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Animal health and care, Hauora me te tiaki kararehe

Animal health and care jobs involve studying, breeding, caring for, grooming, treating and training animals.

You might

  • diagnose, treat and prevent animal health problems
  • train animals to obey commands
  • clean and style animals
  • maintain comfortable living standards for animals
  • fill water troughs and feed animals
  • study the behaviour and biology of animals
  • monitor animal health and maintain records

Career ideas
Ngā huatau aramahi,

Career idea

Animal breeder

Kaiwhakatipu kararehe

Pay

$52K to $104K annually

You'll need

0 to 2 years of training
Animal breeders select and breed animals that have certain genetics, characteristics and offspring.

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