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, Wendy, 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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