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Anonymous call-to new animal-abuse-hotline leads to raid-on Colorado woman’s rabbit farm
Big Government ^ | Aug 11th 2011 at 6:21 am | Bob McCarty

Posted on 08/11/2011 12:18:22 PM PDT by Cowman

Upon arriving home at about 1:40 p.m., she found the animal control officers being unreasonable and milling about on her property — without a search warrant. ...

Much “discussion” took place during the day and, when the animal control officers told Bell she had “too many animals for your zoning,” she begged to differ. “No, you need to check your zoning regulations,” she told them. “I moved in before you changed the zoning. I can have as many animals as I want. I have more than an acre. I’m zoned A-2.”

Apparently stumped by her knowledge of the local zoning, she said they told her they would set the zoning issue aside.

When she told them her business was a livestock operation, they told her they disagreed and began to push the proverbial envelope.

… Several times during the day, animal control officers approached Bell and asked her to sign the rabbits over to them. When she asked what it was going to cost her if she didn’t, their reply stunned her. “They said, ‘Five dollars a day per rabbit,’” Bell recalled, “and I said, ‘That’s $815 per day. Take ‘em! I can’t afford that.” As a result of recently putting two boys through Colorado State University, Bell said, she told the officers she has a “mountain of debt” already and could not afford more than $24,000 per month — for a minimum of one month. The entire herd of rabbits was worth only $17,000.

At approximately 4:30 p.m., Bell said, a sheriff’s deputy arrived with the long-awaited search warrant and, within a half hour, the assembled animal control officers and volunteers began hauling out the rabbits in an effort that lasted about four hours.

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KEYWORDS: beast; default; economy; rabbits; siezure; strike; tipline; tyranny
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To: Cowman

Homeland Security is using radical leftists to finger their enemy domestic terroirsts. Now they are using an animal rights group to direct raids on farm animals.

Seems these activists are putting themselves on line for being sued for slander by their political and social targets.


21 posted on 08/11/2011 1:56:22 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Cowman
Anonymous call-to new animal-abuse-hotline leads to raid-on Colorado woman’s rabbit farm

This story is appalling. The violations of due process are legion, the harrassment and intimidation and denial of representation - at gunpoint, no less - are disgusting, and violations of county, state and federal laws would fill a desk.

Oh yeah - and the conspiratiorial grand theft with deadly weapons under color of law should put all involved behind bars for the rest of their lives.

Should. In reality? :: spit ::

22 posted on 08/11/2011 2:07:09 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Talisker

Is there any way she can sue? It does just seem so blatant; if she has no recourse it is depressing...and I don’t usually get depressed.


23 posted on 08/11/2011 2:18:10 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Tupelo

Hmm ~ bunny rabbits.


24 posted on 08/11/2011 2:29:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Quite frankly i'm perfectly satisfied to raise wild chicory and dandelions.

First they came for the bunny ranchers and I said nothing... Then they came for the dandilion farmers...

These SOB's need to held accountable. Those "private individuals" sound like PETA types to me.

25 posted on 08/11/2011 2:30:52 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Fantasywriter
Sure, you can sue anybody about anything. The best bet in the long run is to identify some kid in that private organization ~ someone about 18 years of age ~ and sue her!

When dealing with yout's of whatever persuasion your can usually break them down with a whiff of shot across the bow ~ she needs someone to come across in a deposition with incriminating stuff about the others.

26 posted on 08/11/2011 2:35:03 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cowman

As Fido noted the “Fudds” are “going to get the wabbits” - even if they have to abuse and kill them to “save” them.

Another case of idiots that can’t rear civilized children proclaiming themselves “experts” on how to rear/keep livestock. As a “farm family” we’ve been through it, (albeit on a much less publicized scale), with young dairy stock housed outdoors. >PS


27 posted on 08/11/2011 3:24:24 PM PDT by PiperShade
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To: Cowman
Hartsel rancher Vern Wagner charged with animal cruelty
Mike Potter
Staff Writer
Friday, July 22, 2011

Regarding Vern Wagner's Cattle


Interview with Rancher Vern Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voMYC3TSTzg


Judge denies motion to stay seizure of Vern Wagner cattle

Temporary restraining order granted against Vern Wagner

Hartsel-area rancher Vern Wagner's 2009 contempt order reversed

Hartsel-area rancher Vern Wagner's 2009 contempt order reversed

Vern Wagner's cattle being seized on May 14

Two styles of beef production: Is one criminal in Colorado?

