Stump Hill Farm has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to provide veterinary care, repeatedly failing to provide environment enrichment and minimum space to primates kept in solitary confinement and suffering from psychological distress, failure to provide shelter from inclement weather, filthy and foul-smelling enclosures, failure to provide drinking water, failure to maintain enclosures, and improper waste disposal. Stump Hill Farm buys animals at auction and prematurely removes infant animals from their mothers for commercial purposes. Jack Hanna uses infant animals from Stump Hill Farm for appearances on Good Morning America. Contact PETA for documentation.

Animals in recent inventory: 97, including 15 primates, 5 bears, 7 big cats, 5 wolves, foxes, kangaroos, raccoons, coatimundis, pot-bellied pigs, deer, llamas, and goats.

December 12, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct previously identified violations of not providing minimum space, environment enrichment, and veterinary care. Stump Hill Farm was also cited for having filthy cages, for failure to maintain records of acquisition, and for failure to have a complete program of veterinary care.
     An Egyptian fruit bat with a reddish-pink enlargement on the left wing joint area had not been examined, diagnosed, or treated by a veterinarian.
     Records were incomplete for 21 Egyptian fruit bats and one sugar glider acquired from an unlicensed source. The fruit bats were left in a dog kennel. The inspector wrote, "[T]he animals need space enough for the passive and pregnant females to hide from more aggressive ones. The cage lacks space to allow flight and exercise with freedom of movement."
     The lemur enclosure had an "accumulation of urine and brownish fecal matter." The inspector also noted, "Animals are in contact with excreta. More frequent cleaning is needed."
     The new enclosure for the chimpanzee "does not provide sufficient space." The environment enrichment plan for primates was incomplete and was not being followed. The inspector wrote, "The infants that are hand reared are not addressed and how the special attention is given after they are separated from the mother." The chimpanzee named Toot is still isolated from other primates, and the environment enrichment plan does not address his special needs.

November 20, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct a previously identified violation of not providing minimum space to a chimpanzee. Stump Hill Farm was also cited for failure to provide access to veterinary care records and the primate enrichment plan.

October 11, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct a previously identified violation of not providing minimum space to a chimpanzee.

August 22, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct previously identified violations of not having a program of veterinary care, not providing minimum space to a chimpanzee, and not providing environment enrichment to a chimpanzee, a spider monkey, and a lemur kept in solitary confinement.

July 12, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct previously identified violations of not having a complete program of veterinary care, not providing minimum space to a chimpanzee, and not providing environment enrichment to a chimpanzee, a spider monkey, and a lemur kept in solitary confinement.

May 22, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct previously identified violations of not providing minimum space to a chimpanzee and not providing environment enrichment to a chimpanzee and a spider monkey kept in solitary confinement. The USDA also cited Stump Hill for failure to provide environment enrichment to a capuchin kept in solitary confinement, failure to have a complete program of veterinary care, poor sanitation, and inadequate pest control. The fruit bat enclosure had a large pile of decayed and contaminated fruit mixed with feces, and there were a large number of gnats and flies, with the potential to transmit disease, causing a nuisance to the animals.

January 3, 2001: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct previously identified violations of not providing minimum space to a chimpanzee and not providing environment enrichment to a chimpanzee and spider monkey kept in solitary confinement.

November 20, 2000: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to correct previously identified violations of inadequate veterinary care, incomplete veterinary care program, incomplete record keeping, failure to maintain enclosures and surface areas, improper feeding and food storage, inadequate humidity and temperature controls for the primates, failure to provide minimum space and environment enrichment to primates, failure to provide drinking water, and filthy enclosures.
     The inspector wrote, "There were no veterinary care notes recorded after September 9, 2000. É Treatment records provided are very sparse. They do not list all the young born, animals that died, cause of death, if a post mortem was done, etc. É With the present number of deaths and injuries, there [need] to be some post mortems done to identify the cause of death for animals 'found dead.'"
     The revised program of veterinary care still contained deficiencies and did not list adequate vaccinations or tuberculosis testing for the care of the species on the premises. Parasite control remained confusing and poorly organized. There were no records of veterinary exams, treatment, or information given by the veterinarian to the owners.
     Record keeping was "very incomplete and almost impossible to decipher." There were no records for several animals who died. Records were incomplete for animals sold or transferred, including an 11-month-old tiger, a 5-week-old bear, a 9-week-old raccoon, a 5-week-old leopard, a baby lemur, a lion, and a 5-pound leopard. An African leopard received on April 26, 2000, and a 5-pound leopard received September 19, 2000, were not on the premises, and a sugar glider was missing.
     The floor in the mountain lion enclosure was worn and covered with snow and ice, causing the animals to slip as they walked on it.
     There had been no changes made since the previous inspection to the chimp enclosure, which failed to meet minimum space requirements.
     The environment enrichment plan remained unchanged and was inadequate.
     The inspector wrote, "As of 12:30 p.m., there was no evidence of fresh water having been given to the outside animals. What water was visible was frozen."
     The tiger enclosure remained wet and filthy. The lion enclosure contained an excessive buildup of feces.
     Stump Hill Farm was also cited for improper waste disposal. A raccoon had died five days earlier and was still lying on top of the cage.
     Stump Hill Farm was cited for failure to provide shelter for a lion. The inspector wrote, "The weather was bitter cold and very windy."
     Stump Hill Farm was cited for failure to have an adequate number of knowledgeable employees to care for the animals.

