Mobile Petting Zoo and Central Florida Horse Encounter
OUR UNIQUE MOBILE PETTING ZOO consists of St. Augustine sheep (these sheep have hair, not wool) that have been ultra-domesticated to travel to your home or business to provide a unique experience to the public about sheep, in general. We also have a donkey, a Shetland pony, full-sized horses and a cow available to interact with you. We bring whatever animals that you wish to encounter to your home or business office (an outside location, obviously) in order to provide a unique one-on-one experience.
With regard to the horse encounter, this is for anyone (or anyone’s children) who have always wanted to see and learn about horses and their behavior, physiology, care, training, grooming, tacking up (saddling a horse) and basic riding skills, but are unable to easily or conveniently travel to horse farms that provide such an experience, due to work schedules or for whatever reason.
This is INDIVIDUALIZED attention, not group horseback riding, where beginners may feel timid or scared in front of others, but have always wanted to have a horse experience, whatever that may mean to them. Riding is NOT required, but if desired, we will tack up the animal and have halter/lead rope control over the animal for safety purposes.
We encourage even a little bit of riding, to get the unique feeling and experience of riding a horse, possibly for the first time in your life.
This makes a unique gift for someone that you know who has always wanted to learn more about horses and have an up-close and individual experience with a horse (or pony), with the feeling of being more comfortable about doing it at their own home or business.
There are farms that offer horse “encounters” in the Central Florida area, but they won’t bring the livestock to you. We DO!
We Attend:
Child or Adult parties
Corporate functions
Assisted living/nursing home facilities
Autism centers
Pre-schools or day care centers
Private or public schools or anywhere else where we are booked to come and visit to bring happiness, education and spend time with anyone interested in this special mobile animal experience.
Rates
Mobile petting zoo rates are dependent upon the distance from our farm location and how long that you want to rent our animals for your event. The price is not necessarily dependent upon the number of animals that we bring to your event, but the combination of animals is subject to our smaller trailer size.
We travel a maximum distance of about 40-50 miles, usually, from the farm location. Long trips are more stressful for the animals and we have to factor in time for their recovery and well-being.
Prices start at about $400.00 for up to 2 hours and providing 3-4 animals if your location is about 30 minutes away, and increases to about $500.00 if you are up to one hour away. A fuel surcharge is also added to this, due to the high fuel prices, so this total varies with distance.
Animals can be dressed according to most popular party themes (i.e., western/barnyard, unicorn, carnival or fiesta). You can rent the animals for more than 2 hours for a higher price; this is just a typical example of the usual amount of time. We do discount the rate for longer periods of time or for multiple days (i.e., Fall Festivals or live nativity productions).
Please feel free to call, text or email us to obtain an accurate quote: Telephone: 321-695-5344 E-mail: tstrickland483@gmail.com.
Please keep ALL house pets inside your home for their safety during the encounter. Thank You! We use Square to complete all financial transactions with debit/credit cards, but we also accept cash, of course. We do NOT accept personal checks.