Grace Dickinson

Height: 5’7”

Dress size: UK 12

Qualifications:

National Diploma in Animal Care and Management

BSc Degree with Hons in Animal Behaviour

St Johns Ambulance Emergency First Aid Certificate 

Grace is the managing director of Tabitha’s, founding the company in 2007, though boasts experience with snakes and other exotic animals in the live event, TV and film industry since 2001, and has been keeping, breeding and handling snakes even longer. Grace tends to mainly handle the larger snakes in the collection, due to her previous experience, with snakes from anacondas to rattlesnakes! 

Megan “the Machine” Cooper

Height: 5’6”

Dress size: UK 10

Qualifications:

National Diploma in Animal Care, BSc Zoo Management 

Megan is one of Tabitha’s most dedicated ladies! Despite her love of rhine wrangling, her usual sidekick is Chainsaw the carpet python and with her natural charms and striking look she continues to win over guests at a variety of events. 

"Kitty" Kat Lyon

Height: 152cm or 5Ft 2

Weight: 47kg

Size: uk 6/8

Qualifications:

Btec National diploma in applied science and animal management

BSc (Hons) Animal behaviour & wildlife biology

St Johns ambulance emergency aid

Katherine is the newest member of the team and though she may be small, she sure is mighty! Our pint sized snake charmer is bursting with personality and class, and has already successfully “gone solo” for us covering events such as Salon Rouge in Cambridge, where she and her reptilian charge Talulah the boa constrictor have proven massively popular, even with the most timid of guests!

Daisy “Duke” Dickinson

Height:5’7”

Dress size: UK 12

Qualifications:

BA Photography and digital media 

Having stepped in to cover a double booking, Daisy has now joined the animal handling team as well as maintaining our her usual, long-standing position as official photographer for the company. She accomplishes her new role with ease, having been handling snakes from the age of 10 years. Her photography skills and services are employed not only by Tabitha’s, but she is also available for hire to cover your live event (for enquiries please get in touch via our contact form).

Andrea Probert

Height:5’6”

Dress size: UK 10-12

Qualifications:

National Diploma in Animal Care

NVQ animal management

Andi is a fearless and courageous reptile handler more accustomed to wrangling tricky or challenging animals in her own time but equally at home enjoying Tabitha’s friendlier variety of snakes when covering jobs for us as a stand-in during busy times. 

Fiona “Fyful” Smith

Height:5’7”

Dress size: UK 14

Fiona is an experienced animal handler from the North, and though primarily deals with reindeer, our accomplished and unflappable Scottish flower happily wrangles for us as a stand-in, and will take on whatever is thrown at her- even Tabitha herself, who now weighs in at around 20kg!