This group of photos I took when I was 'riding along' with people I was supervising for their yearly evaluations.Top two photos from April 2005 show Gabriele as she faces off a "vicious" Chihuahua and then doing the ever present paperwork that is just part of the job, then as now!
The last two photos were the day I was riding along with another Stacy, I was this ones supervisor.
In our department we'd get calls for just about everything that crawled, swim, ran and flew, including things like this sick pigeon to take away from this residential driveway in Yucaipa California.
Stacy was getting her gloves on in the top photo and picking up in the last photo.
Unfortunately there wasn't a vet at the time that would take any effort on something like a common bird like a pigeon. So right after she picked it up I gave her to OK to euthanize it before we even left.
It had no leg band or indications of ownership. And any animal that had evidence of there being an owner, was almost always taken to a vet for treatment, at that owners expense by the way!
Both Gabriele and Stacy were very good Animal Control Officers, they worked together well and in five years I seldom got any complaints about them from the public. Stacy was becoming a pretty good investigator and came across a couple of really big animal fighting rings and cruelty cases of her own.
After we retired early and left in 2006 they soon both left Animal Control also, and they became School Police. And they're doing well in that career too!
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