What Is An Animal Control Officer?

on the topic of what is an animal control officer and how do you become one in a nutshell animal control officer we are like law enforcement and an ambulance for the animal world you know we can deal with stuff up to sending bad people to jail for dog fighting bird fighting animal cruelty animal neglect all the way down to dealing with the annoying barking neighbor dog so what does it take to become an animal control officer well the requirements are kind of very city to city county county on average high school diploma ged is usually what you need to get in and a big plus is if you have animal handling experience that helps out a lot a lot of the agencies want paid experience dealing with the animals what would that be you know it can be something as simple as being a kennel attendant to being a vet tech to an rvt those are all different ways you can kind of get animal handling experience that is paid as far as specific education uh going from an animal control officer maybe to a senior to a sergeant type of thing supervisor it'll just kind of vary most of the time you can usually get that by years of experience um but the other times too if you're going to go to a level of a supervisor to a director then the formal education is really going to come into play most of the agencies are looking for someone with a bachelor's degree at minimum to run the whole shelter and definitely if you're wanting to become a director of a large agency you will need to have that bachelor's okay so as far as the certificates so i'm based out here in california and southern california so it's going to be it'll vary area to area state to state so the main ones that we have for um animal controls in california would be there is an animal control academy this is something you can just take on your own it's usually sponsored by one of the local community colleges it usually happens about once or twice a year and how that works is it's a two-week course and they give you pretty much everything that would kind of give you a good baseline to be an animal control officer you're going to go over stuff like you know animal cruelty how to write a case recognizing diseases or injuries on animals and it's pretty cool because it actually goes through even like livestock so if you're more locked in the city area like i am it is nice to have that knowledge just in case again depending what other agency you might want to go to in the future so the other thing too is a euthanasia certificate it's just one of the realities depending on the agency that you're with that you might have to do some euthanasia of sick injured aggressive and sometimes in worst case scenarios even healthy animals pc 832 course this is a two-parter overall it that is the main certificate you're going to need to actually issue any sort of citation so if out of when you're done hearing all these certificates you hear anything if you want to work on just getting that one i would recommend that one first so that's the first half you can just do that part and again that's the part you would need for california and there's an additional part which is the firearms module again that's a really educational course but you will need that in order to fire any type of weapon so even though the dart gun is not a gun gun you do need that in order to shoot that even the blow darts so it is a great module to add but again the first part you want to do is the the powers of a rest i believe that's what the course is called one of the most important things i can tell you is that it is a tough job this goes runs the gamut from you know you seeing the worst in humanity to some of the best miracles ever it is taxing on your body mentally so just know going forward into this me saying this part is not to deter you it's simply a just letting you know that you know you're going to want to have a good support system for the after hours stuff because you know the the job can get pretty rough you are dealing with people and their animals and as i've seen over all the years doing this sometimes they love their animals way more than their kids so you're even going to houses for a simple barking complaint which is no big deal and they are getting really aggressive with you for you showing up saying that their dog is barking and they'll give you a thousand reasons why it's not that's the other thing too don't think this job is playing around with puppies all day long this is 90 humans 10 animals again we are there at the homes because of a human that's probably not doing something correct so just kind of remember that going ahead that this is not you know playing with puppies all day long it is you know a lot of investigations and talking to humans

Channel: Animal Control Connect

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Length: 5min 50sec (350 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 15 2021