The MARN Directory is designed to help you find a Missing Animal Response (MAR) Trained group or individual in your area.
How to Find a Pet Detective using the Directory
The easiest way to find a pet detective that can assist you in your area is to click on the state or province where you live (or where your pet went missing if away from home). This will bring up a map with markers for all the pet detectives in that state and those willing to travel to that state. If you need specialized services, such as a tracking/trailing dog or assistance catching a shy, hard-to-trap animal, then you may want to use the Advanced Search form. Please note that Missing Animal Response Network does not employ the Missing Animal Response (MAR) Technicians listed in this directory and some of those listed are businesses that charge for their services.
Pet Detectives Near Me
If you click on a state/province, this will bring up a list of all the MARN trained individuals or businesses in that state AND those willing to travel to that state.
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I offer you my experience, skills and knowledge to assist owners of missing pets to use their time and money efficiently to locate their lost pet safely. I offer phone consultations nationally to give effective search and recovery advice. Locally I coordinate and conduct aggressive searches for missing pets. I am skilled in recovering dogs others deemed to be hard to capture. I have a Certified Cat Detection dog Rita May, that assists on lost cat searches and recoveries.
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When a pet goes missing, love is on the line. Time, strategy, and dedication can make all the difference to reunion. Your dog, your cat, and you matter to us. Every search is different, and not every owner needs the same kind of help! We can assist in the ways you need it most. We offer consulting services (search strategy, signage, and social media) and, when available, ground support and K9 area search, cat detection and remains detection search.
Our all-volunteer search and support services are free to owners and rescues searching for their missing pets. The WagBack Lost Pet Search Team is headed by Susannah Charleson, CPDT-KA, a 14-year search-and-rescue K9 handler and search/service dog trainer, who completed cross-training in lost pet search techniques with Kat Albrecht in 2016 and the Missing Animal Response Technician Field Course. Charleson has worked search for missing persons since 2001 and for lost pets since 2015 . WagBack formalized in 2016.
Because we are an all-volunteer team, we limit our case-load to a number we can successfully support. Even if we are unavailable to mount a ground search for you, we may be able to help you search strategically through our phone consultation services.
USA
Please see website for detailed information www.professionalpettrackers.com
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Two-time Award Winning Bloodhound Handler. Sixteen years’ experience in the field with lost dog and cat behavior and training search dogs.
Member of National Search Dog Alliance and former member NSDA Education Committee. Published co-author ‘Pick of the Pack-Training your K9 SAR Partner’.
Available for on-site travel in some parts of California. Trailing dogs and evidence detection/blood dog.
Available for search consultations over the phone.
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LARG (Lost Animal Resource Group) is a volunteer-based East Coast organization that tracks, finds and humanely captures lost family pets, stray dogs, cats and other animals. Typically, these animals can't be easily caught, picked up or captured through ordinary means. Getting these animals to safety often requires patience, strategy, skill and equipment, as well as time and resources.
Our volunteers do this work because we have a passion for saving at-risk animals and helping families. We work on these cases before, during and after our normal work and lives. Most of our volunteers operate in Maryland, however we also serve surrounding areas based on volunteer availability. We also train and network with other humane trappers in other areas. Because of our organization’s specialized experience, we work with families on cases across the United States.
Our organization is very specialized - We focus on field rescue of animals who are not already safely contained; our primary focus is getting them to safety. LARG is currently supported by our volunteers who put their own time and money into this service.
The animals we help to rescue often have no one else who is able or willing to search for them, or take the time to rescue them from their life of danger, suffering and loneliness. These animals might be dumped, lost or stray, but they still deserve to be helped.
Canada
Mileage and expenses charged. Donations accepted.
Canada
Services offered: consultation, poster design, ground search, investigation, use of drop net system, & recovery of lost pets.
Specialties: rural & remote areas
USA
I am located right outside Concord NH. If you have lost your pet call me right away. The sooner I'm on a case the better the chances are of find your pet. This is no charge for my services in NH.
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Wandering Tails Pet Recovery works in the Boston area helping families find their lost pets. We start with a phone consultation to learn more about your pet's personality and will provide a search plan specific to your pet and your situation. We do offer onsite services such as equipment rentals and instructions on how to use the cameras and traps, assistance with searching and poster design/printing and hanging. We specialize in lost cats and can assist with trapping if needed. We are able to provide consultations to families outside of Massachusetts.
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K-9 Handler has experienceK-9 Handler has Law Enforcement & Human Search and Rescue experience.
K-9 Handler Judy
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Volunteer services include phone consultations, poster design and placement. Judene is a volunteer member of Maine Lost Dog Recovery. All calls and emails will be returned as soon as possible.
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Website and Facebook group dedicated to helping people find their missing cats by means of social media and by providing MARN search tips and information in free, individualized lost cat consultations, when requested. Will lend humane trap in Lee/Newmarket/Durham, NH area.
