Kay Panabaker works as a zookeeper, a job she’s held for nearly a decade. And she still works for Disney too! Sort of. According to Panabaker’s LinkedIn, she’s been an animal keeper at Disney’s Animal Kingdom since 2015. In 2016, Panabaker sat down with Naperville Magazine and broke down her job duties. “I maintain the care, well-being, management, behavior conditioning, and enrichment of our animals and birds,” the profile reads. The former actor also puts on animal presentations and works in the petting zoo. Later, Panabaker shared her reason for leaving showbiz. “I no longer had that love, that passion,” she said. Panabaker’s love of acting soured further after a producer urged her to lose weight, despite the fact that she was “barely a hundred pounds.”
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In the years since, it appears that Panabaker has certainly found her passion. The former star doesn’t post much on Instagram, but when she does it’s usually related to her job in some way. Back in May 2022, Panabaker took to Instagram to gush about her zookeeper journey. “This is an appreciation post for some of the most incredible people I have the honor of calling best friends,” wrote Panabaker. “When I became a zookeeper 7!!! years ago, I was really trying to figure out who I was as a person and what was truly important to me. I could never imagined it would lead me to find such quality people who have really helped me learn to love myself.”
