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September 7, 2023
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Iowa County, Iowa – A damning U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) report simply obtained by PETA reveals that an Iowa County breeding facility operated by John Beiler has been cited once more—this time associated to canine with matted fur—for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act, marking at the least the 18th violation on the operation since 2014. Regardless of this sample of repeated violations, the USDA has but to rescue a single animal or search any penalties in opposition to Beiler, so PETA rushed a letter to District Lawyer Zachary P. Leigh urging him to have a veterinarian go to the power with investigators and file acceptable fees in opposition to these accountable for the neglect.
In response to the report, on August 1 a USDA veterinarian found three canine with matted fur—a painful situation that pulls the pores and skin tightly and may result in pores and skin infections and different well being issues. Equally, in October 2016 six guinea pigs had been discovered with pink and crusty pores and skin and one other animal had a lot “crusted materials” on her ft that almost all of her toes weren’t seen. Moreover, between March 2014 and April 2017, Beiler was cited on 5 completely different events for holding animals in filthy circumstances, together with on “excessively dirty bedding,” amongst an “extreme quantity of black flies,” and amid an odor of ammonia so robust that it burned the USDA veterinarian’s throat and eyes.
“Depressing mills like this one deny animals correct care and deal with them as nothing however commodities,” says PETA Vice President of Proof Evaluation Daniel Paden. “PETA is urging Iowa County authorities to prosecute these accountable for this persistent neglect and calls on everybody to keep away from shopping for animals from breeders or pet shops, which maintain operations like this one in enterprise, and to undertake from shelters as an alternative.”
PETA is pursuing fees beneath state legislation as a result of the USDA doesn’t render aid or help to animals throughout its inspections and—as Beiler’s nine-year historical past of violations present—these infractions carry no federal legal or civil penalties.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals should not ours to abuse in any method”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Leigh follows.
September 7, 2023
The Honorable Zachary P. Leigh
Iowa County District Lawyer
Expensive Mr. Leigh:
I hope this letter finds you effectively. I’m writing to request that your workplace (and the correct law-enforcement company, as you deem acceptable) examine and, as appropriate, file legal fees in opposition to these accountable for neglecting canine at a breeding facility operated by John Beiler at 726 Turnbull Rd. close to Rewey. PETA hopes investigators will go to the power with a veterinarian who has experience in canine well being and welfare in order that they’ll determine any animals in want of care and opine on the circumstances of and for about 70 canine there.
Over at the least 9 years, a U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) veterinarian has documented neglect on the facility within the connected reviews, the newest of which was simply made public. On August 1, the veterinarian discovered three canine with matted hair. Beiler apparently tried to clarify the mats by stating that his operation’s clippers had “stopped working.” (In October 2016—when Beiler possessed greater than 1,700 guinea pigs—six animals had been present in want of veterinary analysis for pink and crusty pores and skin and a lot “crusted materials” on one animal’s ft that almost all of her toes “couldn’t be visualized.”)
In June 2021, the veterinarian discovered animals uncovered to “rusted out and tough” feeders in roughly 37 cages, which “might injure” them. (Beiler had been cited for comparable harmful circumstances in October 2016 and March 2014.) The findings in August and in 2021 might violate Wisconsin Statute §§ 951.02 and 951.14. The latter requires that enclosures for animals be “structurally sound and maintained in good restore to guard the animals from harm.”
You may additionally have an interest to know that in August, Beiler was cited for using expired medicines and—for at the least the fourth time—missing correct identification and/or data of his animals. Moreover, between March 2014 and April 2017, Beiler was cited on 5 completely different events for holding animals in filthy circumstances, together with on “excessively dirty bedding,” amongst an “extreme quantity of black flies” and an odor of ammonia so robust that it burned the veterinarian’s throat and eyes throughout an inspection.
The USDA renders no help or aid in anyway to animals on website, and these reviews carry no legal or civil penalties and don’t preempt legal legal responsibility beneath state legislation for neglecting animals. In the event you’d prefer to be taught extra in regards to the company’s findings, please see the contact info for its workplace in Riverdale, Maryland, here. Thanks on your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Daniel Paden
Vice President of Proof Evaluation
PETA
