Work Experience

For my work experience i went to the DSPCA Animal shelter. I had a good week however i prefered my first work experience in an equine hospital.

Every morning i got up at half 6 with my dad. I had to wear old, warm, waterproof clothes. I made my lunch and was out the door by 6.55. The bus stop is right outside my estate so i was there on time to get the 7.00 bus. It took me about 25 mins to get to huston station. From there, i got the luas to tallagh. This took about half an hour. Finaly i got a taxi from the last luas stop to the shelter and i was there roughly around 8.20 every morning.
I wasn't expected to start work until nine o clock however after a cup of tea, i started.

For the first three days i worked in the rehoming section of the shelter. There were so many cute dogs that had awful backgrounds and needed good homes. Every morning i had to help clean out their kenals, feed them, and take them for walks. Each dog needed 3 walks a day and some time in a run to get attention and play. I loved taking out the pupies because they were so playful.

After the morning jobs were done, i went and had my lunch. Lunch was from 1pm - 2pm. There were four other people my age on work experience there too.

After lunch we had to take the dogs on their second and third walks. There was no other jobs to be done until the evening so we basically just played with the dogs.

On Wednesday evening, i got moved to the treatment section of the shelter. I realy enjoyed this part of the week as it was way more interesting. In this section, the dogs were separated and all of them were under treatement. Many of them had horrible diseases that looked very painfull. I had to help the manager, Paul, to give the dogs with skin diseases baths. The dogs hated them so i got soaked ha.

My favourite part of the week was spending time with the vets. I had to bring some of the dogs in treatment up to the clinic for vaccines and different medicines so i got to talk to the vet about loads of things. I found this very interesting as i want to be a vet when im older.

I realy enjoyed the last part of my week that i spent in the treatment setion and i will hopefully volunteer there in the future.