Lauren Hyder

Reliable and punctual Animal Care team member with proven skills cleaning animal areas, coordinating inventory and managing animal needs with care and compassion. Highly organized and hardworking with good communication and multitasking abilities. Responsible Animal Caretaker skilled in bathing, grooming and general animal welfare management. Promotes good health with fun, safe and clean environments. Dependably carries out instructions and stays current on schedules.

large animals aren't my only experience I also on my own time take care of 6 dog, 9 chickens, snake, guinea pigs and a baby turtle. I am very passionate about what I do even though I don't have much knowledge about it. One of my guinea pigs, his name is pip, got really sick he stopped eating, moving a lot, usually when ! come in my room he would greet me by standing up on the side the cage. I did a lot of research to figure out what it was a lot of things I was reading were saying it could be a respiratory infection or a common cold. instead of taking a guess I started researching what I could do to at least get in to start eating again and feeling better. that's when I came across critical care herbivore, heathy gut and vita A drops pure C. of course I didn't give it to him all in one shot. I started with the critical care first splitting it into 4-6 feedings till he got better and started eating solids again before he did I would mix it with carrots, lettuce and anything safe for a guinea pig to eat  and blend it together. he would scarf it down, lucky I gave him small amount so he couldn't choke on it. after 3 days he started to squeal again and stand on the side of the cage greeting me. I couldn't tell you how relived I was when he was back to his normal self. once I took him off critical care herbivore I started to put vitamin c in his water and healthy gut in his food to try and prevent anything like that from happening. so far he's been healthy since I can't image if I didn't try to safe him what would of happened but I'm glad I took the chance and im glad i did because he's perfectly health now. i am very good handling dogs, small animals, larger animals and any reptile.