Time to meet our creature teachers


Animal School works with 27 different species of animals. All our animals are registered with an Animal Activities Licence and are given the highest levels of welfare and care. Most of the creatures that you can meet have been rescued and rehomed by Lindsay and they have been rehabilitated and trained to enjoy the handling process. Not all of our animals are handled but all of them are friendly and enjoy meeting people.



We aim to introduce you some of our animals within this section!


The Mammals:

The Guineapigs


Our Guineapigs are one of the favourites for handling. Here at Animal School they have all been trained to sit on cushions which makes the experience of meeting people nicer for them because they are not being "held" as such.


Our Guineapigs will keenly wolf down any form of leafy green while being stroked and people always comment on how relaxed they are. We have 10 Guineapigs at Animal School for you to meet!

Honey the Rabbit


Honey the rabbit is a beautiful lion head rabbit that was donated to Animal School by a SENse teacher after she wouldn't stop eating the house! She was very well loved and taken care of and this is evident by how much she loves being handled. Honey lives with Geronimo the giant rabbit but she is very much in charge! She's so friendly and makes a big impression on anyone she meets.

Pongo the Rabbit

Pongo is an Old English Spot Rabbit and she looks like a Dalmatian. She is one clever cookie and we are teaching her to target train in our animal training pens. The positive re-enforcement training is something we like to teach during our course and Pongo is happy to assist.



Her absolute favourite food is Kale.


Despite being different species Pongo seems to like being close to Blossom the Wallaby.




Snoopy the Fancy Mouse (and friends)


Snoopy and her fancy mice friends are among some of the smallest members of the animal School. They can be safely handled by children and are a joy to meet.


Fancy mice are social (like guineapigs) and live in a small group.


They have adorable whiskers.


Mice benefit from lots of enrichment such as things they can climb, gnaw and bury into.

Blossom the Wallaby


Our the albino wallaby was an orphan from the local wallaby mob at the open gardens at Leonardslee Gardens. Wallabies are related to kangaroos. The baby wallaby is known as a joey. Joeys are in need of constant attention from their mother and when Blossom was first brought to Lindsay, she had to be carried around in a home-made pouch and fed milk every two hours, even during the night. She was a difficult animal to hand-rear but we did it! She's grown into a happy healthy wallaby and now enjoys the freedom of hopping round the farm and the gardens.


While she is friendly we still give her the respect that is needed with any large exotic animal and don't directly handle her. She will probably hop up and say hello from her pen though and she is an excellent animal to study as she is so unusual.




The Reptiles:

Olive the Marginated Tortoise

Olive is a lovely big tortoise and is often seen in our garden enjoying life. Students and visitors can enjoy giving her a bath, which is part of tortoise care and also offer her apple (her absolute favourite)


Olive was donated to the centre by her previous owner and has really enjoyed joining the teaching team. She hibernates between October and March so catch her when she's awake in the warmer months.

Dune the Sand Boa

Odin and Rox the Ravens


Our Rescue Ravens Odin and Rox, joined us in 2019 from another rescue centre. They were originally hand-reared which means that they cannot survive in the wild. While Students and visitors don't go in

with the ravens, they are very interactive and interesting birds and will talk to you in their croaky voices. We are training and enriching their lives with a range of puzzles and toys and they love to oversee everything. They are incredibly wise and majestic animals.