Dog Health Questions: Dog training at an animal shelter?

i am in middle school and i want to work at and animal shelter when i get older . i want to help dogs get healthier feed them, love them and find homes for them. I want to be able to make the dogs be happy and play with them and teach them tricks i want to know what does it take to do all of that and if i need a college degree and what kind of thing i will have to learn i don't care if it is volunteering as long as i can help the dogsi need the requirements,what kind of schooling,and i need to know what kind of job is it called to do all of those things?

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You don't need a degree to "work" at a shelter =) But, you could get one maybe while you are working there! =)

DOG SECTION REGULAR, do you HAVE to always be so rude with your answers? You are talking to a 12 or 13yr old child that wants to work with animals ...OR DID ..OMG!! ....you must be a sad lonely person to be so bitter all of the time!!!! Maybe Yahoo Answers is your imaginary job? Or, maybe you are spending WAY to much time on here..what a loser to tell a CHILD they will be killing animals if they work at a shelter...which is not the case anyway.

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• Try using more punctuation, please. You are very hard to understand.
  
  Why don't you ask your parents? Or maybe ask shelter workers what it takes to become a shelter worker.
  
  Understand it's not all fun and games at a shelter, you WILL have to receive a Euthanization Certification which means you WILL have to kill animals at your job on a daily basis.


• Animal shelters are run, usually, by the county. In order to work for the county, you must pass a civil service exam. Don't expect to get hired and just be playing with dogs all day. The new hires are the ones who clean up dog kennels, and all the other dirty work.


• You don't need any schooling to volunteer... you just have to meet the age requirement.


• 1. Volunteer at the shelter to clean. It's not a glamorous job, but minors usually can't walk the dogs. Even if that is allowed, don't take out wild dogs. Stick with docile, affectionate dogs only. Trust me, I volunteer often, and I can't believe the number of younger volunteers that come in and want to walk the dog aggressive 120 lb Chesapeake. It's fine to want to help, but make sure that you, the dog, and anyone you may encounter will be safe.
  
  2. Read, read, read. Anything you can get your hands on about dogs. Keep an open mind as you do. Patricia McConnell, Jean Donaldson, Pat Millar, and Karen Pryor are a start... but don't shy away from the more controversial such as Cesar Milan, or even William Koehler. You should have a solid understanding of all types of training, whichever one you prefer. Read up on psychology and learning theory in general, and the training of ALL animals, not just dogs.
  
  Staff do most training and take care of the essentials like food and cleaning, so volunteers are needed to do the exercising and one-on-one time, which is why strong volunteer bases are so important to shelters. There are trainers at larger animal shelters, and you could conceivably get a job as one with the right experience. A degree isn't as important as several solid apprenticeships with good trainers. It's not an easy job, not the best paying one, and not always a fun one, but it is interesting, challenging, and incredibly rewarding to train a dog, whether it's the mellow family pet or a severe fear biter.
  
  If you can't follow the path of a full-time trainer, consider fostering dogs. Fostering gives you all the benefits you have described without trying to deal with such a massive amount of stress on the dog. For example, my last foster, an unsocialized laboratory dog with happy tail, was overlooked because of his extreme stress and the blood from his injured tail flying everywhere. Four months of TLC and hard training made him a safe, responsive off-leash dog who gets to live in the country on a dairy farm. You get all the benefits, but don't necessarily have to invest your life in dogs if you have other big interests.