During your stay you may have the chance to operate in our mobile veterinary clinic trailer, or be based in a static building. It is important to note that most of the time we do not work in a vet clinic, but rather in buildings like schools, hospitals and outhouses which have been temporarily set up for our use. As such we require vets who are confident and competent at providing surgical intervention in a field setting. 

You will need to be very confident at all aspects of sterilisation work (based on your qualification). This is not a traing course, and we are not able to teach during these missions, so we are seeking those already comfortable to operate (or nurse) mostly unassisted. You will be expected to be comfortable operating on all sizes of cat and dog and you can expect a number of big guard dog types.  So if you enjoy fast paced, high quality, high volume sterilisation, this is for you! 

The whole team works together and gets stuck in to assist one another. We require volunteers to be flexible, open minded, and with a good sense of humour. You may need it pick up the occasional poop, help catch and move animals, clean up your surgical area and cages at the end of each day. As with all of our project locations, we perform medicine and surgery to the highest standards. We utilise intramuscular induction of anaesthesia, propofol top-ups, place intravenous cathaters, and provide good analgesia. Whilst we expect each vet to do 10 or more sterilizations each day (much higher at times) we never compromise quality for quantity.