article_snippet.sent: Kenny Hetrick's allowed anyone to visit at no charge, getting by with help from volunteers and donations of cash, as well as of deer and horse meat to feed Kenny Hetrick's animals.
article_snippet.sent: Kenny Hetrick's thought of Kenny Hetrick's as an educator, inviting scout troops and families to learn what scout troops and families wouldn't hear at zoos.
article_snippet.sent: ' said Hetrick, who acknowledged before Kenny Hetrick's animals were taken that Kenny Hetrick's couldn't afford everything state wanted.
article_snippet.sent: Hetrick doesn't have formal training with wild animals, but Hetrick has been around wild animals about 60 years, since Hetrick was a ten-year-old volunteer cleaning cages at a zoo in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
article_snippet.sent: Hetrick love for wild creatures grew when Hetrick moved to Ohio.
article_snippet.sent: Hetrick and Hetrick wife, who died four years ago, spent much of the money Hetrick made as an auto worker and police officer on the animals.
article_snippet.sent: Hetrick daughter, Corrina Hetrick, remembers going out to catch the school bus only to find an alligator swimming in a kiddie pool.
article_snippet.sent: Erica Crawford, who has been visiting Hetrick's animals since she was a little girl and now brings she children, said she appreciates the uniqueness of the place. '