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Animal Healthcare Internship

Please note that this internship requires an advanced level of experience with animals; see Qualifications below.

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.