With an epilogue containing indispensable information on how to look for missing pets, this is a must-read for animal lovers and sleuths alike.
by
Kat Albrecht with Jana Murphy
THE
LOST PET CHRONICLES:
Adventures
of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective
by Kat
Albrecht with Jana Murphy
ISBN
is 1-58234-555-4
(Bloomsbury,
April 2004)
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In
this thoroughly engaging book, Albrecht narrates, with deadpan
humour and Grisham-like suspense, the story of how she came to
create an entirely new career: lost pet search and rescue.
As a
police dispatcher and later a police officer in California,
Albrecht was duty bound to give human emergencies priority over
animal crises, but it wasn't until her Eeyore-like bloodhound,
A.J., went missing that Albrecht saw the need for sophisticated
detective and scent trail work to find pets. Going against the
advice of colleagues and even friends, Albrecht trains her dogs -
first Rachel, a search-and-rescue Weimeraner, and then bloodhounds
Chase and A.J. (who was found) - to scent cats and other dogs in
the same way they located lost hikers or on-the-lam criminals.
Taking the reader on searches for everything from huskies and
terriers to boa constrictors, she describes her dogs' incredible
ability to detect scents and shares her own honed deductions about
animal and human behaviour. Sometimes the author isn't able to find
the lost animal and can only return bad news to people, like the
owners of Gus, a cat who runs away days after their son's death.
Yet with humour and fascinating insight into search-and-rescue
work, Albrecht continues to find innovative ways to help animals
and the humans who love them, and inspires readers with her
dramatic career changes. With an epilogue containing indispensable
information on how to look for missing pets, this is a must-read
for animal lovers and sleuths alike.
Author
Kathy "Kat" Albrecht is a former police bloodhound handler, crime
scene investigator, search-and-rescue manager, and
police-officer-turned-investigative 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 Behavioural
Profiling, a system of predicting patterns of feline behaviour
similar to how FBI profiles criminal behaviour. Kat discovered that
behaviour is a critical barrier to the recovery of lost pets and
has identified predictable patterns of behaviour in lost pets such
as "The Silence Factor," "The Threshold Phenomenon," and "The Lost
Pet Triad." Kat now trains and certifies human and K9 pet
detectives to track lost pets. For information on how to become a
pet detective, visit www.pethunters.com
- ISBN
is 1-58234-555-4