service animals

In an effort to cut costs, Oklahoma City employees Monte and Sam transferred from Animal Control to supervisory landscaping roles where they oversee a crew of about sixty, all working dutifully to clear overgrown vegetation on approximately eighty acres of land along the Hefner Canal. This math may seem strange. A five-dozen-strong landscaping crew on eighty acres doesn’t sound like a money-saving move at all—until you add another number into the equation: Monte, Sam, and their crew are four-legged. These Hefner Canal employees are goats, and Monte and Sam are their watch donkeys.

I wrote about Monte, Sam, and a host of other animals who have jobs (!!) for the July/August 2022 issue of Oklahoma Today. You can read it here.