Animal Tracks

Where do animal actors go when they retire? If they’re lucky, they get to go to this Agua Dulce backyard. Stacy Gunderson, a veteran Hollywood animal trainer, cares for injured or rejected exotic animals—on our first visit, we met residents like Jabba the bullfrog and Luke Skywalker, a squirrel monkey born at the Playboy Mansion—at this family-run nonprofit. The two-hour tour is as educational as it is hands on, with opportunities to pet everything from a hybrid wolf to a baboon.