBook, trade paperback, and audio book. Her second book, "DOG DETECTIVES: Train Your Dog to Find Lost Pets" (Dogwise) was published in 2005 and is available as both eBook and trade paperback.
When her books were first published, there was very little being done in the regards to lost pet recovery services. But today, thanks to Kat's books, training, successful recovery methods, YouTube and Facebook, most communities have developed lost and found Facebook pages. Kat is considered the leading authority in lost pet recovery training and remains dedicated, in spite of numerous roadblocks and setbacks, to her dream of developing community-based lost pet services that are affordable and available to all pet owners.
To contact Kat, visit www.katalbrecht.com.
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