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We have been keeping a number of exotic animals and the not so exotic animals as
pets for many years. We are purely hobbyist keepers with the whole family looking after and caring for the animals. Two
of our older children are at a local University doing courses in Animals Management which can only benefit our animals.
We are very lucky that all our children have a love of animals as when we have new animal additions there is usually a fight
about who is going to be looking after them.
The animals that we keep are pets and we class them as part of our family.
We interact with them on a daily basis. Most of the animals that we have bred we have kept or made sure they have gone
to people we know and trust. If we take on
a new pet it stays with us for life. Before we ever consider taking on a new pet we research its needs fully. We talk to fellow
keepers and then sit back and contemplate that we can fully meet the animals needs. Through this website we want to inform you how we look after our pets in the hope that
you may gain some information from it. We would of course welcome any feedback, comments. We would appreciate any
information as to how you keep your animals, if you keep any of the species that we keep. We are always wanting to learn and
the best way to do that it to combine information from fellow keepers. Over the last few months we have loaned some animals that we have bred or have specifically purchased
to a number of colleges that run animal courses. These have been placed on long term loan to aid students learning.
Here they have the best enclosures and receive the best of care with the added bonus that they can be studied. Our aim is
to provide some more animals to colleges so that they can be studied by the students. The students would not be able to see
or study these animals normally and there has been great excitement from students and tutors regarding the animals. Apparently
the tutors don't have to ask the students to help with animals theres always a queue to assist  .
We believe that in years to come many many more animals are going to come under threat of extinction due
to global warming, deforestation etc. We believe the private keeper / breeder can have a vital and pivatol role in safe guarding
some these animals. We do not believe that Zoo's can cope with all species and so that is where the private breeder could
maybe be able to help. I do believe though that we have to drastically improve the husbandry standards, education and
mind set of the private keeper ( ourselves included ) to be a creditable and successful agent. We believe one of the
best ways is through education and that is one of the reasons we have loaned some of our animals to educational facilities.
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