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The Department of Silk Crafts, Ministry of Agriculture, employed a foreign veterinary consultant (Dr. Harry S. Leonard) to train for silk technician staff for the period of 3-6 months to eliminate animal diseases with a 2-year contract. This recorded as "the first time that Thai people" learned how to treat the animals.

Major General M.C. Thong Teekayu Thongyai has requested for the approval of the construction of a military sergeant school with 1-year course, whereby Brigadier Luang Sanan Rak Satt and Colonel Luang Sanit Rak Satt had also enrolled in this course. This recorded as the first study program on animal health.

The Asawarak Cadet School was upraised the Asawat Medical Army School.

The government employed Dr. George Joseph Harvey, an American veterinarian, to provide consults to the Ministry of Agriculture and Veterinary Training intensively for 5 generations (the origin of training veterinary), Dr. S.H.L. Woods trained veterinarians for 2 years and Dr. R.P. Jones for 7.

A veterinary department was established as an independent department in Chulalongkorn University for a 4-year program with Bachelor of Veterinary Science (B.Sc.) under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Luangchai Asawarak as the department head (announced in the Government Gazette, Edition 52, dated on 21 April 1935) with the cooperation of Major General Thong Teekayu Thongyai,, Brigadier General Sanan Rak Satt, Colonel Luang Sanit Rak Satt, and Lieutenant Colonel Luangchai Asawarak.

The Veterinary Medicine Program was amended to a 5-year program and the acronym for the degree has been changed SP.B. from year3 graduates onward.

The Veterinary Medicine Department of Chulalongkorn University was transferred to be affiliated with the University of Medicine under the Ministry of Public Health and the status was changed to the Faculty of Veterinary Science with Professor Lieutenant Colonel Luangchai Asawarak as the Dean (announced in the Royal Gazette, Edition 59, Section 16, dated 10 March 1942).

The Faculty of Veterinary Science of University of Medicine was transferred to Kasetsart University under Ministry of Agriculture, announced in the Government Gazette, Edition 71, Section 86, dated December 28, 1954.

The veterinary medicine course was changed from 5 years to 6 years.

A royal decree ordered to establish the Faculty of Veterinary Science in Chulalongkorn University, whereby the matters of properties, officials, employees and the budget of Kasetsart University related to the Faculty of Veterinary Science, located in Wang Mai Subdistrict, Pathumwan District, were ordered to be transferred to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Chulalongkorn University.

The Faculty of Veterinary Science of Kasetsart University continued its proceeds, whereby had invited the Director-General of the Department of Livestock Development, namely Professor Dr. Chak Pichainarongsongkram, to take the position of the Dean.

The Faculty of Veterinary Science Kasetsart University, at the time, consisted of 6 departments as follows: Department of Anatomy, Department of Pathology, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Physiology, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Surgery.

With the office of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, a 4-story reinforced concrete building and 2 single-story temporary buildings located at the outer yard (at the side of Vibhavadi Rangsit Road), the Faculty of Veterinary Science Kasetsart University began providing animal care services by opening a veterinary care room at a one-story temporary building, which is located next to the 4-story building.

The Faculty of Veterinary Science relocated the faculty office to the new building on Phaholyothin Road, a 4-story reinforced concrete building. This building later assumed the name "Chakpichainarongsongkram Building" in honor of Professor Chak Pichainarongsongkram, an imperative force in the rehabilitation and development of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Kasetsart University after 1967 and some sections of the Large animal hospital building was used for treating small animals in medicine, surgery and radiography.

The courses for 5th and 6th year students were available at Kamphaengsaen Campus, Nakhon Pathom Province, to increase the knowledge of graduates in livestock and the work at Kamphaengsaen Animal Hospital had commenced, with curriculum improvements.