When Jessica Long bought a goat for her young daughter to join Shasta County District Fair’s 4-H program, she didn’t realize it would end in a series of traumatic events. The problem was Long’s daughter, who happened to have tragically lost three grandparents in the last year, grew very attached to her goat Cedar. She offered to pay the county fair for the goat and the expenses that she incurred. If there is any justice, their needs to be a large punitive judgment in this case. 🧵 https://t.co/89z38Qb8Iy — Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) April 3, 2023But the county fair was having none of it and instead sent deputies out on a 500-mile drive across Northern California with a search warrant to hunt down Cedar and have the goat slaughtered.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 11, 2023 00:02 UTC