Tampa entrepreneur grows goat yoga business with grit, good times

How a small family and half a dozen goats jumped to new heights.

  • By Laura Lyon
  • | 5:00 a.m. September 3, 2024
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Tori Rivera smiles with a goat on her back during a goat yoga session at In the Loop Brewing in Land O Lakes, Florida.
Tori Rivera smiles with a goat on her back during a goat yoga session at In the Loop Brewing in Land O Lakes, Florida.
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Kelly Harris, a former zookeeper for Busch Gardens and current guest host on Home Shopping Network, had no idea she would be going into business with goats when she rescued her first three in 2017. 

“I just wanted my kids to grow up around animals,” she says, “I'd always loved goats, so I just started looking at pet goat breeds and this is what I landed on: Nigerian dwarfs.”

 

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