Dakota Moreaux
Grand Island,FL
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Self-motivated, supporting infrastructure for animal care and adoption efforts. Committed to promoting humane and caring assistance with animals to promote positive outcomes. Dependable with superior work ethic. Diligent and hardworking dedicated to giving optimal animal care and support to animals in the shelter, Building positive relationships with owners and trust with animals.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Veterinary Technician
Leesburg Humane Society
Leesburg, FL
03.2024 - Current
- Performed daily feeding and watering and cleaned animal enclosures for rescued animals.
- Helped to ensure that all shelter animals were healthy and up-to-date on vaccinations.
- Participated in adoption events by helping potential adopters select an animal and answering questions about pet care.
- Facilitated positive interactions between potential adopters and animals.
- Educated visitors about responsible pet ownership through presentations and conversations at public outreach events.
- Maintained animal shelter by cleaning and disinfecting kennels, cages and equipment, washing dishes and laundry, taking out garbage and performing custodial duties.
- Promoted safe animal handling practices, offering care and enrichment to shelter animals.
- Performed daily feeding and watering and cleaned animal enclosures for rescued animals.
- Observed shelter animals for unusual symptoms indicative of medical or behavioral problems, reporting issues to shelter manager.
- Fostered animals, providing temporary homes and care.
Veterinary Technician
Cat Protection Society
Eustis , FL
04.2023 - 03.2024
- Provided care for animals by feeding, cleaning cages, walking dogs, and providing companionship.
- Helped to ensure that all shelter animals were healthy and up-to-date on vaccinations.
- Participated in adoptions by helping potential adopters select an animal and answering questions about pet care.
- Conducted tours of the facility to demonstrate how the organization cares for its animals.
- Educated visitors about responsible pet ownership through presentations and conversations at the shelter.
- Facilitated volunteer orientations to introduce new volunteers to the organization's mission and policies.
- Maintained animal shelter by cleaning and disinfecting kennels, cages and equipment, washing dishes and laundry, taking out garbage and performing custodial duties.
- Provided administrative support such as filing documents or making copies of forms.
- Answered telephone inquiries regarding available pets and other services provided by the shelter.
- Managed inventory of supplies used in daily operations at the shelter.
- Promoted safe animal handling practices, offering care and enrichment to shelter animals.
- Observed shelter animals for unusual symptoms indicative of medical or behavioral problems, reporting issues to shelter manager.
- Helped visitors to select and adopt appropriate animals based upon needs and requirements.
- Fostered animals, providing temporary homes and care.
- Assisted with administering medications to animals under supervision.
- Supported animal adoption events and promoted animals to potential adopters.
- Socialized animals to prepare for adoption.
Education
High School Diploma -
Lake Technical Center
Eustis, FL03-2022
Skills
- Animal Handling
- Adoption procedures
- Animal fostering
- Medical Assistance
- Animal Care and Observation
- Professional Demeanor
- Self Motivation
- Reliability
- Continuous Improvement
- Honest and Dependable
- Active Listening
- Human and Animal Safety
- Facilities Maintenance
- Meal Preparation
- Weight Charting
- Customer Communication
- Time management abilities
- Injury evaluation
- Feeding and Watering
- Information Collection and Recording
- Problem-Solving
- Animal Behavior Education
- Task Prioritization
- Teamwork and Collaboration
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Veterinary Technician
Leesburg Humane Society
03.2024 - Current
Veterinary Technician
Cat Protection Society
04.2023 - 03.2024
High School Diploma -
Lake Technical Center
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