Practical support to understand, manage and improve behaviour in professional care settings.

From individual behavioural challenges to developing longer-term training strategies, we'll consider the animal's behaviour in the context of their history, environment, routines, social setting and management - then work with your team to develop practical solutions that can be implemented consistently.

Training animals to voluntarily participate in their own healthcare can improve welfare, reduce stress and make routine procedures safer and more efficient for animals and the people caring for them.

Good Piggy can assist with the development and implementation of cooperative husbandry behaviours for routine health checks, veterinary procedures, administering medication, injections, blood draws, weighing, physical examinations, body condition scoring, and other species-specific care requirements.

Sometimes the biggest improvements come from looking beyond an individual behaviour.

Good Piggy can review everyday animal management and work collaboratively with your team to identify practical opportunities to improve routines, training programs, enrichment, social management, husbandry practices and overall quality of care. Surviving is not the same as thriving.

Good enclosure design starts with truly considering the animals who will live within it.

Good Piggy can provide an animal behaviour and welfare perspective on new and existing environments, considering how enclosure design, furnishings, enrichment, animal movement, keeper access and management requirements can support both quality of life and effective day-to-day care.

Great animal care depends on confident, capable and consistent humans.

Good Piggy provides practical training and professional development for animal-care teams, tailored to your animals, staff and objectives. Sessions can cover training principles, practical techniques, behavioural observation, husbandry training, animal handling, measuring success, and other areas identified by you and your team.

Being responsible for an animal’s care is an enormous privilege - investing in working together, and having solid succession plans ensures the animals are cared for throughout their whole life.

Have something more specific in mind?

If it involves animals, their care, their training or the people who work with them, we'd love to hear about it. Tell us what you're working towards and we can see how Good Piggy might be able to help.

From half day workshops to multi-day, mixed species projects, I’m open to all challenges. We can tailor our delivery to your unique needs - just reach out. I’d love to hear from you!

I’ve spent my entire career caring for animals, working with some of the largest zoological facilities in the world. I’ve tested myself and taken on some huge challenges. I would love to pass on what worked and what didn’t, and ensure the next generations of zookeepers and conservation professionals are equipped to provide the highest quality of care and training for their animals - whatever and wherever they may be.