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.

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 s . . .