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08-22-08, 10:01 AM
This Tuesday was my first day of animal control volunteer training out in the field.
Well we started our shift at 0800. We responded to a call of a stray dog in a residential neighborhood. We were looking around we hiked up a small, steep flower bed, I guess it was. It was very hard to climb up because the flowers were wet and slippery. Well we checked out the backyard of the house and saw nothing. We began making our way down the steep, slanted flower bed. I became too sure of and confident in myself so I slipped, and slid halfway down the flower bed. Embarrassed at myself I quickly leaped up back onto my feet. We got in the truck and we were about to go up and dwon the neighborhod patrolling for the stray when the ACO spotted the dog sleeping on another lawn. We parked the truck 2 houses down so the dog wouldn't panic. The ACO grabbed two weird catching tools, (They were blue and they resembled whips, they looked like a weird come along pole) he handed me the come along pole. We approached the dog and it took of across the street to another house. We followed it to a backyard where it leaped over a fence and back to the other side of the street. A resident who had been watching us pursue the dog pointed out that the dog had ran back to the 1st house. We ran back and saw the dog had gone onto the patio, the ACO put trash bins to block of the dog's only extit. He was now trapped. So I had the come along pole and I attempted to put the nosse piece around the neck. But the dog wouldn't surrender. It put its head to face the wall so I couldn't get the noose around the head. The ACo used the two blue come alongs to make the dog look away from the wal for just a second. In that second I got the noose around the dog and caught him.
We went to another call about a woman who had been attacked by a cat. No one was home. We went to a call about a stray cat who gave birth under a house. We arrived but no one could speak English so we left.
We went to the City Yard where the AC has a storage room. The ACO had a freezer full of deceased animals he had picked up off the streets. We took inventory and he loaded his truck with the deceased animals (They were all wrapped in plastic bags to keep them seperated.) The ACO showed me how to fill out the reports when we turn animals over to the Humane Society. We arrived dropped off the stray and the dead animals at the Humane Society and went to the uniform shop. I got fitted and we left. We took car of some other business the went Code 7 at IHOP.
We went to the local car wash to wash the truck then returned to the station to go EOW. We were EOW at 1500. I think it was a great training day seeing as how I caught my first dog.
Then yesterday I received the phone call from the animal control supervisor, she said my background investigation ahd been compleetd and I am now an offical member of the Police Department. I go in next week to receive my Police Department ID card and get more training in the field.
Well we started our shift at 0800. We responded to a call of a stray dog in a residential neighborhood. We were looking around we hiked up a small, steep flower bed, I guess it was. It was very hard to climb up because the flowers were wet and slippery. Well we checked out the backyard of the house and saw nothing. We began making our way down the steep, slanted flower bed. I became too sure of and confident in myself so I slipped, and slid halfway down the flower bed. Embarrassed at myself I quickly leaped up back onto my feet. We got in the truck and we were about to go up and dwon the neighborhod patrolling for the stray when the ACO spotted the dog sleeping on another lawn. We parked the truck 2 houses down so the dog wouldn't panic. The ACO grabbed two weird catching tools, (They were blue and they resembled whips, they looked like a weird come along pole) he handed me the come along pole. We approached the dog and it took of across the street to another house. We followed it to a backyard where it leaped over a fence and back to the other side of the street. A resident who had been watching us pursue the dog pointed out that the dog had ran back to the 1st house. We ran back and saw the dog had gone onto the patio, the ACO put trash bins to block of the dog's only extit. He was now trapped. So I had the come along pole and I attempted to put the nosse piece around the neck. But the dog wouldn't surrender. It put its head to face the wall so I couldn't get the noose around the head. The ACo used the two blue come alongs to make the dog look away from the wal for just a second. In that second I got the noose around the dog and caught him.
We went to another call about a woman who had been attacked by a cat. No one was home. We went to a call about a stray cat who gave birth under a house. We arrived but no one could speak English so we left.
We went to the City Yard where the AC has a storage room. The ACO had a freezer full of deceased animals he had picked up off the streets. We took inventory and he loaded his truck with the deceased animals (They were all wrapped in plastic bags to keep them seperated.) The ACO showed me how to fill out the reports when we turn animals over to the Humane Society. We arrived dropped off the stray and the dead animals at the Humane Society and went to the uniform shop. I got fitted and we left. We took car of some other business the went Code 7 at IHOP.
We went to the local car wash to wash the truck then returned to the station to go EOW. We were EOW at 1500. I think it was a great training day seeing as how I caught my first dog.
Then yesterday I received the phone call from the animal control supervisor, she said my background investigation ahd been compleetd and I am now an offical member of the Police Department. I go in next week to receive my Police Department ID card and get more training in the field.