In honor of Animal Care and Control appreciation week, I’d love to educate people on this profession from my perspective. I have worked as an Animal Care and Control Officer in the western United States for about 2 years. From my experience I think a lot of people have misconstrued ideas about what our job entails outside of catching dogs. Please ask me anything.
I am an Animal Control Officer AMA
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How do you deal with people who are absolutely resistant to guidance and advice, beyond being like ‘Your dog will be destroyed if it’s off leash and injures someone’ or ‘Your restricted breed has gotten out four times this week and that’s against the law’. Do you have any golden lines or counterpoints for people who are basically framing you as the pedantic bad guy for whichever agency you work for? Or do you have to just be like ‘Just don’t do it again because it’s the law!’ and let them walk off.
Hello! I watch a woman on Tik Tok that clearly neglects her dogs?! She has 3 and they are not vaccinated, never see a Vet, and her Cane Corso has something wrong with his eye and elbow?! Can I call Animal Control in her state and what would they do? Thank you!