A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE TROUNSON

Joe Trounson has a very interesting job. He a) ___________________dolphins. He works with 5 dolphins every day. A typical day b) ___________________ at 8am. The first thing he does is to check that the water is clean and it is the right temperature. Then he c) _______________________ the dolphins food. Each dolphin    

d) ___________________ about 4.5 kg of fish a day. That’s a lot of fish as you know. At 10am, Joe starts training.

“I started training dolphins 6 years ago. It took a few months for us to get used to each other but now we 

e) ___________________ just fine. There were only three of them back then. Two years after I started working with them, Pretty gave birth to Cookie.” says Joe. “I usually swim with them for a while before the first show. I always give them fish if they are good.”

            During the show the dolphins do a lot of tricks. They           f) __________________out of the water, swim backwards on their tails, and take fish out of Joe’s mouth. Joe sometimes g) __________________ on one of them like a horse!” Joe doesn’t work alone. His friend Carol h) __________________ him with the training and the shows. “We work as a team,” says Carol. “Joe, myself and the dolphins – Honey, Lulu, Smartie, Cookie, Pretty.” 

            Joe and Carol i) ___________________ work at 7 pm but they don’t usually go home until much later. If a dolphin is ill, they stay at the pool and talk to the vet. “It’s hard work but I enjoy it,” says Joe. “Dolphins are lovely animals to work with.”