Web site to help find lost pets
http://www.lostapet.org/
Welcome to Missing Pet Partnership
Missing Pet Partnership is a national, nonprofit organization which
provides lost pet recovery tips and referrals to lost pet services
for pet owner/guardians who have lost a beloved pet. In addition, we
are working to educate staff and volunteers of animal shelters,
humane societies, rescue groups and animal welfare organizations in
the behavioral patterns of lost dogs and cats as well as newly
developed "pet detective" recovery services.
The search and recovery techniques for finding a lost cat are very
different from those used to find a lost dog. Thus, we have broken
our web site into categories designed to help you find the
information you need.
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.
Our Founder:
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. To view Kat Albrecht's on-line
press kit visit http://www.pethunter.presskit247.com
If you need more information please email us at: info@lostapet.org or
call 559-292-4385
Posted on SHARE Yahoo group 11/18/06