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?
Maybe, but only if the deer was known to actually have the disease.
OK but did they need to send NINETEEN LEO’s? Sounds like overkill to me.
Then the way it should have gone was “Ma’am, I’m very sorry I have to do this but these are the relevant quarantine laws, and they exist because...”.
Manners and gentleness cost nothing. There was zero need for a show of force. It sucks for the deer that it had to be put down, but the SWAT raid, not the euthanization, is the issue.
Anyone who truly loves animals understands sometimes it’s a sad necessity that you have to euthanize a sick animal to prevent the deaths of many healthy ones.