For Oakland County Animal Control Manager, Each Day Has Been a Privilege
Larry Obrecht, who is headed into retirement, reflects on the past nine years he spent helping to reunite pets and owners, improving media relations and making improvements to facilities.
Editor's note: Larry Obrecht, manager of Oakland County Animal Control, is saying goodbye to the cats and dogs and to his official role at the shelter. Here, he looks back at the job he calls "rewarding" and a "privilege." For the last nine years I have come to work every day as manager of the Oakland County Pet Adoption/Animal Control Shelter excited by the prospect of reuniting lost pets with their owners and adopting out dogs and cats to families and individuals who will provide safe, loving and nurturing environments for them. This has been my life since March of 2003, and its been a very rewarding one, but now the time has come for me to close out this chapter of my life and move on to the next one, whatever that may be. Looking back…
