Tag: Animal Control
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A Day in the Life.
You’ve seen ‘Animal Cops’ on Animal Planet right? Those people in uniforms that find awful puppy mills and starving horses and take the asshole owners to court. Or the one who picks up a hit-by-car dog and rushes it to the vet just in the nick of time. Well, that happens sometimes. The tedious, long…
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She-Ra
I had just started working the road alone, after accepting the position as animal control officer and going through several weeks of training. I pulled up to a house in East Grand Rapids where a woman had reported a stray dog in her yard. I got out of my animal control vehicle, a large cargo…
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This Bites
A temperamental cat does not enjoy being touched, the woman reaches out anyway and is subsequently bitten on the arm. A fearful dog is backed into a corner, his growls ignored, the only way he knows how to react now is to land a bite on the outstretched hand coming towards him. A puppy is…