Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 22:01:03 GMT -5
Hi my name is Jessica.
I am 20 years old and working on my BS in Zoology with minors in Chemistry and Animal Science. I will be graduating with an Honors Degree and a Certificate in Companion Animal Nutrition.
I currently attend SIUC as a full time student as well as working 3 jobs. I work as a receptionist/kennel care giver at an animal hospital, a cashier at my campus grocery store, and a as a lab/research assistant at my campus Parasitology Lab. Actually, the research I am doing in the Parasitology lab is looking promising in that I may have found a new species. So I might be published soon (
). Last summer I interned at my local no-kill shelter as a vet assistant and this summer I have a paid internship at Peaceful Pastures in Tennessee working with large animals.
Once I finish with my undergrad, I am going to apply to vet school and we'll just see where that takes me. I have always been an animal person. When I was younger I would have any 'pet' that I could catch: turtles, lizards, snakes, frogs, caterpillars, moths, lightening bugs, snails, crickets, prey mantises etc. Of course I would end up releasing them back into the wild. And then there were my stray 'pets' that I would feed. My family has always had dogs and now I currently have 3 ferrets, 2 fish, and I help my roommate take care of her bunny.
Here is Zazu (male, deaf, 7 months petco bought) and I after his walk
Zazu and Xena (female, maybe 1 yr?, adopted at shelter old family just released her into the wild) tuckered out after a play date
This is Binxi a.k.a Little Bear (male, 3 months, convinced some new friends to give him to me because they had him on horrible cat food, in a tiny cage, and never let him out)
My Gold fish (Sea King and Francais respectively)
My roomates and my bunny (Checkers a.k.a Bun Bun adopted)
I am 20 years old and working on my BS in Zoology with minors in Chemistry and Animal Science. I will be graduating with an Honors Degree and a Certificate in Companion Animal Nutrition.
I currently attend SIUC as a full time student as well as working 3 jobs. I work as a receptionist/kennel care giver at an animal hospital, a cashier at my campus grocery store, and a as a lab/research assistant at my campus Parasitology Lab. Actually, the research I am doing in the Parasitology lab is looking promising in that I may have found a new species. So I might be published soon (
). Last summer I interned at my local no-kill shelter as a vet assistant and this summer I have a paid internship at Peaceful Pastures in Tennessee working with large animals.Once I finish with my undergrad, I am going to apply to vet school and we'll just see where that takes me. I have always been an animal person. When I was younger I would have any 'pet' that I could catch: turtles, lizards, snakes, frogs, caterpillars, moths, lightening bugs, snails, crickets, prey mantises etc. Of course I would end up releasing them back into the wild. And then there were my stray 'pets' that I would feed. My family has always had dogs and now I currently have 3 ferrets, 2 fish, and I help my roommate take care of her bunny.
Here is Zazu (male, deaf, 7 months petco bought) and I after his walk
Zazu and Xena (female, maybe 1 yr?, adopted at shelter old family just released her into the wild) tuckered out after a play date
This is Binxi a.k.a Little Bear (male, 3 months, convinced some new friends to give him to me because they had him on horrible cat food, in a tiny cage, and never let him out)
My Gold fish (Sea King and Francais respectively)
My roomates and my bunny (Checkers a.k.a Bun Bun adopted)
Good luck with the vet school. We need more vets who if not completely "pro-raw", will at least not be "anti-raw"!