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Article: Careers for creature lovers: training, grooming, sheltering, and other jobs in animal care.
- Article from:
- Occupational Outlook Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
- Author:
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Children often say they want to be a veterinarian when they grow up. They love pets and are fascinated with horses and wildlife, and veterinary work is the only animal career they know. But being a vet can lose its appeal when they discover that it involves surgery and treating sick animals.
Fortunately, there are many other career options if you like animals. Do you like teaching and working with people as well as pets? If so, you might want to be an animal trainer. Do you have an interest in rescuing animals? You might like to work in an animal shelter, wildlife refuge, or zoo. Or maybe you'd like to make animals comfortable and neat by starting a grooming ...
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Article: HOT JOBS FOR Animal Lovers.
Career World, a Weekly Reader publication;
April 1, 2001 ;
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... ... degree in biology or zoology. Teaching Animals to Sit, Fetch, Stay Animal trainers teach animals to behave in appropriate ways at the appropriate times. Trainers use their knowledge of animal habits and the a
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