This blog will be some of my recollections of people and events during my 25 year career as an Animal Control Officer.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Very Short Video of working at a call
It has been a while! All I can say is it got very busy the last couple of months and a very important relative passed away.
So, back to posting these videos and descriptions.
This very short video was taken in 2002 or 2003 I believe. I was called out to assist on this call since I was by now a supervisor and had a pick up truck instead of a 'dog truck' and carried cages and traps. I took the video at a house in Yucaipa, California, which was (and still is last time I checked on-line) a contract city.
It was the all too common call of too many cats in too small a house and family members were concerned to the point that they too action themselves.
The video is pretty self explanatory as videos go like this, I arrived and the guy was just going to catch and hold the cats. That NEVER worked because the cats would know 'somethin's up' and would scratch and bite to keep the person (or you) from from taking or putting them someplace they DO NOT want to go!
And when we got there we were to try and take 'charge' of the call and try to prevent the people from getting hurt too much. Situations like this one though, also common, were when citizens wanted the problem taken care of without ever going in their house.
Although not in the video, another ACO arrived and also helped take the cats from the house to the trucks. Bad part for the cats like these was that since they were almost all kind of 'wild' and in this case were picked up as "owner release" which meant they would generally be 'toast' as soon as they got to the shelter.
But this was the average kind of call everybody got every week, sometimes several times a week!
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- Tad and Stacy Brown
- We both 'retired' from working for San Bernardino County, the largest county in the U.S. in March 2006. Almost 25 years for me and almost 20 for Stacy. We now live in the panhandle of Northern Idaho and are still in law enforcement, just not Animal Control anymore. We'd NEVER move back to Southern California. Too crowded and too expensive. For us the rural lifestyle is best! We love the actual seasons that Idaho has. We also like that we're only 35 miles from Canada for trips!
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