1.	Avoid having animals in any interactive experience that would compromise their welfare.
2.	Animals involved in direct contact situations should receive appropriate training for visitor interactions in order to reduce potential discomfort or stress responses.
3.	Make no unnecessary demands on animals and assure that visitors do not provoke or create discomfort or stress responses in the animals.
4.	Provide animals with choice of whether to participate or not in the interactions.Allow adequate rest time and assure that an animal displaying any indication that it does not want to participate is immediately removed from the interactive experience.
5.	All walk-through habitats, touch pools and petting areas/touch paddocks where animals are in close proximity to visitors should be of a suitable size to provide for species-appropriate needs and have suitable refuge areas for the animals.
6.	Any feeding during an interaction must be regulated so it is consistent with the animal’s overall appropriate diet and health care. This food must not be the only access to food or the whole diet for the animal and the animal must have choice whether to accept this food.