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| A Day In The Life of Peter Spradbrow
 6:00 am – Wake Up
7:30 am – Arrive at Featherdale and head to Koala sanctuary with food for wombats, pelican, swans, ducks, wallabies, magpie, tawny frogmouths and kookaburra’s then feed the feed animals.
8:00 am – Take Buddy the Koala to meet some people who are enjoying breakfast with a Koala. They think he’s great.
8:30 am – Assist people with taking photos of themselves and Koala’s in the Koala sanctuary.
9:30 – 11:00 am – Up to the office now to check my emails from people who want to bring their schools to Featherdale Wildlife Park.
11:00 am – Morning Tea Now – Quick Sandwich
11:30 am – Get myself and animals ready for a lesson with a school @ 12:10pm
12:05 pm – Go up and meet school and help them to find the Learning Burrow. Give the lesson. Buddy was the star of the show again.
1:00 pm - Have a quick lunch and get ready to take animals to a school in the wildlife wanderer.
1:45 pm – Off in the WW to a local school to give a lesson on animal adaptations.
3:00 pm – Finally back at Featherdale, put all the animals away and clean out the WW. Make sure the animals that I used for my lesson have been fed.
4:00 pm – Make sure the learning burrow is clean and tidy.
4:45 pm – Going home now to feed my own animals and sleep to get ready to do it all again tomorrow.
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| A Day In The Life of Allison Galliott
 Hello, my name is Allison
I have spent the last 12 years caring for Australian native wildlife. For the last 5 years, I have been caring for all the weird and wonderful animals we have in our collection. At the moment, I am hand raising an orphaned Pretty-faced Wallaby. Hand raising a joey takes a lot of hard work and commitment.
My day starts at:
5.00am: The Joey needs its first bottle feed of the day. Once that’s done I can have my breakfast and get ready to go to work.
6.45am: Arrive at Featherdale. Firstly, I need to set my joey up in our Vet Block with a nice quiet, warm place to spend the day. We also have an orphaned baby goat in our care. His name is Bucky and he is eager for his first bottle feed.
7.00am: A quick check of the other animals in the Vet Block and its off to the feed shed to start preparing the first two feed runs of the day.
9.30am: The first feed run has been done and the trolley is ready for the second. But first, a quick morning tea break. Just enough time for a cuppa and to give my joey her second feed of the day.
9.55am: Time for more animal feeding. Being out and about gives us an opportunity to check on and observe our animals. My next stop is to visit my old mate ‘Pong’. Pong is our very friendly, playful Pelican. She’s always in the mood for a cuddle and a quick game of catch.
10.30am: After some washing up and more food preparation, its time to feed our Fairy Penguins. This is a scheduled feeding and usually draws a crowd. The Penguins have a lot of character and are always waiting impatiently for their fish. I enjoy talking to our visitors and answering questions about our Penguin colony and breeding programme.
10.45am: Back to the feed shed via the Nocturnal House to check up on our baby Ghost Bats who are growing up so quickly. Preparing diets for all the animals takes up most of the day and before we know it, its lunch time.
12.00 noon: Lunch Time.
1.00pm: My Joey is ready for another bottle feed. Once all the daily food prep is done and our work station is clean and tidy, there’s time for my weekly check of the Penguin nest boxes. Its breeding season and we have a couple of breeding pairs with chicks. Its always an exciting time of the year.
3.30pm: Time to go home but my work is never really done as a young joey needs 4 hourly feeds everyday even on weekends.
Being a wildlife keeper is hard work but its also fund and very rewarding.
Back to our team
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