Agents Raid Animal Shelter, Kill Deer Named “Giggles”

[FlaGator]

Another fine example where the letter of the law is divorced from the spirit of the law

According to a state affidavit, the DNR had been conducting aerial and ground surveillance in advance of the raid searching for an “illegally-held live captive Whitetail deer.”

“We didn’t know they were doing surveillance,” she said. “Five days before the raid, a DNR agent was hiding in the woods by our shelter watching the deer walk in and out of the barn.”

Schultz said agents rounded up the shelter’s nine staff members and detained them for nearly three hours as they searched for Giggles.

“They shut down our shelter and wouldn’t let anyone leave,” she said. “Nobody was allowed to use their phones. They were under armed guard.”

A 19-year-old staff member took photographs of the raid, but Schultz said a deputy sheriff confiscated his cell phone and deleted all the pictures.

Agents eventually found Giggles in the barn.

“She was a very scared little deer,” Schultz said. “The poor little thing must have been absolutely petrified.”

According to her version of events, two agents killed the deer in the barn and stuffed her in a body bag.

“It was horrifying,” Schultz said. “Everyone who loved that little deer and wanted to see her go to a wildlife rescue where she could live our her life, saw these DNR thugs haul her out of our no-kill shelter in a body bag.”

Whole insane story is here.

[seahorse513]

Call me an overemotional wimp, I don't care...That was mean!! To kill a baby deer for no reason. Did it grow fangs and claws, or shapeshift into a hellish creature that it had to be put down? This was an innocent baby deer!! I hope those assholes are happy with what they did.

[obumazombie]

It may have been a case of a ptarmigan ratting out a snuggle bunny and the fawn got in the way.