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April 9-15 is Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week

  • City of La Grange Animal Control Officer Dean Ahlschlager holds up a huge chicken snake he picked up at the Prosperity Bank drive through in LG on June 7, 2021.
    City of La Grange Animal Control Officer Dean Ahlschlager holds up a huge chicken snake he picked up at the Prosperity Bank drive through in LG on June 7, 2021.
This week we celebrate the unsung heroes of our county’s police departments who wrangle a plethora of escaped, abandoned, injured, and deceased critters of our communities – Animal Control Officers (ACOs). Whether responding to a call for service related to loose cattle on the highway, a pet parakeet taking refuge in a truck cab at Walmart, or a sick wild cottontail bunny on a city lawn, ACOs…

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