Meet The Animals

Are you looking for a local interactive animal experience? If yes, 'Meet the Animals' can help you!

As two qualified, experienced Zookeepers, Mike & Rhonda now offer a mobile, safe, professional interactive animal experience with a variety of animals to the South West of Western Australia.

We successfully ran Meet the Animals in the City of Perth; we have relocated to the beautiful South West region and enjoy living on our rural property. We can now offer this touch, learn, fun experience to our local ‘animal lovers’!

We are servicing the South West areas from:

About Us

We jointly hold over 40 years’ experience working with animals in zoos, wildlife park, bird parks, conservation centres, farms, vets and more. We have taken part in captive conservation programs and out in the field. We both support and have been registered volunteer wildlife carers in wildlife rehabilitation centres and at home, rescuing, hand raising many native animals back into the wild. We have both worked with a variety of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrate and fish.

Good animal welfare is important to us. We have delivered and continue to deliver a high standard of animal husbandry to endangered native and exotic fauna. Our skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience are extensive. We combine this with our passion, love and respect for all animals great and small.

Prior to Meet the Animals, we ran our own busy 12 days egg hatching education program for many years to schools, childcare, aged care, libraries around Perth.

It’s not just a job to us, ‘Animals are our World’ and it shows when we are out delivering our animal interactive experience. Working with animals is a privilege and we love to educate where we can the importance of sharing our planet with all animals.

The Experience We Offer

We are certainly not just another petting zoo, our hands on experience, offers ‘animal therapy’ and ‘education’ at a high quality, with our passion, excellent animal behaviour observations and handling skills. We can allow you to get up close in a safe manner, whilst gaining empathy from these special ambassadors (our pets) we bring along. We love to see the joy a close animal encounter offers, and how it brings out the curiosity in everyone. We want to offer more people the opportunity to have the amazing comfort of interacting with a variety of animals.

Our experience will provide a range of positive reactions and some amazing therapy to any culture, age or gender. It is aimed to help with stimulation, improves confidence and social functioning, anxiety, depression, dementia and plenty more. Through unconditional love with no judgement, touching, observing these animals, we can reach out to people to gain empathy, compassion and learn to reconnect and respect for the animal kingdom.

Our experience is perfect for all ages from kids and adults, for aged care, schools, childcare, community groups, out of school holiday programs, vacation care, homeschooling, special needs programs, libraries, prisons and much more. Our animals are licensed native pet wildlife and domestic pet animals; we can offer advice on suitable pets and pet care. We show patience to help with any animal phobias, common fears of snakes, spiders, birds and dogs. We also offer guidance on what to do, when you find injured wildlife in your area.

Our Package

Our encounter we offer is delivered on a Monday or Tuesday at 10.30am or 1pm at your premises. We can also offer our experience to private events, community, corporate events in a controlled environment on a Saturday or Sunday, which we can discuss further.

All we require as two friendly outgoing Zookeepers, that fully supervise this experience is the following:

An area inside that we can set up two long tables for the display and room in-front of the tables to present and deliver the interactive experience.
Parking near the room so we can transport the animals safely.
This unique safe interactive presentation is for 75 minutes.
We arrive 30 minutes prior and it takes 30min to set up/pack down.
Group size is approximately up to 35 people, but we can run a few sessions.
We usually bring out a good variety of friendly pet animals, (subject to change on the day). Approximately 20 species of native and non-native animals including 3 different size native python snakes, frogs, stick insects, an axolotl, hermit crabs, silkworms, bobtails, bearded dragon, a red-tailed black cockatoo, cockatiels, a galah, chicken chicks, guinea pigs, rabbits, pet mice, pet rats, ferrets, two dingoes, Australian tarantula and a magnificent barn owl on the glove.
For an inclusive price of $450.00 within 50km radius from Capel. Note: A travel fee maybe charged if location is outside this radius.

Legal Requirements

Working with Children
Public Liability Insurance
First Aid
Police Clearance
Relevant DBCA Licenses for Animals & Display
Qualifications in Working with Animals

Touch - Learn - Fun!