Following a complaint from PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited backyard animal exploiter Larry Wallach for multiple violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. We notified the agency of Wallach’s Facebook videos showing him electroshocking a juvenile tiger named Sheba, keeping her in a run-down enclosure, and handling her in a harmful and inhumane manner.
Larry Wallach Cited for USDA Violations Following PETA Complaint
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind