Just like
other public safety and law enforcement agents,
Animal Care and
Control Personnel are devoted, compassionate people who risk their lives to ensure the safety and care of wild
animals, pets, and people.
Burgwin had by 1980 already been working for two years to establish NACA, now the leading source of advanced training for
animal control personnel worldwide, with knockoff organizations in several
other nations.
Additionally, the shelter medicine specialist must have an expanded understanding of
other areas not emphasized under traditional veterinary medical training; these include, but are not limited to, shelter facility design and operation,
animal husbandry (nutrition, sanitation, disinfection), companion
animal welfare, cruelty investigation, public health,
personnel management, psycho - social aspects of sheltering, resource management and risk analysis, and strategies for
animal population
control.