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Overview
Animal care attendants provide routine care for non-production animals, including feeding, watering, cleaning, exercise, enrichment, grooming and basic health observation.
In job descriptions, look for animal welfare, feeding routines, enclosures, cleaning, grooming, handling, training support, health monitoring, records and contact with owners or veterinary staff.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Animal care attendants keep animals clean, fed, observed and engaged through daily routines. Work settings can include kennels, shelters, clinics, zoos, laboratories, rescue centres, pet care services or boarding facilities.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include safe animal handling, feeding schedules, enclosure cleaning, grooming, observation of behaviour, basic records and communication with owners or veterinary staff. Some roles focus on horses, companion animals, rescue animals or laboratory routines.
Salary context
Salary context depends on the type of facility, animal species, shift pattern, physical workload, health-monitoring responsibility, customer contact and whether the role includes grooming, training support or medication routines.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior animal care, grooming, kennel supervision, rescue coordination, veterinary support, zoo keeping support or specialised care for a species or facility type.
Good to know
Check the species, setting and level of responsibility. A job title may cover cleaning and feeding only, or broader work with handling, enrichment, owner contact, records and cooperation with veterinary staff.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial occupation context. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data for this exact occupation.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 2
Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
31-9096.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETAnimal Caretakers
39-2021.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
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Alternative labels
animal retail caretaker
animal rescue officer
animal keeping specialist
animal retail carer
animal care provider
laboratory animal care worker
animal care worker
equine groom
wildlife rehabilitator
animal rescue carer
animal cleaner
animal care specialist
animal keeper
animal rescue caretaker
animal care attendants
Occupation group
Pet groomers and animal care workers (5164)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0b14d5d7-1bbe-4403-b9e6-7b0f37fc44fc |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 5164.1 |
| ISCO group | 5164 |
| Concept type | Occupation |