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  • 1.  It's Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week

    Posted 04-16-2025 09:06 AM

    "This week of appreciation is designed to give recognition to the hard-working men and women of Animal Care and Control who risk their lives and devote huge amounts of personal time and resources, while they serve the public, like other public safety and law enforcement agencies empowered with the same duties."

    ~ ANIMAL CARE & CONTROL APPRECIATION WEEK | National Animal Care & Control Association

     

    Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week 🐾

    This week, we celebrate and thank the dedicated Animal Care and Control professionals who work tirelessly to protect animals and serve our communities. From rescuing stray animals to enforcing humane laws, their role is essential in keeping both animals and people safe.

    Across the United States, there are thousands of officers doing this critical work-yet, unfortunately, not every community has the support or resources to sustain these vital services. Their efforts often go unnoticed, but their impact is deeply felt by the families and animals they help every day.

    💙 To all Animal Care and Control officers: thank you for your compassion, bravery, and service.

    🐶🐱 Does your community have an Animal Care and Control team? If so, what do you appreciate most about their work?



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    T' Fisher, Director of Operations
    Program for Pet Health Equity
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  • 2.  RE: It's Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week

    Posted 04-17-2025 05:12 AM

    Yay! Thank you so much for sharing about Animal Control Appreciation Week. Please be sure to send a thank you or a wave to the ones in your community.

    Animal Control officers may take many different forms across the nation; whether they be part of your regular law enforcement, code enforcement, humane societies or even public health! Humane officers work the same areas as police officers and typically have twice as many contacts with people. Sadly, it can be an incredibly dangerous job. However it's incredibly rewarding and there isn't a doubt in mind that humane officers are one of the few first responders who encompass both human and animal welfare.



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    Rachel Ide
    Animal Services Director
    Young-Williams Animal Center
    TN
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  • 3.  RE: It's Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week

    Posted 04-18-2025 09:45 AM

    I live in Southfield, MI. We have an Animal Control team in our community. They are very responsive to loose dogs that are reported. I do wish they were more active in TNR efforts, as our community has a large feral cat population. That said, I know that it's a resource issue for them. 



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    Stephanie Schmidt
    Grant Specialist
    Angie's Dog House
    AL
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  • 4.  RE: It's Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week

    Posted 04-19-2025 01:35 PM

    I consider us very lucky (it is only part luck and a whole lot of cooperation, but still.) to have an amazing AC officer or two. They appreciate the work we do that saves them from having to pick up dumped or stray animals. We had a small dog stuck on a cliff a few years ago. A friend and I scaled the cliff to rescue a tiny pregnant Chihuahua that belonged to a local who breed without a license etc. It was a complicated issue and AC was called in. While describing the rescue I said to AC "You would have done the same thing to save that dog wouldn't you?" He paused, looked at the photo of the cliff and replied "No ma'am, not me." The tiny black dog had been missing for 3 days and was baking in the hot NM sun. Much longer and she would have died from exposure. She was hot when we picked her up so we used the cool river water to reduce her temperature and she was eating and drinking in no time. Her puppies made it as well. They know they can count on us and we them. We had a dog hit on the highway, minor injury but he was not a friendly dog. I was told he was about 40 lbs. OK I can handle that. When I arrived on scene I knew the 105 lb dog (I weigh in at 115) and I knew him as an aggressive dog. Great with his owner and girlfriend but otherwise, no. AC was there in 15 minutes to load him up. In that 15 minutes we made contact with the girlfriend so AC did not need to take him in after all. Still AC stayed to be we were safe and the dog was out of danger. Had the dog not jumped in the girlfriend's car AC would have been back in minutes. Animal Rescue in a rural area is a very different world. We have had some harrowing rescues and AC is there if we need help, just not cliff climbing.  ; )



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    JUDITH PEARSON
    President
    The Dixon Animal Protection Society
    NM
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  • 5.  RE: It's Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week

    Posted 04-23-2025 01:20 PM

    @Stephanie Schmidt, it's also an ordinance issue in many cases. Do you have local ordinances that allow for TNR?



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    T' Fisher, Director of Operations
    Program for Pet Health Equity
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  • 6.  RE: It's Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week

    Posted 04-23-2025 01:26 PM

    we have TNR resources here an interesting question if there's an ordinance regarding TNR, I would have to look that up. But we have two free spay neuter clinics that both take walk-in TNR cats. That is not something animal control ever does. They won't even trap a stray dog, but they will loan us the trap for us to trap the dog and once the dog is trapped, they will pick it up and take it to the shelter so we work very closely with animal control I know in some more urban Areas animal control will do the actual trapping. So I think that varies widely. We're just happy we have anything!



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    JUDITH PEARSON
    President
    The Dixon Animal Protection Society
    NM
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