Fort Worth Petting Zoo — Attraction in Fort Worth

Took grandson to the Petting Zoo at the Stockyards. Parking in the nearby lot is $17.50, pretty steep for parking. Kids under 2 are free, but $5 for each adult, which is fine. $3 for cups of food for animals, which is fine. Animals are under a tent, thank God, cuz it was 101 degrees out. They are on concrete with some dry straw on the ground. Most of the animals were panting on this hot concrete. This is a hard surface for these animals to be walking and sitting on all day everyday. I hope they change out these animals on a daily basis. The animals do not look well cared for. The sheep was in desperate need of sheering in this hot heat. There was a ton of goats, 1 baby longhorn, 2 pigs, so not a great variety of animals. You cannot go in the pen and the animals jump on the fence and paw at you for the food, which is somewhat dangerous for really young children. These animals don't look well cared for at all and so this was not an enjoyable experience. You want to see well cared for animals. It's clear they are using these animals to make money and it makes me wonder how all the animals are being treated at the Stockyards and if they all aren't being used and abused just...

Huge waste of money! Their website says it's $3/person, but when we went today it was $5/person (including my 1 year old) + $3 for a cup of feed (+if you pay with credit card it's an extra $1). The animals were very aggressive in trying to get the food which made both my kids very nervous. My 1 year old started crying after about 20 seconds of walking in and cried the rest of the time. My almost 3 year old wouldn't get anywhere close to the fence and didn't want to try to feed the animals at all. He was very tense the whole time, and although he enjoyed seeing the goats and sheep, was ready to go after a short while.

There are only 3 small pens, and a few of the fences were not sturdy at all. At one point I thought one of the bigger goats was going to knock down the fence while trying to get our food. It took us about 5 minutes to go through the whole thing. I could not wait to get out of there! Would not recommend to anyone.

Also, there was no hand sanitizer or hand washing station at all, which I feel is a must with animals and especially during COVID. Luckily I had some with me, but this should...

The horse riding in the stockyards is fun for people with no riding experience at all. We had 4 kids, 2 had no experience and 2 are very experienced with years of lessons. My kids with the experience were bored but they were just excited to be on a horse! We had two ladies/workers take the kids & one of them was amazing. The other was kind of mean. She was yelling at the horse & yanking it around in a mean way. It made me a little nervous her doing that while one of my kids was up on it. I didn't see the horse acting up at all. Of course, she knows them better than I do, but I was petting the horse & loving all over it at the end because after all that yelling & yanking, someone needed to. The lady in the picture posted with my girls was just an amazing lady. She talked to us about growing up as a young girl, her dreams, her experiences. She really made the experience worth the expense. It is expensive for what you get. I pay less per week for horse riding lessons than what these kiddos got to do but again, they were just happy to be in the stockyards and up on...