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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