{"id":15632,"date":"2024-07-28T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domainedeladombes.com\/activites\/junior-trainer\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:48:46","slug":"junior-trainer","status":"publish","type":"activities","link":"https:\/\/www.domainedeladombes.com\/en\/activites\/junior-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experience life as a groomer to the full!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

Domaine de la Dombes offers an exclusive <\/strong>3-hour private tour<\/strong> to learn about the fascinating job of animal caretaker<\/strong> and discover what goes on behind the scenes in our animal parks. <\/p>\n\n

Take part in a unique, fully immersive experience<\/strong> in our animal parks, as an apprentice animal caretaker for the duration of a visit.<\/p>\n\n

What is Soigneur en Herbe? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

The activities :<\/h3>\n\n

Taking good care of our animals<\/h4>\n\n

During this visit, you will experience the daily life of our animal caretaker and his various daily missions:<\/p>\n\n

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  • Preparing food buckets<\/strong> for daily feeding<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Traditional feeding and hand-feeding of <\/strong>certain species: Mouflons, fallow deer, wallabies, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cutting<\/strong> and feeding branches<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Enriching<\/strong> the animals, brushing the donkey toys, cleaning the pens…<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • EXCLUSIVE: Donkey toy<\/strong> rides <\/strong>by the pond!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    This list is not exhaustive, of course, and other activities can be added according to the needs of the groomer.<\/p>\n

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