Two Tails Ranch: All About Elephants - Williston, Florida

The Cobra's Games

Mal lugar, nos humillaron y faltaron al respeto a mi y a mi familia delante de todos los espectadores y clientes que participamos en las atracciones. La dueña es muy prepotente y grosera, es racista y discrimina a las personas obesas. Insultó a mi familia por ser obesa, le habló mal a mi hijo y no nos dejó montar en los elefantes después de haber pagado. El lugar se ve mal cuidado y los animales no parecen estar bien cuidados y algunos de los animales parecen como si estuvieran enfermos. No vale la pena pagar tanto por tan mala atención y tan mal trato. No lo recomiendo, nos arruinaron el día y era el cumpleaños de mi esposa, un día muy malo el que pasamos, porque arruinaron nuestro día familiar y nos hicieron sentir tristes y enojados.

felix riveros

It was an incredible experience ... fue una increíble experiencia... las personas dan un cuidado especial a los elefantes, lo cual fue grato para mi ver la interacción con los elefantes y como los protegen.

humberto delzo

Execelente lugar ,te lo recomiendo al 100 ,tus hijos lo disfrutarán

Terri Cavagnaro

Was unsure of visiting based on some reviews. Emailed to secure our spot. Beautiful cool day. Good information given about the elephants by the owner with plenty of time for questions and answers.It was a good all around experience. Granddaughter fed and rode the elephant. Able to be up close.

Sandra Griffith

After reading the reviews, I was a little nervous to go. The reviews make the owner seem terrible….

But we had such a pleasant experience! Is she overly nice and out to appease people? No. Is she knowledgeable and pleasant and to the point? Yes. Ignore all reviews that speak negatively about her…. They must just be Negative Nancy’s. She was great with my twins and was patient with the crowd as they asked questions.

We paid more to feed and ride: well worth it! We loved hearing everything about the elephants and other animals on the farm.

If you get a chance to visit, do it. You won’t regret it!

K Boyce

We visited on a hot Sunday, I have been wanting to see the elephants here for years. I’m so glad we went. Ms Patricia was kind to share her great knowledge of elephants and their care and preservation with us. She obviously has a deep knowledge and commitment to these wonderful animals. Her facility was clean and very well kept and presented.
Book in advance, do all the extras if you can (feeding, ride, etc) and support this great facility.

Maya AF07

It was a memorable experience for us! We were truly touched by those gentle giants and saddened to learn that current and previous important and export bans on animals such as elephants will put them to extinction in 5-10 years

Shainey Marcus

If you follow us, you know that we enjoy going to small obscure activities all over the world. Today was no different. We selected a small elephant sanctuary in Central Florida. The sanctuary had been featured on the news so we were excited to check it out. After a short drive outside of Ocala, we turned onto a half gravel half sand road that led to closed iron gates. When arriving at the gate, we noticed that they do not open until 5 minutes before your appointment time. So we sat in a line of cars with other people who had the same appointment day and time. When the gates opened we were directed by a young man on where to park in the grass along a pen that housed two ostriches. A woman began barking orders at the crowd to follow her to check in. Lacking any people skills she hollered at everyone to just give their name. Once checking in she pointed in a general direction and said sit over there. We were unaware of where to be seated and it wasn't until getting up and walking to the elephant pen that we realized she wanted us to sit in a dirty dingy hot bleachers underneath a tin roof that had a hodgepodge of chairs which we were told we were not allowed to sit in because the front row is reserved. After waiting more than 20 minutes, the woman came to the front of the crowd in front of an elephant enclosure with one elephant in it and began to give information on elephants. She lacked any speaking skills and sound as if she was reading off of cue cards. She then started taking questions. To every question she had a political rant. She made it very clear her political affiliation. Each rant took several minutes. All in all, we listened to her political hatred spew for 30 minutes. In that time we could see the one elephant behind her and barely two more in pins next to that one. After her 30 minute political rant, she said that she was walking us over to another elephant. However, the only people who could get near that elephant or even see the elephant were the people who had paid for feeding or rides everyone else was told to stand underneath a tree and not move. We walked to a pen that had a camel in it and looked at the camel and small zebra in the same pin. After a few moments, my son, 10 years old walked to the other side where there were some lemurs in a small habitat. When he got to the fence, the lemurs popped their heads through the fence to look at him. The woman giving the "tour" began yelling at he and I that we were to go back and sit under the tree. After another 15 minutes of standing around while she allowed the people who paid to feed the elephant or ride the elephant, she finally got back over to the group where she talked a few moments about the camel and zebra and continued her political rant. She then told everyone to turn around, where in a small shelter, a turtle was living. She discussed the age of the turtle and again began to rant about poor pet ownership. After that she had everyone walk a few feet over to the lemur cage. She then stated "that normally they would come out and greet everyone but we had a few people who couldn't follow directions and they are no longer out." Moments later, the rest of the lemurs ran into the habitat. After that she pointed out the ostriches and said no one is to get within 50 ft. away from the fence. "But if you'd like on your way out you can look at them." Minus the time she took to complain about politics and minus the time she made people wait for other people to check in, feed the elephant or ride the elephant. The total time spent would have been approximately 15 minutes. The total animals we saw were three elephants, one zebra, one camel, four lemurs one turtle and two ostriches. Although they bill themselves as a zoo or sanctuary, they are in fact simply a boarding facility. We would not recommend anyone taking the time to go unless they make some major changes on how they operate. "We did not like it. The only thing we liked were the animals but besides that no she was very mean," statement by Lee.
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