If all you bleeding hearts were serious you would get the law changed rather then blame the DNR for doing their jobs.
If giggles had been placed back into the wild it would have suffered a miserable death by slowly starving to death.
Dumping on the DNR for doing their job is just stupid. Change the law and the DNR wouldn’t have to do this.
I know, I know ... the deer was cute, but cuteness doesn’t negate the law. If cuteness was used as an excuse to negate laws only ugly people would ever get speeding tickets.
Ah, shut up, Doc.
The deer was being sent to an out of state shelter. There was no need to kill it.
No, actually, you're stupid. Sorry, but it is true.
Look, leaving aside the deer--I actually don't care about it one way or the other--but the fact that more than a dozen men, in body armor and armed with automatic weapons are dispatched to an animal shelter and the fact that "the DNR had been conducting aerial and ground surveillance in advance of the raid searching for an “illegally-held live captive Whitetail deer.”
I'm sorry, THAT is stupid.
Here's a far easier and cheaper way.
DNR "Game Warden" Friendly, in normal uniform, walks into animal shelter. He explains the law, and tells them to give him the deer. He leaves with said deer, and has the state vet euthanize it.
I am certainly not one who is widely known for my compassion, nor have I ever been accused of being a bleeding heart.
The DNR is very much like every states Child Protective Services.
It's really hard and ugly to go after the very real and horrible abusers, but it's so much easier to justify one’s government paycheck by prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law, any technical violations by the passive law abiding people.
The laws will be changed.
Because people do blame agencies like the DNR, for lacking common sence.
The question is, when the SHTF, which side people like you will side with.
Not that it will matter to the outcome....
Giggles would have become an urban deer and would have feasted on neighborhood shrubbery, flowers,and fruit trees.
I’m in upstate NY and people have rehabbed deer in their back yard. Legal or not, no one raids the home and kills the deer. And even if you wanted to kill it, wait until it’s an adult and has more meat to offer.
And I’ve never had a speeding ticket! :)