Massage Therapy and Other Natural Remedies for Your Dog or Cat   
It may sound silly, but massage and other homeopathic treatments can be hugely beneficial for dogs and cats. Animals can benefit from a wide range of natural remedies, including massage, bodywork, exercise and natural supplements in their diet. Consider some of the following natural remedies that your pet should thoroughly enjoy.
Massage, Bodywork and More
There are many different massage therapies and other body techniques that owners and animal professionals can use on pets to help them relax and recover from …

How to Choose the Right Pet Insurance Plan for Your Four-Legged Friend   
Health insurance is a big topic of interest these days, but not everyone is just thinking about insuring humans. Insurance helps to keep the insanely high costs of healthcare down – for both humans and animals – and ensures that there is always a way to pay for unexpected medical bills.
Healthcare costs can become extremely exorbitant for pet owners. For some, the choice between a beloved family pet and financial ruin comes when it’s too late to …

How to Choose the Right Dog for Your Family    
There are many factors that should be taken into account when choosing a family dog. While a single person or couple has more leeway in choosing dogs that are older, disabled or difficult to train, families may have greater roadblocks preventing them from choosing certain breeds. It’s better to consider these facts when you’re still in the planning stage, rather than realizing you’ve chosen the wrong dog once it’s already in your home. Consider the following factors and you should be …

What a Career as an Animal Behaviorist Looks Like      
Animal behavior is a fascinating field of study that is concerned with pretty much everything animals, from the tiniest single-celled organisms to the biggest land mammals, do. Aside from humans and plants, virtually everything living on the planet can be considered as part of animal behavior study.
Animal behaviorists look at how members of the animal kingdom interact with one another and their physical environments; how they reproduce and care for their young; and how they survive in the wild. These professionals …

There are all sorts of jobs at the zoo. Veterinary technician positions may not necessarily the first job that people think of when they think of the zoo; they are more often associated with private veterinary offices, where they assist the veterinarian in caring for people’s pets. This is one type of veterinary technician, but they do also work in zoos. Zoo veterinary technicians complete compulsory education and training in exotic animals in addition to the required training for vet techs. If you are an animal lover looking for a …

What’s the difference between LVT, RVT, CVT and other veterinary job designations? For the uninitiated, these different descriptions may sound like nothing more than meaningless letters. But basically, these are all different variations of the veterinary technician. LVT is short for Licensed Veterinary Technician; RVT is short for Registered Veterinary Technician; and CVT is short for Certified Veterinary Technician. These technicians have completed various licensing, registration and/or certification requirements to prove their skills and technical abilities related to this profession.
The Job Duties of LVTs, RVTs and CVTs
As a veterinary technician, …

What veterinary technician majors don’t learn in school is in some ways more important than what they do learn in school, although the coursework of a required vet tech program is obviously indispensable for anyone pursuing this career. There are many things you should already know and many skills you should innately possess before beginning a veterinary technician degree or certificate program. There are also many things you will learn on the job that you will probably not learn in school.
What Veterinary Technician Majors Don’t Learn in School

Love for Animals …

As you explore your technical career options, you may be asking yourself, “Just what does a veterinary technician do?” This career is centered on animals, of course, which you can surely assume from the fact that the word “veterinary” is in the title. If you want to work with animals but can’t see yourself completing eight or more years of school to become a veterinarian, this could be the ideal job for you. You can complete a certificate or associate’s degree program to become a veterinary technician in one or …

It is very important to consider veterinary technician school accreditation when looking at various schools to get your education for a career in this field. If the veterinary technician school you’re attending isn’t accredited, your education might not be satisfactory to employers, and the credits probably won’t transfer to another school if you continue your education elsewhere. The American Veterinary Medicine Association (AVMA) is considered the gold standard in any sort of veterinary school accreditation. Unless you live in the states or territories of Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana …

Veterinary technician degree programs provide students with the formal training they need to perform a variety of clinical and technical tasks in animal shelters, clinics, research labs, veterinarian’s offices and zoos. This important job requires accreditation and formal training to ensure that the individual has what it takes to meet the many technical demands of the veterinary technician profession. During a vet tech degree program, students become veterinary professionals.
There are many technical skills that students acquire during the completion of accredited veterinary technician degree programs, such as the following:

Hematology
Microbiology
Radiology procedures
Serology
Skin …