They’re called Animal Control nowadays.
No problem finding their trucks, but I never can find the election for dogcatcher on the ballot. Are they now political appointees?
Regarding Jeffrey Dahmer, I once saw, on television, some home movie footage where he’s talking with his aunt. He says that he likes going to McDonalds, but that it gets expensive, so he then just eats at home for a while.
He was fond of Asian food. 
To get this joke, you have to remember this commercial and this “controversial” comedian:
WARNING: This joke is NSFW.
Have you heard ADC is doing a commercial for a new cereal?
It’s called “Nuthin’, bitch!”
It never was an elected position (at least, there is no documented evidence it ever was).
I only heard of that as a not-really-serious line: "Mayor? I wouldn’t vote for him for dogcatcher!"
They had another one…link may be paywalled, so I’ll block quote below.
It shows a little old Western chuckwagon cook who answers a cowboy
s inquiry of ''Whats for breakfast, Cooky?‘’ with ‘‘Nut & Honey’’ and is immediately threatened with death by gunfire because the macho cowboys think he has said, ‘‘Nutin`, honey.’’It is interesting to note, as did a reporter for Windy City Times, a gay- oriented weekly here, that such word play is known as a homophone, two or more words that sound alike but have different meanings.
This particular homophone offends homosexuals. The Coalition Against Media/Marketing Prejudice, a Chicago-based gay media watchdog group, is outraged that the commercial ‘‘tacitly condones and even encourages anti-gay/ lesbian violence.’’
Hopefully that overt attitude needs explaining today (OK, it’s still all too prevalent 30+ years later).
We (Americans—not sure about others) really play the violent imagery card far too easily. Cartoon anvils falling on characters, Three Stooges slapping each other, Popeye clocking Bluto, unfortunate hits to the crotch, cartoon heads that retain the shape of the frying pan that smashed them, etc. Violence or physical mishaps = humor, from a very early age, in the U.S.
I see Animal Control all the time.
I’m reminded of a “yo mamma” joke I heard when I was in elementary school:
“Yo mamma’s so fat, when she went to Taco Bell everybody ran for the border.”
To hear it today you’d think it was some vague allusion to migrants and border crossings, but in the 90s Taco Bell’s slogan was Run for the border. My 10-year-old self thought it was funny at the time.
In Pittsburgh, Animal Control is a sought after job. In order to be hired though you have to start out at entry level Environmental Services, which is garbage collection and rodent control.
Huh. Here it’s a section of the police department and you get hired to it directly. I get to talk to them every once in awhile because my work number is one digit different from their main call-in number and people leave animal related voice mail that I then pass on.
Last night a TV show was on and it frequently mentioned a high school called Aaron Burr High School. Every time they said Aaron Burr, I said “Aaron Burr” in a muffled, unintelligible voice. I had to show the old Got Milk? commercial to explain what I was doing. I didn’t realize that one needed to be explained.
Once I read this, I knew where you were going with it.
I don’t think I can even say “Aaron Burr” without doing that.
Join the club. For me, he will forever be Eh-uh Buh, even when discussing historical events such as the Buh Conspiracy or the Hamilton-Buh Duel.
Could you explain it? Because I am not familiar with the reference.
^^^My wife and I, watching Hamilton with the family.
“No anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man. I spell my name - Danger.”
The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Firesign Theatre, 1969
I don’t know about anchovies being a “thing”, but my dad was part-Italian and we’d have pizza with pepperoni and anchovies every Friday night. I grew up looking forward to pizza with anchovies. We considered them an essential part of the pizza. I realize they are an acquired taste, though, and not a favorite of everyone.