Turn your love for animals into a successful career!
Wake Tech's non-degree courses provide instruction and hands-on practice to gain the knowledge and develop the skills to work in the pet care industry. Learn how to become a professional dog groomer or dog trainer, or learn practical wildlife rehabilitation for mammals and raptors.
Discover employment opportunities available in the industry or start your own service business in the growing field of pet and animal care.
Workforce Development offers financial assistance for many workforce training programs through the Propel program and other resources. Email [email protected] for more information.
Interested in mammal rehabilitation? A state-licensed wildlife rehabilitator, will show you how to rescue some native NC wildlife, including Eastern grey squirrels, flying squirrels, opossums, cottontails, and fawns. Course sections include capturing, triage, animal control, supportive care, licensing, and paperwork.
To be notified when this course becomes available, please use
Wake Tech's Notify Me service.
Taught by one of the few federally-licensed raptor rehabilitators in the area, this course will teach you how to rescue eagles, owls, hawks, falcons, and vultures. Course sections include capturing and controlling the animals, basic emergency care, supportive care, licensing, and paperwork.
| Details | Section | Date(s) | Location | Price | Seats | |
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| 311146 | 07/10/25 - 08/07/25 | Northern Wake Campus | 99.00 | 14 | Register |
If you would like to be notified when additional sections become available, please use Wake Tech's Notify Me service.
Learn the language unique to the veterinary field – the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of animals – in this online course. You’ll learn terminology and how to use it through a process that builds on commonly used parts of words. Each lesson builds on the foundation, with material and illustrations focusing on new parts of words and their definitions.
| Details | Section | Date(s) | Location | Price | Seats | |
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| 310002 | 05/14/25 - 07/04/25 | Online | 77.00 | 19 | Register |
If you would like to be notified when additional sections become available, please use Wake Tech's Notify Me service.