Zoo keeper training

Parts of the job are incredible and will leave you with once in a lifetime experiences that will make your grandkids eyes go wide with amazement when you recount them. Other parts of the job are tough and require a strong stomach and an either stronger will to complete. Just because you’re working with animals every day doesn’t mean you won’t face problems people have in most other jobs, such as co worker and management issues, short staffing, low budgets and stress.

Despite its shortcomings, being a zookeeper can be one of the most rewarding and life changing experiences you can ever have and for the right person, the good far outweighs the bad. Picture sitting in a cubicle every morning listening to the hum of a water cooler and the clicking of keyboards in an otherwise silent office space, waiting for a coworker to say hi to you just so you can engage in a time wasting bout of useless small talk. Now picture putting your steel toe boots and uniform on, walking outside only to be greeted by the hooting of gibbons, the howling of wolves and the bellowing call of a donkey, all eagerly awaiting your arrival and their morning food. Now although I’m being slightly facetious and have never actually worked an office job a day in my life, the latter of those scenarios should sound much better then the former or you might as well stop reading this guide.

But you should also picture putting on heavy winter steel toes, trudging through the snow, being greeted with several feet of snow in-front of a gate you need to open in order to feed your animals. Feeling the cold slowly nip at your fingertips as you push a wheelbarrow full of food and water buckets across a field, due to the fact that your fancy automatic drinker has frozen for yet another winter. Still on board?