Earlier this winter, West Creek’s Ryland Hagan, 20, spent two weeks in Belize as part of a college-level veterinary study abroad program, which focused on “helping animals, discovering Belizean culture and learning hands-on what it’s like to be a veterinarian,” said Emily Dean, assistant drector of admissions of Loop Abroad. Hagan, a senior majoring in animal science at Rutgers New Brunswick, was selected to join a small team that volunteered to care for horses, sheep, cattle and pigs on working ranches and local farms in the Central American country.