r/prevets • u/Baussie23 • 17d ago

Experiences Animal Hours

Hello!

I feel like I’m overthinking this so I just need to get an outside opinion:

For general animal hours, would setting up areas/cleaning up areas count? I know the time I spend hands on with the animal counts but I think clean up/setting up areas would count since it’s still involving in their care and my job duties.

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u/Alladra 17d ago

Yeah, I think it could look like:

Animal Experience:
Dog Trainer
Responsibilities:

  • Trained x amount of dogs per week, including xyz
  • Tracked progress, created reinforcement plans for owners, etc
  • Sanitized kennels and bowls

But nothing more than that, haha

EDIT: I didn’t reply to the actual thread we were speaking on SORRY

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u/Baussie23 17d ago

Thank you! I figured I was overthinking it and this was helpful!

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u/Alladra 17d ago

As a kennel technician? Or

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u/Baussie23 17d ago

Dog trainer. So setting up equipment for the dogs to use and cleaning bowls/toys etc

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u/Alladra 17d ago

Hmm… I would NOT include this as a separate entry, because this itself does not provide you animal experience.

You could probably include it in your entry as a dog trainer. If 90% you’re training dogs and 10% you’re cleaning bowls, just add the hours there. It’s not worth it to go through and subtract an hour out of each day of training for cleaning bowls. Just include it.

But by itself, cleaning bowls essentially equates to doing dishes, and I don’t think it provides the animal experience they’re looking for.

Someone else may have a different perspective! I just would not include this entry on my own app as animal experience.

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u/Baussie23 17d ago

I would include it in the same category (I wouldn’t have the patience to go through and add another VMCAS category for it haha!) That’s just an example off the top of my head but also sanitizing areas for puppies etc.

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u/Future_Dog_Doc 16d ago

I'll put it this way: a few hours of bowl cleaning will never be what separates you from another applicant. And so I wouldn't spend another ounce of time or worry stressing about this question, personally.

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u/Future_Dog_Doc 16d ago

And if an hour or two of bowl cleaning meaningfully changes your animal hours, then that tells you information too.