animal control officer

noun

1. a government worker responsible for enforcing local ordinances regulating animal ownership and responding to incidents involving animals.

Example Sentences

A San Bernardino man was arrested on suspicion of molestation on Wednesday after he allegedly posed as an animal control officer in a white “ambulance-style” van to lure a young girl searching for her missing dog into his van, authorities said.

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Earlier that day, the girl was searching for her missing dog near San Francisco and 14th Street when Guillermo Cascante, a 57-year-old San Bernardino resident, allegedly approached her in an older, ambulance-style white van and posed as an animal control officer to lure her into his vehicle, according to the release.

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My sister, a former animal control officer, spotted her running in heavy traffic in 2012 and managed to coax her into her car.

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“I observed three goats chained and two to three free-roaming goats on an empty and unenclosed hillside lot. There was nothing to prevent the goats from wandering beyond the unenclosed lot,” wrote Animal Control Officer Eduardo Ananya in a court declaration.

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“This man had way too many ducks to take proper care of,” said Mo Middleton, chief animal control officer at Animal Friends of the Valley.

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