Tag: Animal Welfare
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Second Act.
It’s mid afternoon on a Tuesday, the sun is beating down on this part of earth as Florida is battling yet another heat advisory. I’m sitting in the passenger seat of an animal control truck as the ACO training me guides us through traffic to the next call. A sudden feeling of dread washes over…
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Do it all again?
I recently attended an all staff meeting at the shelter I now work for. It has been a while since I’ve been part of a group like that. When I left my animal welfare job behind last year and moved to a new state, I wasn’t sure I would ever be part of that world…
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Winter
Suddenly I realize my hands are getting numb and release the grip on the steering wheel just a little. Breathe. A car swerves in front of me, and I tap the brakes a few times slowing down as I can feel the tires slide slightly. Not only is this careless idiot squeezing himself into the…
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The thing about cats
They’re tearing around the basement, scaling the cat tree with sharp claws and batting the noisy ball around. A wrestling match ensues and the smaller one squeals as she tries to regain the upper hand. Then canned food is put out and both dive into the bowls face first. Humans domesticated cats about 10,000 years…
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The Myth About No-Kill Shelters
You find a lost dog in your neighborhood and ask friends for advice on what to do next. One person tells you to bring it to the animal shelter, another tells you absolutely not, they ‘will just kill it’. You contact a local rescue that is known to take dogs and are told they are…
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Adopt don’t Shop
Everyone has likely heard this phrase before. Everyone seems to have an opinion about this topic. A call has me checking on a property where the complainant claims the people are breeding dogs and believe it to be a puppy mill. Once making contact with the owner I find that he does in fact have…
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When Change Changes You.
Change: verb change (verb) · changes (third person present) · changed (past tense) · changed (past participle) · changing (present participle) We all experience change. Some change is good. Some change is bad. Some change changes you. When I started working in the animal welfare field, I was a kennel attendant in the shelter building. The old shelter building we still worked in, while…