Karen Thomas-Kolakowski

Karen Sue Thomas-Kolakowski is an animal trainer who worked for Critters of the Cinema on episodes of and and on .
Thomas-Kolakowski and Rob Bloch were the trainers who worked with the four cats (, , , and ) who portrayed Spot during the sixth and seventh seasons of TNG. The two and Kelli Cole also worked as trainers for Monster, Brandy, , and Zoe on .
In addition, Thomas-Kolakowski, Bloch, and LuJean Rose trained the Labrador Retriever puppies for the sixth season episode and together with Carrie Toth and Debbie Silverman the fourteen cats Bacall, Uma, Zeke, Bandit, , Shelley, , Sinbad, Sascha, Justin, , , Buffy, and for the final TNG episode .
In , Thomas-Kolakowski teamed up with John Baldwin as trainers for the spawn beetles in the VOY second season episode .
Other projects as animal trainer include the crime comedy Suicide Kings (1997, with Rob Bloch and Cynthia Coulter) and the television movie Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses (2007, with Sarah Clifford and Claire Doré).
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