Posted on 08/02/2013 6:08:24 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The president of a Wisconsin animal shelter is furious after the state Department of Natural Resources raided the facility with armed agents, detained volunteer workers and killed a baby deer named “Giggles.”
I’m furious,” said Cindy Schultz, president of the Society of St. Francis in Kenosha, Wis. “We are a no-kill shelter. And they killed her. They killed Giggles. I’m furious – furious.”
Schultz told Fox News an Illinois family found a baby fawn that had been abandoned by her mother. The family brought the deer to the Wisconsin shelter.
Staff members nicknamed the deer “Giggles.”
Wisconsin law bans residents or shelters from possessing any live wild animals without a license. Wisconsin does not rehabilitate deer so if they find an abandoned fawn, the creature is left to die, Schultz said.
“We took it of course and we made arrangements to transfer the deer to an animal reserve in Illinois,” she said. “The day before she was supposed to leave, we had the raid.”
On July 15 DNR agents and four deputy sheriff’s staged the surprise raid in what staff workers called a massive and “intimidating” show of force.
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I think they all should be named and have their names published on the web.
“What kind of man is that? “
I guess a dog is too terrifying.
So shoot a baby Bambi.
How bout you...got protein?
I attempt to do it every deer season and with any luck I succeed. (donning flame retardant suit)
...whatever...
Evil ba$tard$. Yesterday it was they did, no they didn’t. I guess they did.
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.
Hmm. Adding chronic wasting disease to the mix certainly changes the calculus.
How many bullets do you need to kill a deeeeeeyuh!?
An entire armored SWAT team and an armored vehicle, sir.
Too bad it wasn’t a vorpal fawn.
Ah, shut up, Doc.
Why? I thought FR was a forum for open discussion. Why should I shut up just because I disagree with the thread?
Good thing I didn’t lose a star, I wouldn’t have an asterisk...
The deer was being sent to an out of state shelter. There was no need to kill it.
Does knowing that the deer is from an area with chronic wasting disease and was going to be moved to a disease-free area change your opinion any at all?
As the agents raided the place, Giggles shouldnt have said “woof woof”.
(how do you think he got his name, giggles?)
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.
Does knowing that the deer is from an area infested with chronic wasting disease and was going to be moved to a disease-free area change your opinion any at all?
Maybe, but only if the deer was known to actually have the disease.
I really do not give a damn about the law.
The law is written by a bunch of criminals.
Alas, I will concede that your approach would have worked better. Not so stupid as to be unwilling to concede a point I hadn’t (and obviously the DNR) thought of.
I will always give way to a better argument rather than someone either telling me I’m stupid without telling me why or just telling me to shut up like at least one wag poster did.
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