Quick question

Does anyone know what you are called if you work in a animal hospital and boarding facility and your chief responsibilities include, grooming, walking, cleaning cages, and administering medications?

Thanks!

I do that for a living, and I call myself a pet care specialist. I had to go through a bunch of training to get it, so I figure I deserve the name specialist!

I've heard Kennel tech, kennel assistant, and at my vet that falls under the duties of the non-certified vet techs.

Ditto that.

I did that a few years back and the tile I was hired under was "Kennel Attendant"

Thanks guys, that's pretty much what I thought. My mom was here tonight typing her cover letter for a hospital/boarding office and wasn't sure what the position titles would be.

I was hired as a Kennel Technician at the clinic... then Animal Caretaker at the state vet school.

"Kennel Assistant" at the vet's office where I'm currently working.

Kennel assistants give medications?

At my clinic, even us certified Vet Techs clean parvo kennels and walk dogs.

When I was kennel help, I took care of parvo dogs, game meds (pills, liquids, injections)... fed/groomed/exed dogs... cleaned bowls, washed blankets, cleaned cages, hosed out runs, swept/mopped... changed the garbage... and even took dogs to the crematory. I did *everything*, to the point that they hired an actual tech to do my job when I left to groom professionally.

At the state teaching hospital, I did less of the medicating, but my responsibilites were more, um... oomphy. I wasn't talking care of boarders, I was taking care of the dogs that had just undergone double TPLOs, post-op intensive care dogs... dogs with much more serious issues than at the clinic.