For more than 15 years, Pamela Kramer Glickman has built one of San Diego County’s most joyful and enduring family businesses – one pony, lamb, and wide-eyed child at a time. She is the founder and heart behind Pammy’s Pony Parties and Petting Zoo, a mobile animal experience that has become a familiar presence at birthday parties, school events, religious gatherings, and community celebrations across the region. What began as a deeply personal rescue story has grown into a business rooted in education, compassion, and human connection.
Pammy’s Pony Parties traces its origin back to a single moment 15 years ago, when Pamela rescued a newborn Suffolk lamb named Julian after its mother abandoned it on a farm. While bottle-feeding the lamb back to health, Pamela, already a lifelong animal lover, found herself forming a bond she hadn’t experienced before.
Though she had worked as a veterinary technician at Helen Woodward Animal Hospital and spent earlier chapters of her life as a champion rodeo rider in the 1960s and a member of the London Hunt in the 1980s, Pamela had never spent much time with farm animals. That changed quickly. Julian became the catalyst for a growing menagerie that eventually included goats, sheep, exotic chickens, giant Flemish rabbits, a Kune Kune pig from New Zealand, a pony, and a quarter horse…