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Consider animal lovers careers, such as an animal nutrition career or animal training careers

"Have you ever considered investigating animal lovers careers, maybe an animal nutrition career, or how about trying animal training careers?"

Consider careers in the animal field

I was attempting to help my son consider possible animal care careers. Since he has always loved animals, my thought was to direct him to careers in the animal field.

I see the animal care field as a good fit for him for several reasons:

People considering animal lovers careers, should love animals

He loves animals! Seems obvious that if you are considering animal lovers careers, you love animals. I see animal lovers careers as a good fit because he has always enjoyed pets, having owned dogs all his life;

Understand the need for healthy eating for animals

He now understands the need for healthy eating for animals: his commitment to feeding his present dog Sadie properly is amazing, in light of how he devours junk food.

An animal nutrition career fits his feeding approach

He carefully chooses foods designed for her size and age indicates that an animal nutrition career would fit into this approach to Sadie's pet food diet. Besides, Sadie loves to eat and she could help him pay for all that better quality dog food she also devours;

Animal training careers could help train him

I have observed that he has taught Sadie to be obedient to his voice commands and sometimes she even considers the possibility of doing so! OK, I want him to consider animal training careers because Sadie desperately needs to be trained in dog obedience herself;

Pet care career opportunities that will continue to grow

And finally, there seems to be no shortage of pets. That means careers in the animal field offer viable pet care career opportunities that will continue to grow. More Information on Careers In Animal Training

In his early 30's, our son is in essence starting over. He is presently unemployed due to a spinal cord injury.

He was a caregiver to handicapped adults. He suffered damage to his spinal cord while helping lift a heavy, wheel chair patient into the bathtub.

His supervisor was lifting the legs while Darrell was lifting the upper body. Unfortunately his supervisor lost her grip and Darrell wrenched his back in the attempt to protect the patient.

That heroic deed changed his life (and ours). Our son protected the patient but at the expense of his own health.

He lived with excrutiating back pain for several years while the state tried to figure how to deny his work related injury.

After a few years passed, an MRI revealed a bruised spinal cord. He had surgery to put a titanium cage around his spinal cord, thus protecting him from further injury.

Since that time, back rehabilitation has been his primary job. It hasn't been easy because one of the biggest back surgery rehabilitation challenges he has experienced has been severe depression, insomnia due to his severe back pain, and medication side affects.

Throw in panic attacks and a reaction to his medication and you have a major career interruption taking place. He bought Sadie, his Yellow Labrador Retriever, because it was suggested he have a service dog due to his panic attack disorder.

As a therapy dog, Sadie would love to see her master choose any of the many animal lovers careers, but her first choice for him would be an animal nutrition career. She thinks it would give new meaning to her being a lab dog.

She is not too keen on animal training careers,leaning more toward animal care careers that would promote her own comfort.

We knew we were making critical mistakes in our dog's obedience training.

Sadie is Darrell's dog but my wife and I were sick and tired of having dog behavior problems, such as:

  • Sadie just being a generally disobedient dog,
  • Her being an extremely overly-aggressive pet,
  • and not behaving off-leash or even on-leash

We were ready to finally get our dog trained! We just wanted to fix any and all dog behavior problems.

I mean, we couldn't even have company over because Sadie is so "friendly", putting her nose into other people's "business", if you know what I mean.

That's when I saw a dog training book that made some pretty bold promises -- SitStayFetch: Dog Obedience Training - STOP Your Dog's Behavior Problems!

The promises?

"Whether your dog is a puppy or an adult, it doesn’t matter, I’ll show you how in minutes a day, you can transform your dog's behavior. The information and techniques apply to all breeds and all ages of dogs. Forget hiring a professional dog trainer. Save hundreds of dollars and learn their most guarded secrets here. Best of all, the information and techniques are easy for anyone to use."

Now I believe Sadie really wants her master to consider animal lovers careers, especially an animal nutrition career, but is warming up to the dog obedience bit.

The question I asked myself was "Why not combine his love for animals with his need for the services of a therapy dog, and become an expert in therapy dogs for panic attack disorder?"

Such is the making of a career and perhaps even a book: animal lovers careers, animal nutrition career, animal training careers, careers in the animal field.

What if my son wrote a book about therapy dogs?


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