Perry's Wilderness Ranch & Zoo

User Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

AMEN!!!! Know all too well. Cant wait for this week!

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User Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

I work for the USDA and Perry’s Exotic Petting Zoo (a.k.a. Perry’s Wilderness Ranch & Zoo) has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Perry’s Exotic Petting Zoo numerous times for failure to provide adequate veterinary care—including to three 11-day-old tiger cubs used for photo sessions who died the same day—for failure to provide minimum space, for failure to provide drinking water, for mishandling animals, for failure to provide shelter from inclement weather, for filthy enclosures, and for failure to maintain enclosures. Perry was penalized $2,000 by the USDA for operating without a license, for filthy conditions, for unsanitary food storage, and for facilities in disrepair. Perry’s tiger cub bit a man during a photo op at a fair. Perry attends exotic animal auctions, sells big cats as “pets,” and disposes of unwanted display animals through advertisements in dubious animal trade publications. Perry stood by and watched as an elephant trainer beat Perry’s elephant with baseball bats and ax handles and jolted her with electrical shock. The USDA cited Perry for improper drainage. An enclosure housing a zebra had standing water in at least one-third of the surface area as well as all of the area under the only shelter, and water and fecal matter had accumulated in an area housing two water buffaloes. Craig Perry was mauled by a tiger at the Hawthorn Corporation’s circus-training facility in McHenry County, Illinois. One of 14 tigers circled Perry during a photo shoot and then attacked his left leg. Perry required immediate surgery and suffered nerve damage. The USDA cited Perry for filthy animal enclosures, which contained the remains of a calf and chickens that had been fed to tigers and a lion 24 hours previously. The inspector wrote, “[L]arge numbers of flying insects were observed swarming on and above the uneaten meat portions.” Perry was also cited for improper drainage resulting in areas of standing water and/or excrement-laden mud with algae growth in enclosures housing tigers, camels, sheep, goats, and cows. The USDA cited Perry for failure to clean animal enclosures of excessive accumulations of snow, ice, excrement, and/or food wastes. Exotic cats, wolves, and goats were slipping on icy surfaces and carcass bones were embedded in ice and snow. Perry was also cited for structurally unsound enclosures in disrepair, failure to provide animals with wholesome, palatable, and uncontaminated food and failure to follow a nutritional feeding program provided by the facility’s veterinarian for its 13 wild canine and feline animals. Perry was also cited for failure to have records of acquisiton for six tigers and disposition records documenting the status or location of numerous animals who were no longer at the facility, including two reindeer, a zebra, a zedonk, a camel, an audad, three elands, one longhorn cow, and one bobcat. PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS HORRIBLE PLACE!!!

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