Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Children’s Animal Farm

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Children’s Animal Farm is located within the premises of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Stock Island Detention Center.

Managed by the Sheriff’s Office, the Animal Farm displays a wide variety of animals.

Typical farm animals like:

• miniature horses
• Angus the steer
• chickens
• pigs
• goats
• rabbits

Exotic animals such as:

• Mo the Sloth
• a Kinkajou
• Kelsey the Lemur
• alpacas (Snowflake, Arabella, Lilo, and Stitch)
• an albino python
• peacocks
• numerous tropical birds

Established in 1994, the farm initially occupied an open area beneath the jail facility. The Stock Island Detention Center, built to withstand a Category Five Hurricane, is elevated on stilts approximately 11 feet above ground level.

Below the building, there is employee parking and a secure fenced area designated for inmate evacuation in case of a fire. It was in this initially unused gravel space within the evacuation area that the farm was established.