KRITTER KORRAL SHOWCASES EXOTIC ANIMALS TO PUBLIC

Kayla Renie/krenie@vicad.com The Kritter Korral is a livestock and exotic animal farm on Indianola Beach that is open to the public for people to learn about and interact with the animals.

Kayla Renie/krenie@vicad.com Annette McFarlin, 66, owner and operator of the Kritter Korral, feeds her animals a banana. The Kritter Korral is a livestock and exotic animal farm on Indianola Beach that is open to the public for people to learn about and interact with the animals. More than 100 animals, including goats, alpacas, monkeys, deer, kangaroos and chickens, call the Kritter Korral home.

BY SAMANTHA DOUTY Victoria Advocate

INDIANOLA BEACH — The Kritter Korral is full of odd pairings.

“The cow and the deer are best friends,” Dave Brady, Kritter Korral operations manager, said.

Throughout the animals’ large enclosure, kangaroos lounge with goats, alpacas chill with a donkey and monkeys hang out next to ducks and chickens. These are some of the oddities a person can find at the Kritter Korral on Indianola Beach in Port Lavaca.

The livestock and exotic animal farm has about 150 animals living there each of them have their own names.

“I impress myself every day because I can remember their names,” owner Annette McFarlin said.

McFarlin, 66, isn’t in it for the money. She said she is an animal lover and decided the Kritter Korral is her retirement hobby.

Like McFarlin, Brady does it all out of love. He said he spends about an hour every morning and night feeding the animals, which doesn’t include cleaning up.

The farm is free to the public to interact with ani-