Learn how to care for the many wonderful animals we share our world with.
How to earn your badge:
Learn how to care for an animal.
Find out what the animal needs. Learn about its food, habitat, space, exercise and sleeping area.
Help to take care of that animal for four weeks.
Keep a note of how you have looked after the animal for four weeks.
You can draw, take photographs or write short sentences.
Tell others in your Colony or Lodge about the animal.
Tips
You could help look after a family or friend’s pet, farm animal, or a school or classroom pet. You could help at an animal shelter, pet store, farm or city farm.
You could also find out about any wild animals near you, that need some help. Birds might need help during the winter when there's less food for them. Or, if there's a hedgehog living nearby, there's lots you can do to help keep them safe.
If you’re thinking about getting a pet, before introducing any animal into your home, you need to make sure you can meet their needs throughout their lifetime.
Any animal, no matter how big or small, will be a big responsibility that will require lots of time, love, money and care every day, so you need to be sure that this is something you can commit to.
July 2024.
Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.