Regulators cite Harrah’s act for animal abuses

Published March 6, 2014 8:34pm ET



LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a circus act featured at two Harrah’s casinos in Nevada has not been treating its big cats properly.

The department cited Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic show in December for declawing lions and tigers, keeping a snow leopard in a rusty cage and chaining a bobcat in a dangerous way. The USDA also found that the animals’ cages were too small.

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