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Animal Care Animal Care Intro to Proper Animal Intro to Proper Animal cleaning, handling, and cleaning, handling, and Care Care

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Animal Care. Intro to Proper Animal cleaning, handling, and Care. KEEP IN MIND. Misconduct with or around the animals is a Level II offense and will be written up. More hands make the work lighter Perform your assigned task completely. Tasks will be rotated weekly. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Animal CareAnimal Care

Intro to Proper Animal Intro to Proper Animal cleaning, handling, and Carecleaning, handling, and Care

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KEEP IN MINDKEEP IN MIND• Misconduct with or around the

animals is a Level II offense and will be written up.

• More hands make the work lighter– Perform your assigned task completely. – Tasks will be rotated weekly.

• Your performance will be evaluated. – Poor performance will result in no

animal privileges.

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Step 1: Receive you AnimalStep 1: Receive you Animal

• You be broken up into groups of 2-4 students.

• The groups will be assigned a cage to clean.

• Each group will be required to complete each step correctly and completely before being evaluated by the teacher.

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Removing your animalRemoving your animal

• 1 student will be responsible for watching the animal once removed from the cage. – The animal is either held in the lap or

placed in a holding container• Acceptable holding containers include

– Box, Ball (mice only), or Hide A Way house

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Safe Handling of your Safe Handling of your AnimalAnimal

• Rabbit• Mice

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Safe Handling of your Safe Handling of your AnimalAnimal

• ALWAYS SUPPORT YOUR ANIMAL’S FULL WEIGHT!

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Safe Handling of your Safe Handling of your AnimalAnimal

• Rat• Chinchilla

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Safe Handling of your Safe Handling of your AnimalAnimal

Parakeets do not get removed from their cage

Snakes cages are cleaned once a month only.

• Hedgehog

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Cleaning your Cage: Small Cleaning your Cage: Small AnimalsAnimals• Step 1: Remove animal to a safe secure place.

No Escaping! • Step 2: Empty your dirty bedding into the

large trash can. – You can use a scope or CAREFULLY carry the cage and

dump it

• Step 3: WIPE OUT the cage with a wet paper towel and any available cleaner

• Step 4: Add new bedding– 2 inches of chips (LOW OIL)– 1 hand full (about a cup)

• Cedar (for smell) (NONE for hedgies) • Shredded news paper (add 2 hand fulls for mice and rats) None

for Ferrets

• Step 5: Replace animal in the cage, remove and throw out old food

• Step 6: Sweep ALL bedding around your cage onto the floor. It will be swept up.

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Cleaning your cage: BirdsCleaning your cage: Birds• Step 1: Remove bottom

tray • Step 2: Throw away old

bedding• Step 3: Wipe the tray

clean• Step 4: Replace bedding• Step 5: Replace tray • Step 6: Sweep around

your cage

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Feeding your AnimalFeeding your Animal• Rats and Mice

– MORE PELLETS THAN SEEDS– Mixture of seeds and pellets. Fill the

bowls on Wed , Top off bowls on Friday, Fill halfway on Mondays

• Hedgies– Fill bowl with pellets. Cover the top with

meal worms (Only on Wednesday

• Rabbits– Top off gravity feed bins. Hand full of hay

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Feeding your AnimalFeeding your Animal• Chinchilla

– Fill bowl half full with pellets. Hand full of hay

• Guinea Pigs– Line the bottom of bowl with feed. Hand full of

hay

• Birds– Fill bird seed container

• Ferrets– Fill feed container

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Almost Done!Almost Done!

• Finally water your animal! • Dump out the old water• Run HOT water in the water bottle• Dump out hot water• Refill water bottle with cold water• Place the water bottle properly in the

cage

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Take a MomentTake a Moment• After the animal has been clean, fed,

and watered:– Take a moment to observe your animal.

• Is it acting strangely? • Does it appear to be in good health? • No signs of pain or injury?

• Make sure ALL openings in the cage are secure. – Contact teacher immediately if there is

a problem

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Finishing Touches Finishing Touches • When animals are out, observe for

health – Nails need to be cut? Lesions? Tender

areas sensitive to pain?

• Report to teacher for evaluation of cage once completed

• Wait quietly until dismissed– You may “play” with your animal after

you have been cleared by your teacher

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ConclusionConclusion• Having animals is a privilege!! • Lets take care of them!

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Animal Care Quiz! Animal Care Quiz!

• Take the quiz! • Turn it in! • Will be graded!• Passing= allowed to sign the paper

stating you are qualified to care for our critters!