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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeartbreaking stupidity, but, after awhile, you realize it's becoming the norm
Government agents search animal shelter, kill baby deer named 'Giggles'Armed government agents raided an animal shelter and executed a baby deer."I spent 22 years in the Air Force and two years in Vietnam and I've just never seen such totally unnecessary, senseless cruelty," shelter worker Ray Schulze told the Daily News.
The Society of St. Francis Animal Shelter, a no-kill shelter, was temporarily housing the fawn until she could be moved to a wildlife reserve for rehabilitation.
A couple found the stranded fawn in Illinois, apparently abandoned by her mother, and brought her over the border to the shelter in Kenosha, Wis. The workers named her Giggles after an endearing laugh-like noise she would make.
Giggles was scheduled to leave for her new home on July 16. Instead she left July 15 in a body bag.
"This was like the Gestapo coming in," shelter president Cindy Schultz said. "Giggles didn't pose any threat. She was petrified! She wasn't even sick. There was no reason to kill her."
Nine Department of Natural Resources agents and four sheriff's deputies descended upon the shelter about noon.
"When the DNR came out I was walking out of the barn," said Schulze. "The DNR agents were armed like a New York police officer... They corralled us all in this picnic area. They went through everything."
The agents told the workers that it is illegal to harbor wildlife under Wisconsin law without a permit, Schulze said.
Shortly after, the employees say they watched an agent carry Giggles out in a bag slung over his shoulder. Then he threw her in the back of a pickup truck.
"You don't throw a live animal in a bag in the back of a pickup truck. If they did, that's animal cruelty," Schultz said.
After the incident, the shelter workers said that the agents were out on the road telling each other what a good job they did, congratulating themselves."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/government-agents-search-animal-shelter-kill-baby-deer-named-giggles-article-1.1416063
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Heartbreaking stupidity, but, after awhile, you realize it's becoming the norm (Original Post)
DainBramaged
Aug 2013
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Purveyor
(29,876 posts)1. Without a doubt, if you have young children...do all you can do to groom them to live in another
country upon maturity and get the fuck out of this place.
It is your duty as a responsible parent.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)3. And now they pulled the DNR facebook page
cowards with guns
reusrename
(1,716 posts)4. cowards with guns is right
they murdered Bambi
doesn't get any lower
Rex
(65,616 posts)5. DSR should be embarrassed.
They earned it.