A family and animal shelter in Wisconsin is raising questions about the response of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to a fawn being dropped off at the shelter. An Illinois family found the fawn and brought it to the the Society of St. Francis shelter a couple weeks ago. The shelter planned to take the fawn named Giggles to a wildlife shelter. However, the DNR learned of the plan and, according to the shelter, raided the facility and killed the fawn.
The shelter said that nine heavily armed DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs stormed their facility and searched for the baby deer. To the surprise of the shelter, they tranquilized the deer and threw it into a body bag. When shelter employee Ray Schulze objected as it was carried out on a shoulder, the DNR reportedly said that it was the policy of the DNR to kill the animal. The deer was taken off sight and euthanized. Somehow that was much better than allowing the shelter to take the deer to a wildlife shelter.
The DNR explained that it was illegal to possess a wild animal because they are dangerous. That would explain the 12 heavily armed men. It is something like Bambi Meets Rambo.
What is curious is that all wildlife shelters “possess” wildlife. The Illinois shelter appears to have agreed to take the fawn, which would have been taken out of the state. Rather than view this as a transit rather than possession, the state decided to kill the animal to protect it and the public. There would seem a logical distinction to be drawn between a citizen and a shelter. If the DNR cannot find a little wiggle room for the next Giggles, then the law should be changed to add a modicum of logic and mercy to Wisconsin policies.
Source: WISN
I just cannot understand why the automatic policy of the DNR is to kill a baby deer who is healthy. I also cannot understand why a SWAT team was necessary. Did they think the shelter would stash the contraband fawn away or spirit the deer across the border? Amazing.
Wi. is a very environmentally conscious state. Most citizens support that. However, I have seen over my 3 decades living here the DNR wardens evolving into a gestapo like environmental unit. There is a problem in this state w/ the deer population called chronic wasting disease. It’s not a faux problem, it is something that needs to be controlled. Chronic wasting disease is akin to mad cow disease. We cheeseheads eat a lot of venison. So, vigilance is righteous. However, people I know who are hunters have told me many stories much worse than this involving the DNR and deer. The DNR’s vigilance is not limited to deer. They take draconian steps in all things environmental. “DNR Wardens, they’re protecting the environment, they’re protecting you, and they’re armed.”
I have a neighbor who found a fawn on his property and raised it to maturity, he finally opened the gate and she went on her way and came back from time to time to say hello. She did that for about a year and then stopped coming. One assumes she found a buck and had fawns of her own.
Deer can be sent back into the wild as can most animals. There was no earthly reason to do this. But then didnt some environmentalists call for the execution of the polar bear cub, Knut?
Anonymously,…….you can not shoot Fawns to eat
Deer overpopulation is problem just about everywhere, but this is definitely “overkill”.
Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent being for his or her alleged benefit.
Convenience killed is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent being for the ease of the killer.
Don’t give it a Greek name to obscure the reality.
Own the words you use.
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After 9/11, I was in the Airline PIlots Security Alliance to arm pilots. We ran into intense opposition from the Bush administration against it, yet Congress passed the law allowing that. I found out that there are nearly a couple of hundred Federal agencies that have armed personnel. In fact, I had a Dept. of Agriculture agent come to the cockpit to inform me that he was armed. I asked him if the gophers in MN are that big that he needs a gun.
So this one is not too surprising that the minions of the “law” feel that they need to be armed to the teeth at all times. It is simply the way of any bureaucracy that they feel the need to demonstrate their power, no matter the subject or reason. I certainly think that the trickle down effect is in play with the Governor of WI who feels that he is dictator and can do as he pleases. I hope that this is raised in WI when the Guv runs again to remind people how they treat fawns and other critters like citizens.
But, you can shoot them to eat them…. Hmmm…
As worthy of protest and civil disobedience, as a way of brooming out these psychopathic misfits, as any other lynching.
Heavily armed DNR personnel! Those squirrels must be getting awfully dangerous ?:). But seriously state and federal agencies have lost all perspective and judgement. This type of behavior put baby deer and humans at risk.
I saw this story late last night, and at first thought is was from The Onion. Surely not, I sez to myself. But checking a couple of other sources confirms the fact that the staff of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have officially lost their collective minds.
A public shaming is too good for them.
I left a voicemail on the phone of the lady spokesperson at DNR, who is conveniently on vacation this week. I was polite, but urged her to look in the mirror and examine her own conscience, explaining that a police state in America is here and getting stronger, thanks to people with her kind of attitude. If everyone started discretely writing or phoning individuals like her, every time this kind of story goes viral, I think it will be a reality check to the clueless bureaucrats out there. In another news article, this woman said no warning was given, because ‘you wouldn’t expect a SWAT team to give a warning to a drug dealer.’ Incredible.
this was just absolutely senseless. and they call me crazy sometimes.
That meme keeps showing up.
The “we had to destroy it in order to save it” meme.
Thank G-d! Now I feel its safe for me to visit Madison, with my almost college age teen. I was thinking Penn. State had an edge over Wisc, but now that law enforcement has committed to protecting state residents from dangerous (young) adolescent deer, my entire thinking has been changed.
I’m still uneasy about the gendarme not immediately blowing away the deer. Who knows what damage that animal could have wrought during that “gap” between the deer being tranquilised, and the beast being put to the sword!
what has happened to any logical are critical thinking? has the whole of our government gone totally insane? nawh, no need to answer that, they have. they’ve jumped off into the deep in. good thing it wasn’t a child found on someone’s front porch? these basturds has just lost any sign of being human, or any of our human ideas of love, compassion, mercy, goodwill. these assassins just wants to kill something, hey, anything or anyone. so folks, ya need to watch your backs, your pets, and your family. i hear it’s open season on us civilian and your family pets.
Aaaaah yes….. once again, humans prove, they’re the LOWEST form of life…………….. on the entire Planet!
When you need nine heavily armed DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs to subdue a captive fawn, then you know the police state needs to justify its existence. A fearful and clueless public along with a political base and media molded by ‘fear everything’ contribute to outsize powers being given these so-called security forces This was a pathetic display of power that was above and beyond what was needed. It reminded me of the classic Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451…..
The SWAT team probably had nothing to do, so they just go on these raids.
Like they say, if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail!