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Animalistic Encounters Meet, Experience and Learn about some of the world's most fascinating animals. South Woodham Ferrers This includes animal behaviour and training.
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Qualifications and Experience:

Lexi has 19 year's worth of experience working with children, young people and within education plus, over 14 years of reptile-keeping experience and has cared for small mammals most of her life. Qualifications:
MSc Animal Welfare and Conservation
Level 3 Animal Assisted Interventions (DEFRA approved & OFQUAL Regulated)
Level 3 (Distinction) Zoology
CPD Animal B

ehaviour and Welfare
CPD Exotic Animal Care (including Zoonotic Diseases)
Raptor Awards (Working with birds of prey) C1-C9


Alex has over 17 years of experience working with reptiles and exotic animals including their care, husbandry and health needs. Qualifications:
CPD Animal Behaviour and Welfare
CPD Exotic Animal Care (including Zoonotic Diseases)
Raptor Awards (Working with birds of prey) C1-C9

Look at this wonderful drawing and pair of fridge magnets one of our visitors Phoebe gave us this morning as she arrived...
28/07/2024

Look at this wonderful drawing and pair of fridge magnets one of our visitors Phoebe gave us this morning as she arrived!

We love them, and they are now on our fridge, thanks Phoebe! 🐒🦎

Last week was by far the busiest week of the term so far with a number of intervention sessions, group workshops, events...
08/07/2024

Last week was by far the busiest week of the term so far with a number of intervention sessions, group workshops, events and school visits. We loved learning about classification of animals, natural habitats and biomes and fun facts about animals from all over the world. A massive thank you to everyone who booked with us and for all the feedback cards and pictures ❤️😁

Bagheera, our American Red Fox, has loved being out on a walk and in the grass today - until it rained! 🌧️💧Stunning isn’...
06/07/2024

Bagheera, our American Red Fox, has loved being out on a walk and in the grass today - until it rained! 🌧️💧Stunning isn’t she! 🦊

Fancy meeting her? Messege us today to find out how
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🦎Brilliant day today at Bournes Green infant and Junior school summer fete. Thank you so much for having us 🦎
22/06/2024

🦎Brilliant day today at Bournes Green infant and Junior school summer fete. Thank you so much for having us 🦎

🦎 Today we spent the day at an infant school, meeting the children of the nursery classes through to year 2. The childre...
17/06/2024

🦎 Today we spent the day at an infant school, meeting the children of the nursery classes through to year 2. The children had the opportunity to meet: Dexter the Black Throated Monitor Lizard 🦖, Bagheera the American Red Fox 🦊, Dobby the Armadillo 🐾, Poppet the Desert Blonde Tarantula, Milli-eficant the giant train Millipedes and a bunch of our special Fancy Mice 🐭

🦎Thank you so much for having us and sending us some feedback this evening. Very much appreciated. 🦎

🦎Thank you so much for having us, we are so pleased you had a good time and we look forward to seeing you again soon ☺️🦎
17/06/2024

🦎Thank you so much for having us, we are so pleased you had a good time and we look forward to seeing you again soon ☺️🦎

14/06/2024

Brian ladies and gentlemen!
Stunning isn’t she 😃

(yes, she! tiny accident after naming her before the DNA results came back confirming HE was in fact a SHE 😅…..oops!)

Today we launched a brand new project of Animal Assisted Intervention programmes at a local primary school In Southend. ...
12/06/2024

Today we launched a brand new project of Animal Assisted Intervention programmes at a local primary school In Southend.

These sessions have very generously been funded by a local couple seeking to improve the lives, opportunities and wellbeing of children. This new project aims to target 105 children in need of therapeutic services across Southend between now and Christmas 2024.

Interventions include:

🦎small group wellbeing sessions where children learn about different animals and complete a different animal themed project each week.

🦎Animal Assisted Activity sessions on a 1-2-1 basis where children explore a range of feelings, emotions and coping strategies through animal experiences. These sessions are fun for all.

🦎Animal Assisted Therapy sessions on a 1-2-1 basis. These sessions are structured, outcome focused and should only ever be delivered by a qualified and registered practitioner. Sessions focus on working through intense trauma and adversities that children have faced and require careful planning and review.

All of our intervention programmes are led by Lexi who has worked with children in a professional capacity for over 19 years and has been a qualified social worker for more than 10 years. Lexi also completed a 2 year Diploma in Animal Assited Interventions back in 2020.

🦊 Bagheera is growing up so fast 🦊
10/06/2024

🦊 Bagheera is growing up so fast 🦊

Check out Animalistic_Encounters’s video.

It’s all about the animals here at Animalistic Encounters and, not just with the animals in our care. Some of the team v...
08/06/2024

It’s all about the animals here at Animalistic Encounters and, not just with the animals in our care. Some of the team volunteer with the National Exotics Animal Rescue Services CIC which focuses on helping injured or abandoned animals across the country.

Last night, Alex and Lexi found themselves on a call helping out this young fox cub who was thought to have had a seizure, had mange and an injury to his leg. He was very dazed and clearly very unwell. As the fox walked past Lexi, she was able to scruff him and secure him into a transport box with minimal effort and distress caused to the fox.

The team took him up to the South Essex Wildlife Hospital at Orsett where he was being checked over by their vet. There is no update on the fox just yet but, he is in the best place if he stands any chance of making a recovery, rehabilitation and being released.

☀️What a week we’ve had! ☀️This week we started off at a local nursery school helping the children learn about different...
07/06/2024

☀️What a week we’ve had! ☀️

This week we started off at a local nursery school helping the children learn about different animals from around the world. The African Train Millipedes were a firm favourite!

We visited a year 2 class midweek helping them learn all about different habitats, what makes a rainforest a rainforest and the life of an Aldabra tortoise as an island dweller.

Yesterday we visited another local school helping their SEN class and nursery classes learn about different animals. They had the opportunity to meet Luco the Tawny Owl, fancy mice, millipedes and Daisy the Aldabra tortoise.

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02/06/2024
🦊The morning after the night before! 🦊3 half eaten socks, a pair of shoes and some missing headphones later……..😂
21/05/2024

🦊The morning after the night before! 🦊

3 half eaten socks, a pair of shoes and some missing headphones later……..😂

🦎 Massive thank you to Noah today from one of our regular KS1 education sessions who took the time to draw us his favour...
16/05/2024

🦎 Massive thank you to Noah today from one of our regular KS1 education sessions who took the time to draw us his favourite reptile! How amazing is this picture!!! 🦎

11/05/2024

☀️ Astrix Chilling in the Sun ☀️

🦎Thank you so much for having us!🦎🦉Looking forward to seeing you again soon 🦉
09/05/2024

🦎Thank you so much for having us!🦎
🦉Looking forward to seeing you again soon 🦉

Massive thank you to the SWF Beaver group for having us yesterday. What a great time we had! The children had the opport...
09/05/2024

Massive thank you to the SWF Beaver group for having us yesterday. What a great time we had! The children had the opportunity to meet our African train millipedes, giant rabbits Loki & Magnus🐇, Dobby the Armadillo, fancy mice 🐭 and our Owls, Brian, Luco & Astrix. 🦉

08/05/2024

🦉 Astrix & Luco 🦉

☀️🌻Today we are kicking off the summer season at the Spring Lodge Community Centre in Witham for their Family Fun Day☀️🌻...
05/05/2024

☀️🌻Today we are kicking off the summer season at the Spring Lodge Community Centre in Witham for their Family Fun Day☀️🌻

If you find yourself at a loose end today, come and join us in the sunshine 1-5pm 🌻☀️

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🦔 River (African Pygmy Hedgehog) enjoyed a few morio worms from the children whilst out and about at a school today 🦔
03/05/2024

🦔 River (African Pygmy Hedgehog) enjoyed a few morio worms from the children whilst out and about at a school today 🦔

We’ve had an amazing afternoon at a local primary school today helping the Reception classes learn all about Mini beasts...
02/05/2024

We’ve had an amazing afternoon at a local primary school today helping the Reception classes learn all about Mini beasts. 🦂🕷️🐜🪳

The children had the opportunity to meet Poppet the desert blonde tarantula, Pinch the Asian forest scorpion, Dave the Madagascan hissing cockroach, Millie and Choco the Millipedes and Michael the Snail.

The children were brilliant! Thank you so much for having us and we look forward to seeing you again soon ☺️.

Last month, we had a really tough time saying goodbye to our beloved Tawny Owl Thelma. We believe from CCTV footage, tha...
26/04/2024

Last month, we had a really tough time saying goodbye to our beloved Tawny Owl Thelma. We believe from CCTV footage, that a wild fox had managed to get up over the back of Thelma’s aviary and, being her usual sassy self, she tried to attack the fox through the steel mesh panels however, ended up sustaining injuries to her wing.

Despite seeking veterinary treatment for her, there was very little that could have been done that would not have impacted her quality of life significantly. The kindest thing we could do was let her go. Loosing her was so unexpected and the team has really struggled to come to terms with loosing her. Thelma was cremated and is now back home with us.

Since loosing Thelma, we have found ourselves in a really privileged position to be able to take on two of Thelma’s younger siblings who hatched last month - Luco & Astrix, who are now 4 weeks old. Both will begin venturing out soon and are already training and causing havoc at HQ.

We currently have some additional building work going on, with new aviaries being built to accommodate all of our birds including Brian the Boobook Owl and Rex the Common Buzzard. The new aviaries will form our designated Bird of Prey area and come complete with electric fences and even better security systems then before.

Loosing Thelma really hit the team hard and we continue to miss her everyday. She had a huge character and was a massive part of who we are. She will be greatly missed.

Amazing pictures drawn for us today of different predators & Prey animals! These are awsome! 😃
25/04/2024

Amazing pictures drawn for us today of different predators & Prey animals! These are awsome! 😃

🥰 Thank you so much for having us back 🥰
23/04/2024

🥰 Thank you so much for having us back 🥰

We had a brilliant weekend helping Ely celebrate his birthday 🎈🥳. He Loved meeting Dexter the Black Throated Monitor Liz...
23/04/2024

We had a brilliant weekend helping Ely celebrate his birthday 🎈🥳. He Loved meeting Dexter the Black Throated Monitor Lizard 🦎, Rex the Common Buzzard 🦅 and Poppet the Desert Blonde Tarantula🕷️.

