Animal Farm open Sunday

Come see the new butterfly garden!

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Animal Farm is open to the public this Sunday from 1 – 3 p.m. Please join us and visit with the animals. Be sure to check out the new butterfly garden near the entrance made possible via a wonderful donation from the Trophia Butterfly Foundation!  The farm is free of charge; donations are welcome.

The Sheriff’s Office Animal Farm has over 150 animals, most of which were abandoned, abused or otherwise surrendered by their owners. The animals at the farm include farm animals like pigs, goats, a steer, horses, a donkey, turkeys and rabbits. The farm also has a number of more exotic animals including a lemur, kinkajous, sloths, a family of Patagonian cavies, alpacas, an Emu, pythons, a bearded dragon, prairie dogs, a skunk and a chameleon.

The farm is a wonderful place where kids and adults alike can get up close and personal with many animals they would not normally encounter here in the Florida Keys. It is located underneath the Monroe County Detention Center, at 5501 College Road on Stock Island. It is open on the second and fourth Sundays of every month from 1 – 3 p.m.

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