Today we explored career opportunities in animal welfare. There are number of BA and MSc programs available for people interested in animal welfare such as, Training and Skills Development officer, Animal Welfare and Conservation and Animal Psychologists.
After coffee break, we played team building game. The goal of the game was to make us think about impact of having stray animals in the city and their effect on economy, society and environment.
- Participants were asked to pick a name of their partner from the box with cards, where the names are written, and each group receive a number (1,2 or 3). This number will be a group number.
- Form a pair and seat in a circle with another two pairs with the same group number. Now each circle has 3 pairs. Each pair receive the card with a realm (Economy, Environment, Society).
- Each person has 3 minutes to formulate their answer to a question ‘What is the impact on local economy/economy/society of stray dogs and cats? The group can discuss the answer or ask additional questions.
- When time is over, each pair with similar realm gather together, discuss their finding and prepare a summary for the rest of the group.
The activity helped us to realise that stray animals represent potential source of problems and have to be considered more seriously in some countries. The interesting fact is that it was easy to find negative outcomes of having stray animals, but it was much harder to find positive sides.
The second part of the day was free time where we had an opportunity to explore Plymouth and most of us went to see the Plymouth Aquarium.
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