Kat has a masters degrees in Psychology and Applied Animal Behaviour and a diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour and Training. She started professionally working with dogs in 2009 at an animal shelter. Since then she has worked for Scent Imprint for dogs (training detection dogs, teaching instructor courses and creating development plans for puppies) in Holland, whilst also running K9 Behaviour Consultancy.
After she moved to the UK she worked for Dogs Trust as a head coach and las a Coach Trainer. In 2019 she worked on a Free Running Explosive Detection Dogs (FREDD) project at Dog Detectives.
At the end of 2019 she started training one of the very first Japanese knotweed detection dogs and her company Canine Detection Solutions now has two operational Japanese knotweed detection dogs and a third dog in training. Since spring 2021 Kat is involved in research on Japanese knotweed.