{"id":47562,"date":"2024-08-13T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=47562"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:30:00","slug":"n-s-spca-graduating-19-new-vet-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=47562","title":{"rendered":"N.S. SPCA graduating 19 new vet assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DARTMOUTH:<\/strong> This week 19 new veterinary assistants will graduate and join the workforce, helping with employee shortages in the veterinary medical field. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe are dedicated to our mission of supporting the veterinary profession,\u201d says Dr. Mike West, Director of Veterinary Education Programs for the <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaspca.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=358733abdf92c18d70766c15a&amp;id=31a422d722&amp;e=fc0ef8b01c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nova Scotia SPCA College of Animal Welfare<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to graduate our third class of veterinary assistants and look forward to starting to train veterinary technicians in the fall of 2025.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;210&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<br \/><br \/>Across Canada, lack of access to veterinary services is being felt by pet families, something the Nova Scotia SPCA College of Animal Welfare is trying to help with here in Nova Scotia. \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThe news of the eight new seats at the Atlantic Veterinary College is very exciting,&#8221; said Dr. West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But new veterinarians will struggle to function without adequate support staff, who are already in short supply,\u201d added Dr. West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new vet assistants were scheduled to graduate on Wednesday Aug. 14 morning in Dartmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;] DARTMOUTH: This week 19 new veterinary assistants will graduate and join the workforce, helping with employee shortages in the veterinary medical field. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe are dedicated to our mission of supporting the veterinary profession,\u201d says Dr. Mike West, Director of Veterinary Education Programs for the Nova Scotia SPCA College of Animal Welfare. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[1024,185,7183,50,1260,7184,5431,590,7132],"class_list":["post-47562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cats","tag-dartmouth","tag-doggies","tag-halifax","tag-n-s-spca","tag-n-s-spca-college-of-animal-welfare","tag-nova-scotia-spca","tag-spca","tag-vets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}