I do a tiny it of volunteer work for my county's animal shelter. I do a little social media work for them, networking with local animal lovers, area rescue groups, local businesses that have pet owners for customers, etc. I usually stop in at the shelter twice a week to see if there are any great stories about any of the animals, any plans for adoption events or anything else the Animal Control Department may be involved in. Anything I can "exploit" for the purposes of re-homing our guests is fair game!
I know the public image of animal shelters, and in fact I often still hear it referred to as "the pound." Dog catchers, usually the guys who couldn't cut it as garbage men, drive around neighborhoods snatching up innocent dogs and cart them off to doggy jail. Once all the little doggy jail cells are full, the dogs are dragged off to the gas chamber, howling in pain and desperation as they slowly die. Oh, and if you're a pit bull? You never see the inside of a kennel--you go straight to the gas chamber. That's what a LOT of uninformed people think a shelter is like. And you know what? Many of them are!
But not in Clare County. Our Animal Contol Director and our single Animal Control Officer are ALL about the welfare of the animals. Since there are only two uniformed officers to pick up strays, most of their time is spent answering complaints: dog bites, barking dogs, dogs digging up flower beds, etc. On the rare occasion that they DO pick up a stray, it will be on the way back to the shelterr or on the way to the next call.
Once a dog comes to the shelter as a stray,
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