Animal Health Care For Beginners

DESCRIPTION

Do you want to learn more about animals and how to care for them?

This course has been designed to help you understand animal health care and basic veterinarian practices.

Scope of Animal Health Work

People have domesticated animals for various reasons, in particular, as pets (to keep them company), and as farm animals (to either work or to provide a product such as meat, wool or dairy produce).

Whatever the reason animals are being kept, it is now well accepted that the owners of any animal have a responsibility toward the animal they keep. That responsibility is both a matter of ethics, and increasingly is also a matter of law.

LESSON STRUCTURE

There are 12 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Animal Health Care
2. Common Health Problems in farm animals and pets
3. Animal Behaviour
4. Signs of Ill Health
5. Veterinary Facilities
6. Safety Procedures
7. Administration of Animal Health
8. Animal First Aid
9. Preventative Health Care
10. Routine Health Treatments
11. Health Problems in Domestic Pets
12. Rehabilitation Care

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

AIMS

To be able to describe the scope of services offered by animal care services, including veterinary practices.

Describe common health problems in various animals, including injuries and diseases

causes of ill health problems in family pets

Explain the natural behaviour of different types of domestic animals in different situations.

natural behaviour of animals

problems in wild animals

behaviour in domestic animals

Identify common signs of ill health in different animals.

vital signs

the healthy animal

signs and symptoms of disease

diagnosis and control of diseases

Describe the purposes of different facilities used in veterinary practice.

the first aid kit

enclosures for animals

Determine safety procedures for a veterinary practice.

workplace safety

health and safety for veterinary practices

Describe different administration procedures in a veterinary practice.

animal insurance

legal considerations

managing a veterinary office

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Contact several bodies/organisations that are concerned with animal welfare, and obtain any literature or other information which you can, regarding issues such as:

Restrictions placed by local councils upon the keeping of pets.

Legal requirements on animal owners, with respect to animal welfare

Find two different types of domestic animals which you can observe (ie. different species).

Observe each on two different occasions, for at least 15 minutes each time.

Make notes of their behaviour.

Note any similarities between behaviour on the different occasions, and between the different types of animals.

Describe methods used for controlling/restraining animals during an examination

List as many things as you can that might cause a dogs temperature to go to 40oC.

Contact a state government veterinary/agriculture department, and find out anything you can about health risks to humans from domestic and farm animal diseases in your country.

DELIVERY

Correspondence

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