Animal Careers for the Future

Animal career courses are exciting and new additions to many courses of study, including within the legal field, but that is not the only one seeing changes and passion about animals within the student body. In 2008 a course called, “Animals, Culture and Food” was offered at the University of Iowa and it was so [...]

Animal Job Forecast

So I found some interesting statistics when looking into animals jobs and the forecast for careers with animals. In this case I was looking into the domestic animal realm—specifically companion animals. Animal care and service workers held 220,400 jobs in 2008. Nearly 4 out of 5 worked as nonfarm animal caretakers; the remainder worked as [...]

Charging the Clicker

Charging the clicker does not mean plugging one in! Instead, it means creating a training association to it so it can be used for animal training. Learning how to begin clicker training, or how to charge a clicker, is laying the foundation for training an animal. This means that the animal needs to understand just [...]