Talk with the Animals
Experience how veterinarians use their five senses to “talk” to animals to work up real medical and surgical cases. Students will interact with pets, examine specimens, and use veterinary tools to solve real patient cases.
Bandaging Lab
Why do veterinarians use bandages? Students will discuss the reasons, do, and don’ts of bandaging. Students will participate in various bandage applications on models and participate in live patient demonstrations.
Pets and Pollution
Students will explore the various ways pollution affect both owned pets and the animals who share our world. We will delve into how veterinary scientist work to combat this growing problem.
Safety First! Animal Restraint
How do veterinarians and their technicians subdue different types of animals such as cows, sharks, lions, birds, aggressive pets, etc. Students will learn about safety for the animal and the handler and practice various restraint techniques for a host of species.
Aviculture
Together we will learn about the raising and care if birds both in captivity and in the wild. This is a great foundation course for our next session of Avian Medicine.