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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2718828" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>In today's world the young people have a whole world of opportunities to get started in working with wildlife. The world of the computer has made it so that they can search for jobs that weren't often known of when I was a kid. I only knew about there being government trappers because I met some of them in person. They were hard working and dedicated to doing their work well, they lived outdoors, studied the animals that they worked with and were there being a part of their world. No, they didn't live in the limelight often they lived a low-profile life, kept to themselves, worked by themselves or with other government people. They often didn't make a lot of money and put in long hard days because that is what they truly loved to do. In today's world they are furnished their vehicles and all of the supplies that they need to do the work, they get some specialized training such as being sent to arial gunners' school, m-44 training and other types of training, they will be working with other professionals in the field to learn from them as well. If they have served in the military that time is counted toward their years of service, they have good medical insurance and a retirement program. For me it was about the challenge of doing a job that needed done for the ranchers to survive and do what they loved doing, agricultural work in an industrialized world feeding the people of the United States. I took pride in getting the problem animals that others had already tried to and hadn't yet gotten. But I also enjoyed just being out with the livestock and other animals, seeing things and places that I otherwise would never know existed, no it wasn't all rosy peaches and cream there were bad days as with any other job but for me the good outweighed the bad by a ton. If you think that you might be interested in doing animal control work, it's pretty easy to look at the jobs available just by going to the USDA, or Wildlife Services web site and seeing what is posted there, they have jobs all over the United States and it's not always about controlling coyotes that's just one aspect of it, there are other aspects of it as well. I got involved in a rabies study for my area of the state that I live in back in the 90's I trapped skunks in live traps and the euthanized them well I knew how to kill them so that they didn't spray by gently setting the trap in my truck and driving to a water hole and drowning them then removed the heads and sent them in for study. It was found in that manner that my area of the state had way more rabid skunks then was previously known, and that information was shared with the state vet and the ranchers. Nope it's not all glorious work but it's rewarding in its own way. If it's something you might want to do give them a look and a chance to see if it's for you. You will never know if you don't try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2718828, member: 91783"] In today's world the young people have a whole world of opportunities to get started in working with wildlife. The world of the computer has made it so that they can search for jobs that weren't often known of when I was a kid. I only knew about there being government trappers because I met some of them in person. They were hard working and dedicated to doing their work well, they lived outdoors, studied the animals that they worked with and were there being a part of their world. No, they didn't live in the limelight often they lived a low-profile life, kept to themselves, worked by themselves or with other government people. They often didn't make a lot of money and put in long hard days because that is what they truly loved to do. In today's world they are furnished their vehicles and all of the supplies that they need to do the work, they get some specialized training such as being sent to arial gunners' school, m-44 training and other types of training, they will be working with other professionals in the field to learn from them as well. If they have served in the military that time is counted toward their years of service, they have good medical insurance and a retirement program. For me it was about the challenge of doing a job that needed done for the ranchers to survive and do what they loved doing, agricultural work in an industrialized world feeding the people of the United States. I took pride in getting the problem animals that others had already tried to and hadn't yet gotten. But I also enjoyed just being out with the livestock and other animals, seeing things and places that I otherwise would never know existed, no it wasn't all rosy peaches and cream there were bad days as with any other job but for me the good outweighed the bad by a ton. If you think that you might be interested in doing animal control work, it's pretty easy to look at the jobs available just by going to the USDA, or Wildlife Services web site and seeing what is posted there, they have jobs all over the United States and it's not always about controlling coyotes that's just one aspect of it, there are other aspects of it as well. I got involved in a rabies study for my area of the state that I live in back in the 90's I trapped skunks in live traps and the euthanized them well I knew how to kill them so that they didn't spray by gently setting the trap in my truck and driving to a water hole and drowning them then removed the heads and sent them in for study. It was found in that manner that my area of the state had way more rabid skunks then was previously known, and that information was shared with the state vet and the ranchers. Nope it's not all glorious work but it's rewarding in its own way. If it's something you might want to do give them a look and a chance to see if it's for you. You will never know if you don't try. [/QUOTE]
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