[kirstymae01]

Can't be bothered finding an old thread on how much work experience all the 2013 applicants applying this october have haha, so thought i'd start a new one..

so yeah, what have all the 2013 applicants got so far?

[kalouki10]

A tiny amount compared to some people I have seen but here goes
1 week equine vets
1 week riding stables
1 week lambing
2 weeks small animal vets
1 week animal management unit (reptiles, chickens, llamas etc. they even had otters =D)
2 weeks lambing and pigs
1 week dairy farm
7 month part time job at small animal vets
4 month part time job at livery yard
3 days helping at my stable yard

I have also booked for summer
1 week small animal referral practice
1 week city farm
1 week large animal vets
1 day equine/canine physiotherapist
1 or 2 days with farrier

[kirstymae01]

wow seems like you've got plenty! But yeah there are some people that like to go overboard with it haha, but think it doesn't matter too much as long as you've got variety

[ellehamilton]

Mine seems really pathetic too

1 week small practice
1 week mixed practice
1 week dairy
1 week kennels/cattery
1 week riding stables (but have been riding every week since I was 5)
1 week aquatics
1 week exotics
3 days mixed farm work (sheep and lambs, cattle, pigs)
7 days lambing
2 weeks RSPCA cats and smalls
1 day radiography dept at Cambridge Veterinary Hospital

I've got a whole week booked at the Cambridge Veterinary Hospital and hopefully a week with and equine vet


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[Kysa]

2 weeks small animal rescue shelter
3 weeks small animal vet (two different places)
1 week companion animal farm
1 week mixed farm (mostly pigs)
2 weeks dairy
1 week lambing
1 week mixed vet (80% of the time was farm/equine, though)
1 year volunteering weekly at riding stables
1 month volunteering twice weekly at riding for the disabled stables
1 year volunteering weekly at cattery in animal rescue shelter


Planned

4.5 week research project at RVC
8 days London Zoo
1 week LA vet

But it's all very well listing weeks and places and stuff, but at the end of the day it's not the number of weeks, so long as that's above the uni requirements, but it's what you've taken from them.

[beckycat]

Mine isn't as great as some others that I've seen

3 weeks small vets
2 weeks large animal vets
2 weeks lambing
2 weeks dairy
1 week kennels
2 weeks riding stables
1 week goats
1 weeks exotics
1 day VLA
2 years part time job at small animal vets

I think I've just about covered everything now.

[BeHappy]

Hi

2 weeks diff SA vets
9 months (ongoing) at SA vets (about 2 weeks hours wise)
1 week LA vets
1 week kennels
2 weeks lambing
1 week afternoons at dairy
4 days pig/sheep farm
1 week VLA
1 week Donkeys
1 week stables
9 months (ongoing) part-time job cattery (about 2 weeks hours wise)

Planned more stables + dairy + poss other farm

[MarsBar*]

I feel so inadequate.

3.5 weeks over 3 diff SA vets
1 week LA vets
2 weeks lambing
1 week dairy (more planned)
1 day abattoir
1 week cattery
1 week horses (unofficially I'm pretty experienced, but got more booked for summer!)
1 week alpacas planned
Long term kennels which adds up to a lot of weeks over several years.

But I have very little compared to you guys!


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[Lucilou101]

(Original post by Kysa)
2 weeks small animal rescue shelter
3 weeks small animal vet (two different places)
1 week companion animal farm
1 week mixed farm (mostly pigs)
2 weeks dairy
1 week lambing
1 week mixed vet (80% of the time was farm/equine, though)
1 year volunteering weekly at riding stables
1 month volunteering twice weekly at riding for the disabled stables
1 year volunteering weekly at cattery in animal rescue shelter


Planned

4.5 week research project at RVC
8 days London Zoo
1 week LA vet

But it's all very well listing weeks and places and stuff, but at the end of the day it's not the number of weeks, so long as that's above the uni requirements, but it's what you've taken from them.

Im sure London Zoo stopped doing work experience at the end of 2011?

[Kysa]

Im sure London Zoo stopped doing work experience at the end of 2011?

They did, or at least for non-vet students. They are running a paid-for course called Zoo Academy, which is a combination of theory and practical stuff focusing on different animal groups. I can't wait

[Lucilou101]

(Original post by Kysa)
They did, or at least for non-vet students. They are running a paid-for course called Zoo Academy, which is a combination of theory and practical stuff focusing on different animal groups. I can't wait

Ahh.. a paid for course..
That involves money... something i lack!

[Kysa]

Ahh.. a paid for course..
That involves money... something i lack!

I know, it sucks, right? And they don't even let you pay it in instalments or anything... It was basically my birthday + christmas presents from my family put together.