October 27, 2000: According to the Beacon Journal, Stump Hill leased a declawed tiger cub to the Massillon High School's football team to serve as a "mascot." The tiger attacked and injured a dog and spent months stored in a garage.

October 10, 2000: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to provide veterinary care records. There were no records of treatment for an injured binturong, an armadillo who had died, and a spider monkey and black wolf on medication. There were no lists of vaccines and dates given and no record of tuberculosis testing for primates.
     The program of veterinary care was inadequate and did not list vaccines for the canids, hoofstock, and other exotic species; the parasite control information was confusing and poorly organized; tuberculosis testing was missing for several species; and there were no records of veterinary exams or treatment.
     Stump Hill Farm was also cited for:
     Failure to provide veterinary care to a reindeer in need of hoof-trimming and an overweight cougar having difficulty getting up and moving.
     Inadequate record keeping. There were no dates recorded for several animals who died or were sold, including a kinkajou, an armadillo, a sugar glider, and a caracal who died. There were no birth dates for a baby llama, pygmy goats, fawns, or a joey. There were no records for a fennec fox purchased at auction. Records were incomplete for newly acquired animals, including a red fox, bobcats, lynx, servals, a raccoon, and sugar gliders. There were several animals, including a tiger cub and squirrel monkeys, out on loan with no record as to their whereabouts.
     Failure to maintain enclosures in a manner that would prevent serious injury for lemurs, a fox, camels, tigers, and bears.
     Inadequate maintenance of surface areas to facilitate cleaning for the primate, lemur, and fox enclosures.
     Improper feeding and food storage, storing foods near toxic chemicals, and storing unwrapped dead animals in the food freezer.
     Failure to have reliable controls for heat and humidity in the indoor primate enclosure.
     Inadequate drainage in a tiger enclosure that had a green, slimy, foul-smelling, feces-contaminated mud hole. The tiger had no drinking water, and the enclosure was covered with dirt and feces. The inspector wrote, "[The tiger] had no clean area, even in his shelter, to escape the filth."
     Failure to have adequate perimeter fencing for the lynx, servals, bobcats, alpaca, camel, deer, big cats, wolves, and bears.
     Failure to provide minimum space to primates. The chimp cage was barely adequate and did not meet minimum height requirements. The black lemurs' cage was inadequate. The spider monkey was in a cage that was barely half the minimum size required.
     Failure to provide environment enrichment to primates. The chimp had a TV but no manipulanda (objects that can be moved, used, or altered in some manner by the primate's hands), perch, or climbing surfaces. The inspector wrote, "Riding in a car dressed in clothing is not enrichment." None of the items listed in the enrichment plan were provided to the spider monkey. The other primates had no climbing and swinging structures or manipulanda. The spider monkey was kept in solitary confinement and was "very withdrawn and nonresponsive," and the chimp was also kept in solitary confinement. Both animals were identified as being in distress and requiring a special program to encourage normal behavior.
     Poor housekeeping. There was a buildup of junk, debris, and clutter throughout the facility.
     Inadequate pest control. The inspector wrote, "There was excessive evidence of rodent activity in the facility."
     Failure to provide the required itinerary for animals taken off site for exhibition.

June 22, 1999: The USDA cited Stump Hill Farm for failure to provide adequate veterinary care to a deer in need of hoof-trimming, failure to have a current veterinary care program that included all species in inventory, failure to have written records documenting veterinary care, failure to have a current environment enrichment plan for primates (the existing plan had not been updated since 1992), giving animals dirty, slimy, algae-contaminated drinking water in rusty water receptacles, and failure to maintain the camel enclosure in a manner that would prevent serious injury.

October 15, 1998: According to the Cleveland Benedictine High School's Web site, Stump Hill leased a 1-month-old, 8-pound tiger cub to the school to serve as a "mascot" for the basketball team. The cub was still nursing, his vision was not fully developed, and his movements were uncoordinated. He was hauled around to sporting and alumni events and television studios.