Posted January 4, 200817 yr I'm so excited, I've been dancing around my house for the past twenty minutes. I get to do three weeks at Springvale Animal Hospital! It's one of the three clinics in Melbourne that specifically take birds (and reptiles), as well as the furry pets. I will be staying at a friend's house and bussing there and back (one hour trip), but I don't care - burdies!! They have a specially designed avian surgery, with tiny scopes and other equipment. The head vet isn't a specialist yet, but it is one of his special interests. Yay! After all this stress about finding a place to start off work experience (I've been calling and calling with no luck - I was in tears yesterday!), what better news can there be? Background information: My requirements for work experience are, by July 2009, I must have completed 12 weeks of experience. This includes 4 weeks regional, 4 weeks rural, and 4 weeks government work. It means I get basically zero holiday time, but I'll be learning and hopefully enjoying what I do. In other news, I'm going to go on a trip with the vet school to South Africa in December! It will set me back something like 7 grand, but it will be worth it - lions, elephants, giraffes! All from a vet's perspective. I'm so excited about this year Edited January 4, 200817 yr by Chrysocome
January 4, 200817 yr Oh, yah!!! :parrot: Well done! That's fantastic. You'll have so much fun. I'd love to be a vet... And Africa!!!!!!! I'm sure your 7 grand will be worth every cent. I hope to go there in the next few year for a safari... Once again, congratulations on that wonderfull news Here's to YOUR 2008
January 4, 200817 yr Brilliant news I am so glad its all moving forward for you in so many positive ways. Good news and I am so happy for you
January 4, 200817 yr Oh Wow Chryso!!! That's sounds so awesome, i am so jealous!!! We have to do 14 weeks total of practical farm work by June 2008 and then after that we have to do 6 weeks of practical work at a vet clinic by 2010 Cool. I'm really glad you found somewhere so good I could have gone to that convention in Africa, but I decided not too...too poor
January 4, 200817 yr Author Thank you scottie, maesie, lonebudgie, Kaz. I'm certainly excited about it all. Sailor- thanks. I love hearing about your adventures and your course, how it differs from ours. We seem to have it the other way - 8 weeks farms and 12 weeks at a clinic. I know all about being poor - saving up for this has been a killer for me, and I'll have to get a few loans. I have to put off getting a car and my braces for another year. But let me know if you plan to go to any other conventions. Otherwise I hope we run into each other at some time in our careers, and roam around being world famous bird vets or something I can dream! Edited January 4, 200817 yr by Chrysocome
January 4, 200817 yr Very cool, congratulations!! I am excited to start hearing about all your experiences working at the clinic.
January 4, 200817 yr wow what brilliant news!!!!!!!! And I'm so jealous about south africa trip!!!!!!!!!
January 5, 200817 yr Haha yeah that'll will be fun. Well one day I plan on coming to Aussie to do some work there for a year.
January 7, 200817 yr I'm so excited, I've been dancing around my house for the past twenty minutes. I get to do three weeks at Springvale Animal Hospital! It's one of the three clinics in Melbourne that specifically take birds (and reptiles), as well as the furry pets. I will be staying at a friend's house and bussing there and back (one hour trip), but I don't care - burdies!! They have a specially designed avian surgery, with tiny scopes and other equipment. The head vet isn't a specialist yet, but it is one of his special interests. Yay! After all this stress about finding a place to start off work experience (I've been calling and calling with no luck - I was in tears yesterday!), what better news can there be? Background information: My requirements for work experience are, by July 2009, I must have completed 12 weeks of experience. This includes 4 weeks regional, 4 weeks rural, and 4 weeks government work. It means I get basically zero holiday time, but I'll be learning and hopefully enjoying what I do. In other news, I'm going to go on a trip with the vet school to South Africa in December! It will set me back something like 7 grand, but it will be worth it - lions, elephants, giraffes! All from a vet's perspective. I'm so excited about this year Wow, that's awesome news, I'm so very jealous! (Laughing out loud) And going to Africa, what an experience! If you don't mind me asking, where do you do your vet course? As within the next couple of years I'm hoping to go back as 'mature age student' and do a vet or vet nurse course, so I'm beginning to look at my options .
January 8, 200817 yr Hey when are you doing this? That is my vets and I have to got take them in for their yearly check in the next few weeks so if you are there you can say Hi to my gang!
January 10, 200817 yr Author Thanks all for the warm wishes. Bec Sta: I'm at Melbourne Uni, so I guess that's convenient for you hey? I'm sure you've got enough info about the course already, but if you have any questions feel free to ask! I know a bit about the other vet unis in Australia too. Angelic Vampyre: It's so obvious but it totally escaped me! Of course there would be someone here who has Springavale as their vet! Well, I'll be there from the 21st Jan to the 8th, and I'd really love to meet your flock! :rip:
January 10, 200817 yr Are you going to be working weekends cause I have been looking at my calendar and it looks like I am going to be bringing them and my puppies down on the 2nd of feb maybe I will see you there.
January 10, 200817 yr Congrats!! That is so exciting for you! :rip: I don't think i've shared this news here yet, but for the next two years i'll be doing a diploma in Animal Technology at the local CIT. As part of the first semester i have to do 80hrs work experience, and i would love for that to be at an avian vet. It sucks that it'll have to be done in my school holidays though. Edited January 10, 200817 yr by Bea
January 10, 200817 yr Thanks all for the warm wishes. Bec Sta: I'm at Melbourne Uni, so I guess that's convenient for you hey? I'm sure you've got enough info about the course already, but if you have any questions feel free to ask! I know a bit about the other vet unis in Australia too. Angelic Vampyre: It's so obvious but it totally escaped me! Of course there would be someone here who has Springavale as their vet! Well, I'll be there from the 21st Jan to the 8th, and I'd really love to meet your flock! Cheers Chrysocome .
January 10, 200817 yr That sounds great !!! And the African trip too . Hope you are planing to take lots of pictures Edited January 10, 200817 yr by Zebra
January 19, 200817 yr Author Angelic Vampyre - I'll probably be there that day, in the morning. Hopefully I'll run into you Bea - that is freaking fantastic! Good look with finding birdy experience. And hey, I get basically zero holidays from all this work! Zebra - Sure am! For both cases. I'll be sure to post them here. Well, I'm packing tonight and heading off tomorrow for Springvale! There shall be many pictures and I'll try to keep you all updated on what I get up to
January 19, 200817 yr Well, I'm packing tonight and heading off tomorrow for Springvale! There shall be many pictures and I'll try to keep you all updated on what I get up to I hope you enjoy yourself! I can't wait to hear about how everything's going.
January 19, 200817 yr have a great trip, l look forward in reading about your experience :budgiedance:
February 6, 200817 yr Author Whew, what a day! I am coming up onto the end of my three weeks, and boy what an experience it has been! Again, I'll have to do a good summary when I finish on Friday. As for today. Springvale's breakdown of animals goes like this: 50% dogs, 25% cats, 10% birds, 5% other. Today in the hospital we had: -Four baby superb parrots -Three plumheads -Two sun conures (and a partridge in a pear tree?) -Two budgies -A scaly-breasted lorrikeet -A rainbow lorikeet -A magpie -A kestrel Plus two cats and a rabbit. What a bizarre day! And it was certainly very noisy out back there! Most of those birds were in to be surgically sexed. The vet did it by putting them on a mask for anaesthetic, making a little skin incision and using a scope to look inside the abdomen for reproductive organs. The maggie and kestrel are wildlife cases, we're just observing them before release. The kestrel gorgeous, I've never seen one that close! I'm getting pics up as soon as I can!
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