Posted on 09/03/2022 11:40:35 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
A California lawsuit brought by the girl’s parents accuses law enforcement of traveling hundreds of miles to confiscate a beloved pet.
When a young California girl purchased a baby goat last spring, the intention was to eventually sell it at a county fair livestock auction. But after feeding and caring for the animal for months, she bonded with the goat, named Cedar, and wanted to keep it.
Jessica Long sued the Shasta county sheriff’s department seeking damages and accusing the agency of violating her daughter’s constitutional rights and wasting police resources by getting involved in a dispute between her family and a local fair association.
In July, “two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense, and crossed approximately six separate county lines, all to confiscate a young girl’s beloved pet goat”, the lawsuit states. “As a result, the young girl who raised Cedar lost him, and Cedar lost his life.”
Instead, law enforcement officers allegedly travelled hundreds of miles to confiscate the pet, who was eventually slaughtered.
The story is laid out in a lawsuit, first reported by the Sacramento Bee, filed by the child’s parent this week, in a case that has sparked outrage and criticism that the police and the county fair went too far to reclaim the goat and send a child’s beloved pet to slaughter.
Jessica Long sued the Shasta county sheriff’s department seeking damages and accusing the agency of violating her daughter’s constitutional rights and wasting police resources by getting involved in a dispute between her family and a local fair association.
In July, “two sheriff’s deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta county, drove over 500 miles at taxpayer expense, and crossed approximately six separate county lines, all to … (more)
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Once it’s auctioned, it is no longer hers.
Goat is nothing like lamb.
That's a sad lie and you knew it when you posted it.
Once it is auctioned off, it is no longer hers. Most auctioneers at these events donate their services.
What are the odds the "journalist" is a vegetarian?
Being a meat goat, it was castrated at a young age. So, no on breeding it
Who does that?
I grew up on a farm and never knew any farm kids that didn’t have pet-named animals. Dairy and the like would all be named on the farm regardless, and of course especially so if they were registered purebred breeds.
Thank you for pointing that out, Karen.
Read a lot of cases where animal rescue came and shot a young animal that got domesticated by country folks. This story is heartbreaking.
How can you be in 4H and not know the score?
I think bidding was for meat of the goat, not the goat. The goat passes to buyer via the slaughterhouse. Perhaps the intention is humane, to avoid amateur butchering.
It was auctioned off. It no longer belonged to the girl. The mother moved it. It essentially was stolen property. Law enforcement recovers stolen property all the time. Nothing nefarious here.
Goat was castrated, no breeding, just eating.
Animal leasing programs have been developed in 4-H to make it easier for non-farm kids to be involved:
(Who knows, maybe it was a Klaus Schwab pilot project!)
Buying an animal was probably seen as a campaign-friendly, goodwill doing—but then they botched it by not responding to the circumstances.
That’s a Boer goat. Raised for meat. Fair auctions have rules. The parents could have outbid the winner. Many animals in out county fair auction are bought by parents or relatives with businesses. Many fairs are run by non profits and it is a tax deduction for the buyer and college money for the exhibitor.
How horrible. I had seven goats at one time. Great pets!!!
But, you can bet DAMN sure those LEOs wouldn’t travel that far to find your car or your dog if they were taken.
4H is an org that I only saw as exhibits at the fairs..
Never knew the inner workings or the sausage making..
It’s an education.. thanks for that link too!
Not only were the dairy cows named,they responded to their own name. Made it hard to send the old girls to the slaughter when they were no longer productive..
When the typical dairy was a small family operation it’s hard not to feel something for an animal you feed and milk every day.
Now the current huge commercial dairy herds of hundreds of cows milked by computer and imported labor, those cows are just a number. Kind of the way our “rulers” view is.
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