Lily Yap’s 15 years of animal welfare experience in Texas and Louisiana didn’t leave her with stories about ocelots or maybe rattlesnake charmers.
But working in the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area, she had some exotic-pet encounters with a tiger cub and a rare cobra, she said. And her experience coordinating successful clear-the-shelter events — one of which arranged 341 pet adoptions in a single day — made her a top candidate for her new position as director of Stanislaus Animal Services Agency.
The agency has waged an endless adopt-a-pet campaign to relieve crowding at the animal shelter on Cornucopia Way in south Modesto…