We also had the Pleasure of meeting the Hutton Brownies on their camping weekend away and they loved spending time with Daisy the Aldabra Tortoise 🐢, Mr Biggles & Anna the Micro Ferrets and Frank the African Bull Frog 🐸.

Massive thank you to everyone who booked out with us over the weekend. If you are interested in having us visit your club or a birthday party, feel free to drop us a message or an email to [email protected]

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21/04/2024

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Having fun Bagheera? 🦊……… 🤣🤣

Brian ladies and gentlemen! Stunning isn’t she 😃 (yes, she! tiny accident after naming her before the DNA results came back confirming HE was in fact a SHE 😅…..oops!)

🦊 Like Butter wouldn’t melt 😜🦊

☀️ Astrix Chilling in the Sun ☀️

🦉 Astrix & Luco 🦉

🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 Last night we caught Brian 🦉in the act giving off a Boobooking (not sure that’s a real word 😅) display of sounds. Check out this video and be sure to turn the volume right up! Fancy meeting him? Message us today to find out how 💕

🦉Thelma the Tawny owl 🦉

Hello you beautiful lot! We have a surprise for you 😜 Who’s excited? …….. we're excited. Meet Dobby the Three-banded Armadillo Yes that’s correct….. Armadillo. Dobby joined us a few weeks back and has been settling in nicely. Whilst Dobby was born in captivity, Three-banded Armadillos are native to South America and they are the only type of Armadillo that can roll into a complete ball - mind your fingers! Dobby will be working towards venturing out on encounters with us soon so keep an eye out for him. Fancy meeting him? Contact us today to find out how 🦎 01245 910456 🦎[email protected]

Today we said goodbye to our beautiful boy Murphy. Murphy was a striped skunk and came to live with us as a rescue back in February 2020 having been imported from Ireland and not treated with the love and care he so deeply deserved. Since residing with us here at Animalistic Encounters, Murphy grew in confidence and was deeply loved and adored by so many who had the privilege to meet him and work with him. Murphy had quirks including is obsession for red pepper 🫑 and chasing locusts. Whilst we do not know his exact birthday, his age had caught up with him. In 2022, Murphy had an injury to his spine as the result of a firework going off nearby and more recently his eye sight had deteriorated making navigating very difficult for him. We had noticed considerable changes to his behaviour, appetite and mobility over the past few weeks which have dramatically affected his quality of life. As a team we are truly heart broken and will miss Murphy very very much. 💔🦨

Who likes raw Sweet Potato? We Do! This is how our Prairie Dogs are spending some of their Twixmas! Make sure to turn your volume up to hear the muching.. nom nom Our January offers will be posted in the next day, so look out for a great way to fight off those January blues! 🎄

🦊 Akela - Corsac Fox 🦊 Nothing compares to an early morning scratch from his favourite human 🥰

Success!!! 😆😆🦉🦉

Amazing day helping reptile mad Leo celebrate his 9th birthday! Leo and his friends had the opportunity to meet some of our amazing animals including: 🦎 Dexter, one of our 6ft Black throated monitor lizards 🐢 Tank, Sulcata tortoise 🐸Toad, African Bull frog 🐍Kristy, 9ft Boa constrictor 🦎Slinky, Blue Tongue Skink 🦉Thelma, Tawny Owl A massive thank you to Leo and his family for booking with us. If you would like an animal themed birthday and the opportunity to meet some of our animals, please drop us a message to find out how 😃

🌟We are a tiny bit behind with the times but could not resist sharing with you all Thelma's massive achievement. Last week saw us working alongside our amazing friends Essex Kids Camp and for the first time, Thelma (Tawny Owl) flew across an entire school hall (approx 20 meters) over a large group of children sitting on the floor. She flew on command and landed beautifully on Lexi's glove. Thelma came to us as a 4-week-old chick (captive-bred) in April this year and has grown up into an amazing companion and team member. Watch this space for further updates on Thelma's progress and be sure to look out for baby Boobook Brian/Bryony 🤩

🦉 Some flight practice this evening with Thelma the Tawny Owl. She isn't completely feathered yet, but as you can see, is happy to go flying for some food! If you turn your sound on you will hear some amazing slowmo noises as she screams on the way to the glove. Stay tuned for another feathered surprise, but that news will have to wait for another day! 😉 🦎

Our resident mice are busy feasting on their gourmet breakfast 🐭 Fancy meeting them? Drop us a message to find out how 😊

Dinner time for our resident Prairie dogs and you can guarantee that Florence will always be the first to dive into any new hay bale 🦎

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Welcome to ANIMALISTIC ENCOUNTERS….. - - - - X

……………………... It’s all about the animals here at Animalistic Encounters and if you're just as crazy about animals as we are, you’re bound to enjoy your time with us.

We have everything from fluffy to feathery and slimy to scaly meaning, there is always an animal or two to suit everyone.

So, with no further ado…. Let's proceed!

From Lexi