Animal+Trainers

Animal Trainers. Megan Connell

Job Description

Train animals from everything to assisting people with disablities to teaching them how to ride. Also must be able to help the animals get accoustomed to human voice, touch, and commands.

Interests

Using hands-on activities to slove problems in the industry and to be able to work with real world materials. Not much paper work is involved and there is alot of outside work involved.

Tasks completed in this career
 * be able to diagnose illness in animals.
 * cue the animals during a show or performance.
 * give the animal prescribed medicines.
 * inspect animals to see if they are trainable.
 * take care of the animals (feed and exercise).
 * make them familiar to humans voice by talking to them.
 * conduct training programs.
 * record documents about the animal.
 * give the owners of animals advise on purchasing certain animals.
 * teach jockeys about how to handle the race horses.
 * train horses from everything from riding to different training methods.

Skills Needed
 * Instructing
 * Speaking
 * Monitoring
 * Learning stratagies
 * Active learning
 * Judgement and desion making
 * Social perspectiveness

Knowledge Required
 * Biology
 * Administration and Management
 * English Language
 * Coustomer and Personal Service
 * Sales and Marketing
 * Clerical
 * Mathematics

Education Required

A highschool deploma is needed and in some cases an associates or bacholores degree is needed.

Training

This career requires from either a few months to a year of training with a profesional in the feild

Wages

For just starting the wage is $22,000 and will range up to about $51,420 depending on expierence.

Outlook

An estimated 2,830 workers will be in this feild by 2016 in just NY alone.

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