A girl wanted to keep the goat she raised for a county fair. Authorities chose to kill it.

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A girl wanted to keep the goat she raised for a county fair. They chose to kill it
A California lawsuit brought by the girl’s parents accuses law enforcement of traveling hundreds of miles to confiscate a beloved pet

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A California girl wanted to keep her baby goat alive. Her county fair killed it anyway

BY SAM STANTON UPDATED SEPTEMBER 01, 2022 12:11 PM



Cedar the goat was sold in June 2022 at a Shasta District Fair livestock auction, but the family that owned the goat had second thoughts and offered to pay any losses to keep the animal from being slaughtered. A new lawsuit says Shasta County sheriff’s officials later tracked the goat down to a farm in Sonoma County and had it taken to slaughter. Advancing Law for Animals

Last April, Jessica Long’s family bought a 4-month-old goat and took it to their Shasta County home, where Long’s young daughter named it Cedar, feeding and caring for it and bonding with it as she “would have bonded with a puppy.” ... “She loved him as a family pet,” court papers say.

The little girl was enrolled in the local 4-H chapter youth program, and in June she took Cedar, a white goat with chocolate markings framing its face, to be exhibited at the Shasta District Fair livestock auction.

Before the auction began, the family asked to back out but fair officials refused, saying fair rules prohibited that and put the goat up for auction, where a representative for state Sen. Brian Dahle, also the Republican candidate for governor, bid $902 for Cedar’s meat.

“After the auction, (the girl) would not leave Cedar’s side,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by the girl’s family in Sacramento over the ordeal. ... She “loved Cedar and the thought of him going to slaughter was something she could not bear,” the suit says. “While sobbing in his pen beside him, (she) communicated to her mother she didn’t want Cedar to go to slaughter.”



Cedar the goat is shown before the animal was seized by Shasta County sheriff’s officials and taken to slaughter, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit. The girl who brought Cedar to the fair auction wanted to keep him from being slaughtered after raising him, the lawsuit says. Advancing Law for Animals

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[3Hotdogs]

1. ---feel badly for the kid. But 4h has always been run this way.

If you raise the animal, you bring it to the fair. You can put a sign on the cage, "Not for sale."

[2naSalit]

4. +1

Those pesky rules that apply to everyone.

[ret5hd]

5. The family offered to pay.

Someone just wanted to be cruel to a child.

[Effete Snob]

6. Sounds like someone wanted what they bought

The auction is over. The buyer can’t go back and get another one from the auction.

They should have bid or had someone bid if they wanted to pay to get it back. But you don’t go to an auction winner and say “I’ll pay what you bid for that.” The entire point of an auction is that the winner believes the item to be worth more than what they paid, but incrementally more than what others were willing to pay.

Here’s a takeaway - don’t list something for auction if you don’t want to sell it.

[ret5hd]

9. User name checks out.

[Effete Snob]

12. .

I continue to be surprised by how many so-called liberals are ignorant of history.

https://politicaldictionary.com/words/effete-snobs/

[ret5hd]

13. Yeah, especially that history...

so often quoted as “do unto others…” and “suffer the little children…”. You know, all that icky xtian stuff some people always crow about.

But, as we both know, “spare the rod…” even though that’s not actually in the bibble, is much more effective at raising empathetic, balanced and mature adults.

But you do you.

[Effete Snob]

14. Feels good to dump on others, doesn't it?

To be morally superior and not shy about it is a wonderful feeling.

[ret5hd]

15. Nerve: hit

[Merlot]

10. "don't list something for auction if you don't want to sell it."

They tried to get out of selling it but the fair wouldn't let them.

Here's a takeaway - read the article.

[Effete Snob]

11. I did read it

It was listed for auction, and the rules did not permit de-listing it. That’s a pretty common rule, because people show up to bid on the things that are listed.

Here’s a shocker - why does 4H encourage kids to raise goats, sheep, chickens, etc.?

[3auld6phart]

2. Plastic hat

Jerks. They do love being bullies.

[sanatanadharma]

3. Not touching the ethics of this cultural life-style

[cbabe]

7. Bad move for 'running for Governor' Brian

“…representative for state Sen. Brian Dahle, also the Republican candidate for governor, bid $902 for Cedar’s meat.”

Better votes getting move: gift goat back to girl. Smiles all around. Instead of pointless cruelty. (No grocery stores near Brian?)

[ZonkerHarris]

8. seriously right? how much goodwill could have been won here?