To start off by clarifying, yes I do work for an animal shelter. I am an animal control officer and I respond to calls for animals in need, amongst many other things. Working in an animal shelter has lots of moving parts. One of them being that we rely heavily on our 501c3 rescue partners to help pull animals from our shelter to make space. Our shelter is constantly overflowing and at capacity and our rescue partners are always coming to help us and respond to our calls for help too. My videos help network the animals I pick up to rescue as well possible adopters and/or fosters. We may never know a stray animals full story but a chance to see where they came from and what they’ve endured to what they can overcome when just given the chance and opportunity too can be really magical and rewarding. It takes a village to get them there sometimes, but it is always worth it. Like this beautiful mama dog and her baby, for example. I received a call for a stray dog living in a ditch on the side of the road with just her 1 puppy. Yes, I made sure to walk the ditch and canvas the surrounding area for more but did not find any. I got her and her pup loaded up and while on my way back to the shelter, my video was networked to our rescue partners and by the end of day, a 501c3 rescue had pulled her and sent a foster to come pick her and her puppy up. She did not have to spend 1 night in the shelter. Like I said, there are a lot of moving parts when working in animal welfare and in an animal shelter. My videos can also show you the daily battle we deal with with the quality of animal welfare we are faced with within our community. I choose to go above and beyond even then what I’m paid to do for many reasons but most importantly, because these animals lives truly matter. They all deserve a happy ending. And the videos I create have saved countless lives and have given SO many that happy ending they all deserve to have. I’m just so grateful mama and her baby got hers. 🩷🐾 #animalrescue #dogrescue #fresno #animalcontrol #animalsoftiktok #fresnocounty #animalcontrolofficer #dogsoftiktok #shelterlife #rescuelife #rescuedog #puppy #beforeandafter #fypシ #fresnohumaneanimalservice #fresnohumaneanimalservice #foster #adopt #rescue #saveslives - @acowolcott