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Animal Healthcare Internship
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Animal feeding and watering.
- Assisting with animal health care and treatments
- Assisting with weekly animal health checks
- Animal health care projects
- Shelter administrative projects (animal charting, ordering animals supplies, etc.)
- Shelter cleaning and habitat projects
- Maintaining animal rehabilitation areas and treatment rooms
- Monitoring animal health and animal integration/relocation
- Assist with transporting small animals to veterinary appointments
Qualifications:
- Excellent animal behavior observation skills
- Must be able to follow detailed instructions and meet animal care schedules
- Ability to work in harsh/all weather conditions
- Ability to perform strenuous physical labor and lifting
- Ability to assist with animal health care treatments and humane restraint
- Ability to assist with maintenance health care (hoof trimming, tusk trimming, etc.)
- Stong people skills
- Capacity to work well in a team setting and with variety of people
- Must be reliable and dependable
- Minimum of one year experience at animal care facility
- Volunteer history at animal advocacy organization(s) preferred
- Commitment to Farm Sanctuary's animal care policies and standards
- Commitment to Farm Sanctuary's organizational programs and goals
Specifications
- Volunteer commitment of 40 hours per week
- Weekends and holidays may be required
- Shelter department interns are assigned evening shelter security shifts, maximum of 3 per week
- Two to three month commitment required
- Shared housing available on sanctuary premises
- One to three month commitment required
Benefits:
- Opportunity to learn from and interact with our shelter animal residents
- Opportunity to gain considerable knowledge and skills in all aspects of farm animal care
- Opportunity to observe farm animal veterinarians during shelter visits, including minor in-house surgical procedures, diagnostic exams anc consultations
- Living and working with like-minded and committed animal activists
- Opportunity to participate in weekly Farm Sanctuary Educational Presentations
- Gain experience beneficial for future Farm Sanctuary employment consideration
To apply, click here.
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