[Morgana]

FReepers I don't attend state fairs much anymore so I don't know how they work.

Here is my question. If the family wanted to withdraw the animal from the auction before it ended why couldn't they? I know items are pulled from ebay's auction before it's over with no reason ever given so what is the problem here?

[Tell It Right]

Muslims be like: there are more fun things to do with a goat than barbecue it

[Mr. K]

Once the give it to the Auction house it is up to them to agree with what they do with it.

[NorthMountain]

What the hell did they think the auction was for in the first place?

[ifinnegan]

I heard this a long time ago.

[Boogieman]

“If the family wanted to withdraw the animal from the auction before it ended why couldn’t they?”

You sign an agreement when you put anything up for auction, and the terms are defined there. If there is a period when you can back out, it’s in the contract, otherwise you can’t (unless nobody bids and you get the thing back).

If she really wanted the goat back, the solution was probably to make the winning bid, not to steal it.

[freedumb2003]

>>Cedar, described as a beloved white goat with beautiful chocolate-colored markings<<

The new owners described him as “simply delicious.”

There is no merit to this case. When you sell something, you sell it. And the child cannot be a party to anything as mom had to be the one who signed the contract.

[Ex-Episcopalian]

Sounds like the mother is the cause of all of this and should suffer severe consequences.

[fwdude]

I really don’t see that they have a case. What did they think was going to happen to a goat they SOLD?

[odawg]

I hope the 9 year girl takes the idiots to the cleaners. Don’t the police have bigger fish to fry in that benighted state?

[MeganC]

I won’t speak for California but in Wyoming we don’t put our pets up for auction.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This is an old old story, rehashed again.

[KarlInOhio]

What followed was a wild goat chase - sending officers hundreds of miles across the county to retrieve the goat via a search warrant,

I thought California had a $950 free shoplifting rule. They don't chase you if you burn down half a city rioting, but they have that much time for a stolen goat?

[Reno89519]

They seem to miss that this the point of 4-H and all of this. I remember growing up we raised lots of different animals and my brother and I reminded people at the dinner table who we were eating by name. Didn’t go over well. But that is life, too few people realize where food comes from.

[Valpal1]

The paperwork and sales contract is signed when the animal is weighed in as a market animal. There are non market categories to enter.

I am suspicious that mom is an animal rights activist deliberately setting up a test casr.

I hope the fair board countersues.

[tired&retired]

If she had pumped it full of aintibiotics it would have been disqualified and not fit for meat consumption.

[Clay Moore]

Wow, you raise meat goats (Boer) and they get used for meat? Color me shocked.

[heavy metal]

where’s the beef...

[Honest Nigerian]

This couldn’t be an April Fools joke. Oh … wait ….

[HollyB]

Doesn’t sound like a successful law suit. Sad she lost her goat. But, she did enter it in an auction. A shame the fair took it so seriously and didn’t allow her to withdraw from the auction.

[cherry]

perhaps a contract was signed, the goat listed on literature that was sent out or passed around, and buyers came to the auction with a certain animal in mind, and if the auction pulled the goat out at the last minute, it would have been basically a bait and switch....

these auctions IMO are generally run to help the country kids earn money and the bids are much higher than normal for that reason....

this woman is a liar and a cheat.