Kat Albrecht

Kathy "Kat" Albrecht is a former police-detective-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. She has located lost pets by pioneering the training and use of cat detection dogs, scent tracking dogs trained to track lost dogs, infrared cameras, amplified listening-devices, and search cameras.

Kat pioneered the use of "search probability theory" and deductive reasoning for missing cats and Feline Behavioral Profiling, a system of predicting patterns of feline behavior similar to how FBI profiles criminal behavior. She also discovered that behavior (both human and animal) is a critical barrier to the recovery of lost pets and has identified predictable patterns of behavior in lost pets such as "The Silence Factor," "The Threshold Phenomenon," and "The Lost Pet Triad."

Kat's memoir The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective (Bloomsbury, April 2004) tells the inspirational story of her struggle to make the risky and unusual career change from police detective to pet detective.