work with elephants

Recently, I watched a program about The David Sheldrick Wildlife trust.

I work with teenagers who have come from very abusive backgrounds and have been traumatized by something or someone in their lives.

The elephants I saw on this program reminded me heaps of many of my clients.

There was one little girl elephant that had taken to carrying around a ‘security tyre’ with her everywhere she went. Something about her just touched something in me…

So now, I’d love to work with elephants. Ever since I decided that, I’ve been seeing elephants everywhere! I see representations of elephants almost every day.

I’m thinking that volunteering at a zoo might be a good way to start…

There is a long list of animals that I would like to work with at some point during my career, but elephants are very near (if not at) the top. They are fantastically intelligent animals, and even the short amount of time that I have spent with the 3 girls at our zoo has shown me how challenging and rewarding it would be.