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How can I volunteer somewhere?

How can a 14 year old volunteer for a vet?

  • okay, i love animals and want to become a vet...but i need about 100 volunteer hours per year, because my school requires it each year (it doesnt HAVE to be at a vets office but i want it to be because to get into veterinary collage you have to have at least 400 work-experience hours). so im in 9th grade and the year is almost half over and i have 0 out of my 100 hours done...but its not my fault. i've emailed and called 3 vets already and they all say you have to be at least 18 to do volunteer work there. how is that fair?!? how am i supposed to get 400 hours to turn into my college application if i turn 18 like a month before i go to college? that makes me so mad, so how am i gonna get my animal "work experience" AND volunteer hours this way? i really want to prove to them that i am a straight A+ student in all honors classes and im very serious about becoming a vet....but they wont listen. :( does anybody have any suggestions? (p.s. animal shelters are the same way, but you can have a parent with you, but both my parents work so that is not an option). i dont know of any zoos aroundm where i live either. so my main question is, how can i be able to work at a vet? because that would be the perfect volunteer job and it could turn into an internship type thing when im a little bit older. if there's no possible way, what are other animal-type suggestions that i can get my 100 hours done by june? i need help, im panicking!

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    Community Service and Volunteering by Teens: How to Find Opportunities http://www.coyotecommunications.com/stuff/teenvolunteers.html Very detailed information that discusses your many, many options - the usual and many activities you probably never thought of. Includes instructions on how to find specific volunteering opportunities (with animals, with children, just for one day, etc.). You are NOT too young to volunteer! Ways you can help, no matter how young you are http://www.coyotecommunications.com/stuff/tooyoung.shtml Includes ideas for volunteering to help animals.

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You can't until you're 18 because of bite risks and health insurance.

Important life lesson: you can't always have things your way. Time to shift gears, dear. You have found out that you cannot do your community service hours at a vet or an animal shelter. So now you need to look at the list of places you CAN volunteer - the kinds of places all your classmates are going to - and choose one.

RoofingPrincess

check your local vet and tell them if u can volunteer ????????????

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