“PETA is urging New Jersey officials to take a close look at the risks to animals and to the public that this sleazy petting zoo would bring to the Garden State.” “SeaQuest is losing permits left and right, and it should be chased out of any town where it tries to set up shop,” says PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Brittany Peet. PETA also notes that New Jersey is a “no contact” state, meaning that it prohibits the public from feeding or holding regulated animals-and encouraging such contact is the very business model of SeaQuest, an “interactive aquarium.” One former staffer even claimed that he saw hundreds of animals die. Former employees at that location have alleged that birds were stepped on and killed, turtles were crushed by children, and an octopus died after being boiled alive in a tank. SeaQuest’s exotic-animal permit for its Las Vegas location was revoked because the aquarium possessed unpermitted otters and coatimundis. SeaQuest’s license suspension in Colorado came after the company’s Littleton location-where at least 41 people have been injured by animals-racked up eight citations for violations of state laws in just six months, including for failing to report the death of a bird who apparently drowned in a water bowl. – SeaQuest has submitted an application to exhibit numerous animals at a proposed new aquarium and petting zoo at the Woodbridge Center-and in a letter sent this morning to the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife, PETA urges officials to confer with agencies in Colorado and Nevada, where SeaQuest permits were either suspended or revoked. PETA Tips Off Officials to Aquarium's History of Animal Deaths, Suspended and Revoked Licenses
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