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Escambia Hires New Animal Services Chief
July 8, 2011
Escambia County’s Animal Services has a new division manager, Delfi Messinger, County Administrator Randy Oliver announced Thursday.
Messinger’s background includes director of Animal Programs at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens from 2005 to 2010 and general curator at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kansas, from 2001 to 2005.
She wrote a book, Grains of Golden Sand, about the bonobo, a rare African ape. She served as the manager of the Animal Department at the National Biological Institute in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Africa, from 1987 to 1998 and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire from 1984 to 1987.
She graduated in 1980 with the highest honors at Texas State University at San Marcos, Texas, with a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture. She was a recipient for the “Presidential Upper Level Scholarship.”
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8 Responses to “Escambia Hires New Animal Services Chief”
She certainly has some credentials, and has been around the block. I hope Ms Messinger’s arrival, will improve conditions, for the animals of Escambia county.
they do need to teach the employes some manners, they are rude. i had taken in a dog i found on the side of the road. and the guy in the back was giving the dog some wormer meds by mouth, and he got it on my pants and shoes, cause he was just being sloppy about it. and didn’t even say he was sorry. i then ask if he had any towels and he said no.it’s sad cause you could tell he hates his job.so mabye things will get better down there.
Wow! I am impressed.
I hope that she plans to educate the staff. One animal control officer asked my neighbor how he could tell which goats where billy goats … “Is it the hair on their chin?”
Those of us in North Escambia have different issues than those living in the more city-like developments.
I so hope for changes at the animal “shelter”. They have a thankless job, true enough, but there are some hateful people there. Maybe she will up the PR for getting animals adopted.
Welcome Ms Messinger! I wish you success with the job you have chosen. It is evident that you care about animal life and will work hard to help our community grow more aware of the need for loving care of animals.
Sounds well qualified, with some interesting background experience. We are probably lucky to have her. maybe we can get some much needed changes for the animals, like a few more adoption programs and maybe some TV interviews with her to highlight the need for people to adopt some animals!
She appears to be well qualified and is probably over qualified for dealing with a few employees and county’s stray cats and dogs. With her big city background and all, I wonder what her salary will be for being Escambia County’s “head” dog catcher.
Good.
Hopefully now, the animals at the Escambia County
Animal Shelter will have a chance at life !!!