Positive Statement:
I am most proud of how strong my presentation skills are when it comes to discussing animal control, my one year mentorship experience and keeping high grades throughout all senior project assignments.
Questions to Consider:
A. Assessment you would give yourself on 2-Hour - AE
B. Assesment you would give on overall senior project- AE
What worked for you:
What worked best for me in my senior project is my mentorship. I was able to volunteer for over a year at Glendora Animal Control and that experience helped me produce my EQ, answers and have great sources for presentations, papers, ect.
What didn't work:
I would have worked on my 3-column chart more to get a better grade since I got an AP, and I would have have more good sourced articles to reference.
Finding Value:
The senior project has helped me learn how to only rely on myself and realize how important I was dependent on myself when it came to my grade since everything was on my own. I was also able to develop even better presentation skills and develop a bigger love for animals.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Extra Post 10: The Animal Control Experience Part 2
As I wrote about my previous experience with catching a lost dog a little bit ago, the experience happened again just yesterday. As I was walking my own dog with my dad, we see a stray dog bolting down the street towards on coming traffic. So of course I start running after to get a better look. He must of been a greyhound or an extremely skinny mutt, but he was fast. Within 2 minutes he had covered a distance of 5 blocks and he was not stopping. Luckily this time there was two other guys trying to help catch him, but this dog was not stopping.
He defiantly scarred and was not going to come to us. From what I could see, he did not have a collar on anyway, which meant it would have been extremely difficult to find his owner. it is essential that owners have a collar with tags on their dog at all times. This makes it some much easier for the person that finds their dog or the animal control officer and lessens their chance of being thrown into a shelter.
After a few minutes of trying to catch up with the dog he was long gone and basically, I was not fast enough. The two boys kept running after him but I had the wrong clothes to try and run in. Hopefully they finally caught the dog, but the mystery will forever be unsolved.
He defiantly scarred and was not going to come to us. From what I could see, he did not have a collar on anyway, which meant it would have been extremely difficult to find his owner. it is essential that owners have a collar with tags on their dog at all times. This makes it some much easier for the person that finds their dog or the animal control officer and lessens their chance of being thrown into a shelter.
After a few minutes of trying to catch up with the dog he was long gone and basically, I was not fast enough. The two boys kept running after him but I had the wrong clothes to try and run in. Hopefully they finally caught the dog, but the mystery will forever be unsolved.
Extra Post 9: Leash Law
According to California Law, it is against the law to not have your dog on a leash. Whether the dog is outside, or on a walk, at all times the dog MUST have a proper leash on.
The reason for this is the danger the dog many cause to others. For some instances the dog may be aggressive towards people and or other animals. If it is not on a leash you cause the risk of the dog attacking either the person or the other dog while walking or running around. One of the other common issues that come from dogs not being on a leash is running away. In many cases dogs have ran away from their owner and gotten hit by a car, or never being found. If the dog is never found it eventually gets picked up by animal control and put into a shelter. When this happens, it means there is another reason to add onto overpopulation issues.
It is extremely important to leash your dog so they dont hurt themselves, others or cause more animal overpopulation.
The reason for this is the danger the dog many cause to others. For some instances the dog may be aggressive towards people and or other animals. If it is not on a leash you cause the risk of the dog attacking either the person or the other dog while walking or running around. One of the other common issues that come from dogs not being on a leash is running away. In many cases dogs have ran away from their owner and gotten hit by a car, or never being found. If the dog is never found it eventually gets picked up by animal control and put into a shelter. When this happens, it means there is another reason to add onto overpopulation issues.
It is extremely important to leash your dog so they dont hurt themselves, others or cause more animal overpopulation.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Extra Post 8: Closing Down Glendora Animal Control?
A few weeks ago as I was at my mentorship with Glendora Animal Control the news broke to me that next year the animal control program may be shut down. Just a few months ago the Glendora Police Department hired the new animal control officer, Vanessa Alvarez because of how busy the department was. Then, the department got hit again with budget cuts, being one of the departments that may have to be shut down. The announcement is not offical yet, but in the department keeps bringing in low amount of income and budgets are cut even more, the Glendora Animal Control Department may be closed down for good.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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