Jersey Girl Gone Crazy!

If you've never been to the Popcorn Park Zoo, I suggest you go. It's one of those places you'd never know exsisted unless you know some one whoes gone, it's tucked away behind trees, the sign is small, and unless your really looking for it, you will go right passed it.

PPZ (popcorn park zoo) is located in Forked River, New Jersey it was established in 1977 as a refuge for wildlife, exotic and farm animals that were abused, ill, injured, handicapped, elderly or exploited. Each animal faced a questionable future at best.

Located on 7 acres in Jersey's pine lands, filled with many different kinds of animals, offers an environment of safety, wonderful care, and peace to its residents, a diverse array of animals unfortunate enough to need a rescue, but lucky enough to wind up here.

There are four tigers that have taken up residence, their home before was in Texas, and they came to PPZ thin, malnourished and homeless. Two of the wonderful tigers Dante and Gina had been raised to be slaughtered in a canned hunt. Now they share a compound with rocks, trees, brush, and a waterfall.

Two Belgian draft horses, left a life of starvation, and now live happily at the PPZ. Also a fairly new arrival Princess the camel!

A monkey house shelters macaques, capuchins, rhesus monkeys and more, while the reptile house features caimen, snakes, iguanas, tortoises, and turtles.

A black bear, wallabies, bobcats, cougars, foxes, a llama, sheep, goats, muntjacks, pigs, emus, rheas, and manyother animals call Popcorn Park home today.

Every single animal in the zoo, has a name and it's own unique story, of abuse, betrayal, and just down right being scared, but now they have a home, where people care about them day to day, where they are loved, and fed and help bring joy to other peoples lives. You can donate money to the zoo, so that they can continue doing what they do best, RESCUE! It's a place to restore faith in humanity, to remind you that a little kindness goes a long way.

Air popped popcorn can be purchased to feed the aniamals! Admission to the park is extremely cheap, and all goes directly to the animals.

Adults - $5.00 Children under 12 - $3.00 Kids 3 and under -  FREE Seniors - $4.00

They are open 11am to 5pm every day, year round, except for holidays, when the Zoo closes at 2pm.

The PPZ is also a full service Humane Society, and right next door is a shelter for cats and dogs to be adopted, with complete medical facility!

If you haven't been to the park, I really suggest you go, bring your check book, after wards you will want to make a donation, or foster one of the many animals they have there. You will feel better for going, because not only will you see so many animals extremely up close, but your admission cost, goes to the helping of so many animals, whoes fate would have been less then pretty had it not been for the people at the popcorn park zoo!

Humane Way at Lacey Road PO Box 43 Forked River, NJ 08731 (609) 693-1900