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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.9 - handling animals S6.9.7 - providing therapy or veterinary treatment for animals Perform surgical procedures on animals
Description
Apply operative manual and instrument specific techniques on an animal with the intention of modifying physiological status, and/or restoring normal organ or tissue function or structure.
This includes castrations and dehorning.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 2 (Professionals)
Essential for
- Specialised veterinarianSpecialised veterinarians are professionals with a comprehensive scientific education. They have the authority to carry out, in an independent, ethical, and personally responsible …
- General veterinarianGeneral veterinarians are professionals with a comprehensive scientific education. They have the authority to carry out, in an independent, ethical, and personally responsible capa…
Related skills
- Animal recovery procedures
- Maintain veterinary clinical records
- Develop an animal handling strategy
- Provide sedation to animals
- Implant microchips in animals
- Take advantage of learning opportunities in veterinary science
- Make decisions regarding the animal’s welfare
- Maintain administrative records in the veterinary office
- Perform euthanasia on animals
- Apply veterinary epidemiology
- Assess animal nutrition
- Provide animal training
- Understand the animal’s situation
Last updated on February 18, 2026
