animal control officer

noun

1. a government worker responsible for enforcing local ordinances regulating animal ownership and responding to incidents involving animals.

Example Sentences

“I observed three goats chained and two to three free-roaming goats on an empty and unenclosed hillside lot. There was nothing to prevent the goats from wandering beyond the unenclosed lot,” wrote Animal Control Officer Eduardo Ananya in a court declaration.

From Los Angeles Times

“This man had way too many ducks to take proper care of,” said Mo Middleton, chief animal control officer at Animal Friends of the Valley.

From Los Angeles Times

She said she had heard him say something “and it ‘didn’t sound right,’” according to an animal control officer’s report.

From New York Times

The driver called animal control, and soon Calvert County Animal Control Officer Hannah Neel arrived to take a look.

From Seattle Times

Ward’s girlfriend handed over the lizard named Winston and another named Potato to an animal control officer and other officers in the Denver suburb of Lakewood the day after the bite.

From Seattle Times