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We are an NC based missing pet recovery nonprofit on a mission to assist pet parents whose furbabies have gotten displaced. I am a graduate pet detective of the Missing Animal Response Field course with two dogs currently in missing pet tracking programs. I have been assisting NC pet owners in their efforts to find their furbabies since June 2019.
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LOST CAT FINDER -- Kim Freeman is a certified MAR Technician specializing in lost cats. Available for phone & email consultations, strategy coaching, feline profiling, shelter searches, flyer posting and on-site physical searches.
Offers instant search guides: "How to Find a Lost Cat" and a "How-to" video, both available via Amazon and on her website: http://www.lostcatfinder.com
Log of recent found cat photos and testimonials are on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LostCatFinder
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP (Detroit), MI: Lost Pet Search Solutions, LLC (586) 703-1096, email Lori@LostPetRecovery.com, Certified MAR Technician. Lost Pet Solutions offers consultations by phone; trapping and surveillance equipment; contact information for shelters, vets, and rescue groups. They serve the Detroit area (Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties) and will consider supporting other location requests on a case-by-case basis.
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Lisa is a lost cat recovery specialist and MAR graduate.
United States
Offering lost pet services throughout the USA. On site searches with K-9 team, phone consultations. If your pet was stolen, I am unable to assist you.
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The Retrievers is a Minnesota-based all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing lost dog support services for rescues and individual dog owners. Services include:
1. Search Strategy and Consultation
2. Awareness Generation Assistance
3. Humane Capture of Skittish Dogs
4. Lost Dog Prevention Education
The Retrievers created the Missy Trap and the Raytripper electronic gate triggering system, two innovations that have proven highly successful at capturing skittish dogs, even those that will not enter a conventional trap. Our designs are shared freely with the public, and we have helped owners nationwide build and successfully use their own Missy Trap and Raytripper. Tutorials and schematics can be found in the Resources area of our website.
More on the Retrievers here: <a href="http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-group-goes-high-tech-to-help-owners-find-missing-dogs/394841141/"Minnesota Group Goes High Tech to Help Owners Find Missing Dogs
Canada
Trained Missing Animal Response Technician and Licensed Private Investigator in Ontario that provides missing pet research and recovery advice and consulting by text and email.
Canada
Laura is a trained MAR Technician with 10 years experience in assisting owners in locating lost pets. Over the years I have established a network with other Missing Animal Response Teams throughout Southern Ontario, & often collaborate with various Animal Control Agencies to bring missing pets home safely and quickly. Offering telephone/email consultations, poster design /placement, mapping & tracking, humane trapping and surveillance. Specializing in hard to capture pets and those truly lost souls who have no families looking for them. I have designed and built several large sensor activated pen traps similar to the Missy trap which has proven to be invaluable in securing hard to capture pets.
United States
As an individual certified in Missing Animal Response, I, along with my team of volunteers, will apply all available resources and knowledge to reunite owners with their lost beloved pets. I am also a Certified Veterinary Assistant, which enables me to give proper emergency medical care, if needed, when any animal is found. Hound Hunters believes that lost pet owners are suffering enough with the loss of their pet, therefore there is absolutely NO charge for our services. As the founder, I dedicate ALL of my time to bring your dog home where he/she belongs! There is NO other service comparable to Hound Hunters in the region. Most other groups who search for lost dogs, either charge an exorbitant rate, or do so in their "free time", and NONE of the volunteer groups has anyone with any of my appropriate, invaluable training in lost dog search and recovery.
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Please go to http://www.greatnoses.info and click on the "Contact Us" page to send me information about your lost pet. Because there are a lot of details to exchange at this point, email is the best way for us to communicate, and I WILL respond to your message promptly.
So that you know what to expect:
finding a lost pet can take a lot of physical and emotional workon your part and mine
it's rare to actually find the lost pet on either a dog-supported or humans-only search-either kind of search is just one part of a variety of search & rescue strategies
the search will help focus your follow-up work; with my email/phone support you will need to make & post flyers and/or posters, maintain feeding stations, borrow/buy a game camera to monitor feeding stations and traps, visit shelters, and maybe more
your follow-up work is the MOST important part of getting your pet home again
United States
Luzerne County Pet Recovery Services has 2 trained MAR(Missing Animal Response) Technicians that have been tracking, trapping and recovering lost pets for years. Luzerne County Pet Recovery Services is based in Northeastern, Pennsylvania in Luzerne County. The service was started because of a need in the community to help owners of lost pets.
Tracey Morgan-Chopick:
Tracey is also coordinator for our Luzerne County Animal Response Team, which assists animals during natural or man-made emergencies/disasters with training on Large Animal Rescue (Horses, Pigs, Cows and Sheep), Emergency Animal Sheltering and various required FEMA courses. Tracey is also a Humane Police Officer for a local animal shelter and recently has been given the Local Heroes Award for Animal Rescue by the American Red Cross Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter.
