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Company or Industry: Animal Control
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I work for animal control. I always wanted to work with animals, but sometimes, be carefull what you wish for. Our kennel is host to stray dogs and cats, dogs on quarentine (Meaning that they may have bitten or injured someone), the office cats, who were strays at somepoint and were adopted by the staff, and 7 doggie daycare pets. (Two of which are my dogs). People can also board their dogs there when they are on vacation. The typical day at work for me is this on the weekdays: 2:18 pm: School lets out 2:30: Get to work, and begin feeding the dogs, but not before my daily battle to keep on my feet while being bombarded by the day care dogs. 2:45: Let the dogs outside, one at a time. And clean up any messes that they left behind from their meals 3:45: Letting dogs outside can take a very long time, because at any given time we can have up to 20 dogs...or about that many...afterwards though, we water them, and pick up their droppings outside. 4:15: After the dogs, we move onto the cats. They're pretty easy to take care of, because all we really have to do is feed them, and if they went potty, clean the litter. We also feed the office cats upstairs and clean their little as well. 5:00: During the last hour we're open, we mop the kennels down, and vaccume. Then, if there's time left, we clean the office up from the mess the daycare dogs make. Then we come to the weekends: I start work at 8:00 am 8:00am: Get to work, walk dogs, and turn off all the nightlights. 8:30: Scrub down ALL the kennels. This means you hose them down, splash soap into each one, scrub the soap in, rinse out the soap, squeegy (Which is no where near as fun as it sounds), re-mop the kennels, and then do the same thing to the other row of kennels, and the boarding room. 10:30:Clean the cat room. Which is similar to the dogs, only, you don't hose down the kennels, rather, you fill up a bucket with pet-safe bleach and scrub each of the cat kennels down. 11:30: Mop the kennels again, and take out the garbage. 12:00 pm: Break 4:00pm: Off break- second shift is pretty much the same as the after school shift. letting dogs outside, feeding, mopping etc. |
In your opinion, how do most people get a high paying job?
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