If the idea of spending your day around animals great and small sounds like the perfect career, a short course in animal care is the best way to learn the basics of this amazing industry. With plenty of short courses in grooming and animal psychology, you’ll have skills to start a wonderful career in animal care.
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At Learning Online, we deliver comprehensive animal care certificates, developed by industry professionals, to help people get a head-start and build exciting careers.
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Do you love working with animals, and are passionate about animal welfare? If you know you want to work with animals but you’re not sure where to get started, a course in animal care could be the perfect place to start.
Animal care refers to any kind of work that involves providing support to and for animals. That includes:
Animal care courses can help you specialise in an area that will allow you to have a lifelong career in a hands-on capacity working with animals. The animal care industry, however, is a large one, and trying to figure out which area you’re interested in is important. Doing a short course is the perfect way to figure out which area you’re interested in working in.
Possible courses include:
Many courses can be completed either full time or part time, and some are available as an online course, too.It means you can study to be a pet groomer, animal-science specialist or in pet insurance however suits you best.
Courses are also available all over Australia including in Sydney, NSW and Victoria, as well as at rural TAFE schools.
Australian laws and regulations in regards to animal care are regularly changing and updating. For example, Victoria has recently outlawed puppy mills, and the RSPCA now hands out free pet first aid guides to help pet owners. If there’s an area that you’re particularly passionate about or inspires you to want to work in animal health care, then that’s the first place to start.
What we do is help give you a list of available courses to get you started – browse the list above to begin your future today!
Here’s a list of 5 dream careers for people who love animals.
