Hi! I really love your blog & I find it really insightful. I'm just curious how you got into all of this?! I've always been so interested in marine life & now I'm 18 about to go to college, trying to figure my life out. I guess I'm looking for some advice also haha
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy my blog :)
If you’re looking to get into animal training, it definately helps if you have unpaid animal experience. Before I landed this internship with dolphins, I completed an internship at a zoo. And before I got my zoo internship, I did volunteer work at an aquarium and at a horse stable! Dolphin training internships are highly competitive, and typically you wont be considered if you have zero animal experience. So anything working with animals, even volunteering at a dog shelter, always helps!
As for college, many facilities prefer degrees related to Marine Bio, Zoology and Psychology… but honestly, there are many cases of animal trainers who have degrees in, like, Business or Computer Sciences. The type of degree doesn’t necessarily matter, but benefits you. I am majoring in Psychology and it has absolutely helped in my training internship, because I had learned aspects about operant and classical conditioning already!
I hope this helped a bit! Good luck in your future endeavors :D
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