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Roadside Zoos and Traveling Menageries

Click on the following links to read detailed information about each of these animal exhibitors.

Please do not patronize these exhibits, and please contact PETA if you learn of any problems associated with any exhibitor.

A to Z Film Animals

Action Wildlife Foundation Inc.

Anderson & Girls Orchard

Animal Haven Zoo

Bear Country U.S.A.

Barn Hill Preserve

Bailiwick Ranch, Inc.

Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation

Brunon Blaszak’s Royal Bengal Tigers

California Living Museum

Capital of Texas Zoo

Cherokee Bear Zoo

Debbie Dolittle’s Animal Experience

DEW Haven

Franklin Drive Thru Safari and East Texas Zoo & Gator Park (Jason Clay)

Health Hazards of Petting Zoos

Hollywild Animal Park (David and Lucia Meeks)

Hovatter’s Wildlife Zoo

Indian Creek Zoo

Ivie Acres Farm and Petting Zoo

Lagoon Corporation

Laughing Valley Ranch NOT LICENSED

Lazy 5 Ranch and The Farm at Walnut Creek (Henry Hampton)

Lisa Lopez, Marcus Cook, All Things Wild, and White Tiger Discovery

Mini ‘S’ Exotic Zoo

Mt. Hope Auction

Natural Bridge Zoo

Oswald’s Bear Ranch

Pocono Snake & Animal Farm

Predators of the Heart

Pymatuning Deer Park

R.W. Commerford & Sons Traveling Petting Zoo

SeaQuest, San Antonio and Austin Aquariums (Covino Family)

Sierra Nevada Zoological Park

Single Vision Inc.

Space Farms Zoo & Museum

Sustainable Safari

Spring River Park & Zoo

Steve Martin’s Working Wildlife

Stump Hill Farm

Tanganyika Wildlife Park

T.I.G.E.R.S., Bhagavan Antle

Tiger Creek

Three Bears General Store

Tregembo Animal Park

Union County Sportsmen’s Club, Inc

The Wild Animal Park

Wildlife World Zoo

Wild Woods Animal Park

Wilstem Wildlife Park

Woody’s Menagerie (Gregg and Karen Woody)

Yellowstone Bear World

Zoological Wildlife Foundation

Zootastic Park

Zooville USA

CLOSED

Brown’s Oakridge Zoo

Buffalo Beals Animal Park

The Camel Farm

Cicchelli Second Chance Rescue & Exotics

Craig Kokas, dba Kokas Exotics

Dade City’s Wild Things (Stearns Zoological Rescue & Rehab Center)

Deer Haven Mini Zoo

Dirk Arthur and Stage Magic

The Great Bear Show (Bob Steele)

The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park aka G.W. Exotic Animal Foundation

Harmony Park Safari

McClelland’s Critters

Missouri Primate Foundation

The Mobile Zoo

Robert Engesser, dba The Zoo

Serenity Springs Wildlife Center

Special Memories Zoo

Summer Wind Farms

Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park

Tri-State Zoo

A Walk on the Wild Side

Waccatee Zoological Farm

Walnut Prairie Wildside

Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari

Wildlife in Need, Inc.

Wilson’s Wild Animal Park

Zoological de Puerto Rico at Mayaguez 

Urgent Alerts

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Countless Rattlesnakes Slaughtered in Cruel Events Across the Country—Speak Up!

Let the event organizers and officials in the following cities know that you’re appalled by their support of this carnage. Urge them to scrap the events and leave these animals in peace.

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Mt. Hope Auction Sponsors: Reconsider Supporting the Suffering of Wild and Exotic Animals!

Urge “Mt. Horror” sponsors to shun future exotic-animal auctions.

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Behind Bars for 50 Years: Miyako the Elephant Needs Your Help

Miyako the elephant has suffered in a cramped pen for a half-century. Will you please urge the zoo’s owner to accept PETA’s offer to transfer her to a suitable facility?

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Enough Monkey Business! Tell FOX: Exploiting Real Animals on ‘Animal Control’ Isn’t Funny

Unlike Joel McHale, monkeys and sloths aren’t desperate to be on TV.

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THIS Is How the 2022 Iditarod Is Actually Going (Photos, Video)
These Alaskan Companies Are Sponsoring a Death Race—Act Now!

Urge Delta Leasing and the Matanuska Valley Federal Credit Union to cut ties with the Iditarod.

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Thousands of Rattlesnakes Rounded Up and Decapitated for This Cruel Event

You can help snakes by contacting the Jaycees and letting the group know that you’re appalled by its support of this carnage.

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