04 August 2013

Giggles RIP and the budget of Department of Natural Resources

The story of a baby deer abandoned by its mother is touching in its endearing way:

The president of a Wisconsin animal shelter is furious after the state Department of Natural Resources raided the facility with armed agents, detained volunteer workers and killed a baby deer named “Giggles.”“I’m furious,” said Cindy Schultz, president of the Society of St. Francis in Kenosha, Wis. “We are a no-kill shelter. And they killed her. They killed Giggles. I’m furious – furious.”

Schultz told Fox News an Illinois family found a baby fawn that had been abandoned by her mother. The family brought the deer to the Wisconsin shelter.
I am kind of a moderate lover of animals, and my sympathy for a cute deer (or any other animal) didn't stop me from enjoying a bite of venison or whatever the fates put on my plate.

But the article raises another question, especially in that passage:
On July 15 DNR agents and four deputy sheriff’s staged the surprise raid in what staff workers called a massive and “intimidating” show of force.

According to a state affidavit, the DNR had been conducting aerial and ground surveillance in advance of the raid searching for an “illegally-held live captive Whitetail deer”.
15 DNR agents, armed to the teeth, no doubt, with a local support in the form of four deputy sheriffs - all this to put an end to unlawful life support of one baby deer?

I mean, once the aerial surveillance was already in place, couldn't they have put two or three Hellfire missiles into the shelter? Would have been cheaper all around, just considering the travel and daily allowance for the DNR braves. And training for the special op of breaching the defenses of that shelter, not to mention the deer capture...

WTF?

9 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Ah, nuanced restraint in the defence of the enviroment

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Ah, nuanced restraint in defense or the environment. Compassion in action!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

They should come to my neighborhood. Plenty of baby deer running loose, threatened by unauthorized foodstuffs (i.e. shelled corn spread on lawns by do-gooders) and the constant threat of being run over. The Wisconsin SWATers could do us all a favor by killing the deer. Even if they did (probably) leave the carcasses to rot. 'Course the Texas SWATers might not take the invasion too kindly. Or are these SWATers some sort of brotherhood and so don't care about state lines? I suppose they might decide to kill the do-gooders and RPG the cars, instead. Not good.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Indeed. It could have been worse, imagine a B-52 carpet-bombing that shelter.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

And we only had one neighborhood hedgehog for a few years. Then it has chosen our garden to die in, so I was its undertaker, so to say.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

B-52 strikes can be most salutatory.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

True. A good way to go, with one's body dispersed in thousands of small pieces everywhere.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

One doesn't shoot a fawn. One feeds it and watches it grow to a good size. Proper medical attention is required. Then one shoots it, butchers it, and calls in your friends for a feast.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Truly a right way to treat a deer! I am totally for it.