Black Cricket Animal Services is Unique!
Black Cricket Animal Services is Unique!
We can proudly say that we are unique! We are the only small business in the United Kingdom that provides many individual animal services 'under one roof'. We can also meet the demands that each of our individual, separate animal service requires and deliver them to an exceptional standard due to the outstanding skills, motivation, experience and qualifications that we possess.
We are also proud to declare that while we are passionate about animals we enjoy supporting people too. We are positive about disability and not only do we welcome people with disabilities to work or volunteer with us, we are also confidently able to communicate through the use Makaton, Sign Assisted, PECS and speech output devices, and we have extensive experience working with people with autism and the use of TEACCH.
To ensure that each service is delivered to an exceptional standard they require the correct skills, experiences and qualification. Here are some of ours
Qualifications.
Pet sitting - Animal Management, Animal Psychology
Animal Experiences / Educational Talks - Honours teaching degree with science, Qualified Teacher Status, Animal Management, Animal Psychology
Farm & Wildlife Park Support / Rescue - all of the above and recently update lambing and calving training
It's A Bug's World - all of the above
Previous employment and volunteering work skills and experiences in
Animal rescue - Animal Fosterer, Educational Officer
Wildlife park / zoo - Educational Officer, Zoo Keeper
Equine farm - General Hand
Dairy farm - General Hand
Sheep and cattle farm - Lambing and Calving General Hand
Schools and colleges - Teacher, Lecturer
At home - living within farming communities, owning a variety of animals at home from domestic pets to exotics, event organisation
And a few more bits of information....
- Trained in first aid (with a current certification)
- CRB / DBS (fully enhanced)
- Licenced and insured as required
- Registered to Anglia. Reptiles, Invertebrates and Amphibians
- Individual membership to International Herpetological Society
- Individual membership to Cats Protection
- Individual membership to British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquaria (through zookeeping work)
We work closely with.......
- Anglia. RIA
- Cats Protection
We have formed good working relationships with other herpetologists, entomologists, biologists and zoologists.
We love all animals including our own pets which are: dogs; cats; hamsters; skinny pigs; rats; chickens; skunks; rabbits, bearded dragons; guinea pigs; blue tongue skinks; fire bellied toads; cane toads, leopard geckos, horned frogs; and a variety of cockroaches, snails, millipedes, spiders and tarantulas, snakes, scorpions, chameleons, monitors, and fish.