Extra Post 7: Can't Adopt?

If you go onto most rescue websites, such as the German Shepard Rescue of Orange County's, the website is very well set up when trying to help out the animals. There are many options for you to help an animal in need such as adoptions, donating, fostering or sponsoring.

Fostering- This is where you bring the dog home as if you were adoption but you only keep the dog until it has a real adoption in place. This helps overpopulation since many shelters cannot hold a lot of animals that come in.

Donating- Donating helps with providing housing and food for the animals in the rescue and providing them with essentials such as food, shelter and housing.

Sponsoring- Sponsoring is where you give money to the rescue every month, sponsoring a specific dog, you are basically paying for all its needs and care until it is adopted. This is sort of like adopting, in a different sense.

This an example from the German Shepard Rescue of Orange County is where you can go to their website and on the right hand side adopt, donate, sponsor or foster!

Extra Post 6: Inland Valley Humane Society

Glendora Animal Control is a contracted out animal control facility, they typically do not have adoptions and there is only a few holding spots for animals. Because of this, my mentor Jolean Miller and the other officer, Vanessa Alvarez have to take the remaining animals who are not picked up by the next week to Inland Valley.

Inland Valley is NOT a no-kill shelter meaning, within two to three days of a animal being in the shelter, it could possibly be euthanized. The reason they do this is because the overpopulation rate in the shelter is too large to hold the animals any longer. It is a sad and inhumane process that should be stopped, but as for now is still running.

Extra Post 5: Licensing Season: Glendora Animal Control

In the early stages of June to late August is the time period for licensing in Glendora Animal Control. Licensing is one of the key factors for the Glendora Animal Control to generate income for all the animals its holds. Depending on if you do is spay/neutered or not, the prices can vary from 50 dollars to 150 dollars. The point of licensing is in case your dog get out and animal control picks it up, the dog is in the system to be returned. If the dog is not licensed, it causes more fees on the owners part and the risk of their dog getting euthanized since there is no information on the dogs owner.

Glendora Animal Control and many other facilities solely rely on donations and fees they bring in for food ans shelter for the animals they bring in. Without these incomes, animal control officers would be out of luck. The money they're able to spend every year is decreasing more and more so it is very important to donate and license you dog during this time ever year!

Extra Post 4: Glendora Police Station Event

Once every 3 months a Animal Control training facility comes to the Glendora Police Department to help train police officers, cadets and other police department members on training police dogs and the job of an animal control officer.

 The picture above is the truck that is currently parked outside of the police station, where they hold classes and train. 

Extra Post 3: Animal Control Experience

On May 21st, after 9 months of experience, my animal control instincts set in and I rescued the most difficult dog of my life. 

My mom and I were in Covina driving the gas station on Arrow Highway, as soon as we turned in I spotted a dog running down the sidewalk. Of course I jumped out of the car after it, but it immediatlyey ran away from me, onto Glendora Ave, nearly getting hit by a car. She decides to start running down Arrow Highway towards Grand, and so did I.

As I begin running I was having trouble catching up because of my shoes, so I decide to run barefoot, down Arrow for almost a mile ending up at the Covina Thrift Store. She then runs to the back parking lot, scared to death and jumps a 5ft brick wall into someones back yard. 

After working with the home owners, my mom and I get the dog on a leash, but she would not come out from under the table, so we finally get a phone number and I call the owner  Within 5 minutes they show up to rescue their frightened dog after we had been chasing her for over an hour. 

Because of my adventure running barefoot, my feet were bleeding and still have tons of blisters all over, but it was worth it rescuing a dogs life and save a pet owner from heartache. My experience with animal control has not just taught me how to rescue an animal but has led me to develop a passion to help save any animals life. 

Extra Post 2: Glendora Animal Control Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic

Every few months Glendora Animal Control host a low cost Spay/Neutering clinic for all Glendora residents and other surrounding areas. To sign up for the procedure you can contact the Glendora Police Department at (626)-914-8250 or Glendora Animal Control at (626)914-8275. For more information please contact Jolean Miller or Vanessa Alvarez at the Glendora Animal Control phone number.

Part of the proceeds go towards funding for Glendora Animal Control!



The truck above is an example of where the spay/neuterings are held.

BLOG 25: Mentorship

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Contact Name & Number- Jolean Miller (626)914-8275

Interpretive:

The most important thing I gained from my mentorship experience was learning how to work with people better. Working at the Glendora Police Department, it has a very professional feel, you need to know how to respect each other, work with costumers correctly and get work done quick. To do all of this, I needed to learn from people already working in the station, whether it was from former police officers, cadets or the two animal control officers, it was always a group effort to perform as best as I could. So overall, learning how to better my skills when it came to working with others was a large part of my mentorship experience. 

Applied:

My mentorship experience has helped me answer my essential question primarily because of my mentor Jolean, all my interviews and having hands on experience in the field. I was able to develop most of my answers because of my mentorship, whether it was seeing how low adoptions were in the facility or how huge of an issue spay/neutering is in our communities. My interviews with both Jolean Miller and Vanessa Alvarez, animal control officers helped me answer questions I was having trouble with and they gave me tons of ideas to better my answers/back them up with research. After looking at all three of my answers, I came to the discision that my best answer would have to increasing adoptions. I chose this answer mostly because of what I saw in my volunteering. There were maybe 2 adoptions a month in their facility, with over 50 animals coming in a month. Most of those animals are taken to a kill shelter and euthanized within 3 days. My mentorship has had a huge impact on my senior project, especially when it came to discovering my three answers, developing my EQ and finding my best answer.