For Pet's Sake is a private practice devoted 100% to birds, reptiles, and exotic mammals. Students will get hands-on experience with medicine, husbandry, surgery and practice management.
Students will work side-by-side with a veterinarian on medical and surgical case management. The practice only accepts one extern or preceptor at a time. Students will assist or perform under supervision castration and OHE of small mammals such as rabbits (as available). Students will learn various techniques for laboratory sampling, restraint, anesthesia, and diagnostic imaging on the different species. Students will participate in client education on animal husbandry and at-home care. Owner offers full disclosure on practice finances and emphasizes practice management.
The practice subscribes to JAVMA, AJVR, Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine, Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery, and the Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery. We have an extensive library of exotic animal medicine textbooks and references. The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine's reading room is approximately an hour away. Emory University's medical library is right around the corner.
Communicating with the doctors and staff, the student shall be responsible for in-house treatment management. Students are given full privileges on wildlife case management. Students and staff are expected to arrive at work at or before 9 a.m. Our hospital is open until 6 p.m. M-F and 2 p.m. on Saturday; however, we go home when the work is done. Students are expected to lend a hand wherever needed with such chores as cage cleaning and maintaining general hospital tidiness.