Animal jobs

What do you think you will be when you grow up? Do you honestly want to work at a vet, shelter or animal police?
What will you be if it doesn't have to do with animals? Do you think you will stick with it too?

I would like to work at a shelter. I do think it would be a really funny and grate job. I also think I will stick with it till I can get a job. :rockon: My second chose would be Animal Police. Because I hate it when someone locks an animal up out side at all! But if they don't feed it or something that's just wrong! :no:
I would like to help stuff like that. But the Shelter would be better. At least I think so. :agree:
Well do you want to help animals or do you have an other grate idea? The world is a big place and what ever you do in it is going to help something if not animals people or making something easier or better. :rockon: So what ever you do when you grow up is going to help the world or the things in it. :whistle:

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Go ahead and discus. :rockon:

I've done voluntary work at a Shelter before, and it's very hard work. You get used to the physical side of things after a while but the emtional side never goes away.

I've done voluntary work at a Shelter before, and it's very hard work. You get used to the physical side of things after a while but the emtional side never goes away.

What do you mean by the emotional side?

You are very right about the emotional side. I have volunteered for years and sometimes come home in tears thinking about what I have seen done to poor helpless animals. A woman came in last month to tell us a man threw a sack out on the trash and she saw it move and peeked inside and saw a small dog. We rushed there and took the dog to a vet and back to the shelter. The dog was a Poodle puppy about four months old and covered in burns and scalds all in varying degrees of healing. This crazy man was burning her just for the sick, sadistic pleasure of it. That's just one of hundreds of horrible things that rescue workers deal with and it's impossible not to take it home with you.
The good side of this is that you get to show the animal love and care and eventually find a good forever home for it.

You are very right about the emotional side. I have volunteered for years and sometimes come home in tears thinking about what I have seen done to poor helpless animals. A woman came in last month to tell us a man threw a sack out on the trash and she saw it move and peeked inside and saw a small dog. We rushed there and took the dog to a vet and back to the shelter. The dog was a Poodle puppy about four months old and covered in burns and scalds all in varying degrees of healing. This crazy man was burning her just for the sick, sadistic pleasure of it. That's just one of hundreds of horrible things that rescue workers deal with and it's impossible not to take it home with you.
The good side of this is that you get to show the animal love and care and eventually find a good forever home for it.


That's a very sad story. :( But I need to get used to stuff like that. . . It's all over. Though I think stuff like that startles me or makes me mad. . .Then sad. But it takes a lot to make me cry. (When I'm sad) But geting upset would make me cry. But I'm not a verry sensitive person when it comes to sad. But mad is difrent. . . :p

What do you mean by the emotional side?

Just seeing all of these animals that have been dumped, not to mention the cruelty factor that Alysaw spoke about.

This (http://www.aaps.org.au/) is the animal shelter that I volunteered at. I love reading the 'Success Stories', especially when it's an animal that you've come to know :)

I volunteer at an animal shelter and it's so much fun! It's great seeing the animals getting adopted after being in the shelter so long. It makes you kind of sad that the animals have to be put in a shelter, but it's awesome knowing how much you help them. :D

Next year I start going to Appalachian to get a degree in Criminal Justice one of the things i'm looking at when I start looking for a job is a Police K-9 handler. My dad is a Vietnam vet and that's what he did in vietnam was walk the perimiter of the air force base with his dog at night. It's very sad what happend to those dogs when we pulled out of Vietnam. of the 2,000+ dogs that went over there only 200 made it back home the military classified them as equipment and either handed them over to the south vietnmies army or had them put down. Because of people like the Vietnam Dog Handler Assoication they can now be adopted out. All the handlers wanted to take them home but weren't allowed to. It is sad to think that some of these dogs gave everything for their handlers and were real hero's.

I volunteer at an animal shelter and it's so much fun! It's great seeing the animals getting adopted after being in the shelter so long. It makes you kind of sad that the animals have to be put in a shelter, but it's awesome knowing how much you help them. :D

That does sound great! I think I might volunteer next spring or summer break. ;) I couldn' t do it dearing school. :no:

I've been wanting to volunteer at a shelter, but it's a bit hard because I'd have to commute to downtown and I don't have a job (uni student) so paying for extra gas all the time would be a bit difficult. However! I'm currently working on a degree in zoology, and I think animal behavior, equine genetics, animal handling, zoology, and wildlife photography are all fascinating.

Another choice that is less emotional but still being around pets is pet groomer. I became a pet groomer in March. I've worked in grooming shops for 15 years before getting the chance to go to grooming academy.

You do need good people skills and of course a love of pets. Its not an easy job though. Its not just bathing adorable puppies. I've had 3 close calls for being seriously bitten. Two large dogs went for my neck before. I've had minor bites and scratches mostly. Also its a physical job. Lifting, holding, etc. And its a messy job. Just when you get that full coated chow dried and finished, it poops in the cage and fingerpaints it all over. Also lunch time, consider dog hair a condiment. And lastly, anal glands.

But if you can get past all that, the job is great and fun. Some grooming shops and groomers do specialized cuts for events, like the poodles you see online who have haircuts and dye jobs that make them look like ninja turtles, horses, etc.

I work for a Petsmart. They are really good to me, but its corporate so safety rules are heavy and heavy handed, understandably.

And as a groomer you can offer to help rescue animals too. Many rescues need a volunteer groomer to keep their adoption dogs looking and smelling good. I found that nearly 100% of the rescue dogs I've groomed, have been adopted within 24 hours of grooming them. Once a very matted gray dog came into the shelter. One solid knot. We didn't even know the breed. Due to the size and color, I decided to give him a schnauzer face. I couldn't give the body a nice cut due to mats. As I shaved him down, I also discovered he was very old. Vet said probably about 19. Blind, deaf, arthritic. When I was done, I found out he WAS a schnauzer. So the face looked right for him. He was adopted the next day. Regardless of his age and problems. Looking good helps pets to get adopted.