Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Photo by Shelley Grieshop/The Daily Standard

Don Barber faces off with one of his adult dromedary camels. The Barber family of rural Mendon raise for breeding and enjoyment many types of animals including llamas, deer, pot-bellied pigs, goats, donkeys, horses, mules, monkeys, ferrets, parrots - oh yeah, and cats and dogs.

Related online story:
MENDON - Noah of biblical fame would feel right at home on the Barber farm.
Creatures big and small are plentiful in pens and barns near the winding Neptune-Mendon roadway. But this time of year, it's the family's camels that steal the spotlight at live Christmas nativity scenes. [More]
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