United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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Inspection Report
Triple D Game Farm Inc.
P. O. Box 5072
Kalispell, MT 59903

Customer ID: 3480
Certificate: 81-C-0016
Site: 001
TRIPLE D GAME FARM, INC.

Type: ROUTINE INSPECTION
Date: Oct-30-2013

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(b)

(2)

ATTENDING VETERINARIAN AND ADEQUATE VETERINARY CARE (DEALERS AND EXHIBITORS).
(b) Each dealer or exhibitor shall establish and maintain programs of adequate veterinary care that include.
(2) The use of appropriate methods to prevent, control, diagnose, and treat diseases and injuries.
- This licensee has a juvenile tiger at the facility that is declawed. The female juvenile tiger known as Hershey is eight
months old and was declawed at two months of age. Licensee stated that "the tiger was declawed because he would
not work a tiger with claws". When observing the tiger an abnormal digit flop was observed. The declawing of any wild
or exotic carnivore does not constitute appropriate veterinary care. Any medical treatment of a paw should be limited
to the affected digit(s) or area and would not require bilateral declawing. These procedures are not innocuous and
can cause ongoing pain, discomfort, or other pathological conditions in the animals. No wild or exotic carnivores may
be declawed.
Correct from this day forward.

An exit interview was conducted with a facility representative.

BRIAN HOOD, A C I
Prepared By:
Title:

BRIAN L HOOD, A.C.I.

USDA, APHIS, Animal Care

Date:

ANIMAL CARE INSPECTOR

Inspector 5027

Sep-11-2015

Received By:
SENT BY EMAIL.
(b)(6),
Title:

(b)(7)(c)

Date:

LORNEY J. DEIST, PRESIDENT

Sep-11-2015
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 United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Customer:
Inspection Date:

3480
30-OCT-13

Animal Inspected at Last Inspection
Cust No

Cert No

Site

Site Name

Inspection

3480

81-C-0016

001

TRIPLE D GAME FARM INC.

30-OCT-13

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Species
Puma/moutain lion/cougar
Snow leopard
North American black bear
Brown bear
White-tailed deer
Grey wolf
Total