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October 11, 2023
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David Perle 202-483-7382
Saginaw Township, Mich. – PETA has came upon that native animal broker Jeremiah Tietz of Saginaw Tropical Animals offered sloths, squirrel monkeys, and different animals in September on the Mt. Hope Public sale’s Mid Ohio Choice Animal and Chook Sale, the place a just-released PETA exposé documented that exhibitors offered animals affected by serious and obtrusive accidents and sicknesses and exposed a lot of obvious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
PETA’s investigators noticed that Tietz had tried to promote a fox—who escaped and ran across the public sale ring sooner than he used to be recovered—in conjunction with otters, marmosets, and African wildcats. PETA’s eyewitnesses additionally documented that exhibitors offered animals who had sustained damaged legs and open wounds in addition to animals who have been emaciated, pacing frantically, and biting their cages. A couple of animals have been confined with out water and have been stored in crowded pens and cages, some so small that they couldn’t stand upright or flip round.
In reaction, PETA submitted a proper criticism to the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) on October 5 challenging an investigation into the public sale, which has been cited for violations of the AWA 36 instances—together with 19 repeat citations—since September 2022.
This squirrel monkey used to be some of the animals on the market by way of Tietz on the public sale. Photograph: PETA
“This public sale is a nightmare for the 1000’s of animals who’re offered like items of outdated furnishings to those that most probably don’t have the assets, wisdom, or need to handle them correctly,” says PETA Basis Director of Captive Animal Welfare Debbie Metzler. “PETA is asking at the USDA to throw the ebook at any person who introduced animals to be auctioned off like trinkets, and the general public can lend a hand by way of by no means buying animals from a breeder.”
PETA notes that the public sale’s lengthy historical past of issues associated with foxes comprises citations for failing to stop bad public touch, indicators of pressure amongst foxes, and failure to offer right kind air flow and area to the animals. The public sale has additionally been again and again cited for protecting squirrel monkeys in unsafe, insufficient enclosures that possibility harm to animals and the general public.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to abuse in any respect”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please seek advice from PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or apply the crowd on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.