Millie Rossato

• Contributed to efficient clinic operations by maintaining clean and organized treatment areas, exam rooms, and kennels.
• Assisted in surgical operations, ensuring a sterile environment and proper preparation of equipment.
• Developed strong client relationships by delivering compassionate care and clear communication regarding pet health needs.
• Cleaned and disinfected exam areas, surgical equipment, and kennels to prevent diseases and control odours.
• Monitored vital signs of animals during surgical procedures and provided postoperative care.
• Performed faecal examinations, urinalysis and bloodwork.
• Assisted veterinarians with radiographs and ultrasounds.
• Have done reception duties such as paperwork, answering phones, taking payments and booking appointments
• administered various medications under veterinary instructions
• Have placed IV catheters
• Have got animals ready for surgery by clipping and prepping with surgical scrub.

Have spent 18 years growing up on a family-owned cropping and cattle farm located in the Riverina, NSW. I have always had a passion for agriculture and animals. With cattle being my favourite thing to care for and handle on the farm. Have always been involved in all farming tasks. I love living out bush and working outdoors.

experience in farming includes:

• Tractor work.
• watering a variety of cropping including corn, wheat, barley, oats and rice.
• Mustering on both a 2 wheeler and 4 wheeler motorbike. (can confidently ride both.)
• Feeding cattle
• Health checks
• marking,drenching, medicating and drafting cattle.
• low stress stock handling.

• Water quality testing
• Skin and gill samples to check for any sicknesses.
• Treating ponds with any sick fish.
• general maintenance around the farm such as fixing paddle wheels and geer.
• harvesting fish to be transported off to market.
• Monitoring behavior and food intake.

• All facets of animal care; including administering medication, food preparation and feeding, health checks and ensuring that their environments met the animals needs.
• Driving a horse drawn cart whilst conducting a tour of the wildlife park.
• Researched extensively, in order to provide factual information about exhibits.
• Facilitated tours of up to 30 and attended to their requests.
• Preparing morning/afternoon tea and carrying out monetary transactions within the zoo kiosk.
• Working within a team and also independently.
• Effective management of time throughout the day in order to complete all tasks.
• Cleaning all enclosures facilitating small animals such as monkeys, meerkats, wallabies, red pandas and big animal enclosures such as lions, giraffes, crocodiles, buffalo, rhinos and many more species.
• Juggled multiple projects and tasks to ensure high quality and timely delivery.
• Animal handling and restraint
• water checks/cleaning troughs.
• General husbandry {before administering medications} and animal observations.
• Operated various vehicles such as loaders, motorbikes and small trucks.
• worked with a variety of animals from natives, primates, carnivores and ungulates

Worked every day with clydesale horses

• Medicated horses
• gave the horses their daily feed
• health checks on horses
• Harnessing horses
• conducted tours on a 15 seater horse and cart while driving horse.

(Have had limited experience in riding horses but would love to further improve my skills in horse riding.)