Life Skills Gained
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| This is Louie- My favorite bird at the Ark Pet Shop |
My first year at Iowa State was a quest to decide what I wanted to do when i grow up! I knew I was good at science- then I just needed to find a path that I enjoyed as well as performed well in. My job at the Ark Pet Shop in Ames Iowa helped me to do just that. I discovered I LOVE ANIMALS. This passion grew beyond my love of Animal Planet and Zoobooks when I was a kid and the constant begging my mother for pet fish, dogs, cats and eventually birds.
The Ark Pet Shop developed many skills. I learned:
-How to deal with all sorts of people
-How to tell people 'no' when I really didn't feel like what they were doing was right
-How to sell-sell-sell
-Proper handling of all sorts of animals, Cats, Reptiles, Amphibians, Small Mammals, Birds, Fish and even Insects
-Husbandry including feeding, cleaning, mating, displaying or hatching, previously mentioned animals.
-Aquarium Maintenance- set-up, tear down, transportation, water chemistry, filtration
-Basic fish disease prevention and diagnosis
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| 75 gallon salt water tank with 20 gallon sump |
- 3 Cats
- 1 Springer Spaniel
- 1 Columbian Red Tail Boa Constrictor
- 3 Crested Geckos- 1 male and 2 breeding females
- 13 Fish tanks including freshwater planted tanks and saltwater systems
- 1 Cockatiel
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| Jayda- Springer Spaniel |
"We can judge a man by his treatment of animals"- Immanuel Kant
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of ones soul remains unawakened"- Anatole France
