Step into the world of veterinary medicine during this full-day camp for kids. Practice real techniques, interact with animals, and learn from professionals.

Meet a veterinarian who answers questions
Tour a companion animal hospital
Practice suturing on a banana
View cells under a microscope
Learn canine CPR on a training dummy
Perform a health check on a miniature horse

What's Included

Companion Animal Care & Management 101
Veterinary Surgical Nursing 100
Phlebotomy and Vaccination Lab
Splinting and Bandaging 101
Ornithology Digest Identification 101
Lagomorph Parasitology 100
Intro to Nutrition & Equine Clinical Techniques 100
Basics of Canine CPR and Intro to Anatomy

Things to know

Designed for kids ages 9 and up. Closed-toed shoes required and no clothing drawstrings. Campers must use the restroom independently; species may vary based on animal health and availability.

FAQs

Why is this priced higher than your Critter Camps?
In order to give campers the best and most hands-on experience with veterinary professionals and tools, we have to cover the costs of those increased services and materials. However this is an experience like no other and is truly demonstrating equipment and skills used in the industry!

The camp is offered several times a year, is each one different?
We run the same style of program on each date so they aren't designed to be different, but the half-day does have several different activities from the full-day!

Will my child be watching surgeries and/or helping the veterinarians out?
As amazing as that sounds, unfortunately neither situation will occur. We aren't equipped to run surgeries with an audience and for safety purposes, we cannot have untrained people assisting with animal medical care. Campers will meet a veterinarian and see a hospital, taking a tour and not actively assisting the staff.

My child wants to work with animals, should they become a veterinarian?
Veterinarian is often the first career we think of when it comes to working with animals, and it can be the perfect career for some people. However, pursuing the career is difficult, can be expensive, and might not be what everyone is looking for. There are a lot of ways you can work directly with animals, or indirectly support them. We discuss this at our career camps so join us to find out more!

Authorized Pick Up & ID Checking
For safety purposes we do not release children at pick up time to anyone not listed on the "authorized to pick up" list. We check ID daily at checkout time. To add someone to the authorized list, we must confirm you are one of the parents/guardians and then we can add additional names, or you can log into your account and add more yourself.

Making sure certain children are in the same group
During registration there is a section for "my child would like to be in the same class as" to add names. We group children by grade level first and only move older children down into younger groups. If you need your child with another child regardless of grade level, please contact the office to escalate your request.

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