Jack

Kevin Brett has been owned by and loved Collies all his life. As a young child, his family had a humongous mahogany Collie named Macintosh. Later, in his teen years, his family had a sable and white Collie, named Piney Branch Lindsay Lad. His current Collie is a tri-color, named Captain Jack Sparrow. Kevin works with numerous Collie, Sheltie and dog rescues around the country helping them raise funds to further their rescue efforts. Numerous copies of Jack's story have been sold by these rescues to help raise money to save these animals in need. He is a certified enterprise architect and a former member of the Space Shuttle/Spacelab Team. Kevin is also a certified martial arts instructor with twenty years of martial arts training and teaching experience. He has authored several martial arts books. Kevin is also an experienced outdoors-man and survival practitioner. He and his wife Lana were two of the five co-founders of the United Karate Institute of Self-Defense, Incorporated in Alexandria, Virginia. He has taught martial arts, self-defense combat classes to local law enforcement, military and federal agents, focusing on realistic and practical application of techniques, strategies and training methods. He lives in Stafford, VA with his wife, three children and their mischievous Collie, Captain Jack Sparrow who is just "trouble with a tail."