Every day for three months, Jessica Long’s young daughter walked and fed her goat, bonding with the brown and white floppy-eared animal named Cedar. But when it was time for Cedar to be sold and slaughtered at the Shasta District Fair last year, the 9-year-old just couldn’t go through with it.
“My daughter sobbed in her pen with her goat,” Long wrote to the Shasta County fair’s manager on June 27, 2022. “The barn was mostly empty and at the last minute I decided to break the rules and take the goat that night and deal with the consequences later.”
Long purchased the goat for her daughter to enter into the 4-H program with the Shasta District Fair. Children are taught how to care for farm animals. The animals are then entered in an auction to be sold and then slaughtered for meat in hopes of teaching children about the work and care needed to raise livestock and provide food, as farmers and ranchers do.
In her letter, Long pleaded for the fair to make an exception and let her and her daughter take Cedar back. Aware that Cedar had already been sold in auction, she also offered to “pay you back for the goat and any other expenses I caused,” according to the letter obtained by The Times.
Instead, officials reached out to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. Armed with a search warrant, detectives drove more than 500 miles across Northern California in search of the goat.
According to the search warrant, deputies believed Cedar was staying at Bleating Hearts Farm and Sanctuary in Napa County, based on the fact that the sanctuary had posted on Instagram its support for Long and urging people to call the Shasta District Fair to convince them to spare Cedar. But long had taken Cedar to a farm in Sonoma County because she and her family live in a residential area in Shasta County and are unable to keep farm animals there.
Echoing language used when law enforcement search a home for drugs, the warrant allowed deputies to “utilize breaching equipment to force open doorway(s), entry doors, exit doors, and locked containers” and to search all rooms, garages and “storage rooms, and outbuildings of any kind large enough to accommodate a small goat.”
Cedar was taken and slaughtered.
Jesus H. Christ
:what-the-hell: :acab:
Another part later in the article:
Fucking Christ, when the mask falls off and your fascist fair exec tells you in no uncertain terms we must kill this goat and break your daughter or else people might get ideas.
GOD'S LAW DOESN'T CHANGE AND NEITHER DOES MY SOCIAL CLUB'S LAWS!
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gotta sacrifice a goat to appease the people who are mean to us on the internet about sacrificing a goat
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what are we gonna do, not kill this childs beloved pet?
What a fuckin moron too. Imagine The Dodo videos there could have been about this. It could have been amazing press for them to just do a tik tok and give the girl the goat. Instead they're probably making a thirty dollar commission and will forever be known as the people that slaughter pet goats.
Absolute worst kind of trash who gets off on control and suffering but justifies it as saving the soul of the youth. Let the youth decide you fucking control freak. People like that have never been in a situation where they couldn't use everything around them to enact control on others.
The solution is to forcibly remove them from that station and make sure they have power over nothing ever, not even themselves.
What are those rules, I wonder? Oh, wait:
I hope they’re suing. Between a civil case for misuse of police resources and for theft and keeping a minor in a contract illegally, the fairground fucked themselves.
All to murder a little girl’s pet against the wishes of everyone involved. Fuck that fairground asshole I hope she ends up in the :pit:
Lol they offered the full price of the goat AND then some. But I guess this girl was just an exceptional animal caretaker and no one else was able to come to her level so it must be executed.