Reptile Rescue and Rehoming
Taking in, assessing, rehabilitating and rehoming unwanted reptiles.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Study time
- TBC
- Modules
- 0
- Lessons
- 0
- Assessment
- Module quizzes · graded certificate
- Version
- v1.0
What you'll learn
- ✓Run a safe and well-recorded intake process
- ✓Quarantine and assess rescued reptiles
- ✓Recognise common health and husbandry problems
- ✓Match animals to suitable new homes
- ✓Keep the records a rescue needs
About this course
Reptile rescues take in animals that are unwanted, neglected or seized, often with health and husbandry problems.
This course covers running intake safely, quarantine, assessing condition and welfare, common problems in rescued reptiles, working with vets, rehabilitation, matching animals to new keepers, rehoming paperwork and looking after staff and volunteers.
Cover photo: Red-eared sliders, among the reptiles most often given up to rescues. Photo: shankar s., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Course content
0 modules · 0 lessons · study time TBC
Who this course is for
- Rescue staff and volunteers
- Keepers who foster or adopt rescued reptiles
- Animal management students
Assessment & certificate
Each module ends with a quiz that is marked automatically: multiple-choice questions plus a written section where you explain what you've learned in your own words. You can take each quiz once and cannot retake it, and you'll see the correct answer to any question you got wrong.
When you've completed every module, you receive a certificate of completion with a unique verification code, graded on your average score across all the module quizzes:
- PassUp to 69%
- Merit70–79%
- Distinction80–100%
Everyone who completes every module receives a certificate.
This certificate confirms completion of an online, theory-based course and a passed online assessment. It is not an accredited qualification and does not certify practical competence.