Providing animals with choices and control over the environment they inhabit is one of the many tasks we have as professional caretakers to ensure the animals have what they want and their wellbeing is high. Many studies have looked into how much, and for what, animals are willing to work as well as using observational data to see where animals prefer to spend their time, with whom and their preferred food, bedding and enrichment opportunities. On the basis of these observations, care staff can then decide what they consider to be best for the animals, and often attempt to provide variation in location, time of day, frequency, duration of exposure, and type of enrichment activity (e.g. scent, tactile, food, visual or social) to allow animals to make choices. However, it is still the human caretakers and not the animals themselves who usually decide what the animals get. Even with positive reinforcement training, where the animals' participation is voluntary and they can choose to take part, the only real choice is whether to participate with the trainer or not. Given that animals can readily learn to respond to a large variety of signals and learn to associate and discriminate different circumstances with specific stimuli, we should aim to use this to communicate to the animals the choices available to them for enrichment and training. This paper offers and explores some of the possibilities and practical ideas of providing this level of choice and control. By discriminating between signals animals can tell us, for example, when they want to start a training session and what reward they want for doing the requested behaviour, or they can choose where, when and what they want to do. I shall describe potential methods of providing choice and control, and the benefits for the animals.