Bailiwick Ranch, Inc
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June 20, 2016: The USDA issued Bailiwick Bailiwick Ranch, Inc. a Citation and Notification of Penalty for 118 Castle Rd., Catskill, NY 12414 several AWA violations, including failing to provide a fox named Kash with adequate veterinary care. An employee noticed that she wasn’t acting normally, and she died Bailiwick Ranch, Inc., has failed to meet the following day without having been minimum federal standards for the care examined by a veterinarian. Bailiwick was of animals used in exhibition as assessed a $1,350 penalty. established in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The U.S. Department of March 8, 2016: The USDA cited Bailiwick Agriculture (USDA) has cited Bailiwick for failing to provide four llamas, who had for failing to provide veterinary care, excessively long wool with mild to moderate repeatedly failing to have sufficient matting, with adequate veterinary care; barriers, repeatedly failing to maintain failing to provide rabbits with an enclosure enclosures, failing to provide clean with sufficient floor space; and failing to drinking receptacles, failing to clean remove an accumulation of wet, saturated enclosures, repeatedly failing to provide bedding from the enclosure housing the enclosures that effectively contain rabbits. The facility was also cited for failing animals, and failing to have an effective to maintain the safety and integrity of the pest-control program. Contact PETA for following structures: a new “warm room,” documentation. which had a 6-foot gap between the walls and ceiling with exposed fiberglass September 5, 2017: The USDA cited insulation; an enclosure holding a brown Bailiwick for failing to provide four animals bear, which had a gap in the fencing with adequate veterinary care. Two calves between two sections of the enclosure; the had crusty lesions around their eyes and on barrier fence for the enclosure holding a their ears and necks. And an alpaca black bear, which had a broken corner post, appeared to be thin, while another was in causing the fence to sag; and part of the need of toe trimming. gate to the enclosure holding tigers, which was being held in place with a hinge on the November 15, 2016: The Occupational top section and a rope in the middle. The Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) gate didn’t appear to be hinged on the issued a hazard alert to Bailiwick for failing bottom, and the lower strand of hot wire in to provide employees with a work the back of this enclosure was loose and environment that is free from recognized sagging. A tiger was seen lying on the wire. hazards that are likely to kill or seriously Bailiwick was also cited for failing to clean injure them. Employees were allowed to the food-preparation area properly, have direct contact with bears during including two refrigerators that contained an sanitation and feeding. accumulation of blood and grime on the doors and bottom shelf and two wooden November 2, 2016: The USDA cited boards that had accumulations of dirt and Bailiwick for failing to have “lockouts” (a grime; failing to clean a Vari Kennel kept in system that contains animals when the enclosure holding a coatimundi (the employees need to enter enclosures) for the kennel was covered with an accumulation of enclosures holding bears so that workers dirt and grime); and failing to remove an can feed them without risk of injury. accumulation of baling twine from the enclosures holding camels and llamas. A Bailiwick Ranch, Inc. piece was stuck in a llama’s wool, and the brown bear. Bailiwick also received repeat camel pen had balls of twine in the pile of citations for failing to maintain enclosures. A hay—the animals could ingest the balls or fox was kept in an enclosure without a top— become entangled in them. it had been removed because of an accumulation of snow. In the enclosure in April 27, 2015: The USDA cited Bailiwick which a camel was kept, a section of the for failing to provide a fox, who died the day chain-link fencing was detached from the after a staff member noticed frostbite on his post and the tub had an accumulation of ice back legs, with adequate veterinary care. around the base, posing a risk to the camel. He had been taken indoors but had not been treated by the attending veterinarian. September 9, 2014: The USDA cited The facility was also cited for failing to Bailiwick for failing to have a primate provide sufficient housing to protect animals enrichment plan that had been approved by from severe weather conditions, as the current veterinarian, failing to have a evidenced by the fox’s death, and failing to sufficient perimeter fence behind the have a sufficient barrier around the enclosure holding a baboon (it had a 12- enclosure holding four ring-tailed lemurs. inch-by-6-inch hole in it), failing to have the Bailiwick