Kennel Hands

Kennel Hands provide routine care for dogs, including feeding, exercising, monitoring their health, and cleaning kennels.

What the job involves

• Bathes, cuts, combs, blow-dry's and styles pets' coats, clips their nails and cleans their ears

• Inspects, prepares, cleans, disinfects and maintains comfortable cages and enclosures

• Transports food, fills water troughs and feeds animals according to their individual needs

• Maintains animal health records, treats minor injuries and reports serious conditions to veterinarians

• Exercises and plays with animals, answers visitor questions and transfers animals between enclosures by leading or carrying them

• Dusts and sprays insecticides on animals and immerses them in insecticide baths to control insect pests