LosTapet.org
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Missing Pet Partnership Website
Description
Our Mission :
The failure to provide lost pet services is a major contributing factor to the stray dog population, the feral cat population, and the overcrowding of animal shelters. Every pet dog and cat that is displaced from its owner/guardians care is a "stray" that ultimately contributes to the homeless pet population.
To achieve our goal, we plan to provide behavior-based recovery tips on our website along with referrals to lost pet resources in an effort to help pet owner/guardians recover their missing pet. We also plan to provide lost pet behavior and recovery training for the staff and volunteers of animal shelters, humane societies, rescue groups, and animal welfare organizations. Once funded, Missing Pet Partnership will provide animal shelters with educational printed materials designed to assist those who have lost a pet. Further, Missing Pet Partnership will conduct scientific studies into lost pet behavior which will better enable us to predict the distances that lost pets travel.
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, Albrecht and her dogs located physical evidence, missing people, and criminals. In 1996, Albrecht's bloodhound A.J. escaped from his yard and was missing. In her panic, Albrecht 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, Albrecht and her search dog Rachel physically located two lost cats and one lost dog. Since 1997, Albrecht has effectively utilized law enforcement techniques and technologies to recover lost pets and has trained several other search dogs and human pet detectives. In 2001, Albrecht founded Missing Pet Partnership, a national nonprofit organization that is working to research the behavioral patterns of lost pets, educate pet owners in how to properly search for a lost pet, and educate animal shelter staff and volunteers in the science of lost pet behavior. In 2004, Albrecht founded Pet Hunters International ( www.pethunters.com ), a pet detective academy that trains and certifies Missing Animal Response Technicians, Investigators, and MAR search dogs to locate lost pets. Albrecht is the author of the award-winning book, THE LOST PET CHRONICLES: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective ( Bloomsbury , April 2004) which details her unusual transition from police detective to pet detective and her seven-year struggle to pioneer lost pet services.
Contact
- Missing Pet Partnership
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- Clovis CA
- United States 93613
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- +1.559292438
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