Topeka Lawrence Dog Trappers

11/24/2025

Uno being reunited with his family

11/14/2025

UNO HAS BEEN FOUND! 🐾💛
(And yes, he has opinions about trucks now.)

Uno is a traveling cat who rides shotgun with his trucking family. When they stopped at the Love’s in Topeka, our little Houdini decided to show off his skills and managed to push the window button. By the time his family came back, he was gone.

They searched as long as they could, but trucking comes with schedules tighter than a pair of jeans fresh out of the dryer. Heartbroken, they reached out to the lost pet pages, and that’s when Bob DesRuisseaux and I kicked into “cat recovery mode.”

We set feeding stations and cameras in a full perimeter sweep. Got plenty of footage of coyotes, raccoons, and a few bonus cats… but no Uno.
Wednesday night, Bob swore he spotted a yellow cat lounging outside a storage container across from the truck stop, but it vanished under the container before he could get close. We set up cameras and waited. Crickets. All night. All day. Bob began questioning his own sanity.

Thursday evening, I went out to refresh food and scan with the thermal camera. Around 7:15, I spotted a cat in the field and my gut said, “That’s Uno.” I crept closer, whispered his name… and he bolted. BUT he bolted straight back to the storage container, finally confirming our mystery kitty was indeed our guy.

I set the trap, but Uno was far too busy living his best “field mouse buffet” life. So I tried again, quiet voice, slow approach. He meowed back. I dropped to the ground and did the world’s least graceful army crawl toward him. It took time, soft words, and the patience of a saint, but eventually he came close enough for me to gently grab his harness.

He didn’t fight. He didn’t hiss. This sweet boy was done with being a wilderness adventurer.

Bob called his family, and the pure joy in their voices was worth every hour of searching. I’m fostering Uno until his people can route back through Kansas to get him.

Thank you to everyone who shared his post, looked for him, and cheered us on. Uno is safe, loved, and headed back to the life of a professional truck cat, windows supervised from now on. 💛🐾🚚

10/08/2025

Apparently, I’ve been ‘harassing’ someone for 5 years. Which is wild, because the only thing I’ve been chasing that long is dogs that actually need rescuing. 🐕💨

Here’s the reality: while I’ve been out in the mud, rain, and snow actually catching dogs and reuniting them with their families, someone else has been busy writing novels about their imaginary resume and playing the eternal victim. 🎭

I don’t need to compete with fairy tales. My work speaks louder than anyone’s lectures, and the people who matter already know the difference between results and résumé recitals.

So, if anyone’s confused: I trap dogs. She traps attention. And trust me, those are two very different skill sets.🐾

08/12/2025

Adopted 8-29-2025

08/08/2025

Was seen running for the last couple of days around SE 37th and Paulen rd. Set up a feeding station and then once he came the trap. I am not supposed to be lifting anything so luckily he went in while Mark was home and we were able to get him to Stonehouse. No Microchip.

Adopted 8-29-2025

06/25/2025

06/16/2025

06/13/2025

Two strays apparently dumped. Animal control was able to capture the brown one and I tried to trap the white one this evening. She would not fully commit so I finally used a snappy snare, she didn’t panic and was very calm and easy to get into the car.

06/12/2025

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06/06/2025

🐾 Let’s Talk About Professionalism in Lost Pet Recovery 🐾

When we work lost dog cases, we do so with a plan, a purpose, and—most importantly—the dog’s best interest in mind.

Recently, a case we were actively working on was disrupted by an individual who inserted herself without invitation or coordination, despite us having located the dog and already deploying humane traps.

Let me be clear:
We do not need a tracker when we know where the dog is.
The goal at that point is containment, not scent work.

Interference—no matter how it’s framed—can delay recovery and cost the dog its chance at safety.

This individual has repeatedly inserted herself into active recoveries, even when unneeded, and has undermined others doing effective ground work.

She has:
🔹 Contacted owners behind the scenes
🔹 Misrepresented her involvement
🔹 Crossed professional boundaries that experienced trappers and trackers respect

If you tout your credentials, you should respect the process—not sabotage it.
Repeatedly approaching trap locations, injecting yourself into cases without permission, or falsely claiming involvement does not make you a professional. It makes you disruptive.

I’ve seen her tracking dog in action.
It does not give clear alerts to scent trails or loss points—hallmarks of a trained working dog.

When families are desperate and vulnerable, they deserve transparency, not theatrics.

And speaking from personal experience?

A few years ago, when our indoor-only cat went missing, we reached out directly and asked her to bring her tracking dog to help.

She showed up… with her young grandson, maybe 9 years old, and let him handle the tracking dog.

I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t aware that elementary schoolers are part of professional K9 search teams now.
Maybe I missed that certification course.

She claimed she’d be watching the dog for alerts — she didn’t.
The dog showed zero sign of alerting to anything.

It was walked around the outside of the house, through the inside, even into our garage—and spent more time interested in our grill than our missing cat.

She left us with nothing but vague guesses.

Two days later, my husband found our terrified cat still in our garage, hiding under a generator.
He had never even left the house.
So much for “professional tracking.”

To those trying to control narratives through intimidation or threats:
Professionalism isn’t measured by how loud you are, but by how effective, ethical, and respectful you are in the field.

You don’t get to threaten legal action because someone hurts your feelings on the internet.

I don’t post this to stir drama—I post it because when someone continues to cross boundaries, spread misinformation, and threaten and bully others for speaking truth, silence becomes complicity.

We’re here to bring dogs home.

If you're not truly helping that mission, please step aside and stop hindering those who are.

Real professionals don’t create chaos. They bring animals home.