Also called: Pet Detective, Missing Animal Response Technician
Finds lost pets using tracking dogs, wildlife cameras, and humane traps.
Gets a call about a cat missing for a week, brings a scent-trained dog to the house, sets up cameras and a humane trap in the neighbor's woods, and reunites the cat with its owner two days later.
Estimate; often part-time.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. Missing animal response training; often self-employed.
Ways in: Self-taught, Certification. Training cost: Under $15k.
Growing about average. Niche.
Low risk for 10 years. Social media and microchip databases help, but tracking lost pets with dogs, cameras and traps stays fieldwork.
Classes: Biology, Business or entrepreneurship, Psychology, Computer applications.
Official data: O*NET occupation 39-9099.
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