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The animal care sector in Australia offers opportunities in rural and city areas. These range from veterinary nursing to animal welfare and management, pet care, dog handling and training.
The sector includes veterinary nurses caring for animals in veterinary facilities and assisting veterinarians perform surgical procedures. There are also careers as animal controllers, animal refuge workers and stud/livestock attendants.
You could work in a cattery, zoo, kennel, pet shop or involve yourself with wildlife rehabilitation or feral animal control. If you're crazy about dogs, then how about working with dogs in security and customs, or working with guide dogs?

Pet Care CoursesThe animal care sector in Australia offers opportunities in rural and city areas. These range from veterinary nursing to animal welfare and management, pet care, dog handling and training.

The sector includes veterinary nurses caring for animals in veterinary facilities and assisting veterinarians perform surgical procedures. There are also careers as animal controllers, animal refuge workers and stud/livestock attendants.

You could work in a cattery, zoo, kennel, pet shop or involve yourself with wildlife rehabilitation or feral animal control. If you're crazy about dogs, then how about working with dogs in security and customs, or working with guide dogs?

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Key responsibilities: 

  • Assist veterinarians with animal treatment, surgery and daily tasks

  • Maintain a safe, tidy and hygienic workplace

  • Reception/telephone duties

  • Provide advice and information to clients

  • Train and supervise junior staff and volunteers

  • Create and maintain relevant animal records

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Short Course

Animal Anatomy And Physiology (Animal Husbandry I )

  Develop a sound foundation knowledge of animal anatomy and physiology as a basis to understanding the care and management of animals. This course is the starting point for working with animals in any situation. Study - cells & tissues; the digestive system; the circulatory system; the urinary system; the nervous system; respiration; the reproductive system; muscles & meat; the skeleton; animal growth, development, and the endocrine system; and the comparison of different animals.

Animal Behaviour

  This course provides an excellent foundation for working with animals in any situation: farms, zoos, veterinary practices, pet shops or even in the wild. This course can provide a very sound foundation for understanding animals and what causes them to act the way they do. With this understanding you have a very sound foundation for dealing with animals in any situation. An understanding of animal behaviour is important in any situation where a person works with animals, from farmers to animal keepers at zoos, and from horse trainers to kennel owners.

Animal Breeding For Beginners

  Family planning pays dividends Plan and implement animal breeding programs using genetic theory, practical applications to daily husbandry practice, and management of animal breeding programs. This course includes a sound introduction to genetics. Relevant to any type of animal. Personal guidance from highly qualified and experienced animal scientists and practitioners. Topics covered include: introduction to genetics; selection; pure breeding; introduction to cross breeding; cross breeding and livestock improvement. Animal breeding can be anything from a serious hobby or part time business (eg. breeding and selling pets), through to a very serious and possibly highly sophisticated profession.  This course provides an excellent starting point whatever level you plan to operate at.

Animal Feed & Nutrition (Animal Husbandry III)

  EVALUATE AND SELECT FEEDS Learn the composition of a range of feeds, including pasture, fodder crops, grasses, cereals, seed, and other edible plants. This course also explains the role of proteins, vitamins and minerals in animal diets. It equips you with the skills required to evaluate feeding and select appropriate feeds - for digestibility and nutritional content - applicable to real life farming situations. What do Animals Eat? Learn to manage food and nutrition for pets, farm animals or wildlife in zoos. Learn the composition of a range of feeds, including pasture, fodder crops, grasses, cereals, seed, and other edible plants. This course also explains the role of proteins, vitamins and minerals in animal diets. It equips you with the skills required to evaluate feeding and select appropriate feeds - for digestibility and nutritional content - applicable to real life farming situations.

Animal Health (Animal Husbandry II)

  A solid introduction to animal health, where you learn to assess animal health, explain a variety of conditions and identify appropriate treatments or responses to a range of more common complaints or illnesses.  It is helpful to complete Animal Husbandry I before attempting this course.

Animal Health Care For Beginners

  Learn to care for the health of any type of animal and understand the scope of services offered by animal care services, including in veterinary practices. his course is appropriate for anyone interested in working with animals including on a farm, a wildlife park or a veterinary practice. It is a sound foundation course and  has been designed to help you understand animal health care and basic veterinarian practices. Scope of Animal Health Work People have domesticated animals for various reasons, in particular, as pets (to keep them company), and as farm animals (to either work or to provide a product such as meat, wool or dairy produce). Whatever the reason animals are being kept, it is now well accepted that the owners of any animal have a responsibility toward the animal they keep. That responsibility is both a matter of ethics, and increasingly is also a matter of law.

Equine Behaviour

  What is the Purpose of Animal Behaviour? It is assumed that all animal behaviour is an adaptation designed to support survival, either directly or indirectly. However, this is not always the case. Animals can behave self-destructively, out of habit, or out of boredom, just as humans can. To better understand the behaviour, we should also consider what motivates it. The study of equine behaviour provides a foundation for more sensitive and informed care and training of horses, and can help you understand your horse's behaviour, and work more effectively with its inherent nature.  

Horse Care Advanced (III)

  Manage the health and condition of horses in different situations. Learn to identify signs of poor condition and ill health, and address the problems appropriately. Understand the things that can stress a horse and increase susceptibility to problems. Learn how to manage situations to minimise risk factors. The course has been designed to complement Horse Care I and Horse Care II – but can be studied as a “stand alone” subject.

Horse Care Basics (I)

  Learn about horse psychology and handling, evaluate conformation, understand the importance of dietary requirements to the horse, learn about the horses digestive system and the principles of feeding and watering your horse, use correct grooming procedures, develop appropriate management procedures and broaden existing knowledge of commercial opportunities in the horse world. Manage horses kept on pasture and learn relevant pasture management techniques to maintain productivity and prevent "horse sick" pastures.

