What is a day like in the life of a Sanctuary caregiver?
The elephant’s morning begins around 6:30 AM with breakfast, supplements, a bath and any procedure required, such as a foot soak. The girls who have elected to spend the night inside the barn are pampered and ready to go outside around 7:30 AM. As one or two caregivers tend to the needs of the elephants inside, another loads up the groceries on our “meals-on-wheels” 4-wheeler and heads out into the habitat to find the other elephants and give them their breakfast. It is standard to have a variety of things being done all at the same time. The elephants dictate what happens and when. One caregiver usually starts cleaning the barn while another cleans the area outside the barn and refreshes the water in the water troughs. The barn is cleaned daily. The project consists of sweeping all of the manure and soiled hay from the barn floor into the track which runs along the back wall of the barn. Once the manure is run out of the track the floor is washed. A pressure washer is used to clean un
The elephant’s morning begins around 6:30 a.m. with breakfast, supplements, a bath and any procedure required, such as a foot soak. The Girls who have elected to spend the night inside the barn are pampered and ready to go outside around 7:30 a.m. As one or two caregivers tend to the needs of the elephants inside, another loads up the groceries on our “meals-on-wheels” 4-wheeler and heads out into the habitat to find the other elephants and give them their breakfast. It is standard to have a variety of things being done all at the same time. The elephants dictate what happens and when. One caregiver usually starts cleaning the barn while another cleans the area outside the barn and refreshes the water in the water troughs. The barn is cleaned daily. The project consists of sweeping all of the manure and soiled hay from the barn floor into the track that runs along the back wall of the barn. Once the manure is run out of the track, the floor is washed. A pressure washer is used to clean
