Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective
For millions of people, a pet is more than just an animal that shares a living space. These millions will do anything they can 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. Disillusioned by a police career where her brilliant search dogs and own dog-tracking techniques rarely got a chance to shine, Kat started training her retired weimaraner Rachel to search for lost...
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Kat Albrecht, the nation's first law-enforcement-based pet detective, shares her remarkable story, which combines the thrill of CSI's forensic detection with the warmth and charm of All Creatures Great and Small. Publishers Weekly In this thoroughly engaging book, Albrecht narrates, with deadpan humor 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 behavior. 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 humor 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. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
\ Publishers WeeklyIn this thoroughly engaging book, Albrecht narrates, with deadpan humor 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 behavior. 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 humor 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. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalUntil recently, the only option a desperate pet owner had to track a missing animal was to distribute flyers around the neighborhood and hope for the best. Enter ex-policewoman Albrecht and her two trained search dogs, Rachel and A.J. Permanently disabled in the line of duty and compelled to retire, Albrecht decided to combine her love of police work and the talents of her dogs to become the only law enforcement-based pet detective in the United States. But she is no flip Ace Ventura. In this chronicle of her successes and failures reconnecting lost pets with their owners (she has returned more than 1800 pets), Albrecht offers a serious, engrossing account of her trials and tribulations in gaining acceptance and in training successor detectives and dogs. Her learning experiences ultimately led her to found the Missing Pet Partnership, a national nonprofit organization to establish pet-rescue services. Albrecht completes her book with search-and-recovery strategies for owners who may not have access to the services of a pet detective. Required reading for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and humane society workers, this is highly recommended for libraries serving those populations and for public libraries interested in a unique addition to their animal behavior collection.-Florence Scarinci, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, NY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