Horse Care Intermediate (II)

  FEEDING, HOOF CARE, CONDITIONING AND STABLING This course follows on from Horse Care I. While this course is relevant to horses at grass, it does focus heavily upon care of the stabled horse. The course covers feeding, stabling, food care, bedding, tack and conditioning of the horse. This is a stand alone course and may be taken without Horse Care I

Introduction To Marine Studies (I)

  This course is a perfect introduction for people wanting to work in the field of Marine Studies. You will be introduced to a wide range of factors related to marine studies which include marine ecology systems, reef formation and function, marine organisms such as fish, cephalopods and marine mammals, marine ecosystems and how human activity impacts these.

Marine Studies Intermediate (II)

  This course follows on from Marine studies I, extending your knowledge of a wide variety of marine organisms.  It works through many types of marine organisms, focusing mostly on those not covered as thoroughly in Marine Studies I (This includes: Protists, Sponges, Marine plants, Cnidarians, Worms, Arthropods, Molluscs, Echinoderms, Non Bony Fish, Selected Bony Fish and selected Marine Mammals).

Natural Health Care for Animals

  Learn to Care for Animals Naturally Explore Natural Therapies and how they can be used with animals Learn how to optimise health naturally and minimise the chance of infection This course is perfect for people who want to work in the field of animal health care, but who wish to work more holistically in treating ailments and maintaining animal health. In this course you will learn about the nature & scope of natural therapies that can be used to treat animals and ensure their wellbeing. This course was developed by a team of highly qualified and experienced animal experts in liaison with professionally qualified experts in animal welfare and in natural therapies. This is a unique course, developed and tutored by unique experts.

Pet Care

  A course for pet owners or anyone working with pets, providing a sound introduction to caring for a wide variety of different pets including dogs, cats, fish, birds, rabbits, rodents, reptiles and amphibians. If you love animals this is a course for you!

Vertebrate Zoology

  If you love animals and want to learn more about them, if you are involved in animal care and protection, animal management, wildlife management and care, veterinary, science teaching, or environmental management and protection, this course is just for you. This course has recently been updated and will give you a thorough understanding of “higher” animals’ Zoology and Evolution, together with some principles on animal ecology and morphology. You will learn the essentials of Vertebrate Zoology with the help of highly qualified and experienced tutors. The course is accepted by some animal health professional associations as points for their Continuing Education Recording Scheme, category “Correspondence courses”.

Wildlife Management

  Our Wildlife Management course is designed for those who wish to work to conserve wildlife whether it's in the wild, in zoos or working with captive breeding programs. Wildlife management is the manipulation of wild animal populations and their habitats for the benefit of both humans and wildlife. Wildlife management includes running parks and reserves, altering and rehabilitating wildlife habitats, pest control, protecting human life and property and managing harvests of wildlife. Controlling populations of wildlife may take one of the following forms: Managing wildlife habitats Managing people Managing individual animals in populations to either change or cause a population to remain constant. The techniques and types of wildlife management vary depending on your location, and as with any job, you will find that you will need to carry out research into the local methods and types of wildlife management. This course is designed to give students a broad based introduction to the principles and practices of wildlife management common to many species around the globe.


Certificate

Certificate in Animal Health

  Train for a Career in Animal Health or WelfareThis is a comprehensive and highly practical course; for anyone who wants to better understand the health and wellbeing of animals. It is designed to provide a foundation for employment in any type of animal care job; whether pets, domesticated farm livestock or wildlife (captive or free). Learn about animal anatomy and physiology, diagnosing animal diseases, natural animal health care, animal health and care and either animal psychology or animal feed and nutrition.

Certificate in Companion Animal Studies

  Work in the Pet Industry Learn the animal husbandry, business and management skills, needed to start a career working with pets or providing support services within the pet industry.

Certificate in Equine Husbandry

  Develop your horse husbandry and management skills by undertaking this foundation course in equine husbandry. Horse ownership is flourishing in many countries. While owning a horse is a dream for many people, it is a dream that comes with responsibilities. It requires that you have knowledge and understanding of the different aspects of caring for these intelligent animals. This course provides important information on horse ownership and care.

Certificate in Marine Studies

  Develop a sound understanding of Marine Biology and Management.

Certificate In Wildlife Management

  Dreaming about working with wildlife? A foundation entry level course to develop skills that would be valued for working in wildlife parks, zoos, refuges or wilderness management. This course incorporates key studies that are in demand in the wildlife field. This course provides with knowledge and practical skills to people working or wishing to work in wildlife care and management.


Advanced Certificate

Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Horses)

  Combine your love of horses with sound management skills This course is designed to equip managers, supervisors, or people who want to work up to these positions within the industry (eg. at a riding school, race track, stud, farm etc) with the necessary management skills required to undertake such a role. Three horse care units coupled with a workplace or research project (or in some cases, work experience) ensures that this comprehensive qualification is to a standard required in the horse industry.


Diploma

Diploma in Animal Management

  Learn to Manage Animals of all types in Captivity.


Advanced Diploma

Advanced Diploma In Agriculture - Animal Husbandry

  This course provides training for people wishing to work in agriculture at a technician or management level; in positions such as a farm manager, technical representatives, trainers or consultants. Learn about general animal care, health and welfare; and farm animal production, as a foundation for a professional career. The Advanced Diploma in Agriculture - Animal Husbandry is a complete qualification for people wishing to work in agriculture at a technician or management level; in positions such as a farm manager, technical representatives, trainers or consultants.

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