(US/ks) Workers at Lawrence animal shelter carry guns to protect themselves from angry pet owners
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carrying concealed guns to work, and they say it’s for a very good
reason.
“We have to protect not only our staff and the animals, but other
people that come here,” said Midge Grinstead, the animal shelter’s
executive director.
The shelter may be most notable for being full of yappy, irresistible
dogs that give those melting adopt-me-or-else looks, but the shelter
also is the only one in Kansas that investigates all cruelty and
neglect cases in its county. The shelter’s three cruelty investigators
respond to hundreds of calls a year, which bring a component of risk
and danger to the job.
“We’re dealing with people that might not be in the best position in
their lives and we might have to take their animals, or we might have
to ask them questions that would make them uncomfortable and we just
want to make sure that we’re protected,” said investigator Kayse
Aschenbrenner.
It is the kind of tension that can sometimes spill over into the
shelter when people are determined to retrieve their confiscated
animals at no cost, Grinstead said. She said people have come inside
the lobby on multiple occasions, pointing guns in workers’ faces,
shoving them and swinging baseball bats at them.
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