26/07/2022
๐๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก'๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ Humane Long Island!
Larry Wallach, a notorious animal abuser previously exhibiting out of East Rockaway, recently opened Sloth Encounters in Islip, a business that was ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ผ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐ธ ๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐'๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ, the latest of a long slew of violations for the cruel exhibitor.
Just last year the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Wallach after finding a sloth in his cluttered garage with hazards in and around the animalโs enclosure that โcould injure the animal by burning, broken glass, or electrical shock.โ The agency also cited a roadside zoo in Ohio after a tip from PETA that Wallach, holding an electric prod and accompanied by a dog, entered the cage of a young tiger he had dumped there after she outgrew the dilapidated cage that he had kept her in under the deck of his Nassau County residence.
The USDA also recently cited Wallach for an incident in which he took an unrestrained tiger cub to a public park and allowed the public to pet and handle the animal. A tip from PETA last year about Facebook Live videosโone of which depicted ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ท๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐ค๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐โresulted in a slew of citations, including failure to follow veterinary instructions for treatment of Shebaโs broken toe, confining her to an enclosure in disrepair that had broken floorboards, and putting her and a wolf at risk of injury by allowing them to interact in a dangerous manner.
Wallach is no stranger to both animal mistreatment and bad press as a petition was launched calling for his ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก several years earlier. Wallach previously had his USDA license suspended for a period of 6 months, showing a disturbing pattern of animal mistreatment going back a decade.
This week, after a conversation with the owner of PetDrugStore.com -- which was sponsoring this encounter before recently going out of business -- Wallach called Humane Long Island Pres John Di Leonardo from a restricted number posing as a Newsday reporter and trying to find out where he lives. When John told him he knew he wasn't a reporter, he ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ "You f****** dweeb! You better watch out! I'm coming for you!" and hung up.
HumaneLI is not so easily deterred, with Larry's latest violation and its Newsday expose' coming in the days following Larry's threats.
Read all about this seedy business and peruse a sampling of Larry's sordid history in the images below. Then follow Humane Long Island and this page to learn more about how you can help the campaign to stop Larry from exploiting sloths on Long Island.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/sloth-encounters-petting-zoo-permit-violation-sloths-hauppauge-jh1qms77
