Kennel Assistant

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Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
In-Office
16-17 Hourly
Entry level
Pet • Professional Services
The Role
Provides daily care for boarded and hospitalized dogs and cats, including feeding, walking, bathing, play supervision, cage cleaning, laundry, and facility maintenance. Assists veterinary doctors and technicians as needed while delivering high-quality animal care and client service. The role may be full-time or part-time and offers potential advancement into veterinary assistant positions.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are seeking an experienced Animal Care Attendant to join our team.

The pay range for this position is $16-$17 per hour, depending on experience.

The successful candidate will share our commitment to delivering exceptional service to our loyal clientele and the highest quality care to their boarded and hospitalized pets.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Cleaning cages.
  • Feeding and caring for dogs and cats.
  • Walking dogs.
  • Supervising individual and group play dogs.
  • Bathing dogs.
  • Doing laundry.
  • Cleaning and maintaining hospital premises.
  • Assisting Doctors and Technicians when necessary.

We offer competitive compensation hour depending on experience and great benefits for eligible employees, including medical/dental, generous personal pet care discounts and more!

This position is available as either full time (30-40 hours weekly) or part time.

WHY APPLY AT VCA MOUNTAINVIEW?

We are a tight-knit, high performing hospital with very low turnover.

Our medical, kennel and CSR staff work closely together and many are cross trained to assist each other.

Great opportunity for growth! We actively promote our kennel staff into veterinary assistants!

This position will close on 09/30/26

If you are a current associate, you need to apply through our internal career site. Please log into Workday and click on the Jobs Hub app or search for Browse Jobs.

Benefits: We offer competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and paid vacation/sick days, 401(k), generous employee pet discounts and more!

The information in this position description indicates the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, change in personnel, workload, or technical development).

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. For a complete EEO statement please see our career page at vcacareers.com.

Skills Required

  • Experience as an animal care attendant
  • Ability to provide care for dogs and cats
  • Ability to clean cages, laundry, and hospital premises
  • Ability to assist veterinary doctors and technicians when necessary
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The Company
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
35,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

A leader in veterinary care, VCA Animal Hospitals is a family of hometown animal hospitals dedicated to positively impacting pets, people, and communities. They provide world-class medicine and hometown care to more than four million pets each year, offering a range of services from primary and urgent care to specialty and emergency medicine. VCA is part of the Mars Veterinary Health family of brands.

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