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THIS ALERT IS CLOSED. It is archived for use as a letter-writing example or background research. No One Hears. No One Comes "Skinny." The word is scrawled outside the cage of a gaunt male with hollow eyes. At Triple F Farms, a breeding mill that mass produces ferrets for research labs and pet stores, it's all about cliff notes. Reducing care to a minimum. Ferrets live atop wire-mesh floors, crammed in small cages with no chance to burrow or hide. Babies drop through wire-breaks on to cement floors. They cry and thrash amid waste...but no one hears. No one comes. Some die, with their mothers and siblings just above. Triple F staff even run over, maim or kill them with carts. Some are stepped on, submerged in feces... Reports from a PETA undercover investigation, later corroborated by a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection, show Triple F Farms in violation of federal law. Triple F Farms did not become a ferret torture mill overnight. The offenses are longstanding and warrant closure. TRIPLE F FARMS ABUSE ON RECORD PART 1) USDA INSPECTION REPORT: Under U.S. Animal Welfare Law Section 2.40 (b) (2), dealers and exhibitors must sustain ample veterinary care with means to "prevent, control, diagnose, treat disease and injuries." At Triple F Farms, unqualified staff stitch abdominal muscle and skin closed with one suture when spaying animals. The crude method does not comply with accepted veterinary standards and can cause wound deterioration and infection. Triple F staff fail to use sterile surgical gloves or drapes. Animals are prepped on the same table used for "major survival surgery." PART 2) USDA INSPECTION REPORT:
APHIS inspectors encountered animals long forgotten, in varying states of decline: One dead ferret with two live cage-mates and another dead ferret confined with three live ferrets; an adult female with acute stomach spasms, unable to urinate or defecate and clearly in pain; an underweight, listless adult male with hollow eyes; other ferrets with white eye secretion, one whose eye had closed altogether. Triple F staff seemed unaware of these eye infections. The ferret with abdominal distress was reported twice before staff noted her condition. The malnourished male was labeled "Skinny," with no further documentation to signify consultation with a veterinarian. PART 3) USDA INSPECTION REPORT:
In birthing areas, Inspectors noted at least two newborns who slipped through wire-mesh bottom cages on to the floor. Another 50 baby ferrets, salvaged from the floor earlier that day, were stored in a heated box. Post-weaning cages, also with 1x1 inch wire mesh floors, can entangle a ferret’s feet and legs. Damaged metal clasps that hold plastic dividers between enclosures pose more risk for jammed feet, legs or tails. Distress cries were heard from inside a PVC tube feeder where one ferret was trapped until staff eventually freed him...See rest of USDA report. |
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