Veterinary Kennel Technician

Ayers Animal Hospital•Huntington, WV

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The kennel tech is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of our patients in the hospital and boarding facility. This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating patients. You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies, helping with post-operative patients, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams. You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care. You may be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Requirements

Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods
Proper methods of animal restraint
Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment with skill and efficiency
Perform moderately heavy physical labor (large dogs, bags of litter, pet foods, etc)
Ability to sympathetically and patiently attend to sick, scared and injured animals
Ability to learn to administer medications and to recognize abnormal conditions
Understand and carry out oral and written directions
Maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of the job

Responsibilities

Care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of patients in the hospital and boarding facility
Cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating patients
Restocking hospital supplies
Helping with post-operative patients
Assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams
Proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care
Cleaning and sterilizing surgical instruments