I have never wanted to be an animal trainer or a zookeeper. I did go through the requisite veterinarian phase though. Reading Kicked, Bitten, Scratched made me very glad I never had any animal trainer/zookeeper aspirations. The workload is frightening, not to mention the animal injuries!
Moorpark College is home to the animal trainer program (and our little community college is home to a sister program for zookeepers). The book was interesting and I really enjoyed it. I was appalled that they didn’t have a fire evacuation plan but then TW said that SFCC didn’t have a hurricane evacuation plan for a long, long time. That’s just, well, appalling!
That book was SO GOOD. I’m not a big animal-person or anything, but this book was very entertaining and well-written. After I read this, I saw that the author had written another book a few years previously. It was called “Cookoff,” another nonfiction piece. It was really good, too! 🙂