Jeff Chopick:
Jeff began assisting his wife a few years ago in finding lost pets and earlier this year (2016) decided to take the MAR course. He is also a volunteer for the Luzerne County Animal Response Team with training on Large Animal Rescue (Horses, Pigs, Cows and Sheep), Emergency Animal Sheltering and various required FEMA courses.
We both share a wonderful passion together as husband and wife to save animal lives. No pet deserves to feel like they have been abandoned. We take great pride in volunteering our time for all the amazing lost pets we can help. We continually stay in-touch with all of our success stories and lost pet families. Some even decide to help and volunteer their time to help others who have lost their furry family members.
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Lost Pet Specialist, Bonnie Hale, provides lost pet services in Texas and most adjacent states. Services include initial consultation (free), onsite searches with trained search dogs, and in-depth phone consultations.
United States
I am willing to answer requests for help as quickly as possible. I can advise on strategy development; poster creation and lost/found pet campaigns. I am willing to assist in a variety of activities, fliers, posters, locally.
I will assist in an advisory capacity for those cases that are a distance from my home base.
My own lost dog Rudy, dragged me into the lost pet world. I wanted every piece of information that I could obtain in order to help to bring him home. I found that the more I advocated for him, the more people surfaced requesting information and resources that have not been available in our state.
I am Rudy's voice; he and I advocate for the rights and efforts necessary to recover all lost pets. As a participant in the Delaware Animal Welfare Task Force. I submitted a written proposal as well as a personal presentation to establish a statewide lost and found pet registry. I have collaborated in the development of that registry. While the registry is still in the infancy stage, it did go live in January 2016. It is my hope that other states will follow. Then all states can connect the dots and form one nationwide lost and found pet registry!
USA
Lost pet consultation, trailing dog, trapping, and some lost cat area search and recovery.
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I have been a certified Missing Pet Recovery Technician since 2016 and specialize in both lost dog and lost cat recovery as well as humane trapping of cats and hard-to-recover dogs. Services include onsite cat recovery searches with a trained cat detection dog, as well as onsite lost dog recovery help, including humane trapping. Lost pet recovery consultations available nationwide and include personalized search strategies based on pet type, temperament and geographical location, mapping to track sightings and organize volunteers, social media and on-the-ground techniques to generate sightings, paid Facebook advertising, personalized flyer design and placement, and in-person and remote trapping assistance and guidance.
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Pet Detective with 3 years experience in Missing Animal Response. Services offered: Phone Consult, On-Site Consult, On-Site Search, Poster and Flyer Design and Distribution, Use and Monitoring of Wildlife Cameras and Humane Traps of Various Sizes (cats/small dogs up to Mastiff/Great Dane/etc).
United States
Volunteer services include phone consultations, poster design and placement, on site lost pet services including camera and humane trapping equipment. Carol is a volunteer member of Dog Star Rescue and Dog Gone Recovery Volunteers. All calls and emails will be returned within 24 hours of a request.
United States
Real-life Pet Detective Annalisa Berns found her purpose when she adopted a dog from the shelter. She is a true animal lover whose passion is helping find lost pets. As seen in O, The Oprah Magazine and on Animal Planet. Berns is a Licensed Private Investigator who has worked in the field to find lost pets for 16 years. Services available (with travel) in many states in the US.
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Lost Pet Research & Recovery offers phone consultations, on-site searches , rental of surveillance cameras & humane traps, lost pet poster design & placement, and assistance trapping skittish lost pets including specialized capture of hard-to-trap animals. Phone consultations are available anywhere in the US and may be available beyond the US via online conference call. Danielle Robertson is a certified Missing Animal Response Technician (2008) with a background in animal behavior and wildlife biology. To request help, please fill out a Lost Pet Form on the Lost Pet Research website.
United States
SMART is a group available to phone consultations, on site assistance and search dogs for many types of missing pets in the New England area.
Directory Terms and Conditions
Missing Animal Response Network (MARN) is an educational organization and does not endorse any individuals or companies listed in the MARN Directory and makes no representations, warranties or guarantees as to, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy or completeness of the information or the products or services provided by the individuals or companies listed here. This Directory is a compilation of contact information of individuals who have completed the Missing Animal Response Technician (MAR Field) training from Kat Albrecht – founder of Missing Pet Partnership(MPP), but MARN does not examine, determine or warrant the competence of any pet detective listed in the Directory beyond completion of the training. The Directory is provided simply as a courtesy and MARN assumes no liability in making this contact information available to the general public. Users of this referral tool explicitly agree to hold MARN harmless from complaints, damages or actual loss incurred as a result of information or referrals obtained here. MARN does not endorse or indemnify any individual listing or their business. However, if you use the services of a pet detective and have a complaint, click here to let us know. We take our reputation and the reputation of our graduates very seriously. If the pet detective is not a MAR graduate, a complaint could impact their ability to affiliate with us. If the pet detective is a MAR graduate, we will conduct an investigation.
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