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If you love animals and want to help them stay happy and healthy, you may be interested in a career as a veterinary assistant. Veterinary assisting is a great first step along a career path in working with animals in veterinary medicine and other fields. Veterinary assistants provide qualified services in pet stores, kennels, breeding and livestock farms, grooming salons, ranches, zoos and many more places Prerequisites: • Minimum 18 years old • Copy of high school diploma or high school equivalency diploma • Acceptable scores in pre-entrance exam (High School reading and math skills) • Physical exam, including tetanus