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.
