Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Animal Humane Society In Golden Valley

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While I was doing my preceptorship, it was like nothing I’ve ever witnessed before. The lead Veterinary technician, Nicole gave me a wonderful tour of the building. Right before the tour she said that every day at 9:45am they have a little huddle with each department. During this huddle, each department shares what they have going on today, who is going to have a walkie talkie on them today, and who is going to be where. On the tour she explained to me how many different programs they do with all the animals. Also they don’t just work with dogs and cats. They have dogs, cats, pocket pets, and also birds. Going to the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley was an awesome experience. First of all this place was huge. They have several different boarding rooms for all kinds of different animals.
When I first got the AHS I started off at the surgery suit with Brianna and Whitney. They were super welcoming and very smiley. After they introduced themselves, they let me know what their plan was for the day …show more content…

One of their rescues was over one hundred hounds on this property, but it was raining and it was so far how there they had to carry the animals back and forth, one by one. My favorite was when she told me about how they rescued seven hundred cats from a hotel. She said that this guy that owned the hotel would let people bring theirs cats to the hotel, and eventually that guy had seven hundred cats at his hotel that he could no longer take care of. It was so out of hand. Last but not least Nicole was telling me how they deal with pharaoh cats. Since one place wouldn’t be able to kill all of them they decided they when they are caught they would be brought in the clinic to be spayed or neutered them release but into the wild. Which I though was pretty cool, it’s a little more humane and brings the AHS killing rates

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