Bailee Smothers
Buckner,Missouri
Summary
Skilled animal care team member striving to promote animal health, wellness, and comfort with high-quality care to distressed felines, canines, and exotics with compassion. Support procedures at all stages with organized and efficient assistance. Help team members work productively and meet needs of many animals each day by keeping supplies organized and rooms ready for new patients.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Veterinary Technician
Mission Animal Clinic
Mission, Kansas
10.2023 - Current
- Effectively managed time-sensitive tasks while maintaining high-quality patient care through multitasking abilities during busy shifts at the clinic.
- Educated clients on preventive care measures such as vaccination schedules, heartworm prevention, flea/tick control, dental hygiene, and nutrition guidelines.
- Administered medications and vaccinations to animals under the supervision of a veterinarian, ensuring proper dosage and administration techniques.
- Facilitated stress-free visits for pets and owners with calm and patient demeanor.
- Monitored vital signs of animals during surgical procedures and provided postoperative care.
Naturalist
Lakeside Nature Center
03.2023 - Current
- Provide rehabilitation and veterinary services to orphaned and injured wild animals in Missouri with the goal to release back into their established territory
- Partner with Operation Wildlife, KC Parks and Recreation, Missouri Department of Conservation, and Missouri Department of Natural Resources
- Community education and engagement of relationship between wildlife and human populations
- Animal rehabilitation and release plan for all Missouri native wildlife
- Follow protocols for Raccoon intake, assessment, rehabilitation, and release in regards to Parvo, Distemper, and Rabies
- Animal intake protocol and assessment
- Animal wound care and debridement
- Animal tube and syringe feedings; diet preparation
- Draw and administer shots/vaccines
- Develop and maintain interpretive displays and exhibits to educate the public
Animal Care Staff
Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead
04.2022 - Current
- Coordinate and collaborate response to diseases and viruses
- Follow USDA compliance daily
- Continue self-educated research with experts in order to be proactive for future situations
- Assist veterinarian and farrier with animal and hoof assessments and care
- Work closely with other animal care attendants, supervisors, and veterinarian
- Amend and accommodate pond enclosures due to the Avian flu
- Assess and treat acute injury and illness
- Work in all weather conditions
- Dairy cow milking and dairy presentations to public twice daily
- Enclosure maintenance
- Feeding out, diet preparation, enrichment exercises to all animals on the farm
- Work and care of: American bison, Texas longhorn, pygmy goats, dairy goats, Angus beef cattle, Guernsey dairy cattle, Brown Swiss dairy cattle, Jersey dairy cattle, chickens, shetland sheep, Katahdin sheep, turkeys, rabbits, prairie dogs, turkey vulture, barred owl, American eagle, red-tailed hawk, bobcats, and peafowl
- Present educational programs on animals, answer animal care questions from the public everyday
- Delivered: Angora goat kids, lambs, and Pygmy-Nigerian dwarf goat kids
Farm Hand/Owner
Engel-Woods Family Farms
05.2021 - Current
- Control fungi, weeds, and insects through research, then implemented effective use of different chemical applications
- Conduct surveys on CRP, evaluated success of crop production based on geographical differences
- Farm maintenance
- Livestock care
- Studied topography map readings of farmland
- Used ATV and tractor to check livestock, crops, fence lines, and inspected quality of water sources as it relates to cattle access and erosion
Wildlife Rehabilitation Intern
Lakeside Nature Center
05.2020 - 08.2020
- Animal intake information
- Cleaned cages, laundry, and dishes
- Maintained enclosures for display education animals, aviary, and rehab rooms
- Turtle wound care
- Raptor handling techniques for American kestrel, Peregrine falcon, turkey vulture, barn owl, barred owl, screech owl, American crow, and Cooper’s Hawk
- Released: American kestrel, screech owls, opossums, songbirds, cottontails
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Northwest Missouri State University
12.2021
Skills
- Problem solver
- Adaptable
- Collaborative
- Critical thinker
- Attentive to detail
- Strong work ethic
- Multi-tasker
- Vigilant
- Empathetic
Timeline
Veterinary Technician
Mission Animal Clinic
10.2023 - Current
Naturalist
Lakeside Nature Center
03.2023 - Current
Animal Care Staff
Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead
04.2022 - Current
Farm Hand/Owner
Engel-Woods Family Farms
05.2021 - Current
Wildlife Rehabilitation Intern
Lakeside Nature Center
05.2020 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Science -
Northwest Missouri State University
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