was also cited for failing to provide tigers’ diet reviewed by the current safe enclosures. The enclosure for an veterinarian, and failing to have an effective African crested porcupine had rusted pest-control program, as holes were sections, threatening the integrity of the observed in the enclosures holding a structure. And the pen in which the bison baboon and a macaque and chewed were being kept was leaning in various insulation was in the den for the baboon. directions, and bailing twine was being used to hold several panels together. April 3, 2014: The USDA cited Bailiwick for failing to have a program of veterinary care January 22, 2015: The USDA issued completed by its new attending veterinarian, repeat citations to Bailiwick for failing to failing to have an adequate barrier fence provide the ring-tailed lemurs with safe around the primary enclosure holding an housing. The enclosure had small wire arctic fox, failing to have the primate mesh on the ceiling that had become enrichment plan approved by the new detached in one section, a detached yellow veterinarian, failing to have the tigers’ diet electrical cord hung freely, and an electrical reviewed by the new veterinarian, failing to cord and light box switch were exposed. provide the brown bear cub with clean The facility also received repeat citations for enrichment items, and failing to ensure that failing to have a primate enrichment plan ropes in the enclosure aren’t a hazard to the that had been approved by the current bear cub. The facility was also cited for veterinarian, failing to keep the window that failing to provide the ring-tailed lemurs with was within reach of the capuchin free of safe housing. They were kept in an loose stone and debris, keeping food items enclosure that had loose mesh, and in a room in which gaps were exposed sections of the mesh were detached, where the floor and walls didn’t meet (which exposing jagged edges and possible could enable pests to enter), and failing to escape routes. Bailiwick was also cited for have an effective pest-control program. failing to maintain enclosures. In several, Holes were observed in the enclosures chain-link fencing was detached from posts, holding a macaque and a baboon, and rats and in the enclosure holding camels, were seen exiting holes from under the wooden planks were partially or completely concrete slab of the enclosure holding a detached. The facility was also cited for Bailiwick Ranch, Inc. failing to provide a brown bear with a dry several enclosures, including a log shelter in den. The one in the enclosure was filled the pen holding a goat, which had holes and with 2 to 3 inches of water, and the bear water-damaged slates. The facility was also needed to use the den on cold nights. cited for failing to provide three young ring- tailed lemurs with safe housing. They were July 11, 2013: The USDA cited Bailiwick for kept in a “‘bird cage’ type of enclosure” that failing to provide animals with clean water had an ornate design that consisted of bent (several animals’ water receptacles were and rounded half-circles that could injure dirty) and failing to maintain several their hand or foot. enclosures. Two pine tree limbs hung over the fence line of the enclosure holding April 3, 2012: The USDA cited Bailiwick for tigers, which could damage the fence or failing to have all animals listed on the give the tigers means to escape. Several program of veterinary care, failing to have fences were in need of repair, and the wood the primate enrichment plan available for shelter used for a calf was deteriorating. review, failing to clean the PVC pipe used by the public to feed the chimpanzees (it May 29, 2013: The USDA cited Bailiwick for had an accumulation of dirt and grime), and failing to provide animals with adequate failing to maintain several enclosures, veterinary care. A ring-tailed lemur wasn’t including a “warm room” that was being putting weight on his back left leg and had a used for a kangaroo. An exposed wound on his right thigh, and an elderly wallpapered wall was accessible to the chimpanzee who had been exhibiting kangaroo, posing a risk that the animal behavioral changes for a few days passed could ingest the wallpaper. away before being evaluated by the attending veterinarian. The facility was also October 13, 2011: The USDA cited cited for failing to have complete acquisition Bailiwick for failing to have the program of records for a few newly acquired animals veterinary care available for review, failing and failing to provide the ring-tailed lemurs to have disposition records for five goats with safe housing. There was a loose, who had been removed from the premises, sagging metal-framed platform under the failing to maintain the metal ceiling in the den box, and the lemurs had direct access enclosure holding ring-tailed lemurs and the to an electrical extension cord.