Tag: Animal Welfare
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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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My Rainbow Bridge
The pain free death. The good death. The humane death. The debated death. Working in a field where euthanasia is an everyday topic, influences the way you think about death. I would be lying if I said it does not affect you. I would be lying if I said you don’t get used to it.…
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White Horses – Black Dog
It had already been a busy spring day with multiple calls. Late in the afternoon I received a call about a dog laying in a horse pasture seemingly injured and unable to move. This was not a pasture in the countryside however, it was a piece of land in city outskirts zoned to allow the…