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O*NET detailed work activityCare for animals
Stays humanHands-on work
7 jobs18 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Care for plants or animals, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Feed and water animals according to schedules and feeding instructions.
- Provide care for park program animals.
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
- Feed or exercise animals or provide other general care, such as cleaning or maintaining holding or performance areas.
- Exercise animals to maintain their physical and mental health.
- Perform animal grooming duties, such as washing, brushing, clipping, and trimming coats, cutting nails, and cleaning ears.
- Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
- Transfer animals between enclosures to facilitate breeding, birthing, shipping, or rearrangement of exhibits.
- Bathe and groom animals.
- Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
- Find homes for stray or unwanted animals.
- Inquire about pesticides or chemicals to which animals may have been exposed.
- Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
- Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
- Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
- Clip or shear hair on animals.
- Conduct specialized procedures, such as animal branding or tattooing or hoof trimming.