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 | | The Carson and Barnes Circus animal care director was videotaped viciously attacking elephants with a bullhook, shocking elephants with an electric prod, and instructing trainers to embed sharp, metal hooks into the elephants' flesh until the elephants scream in pain. |
 | | Carson and Barnes was also cited for failure to maintain transport trailers for tigers, a pygmy hippopotamus, llamas, goats, sheep, and other animals, failure to maintain records of acquisition for the elephants, and improper food storage. |
 | | March 9, 1993: The USDA cited Carson and Barnes for failure to maintain the elephant barn, for inadequate drainage in the giraffe pen, and for a filthy zebra pen. |
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