Our government at work - Giggles the Deer
From
FOX News:
Agents Raid Animal Shelter, Kill Deer Named �Giggles�
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.
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.�
If they were operating legally, why did they delete the photographs.
They need to have their operating budget cut by 60%
Posted by DaveH at August 2, 2013 5:29 PM