[EllHv1]

2 weeks SA vets (2 practices)
1 year at SA vets (weekly half-day - breaks down to roughly 3-4 weeks)
9 month kennel/cattery placement (breaks down to a week)
1 week lambing
1 week dairy farm

Booked:
1 week petting zoo farm
2 weeks wildlife rescue centre/hospital
1 week Safari Park

Need to sort out:
large animal..
horsey stabley stuff
more dairy farm
and more………. damn I feel behind o.O

[Ogrice80]

(Original post by Lucilou101)
Im sure London Zoo stopped doing work experience at the end of 2011?

I don't know where abouts you live but Bristol zoo do free work experience. I did it for 2 weeks last Easter. It was fantastic! I saw so many operations on exotic animals, and helped to carry out post mortems. I'd highly recommend it if you can. Here's a link: http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/volunteer

On the right hand side at the bottom there's a pdf for the Vet externship

[estudiante_numero1]

Hmmm...evidently not enough, aha!

2 weeks small animal practice
1 week (long-term) there ^
1 week another small animal practice
3 weeks (long-term) there ^
1 week joint kennels and cattery
1 week lambing
1 week wildlife park/zoo
1 week dairy farm
2 days exotic vets
1 week pig farm
1 week public/community farm (mainly poultry)
1 week equine hospital
1 week equine laboratory
3.2 weeks (long-term) volunteering at Riding for the Disabled Association
1 week stables
2 weeks (long-term) there ^
1 day abattoir
1 day shadowing a farm vet (on-call)

Best of luck everyone!

[Lucilou101]

(Original post by Ogrice80)
I don't know where abouts you live but Bristol zoo do free work experience. I did it for 2 weeks last Easter. It was fantastic! I saw so many operations on exotic animals, and helped to carry out post mortems. I'd highly recommend it if you can. Here's a link: http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/volunteer

On the right hand side at the bottom there's a pdf for the Vet externship

This sounds amazing! I like down South but i can always stay in a B&B!
I might be going to Chessington Zoo next year so this will be great tooo!

Thankyou!

[jordanelouise]

1 week LA vets
2 weeks SA vets
1 week mixed vets
- led to a job since since may 09
4 weeks stables
1 week kennels and cattery
- led onto a job since august 11
2 weeks lambing
1 week vet lab
1 week public farm
1 week alpaca, goat, donkey and sheep farm
1 week stud farm

need to sort out a dairy and an animal rescue centre and try find some others!

[Pink_tabby_kitten]

2.5 year - 2 hours week Cats Protection
2.5year - 2 day week + RSPCA
1 week stables
3.5 weeks SA vet
1 year work field animal - Wood Green Animals Charity
National Trust Education work? (children and nature)

Booked:
3 days Dick White referral vets
2 weeks Banham Zoo
2 weeks Cambridge labs
poss. 1 week alpaca farm

plus foster feral kittens have one stretched out purring on my lap as I type this


Really need to find more large animal/ equine - fens=problem as arable farmland, somehow living near Newmarket still makes it impossible to get horse work due to insurance!


Good luck guys!!

[TravellerBecka]

Ohhhh my goodness.
Just looking at everyones experience I still don't feel I have enough.
I looked at a thread last year and pushed the boat out to get more, and I thought I'd done good until I saw this thread.

Unis also look at what you learnt from experience. A lecturer told me on an open day,
''It's about what YOU want to get out of the experience. We will look more favourably on people who have spent one week somewhere but asked a lot of questions and got involved, over someone who has spent a year there but only cleaned up.''

(tried to get variety over quantity)
Couldn't get lambing work anywhere so here's what I have so far:

2 Weeks companion animal vets (1 at each of two different surgeries)
1 Week pet shop
1 Week animal sanctuary assistant (farm and domestic animals)
1 day every two weeks for six months at a Livestock Market
5 Weeks bird sanctuary assistant
2 Weeks at a Zoo
1 Week exotic vet
1 Week Vet specialising in Equine

Hopefully will get in some volunteering with rspca but ATM they have no space for more volunteers.
Also applied for position in a laboratory, should hear back soon.

I'm also going to put things about my 4 other volunteering positions that aren't animal related as well as hobbies.

Do you think I have a strong application?

[TravellerBecka]

(Original post by Pink_tabby_kitten)
2.5 year - 2 hours week Cats Protection
2.5year - 2 day week + RSPCA
1 week stables
3.5 weeks SA vet
1 year work field animal - Wood Green Animals Charity
National Trust Education work? (children and nature)

Booked:
3 days Dick White referral vets
2 weeks Banham Zoo
2 weeks Cambridge labs
poss. 1 week alpaca farm

plus foster feral kittens have one stretched out purring on my lap as I type this


Really need to find more large animal/ equine - fens=problem as arable farmland, somehow living near Newmarket still makes it impossible to get horse work due to insurance!


Good luck guys!!

When are you going to Banham zoo? Go on, say it's 23rd July-3rd August