How To Start A Career In Saving Animals
Working with animals can be a fun career, it can also sometimes be a sad career. There are so many options in the field, from boarding dogs to selling retail products for animals and their owners. For the right person, a career in saving animals can be very rewarding.
No matter what field you chose, you can know that you will be working in a rewarding career. Finding homes for adoptable animals feels amazing, just as it does to save some ducklings after their mom has been hit and killed by a car. It’s also sad when elderly animals pass or you find hoarding cases with all kinds of animals.
Veterinary Care
Veterinary care is a career that has its ups and downs when it comes to the happiness and reward. Saving someone’s pet can be extremely rewarding, while not being able to save a dog that has been hit by a car can be crushing. However, you can feel rewarded for trying to save that pet.
If you want to get into veterinary care you need to go to school and you’ll learn a lot of things similar to people that go to school to be doctors, except you’ll be learning the anatomy and physiology of many species of animals instead of humans.
Rescue
Running or working at a rescue can be an amazing experience. If you work in a no-kill shelter you know that the animals that are there will at least live out their lives forever, whether or not they find a forever home. Other types of shelters can have some pretty depressing moments, but it’s still a rewarding career.
Boarding
Boarding kennels are a great way to spend your time with animals, most often dogs and cats, without needing to find them home, treat their illnesses, or have them be your own actual pet. Plus, you have a couple options; you can run a doggy daycare or have an actual boarding facility.
You need licensing and the right size property, plus cages and runs for the dogs to run this type of business. You will need to be good to people’s pets or they won’t want to pay you to watch their dogs and cats again, and that’s not good for your business.
Training
Training dogs can be a fun career. You can do general training or obedience training. You could be the trainer for a show dog or an agility dog. Those can be really fun but may take some kind of certification.
Retail
If you don’t want to work directly with dogs and cats, but you like to help people that love their animals of all sizes, you could run a retail pet business. There are franchises or you could go it your own. Sell foods, pet clothing, treats, toys, cages and more. You could also sell fish and small animals and maybe let a local shelter come in once a month with adoptable cats and dogs.