So the wildlife folks in Albany decided that a pet squirrel and pet raccoon needed to be removed from the owners care…despite that he had raised both from the time they were babies.
Ok, unlicensed wildlife, I can sorta get that. Taking them for the animals welfare or something was the excuse.
But then, rather than just quarantining the animals to check for rabies before releasing them (or finding them a home in a zoo…..)
They killed them in order to check their brains for rabies.
Yeah, that did a lot of good for the animals. They claim that a wildlife official was bitten, but there was no reason to believe that the squirrel had rabies, having no indication and having lived in captivity for months
Wildlife officials at their finest. One might make a case for just plain vindictiveness. You have to wonder what kind of people they employ there. Even most modern cops are not that bad. Maybe they are just assholes. Either way, their actions failed, however to look out for the welfare of the animals, which was the excuse for the whole action.
If ever there was a case for a dark alley (or a well lit public street) and a baseball bat and steel toed boots, this is it. It might be lesson for others. I’d pay his bail. Hell, I’d help.
If the New York Governor lets this stand, allows the people who made the decisions for those animals, to continue to be employed, he too should be fired. Or join them in the street for punishment.
ETA: And all the Karens who complained to the State of New York abut the squirrel: Did you improve his lot in life? Make it better? I hope you can live with yourselves.
Seems that in short order ANYONE who goes to work at any level of government turn evil, some pure evil. Time for a reckoning. Severe consequences must be on the table to reign these bastards in.
This was NOT about the animals. The criminal politicians and their thug Fish Cops don’t give two shits about the wildlife. It’s about POWER. The only thing they care about. This was a message. A message to EVERYONE. And that message is “we will kick in your door and point guns at you over a SQUIRREL, just imagine what we will do over things that are important”.
The governor of New York is Kathy Hochul, noted for such recent comments as “If you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump and you’re anti-women, you’re anti-abortion, and basically, you’re anti-American, you just trashed American values and what our country is all about — over and over.” and “just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. OK? Get out of town. Because you don’t represent our values.”
She will let this stand, happily.
months, more like seven years. peanut was an internet sensation. fred the racoon too.
Our “government officials:” “I’ll get you, and your little dog tooo!” (send in the flying monkeys…)
…An example was set here… Nothing less… Of course, if these were Rachael Maddow’s animals, this would have ended a different way entirely…