Thanks, Vern Wagner

Court to determine if Wagner is fit owner

Contempt charges dropped against Vern Wagner

Hartsel-area rancher files Chapter 12 bankruptcy for company

Agreement reached before Nov. 23 Wagner contempt hearing

Wagner will keep most cows, at least for now

Wagner will keep most cows

Thanks from Wagners

Not for Judge Groome

Wagner advised of rights in contempt charge

Disagrees with judge

Fairplay Flume | What pictures say

The Flume's 2010 year in review

Questions linger in Wagner case

Wagner again jailed on contempt charges

Doubts on accusations versus rancher

Hartsel-area rancher being investigated for animal neglect

County cattle grazing


28 posted on 08/11/2011 3:34:22 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in a noisy avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Pessimist

We have too many busybodies in this country..People use to mind their own business, now they mind ours...Unless the windows are closed and kids in the car. STFU


29 posted on 08/11/2011 4:21:19 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: 4yearlurker

My sister in law was traveling in China in college. She was at a market when she saw an American animal rights whacko trying to buy all the live rabbits form a couple who had a stand at the market. She finally struck a price with the woman. The man gave her a large burlap bag, full of recently slaughtered rabbits.

The ahacko ran screaming


30 posted on 08/11/2011 6:01:57 PM PDT by cyclotic (Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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31 posted on 08/11/2011 6:06:56 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Thanks for the post and for making me laugh.


32 posted on 08/12/2011 9:42:15 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: Doomonyou; Talisker; SaraJohnson; Vigilanteman; Pessimist; mamelukesabre; muawiyah; Charlespg; ...
I talked to the lawyer handling this case. She is prepared to go into federal court. If you want to help out, donations can be made at the link via the internet or via snail mail to a trust account that's been setup for donations. I think the sheriff needs an education via the legal system.

http://www.raising-rabbits.com/responsible-animal-owners-defense-trust.html

33 posted on 08/14/2011 8:50:33 AM PDT by meatloaf (It's time to push back against out of control government.)
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To: Tupelo

Great point!

The notion that LEO’s are there to “Protect and Serve” died for me when that fact came out.

We’re on our own...


34 posted on 08/14/2011 12:15:15 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Perry/Bachmann 2012 - they can share hair care products.)
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Bunny hunters...

Impressive. /s


35 posted on 08/14/2011 1:02:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been Redistributed. HereÂ’s your Change!)
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To: Gene Eric; All

Zoning laws are a prime enabler of local tyranny.


36 posted on 08/15/2011 7:23:04 AM PDT by marktwain (In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: All

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18709635?source=rss


37 posted on 08/18/2011 9:09:09 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: tubebender; Red_Devil 232; Diana in Wisconsin; B4Ranch

Here is a must read post that we all somehow missed.

There’s is a follow-up link, also:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18709635?source=rss


38 posted on 08/21/2011 2:45:13 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: 4yearlurker

When I was 4 my rural-raised parents brought home a big white “runny babbit” which I immediately assumed was a pet for me. After a summer of raising her, the day came that she became dinner. When they tried to kill her she started screaming and the neighbor (chief of police) called the cops, thinking it was a kid being hurt.

Needless to say, “tastes like chicken” did not cross my lips at dinner time.

Now that I am raising chickens and soon will be raising rabbits for food, I tell all the kids that the chickens all have the same name: “Tastes Like Chicken.” We will NOT be naming the rabbits at all.


39 posted on 08/21/2011 11:14:19 AM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! !)
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To: Drumbo

bfl, gotta hit the hay


40 posted on 05/22/2012 9:43:22 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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