Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles "It was like SWAT

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92. What state are you licensed in?

There are good reasons for not re-releasing deer that have been held in captivity back into the wild in areas where CWD is endemic, which is the case in this situation. It's unfortunate that the well meaning but uninformed "rescuers" took the deer from the wild in the first place, as it was probably not orphaned at all. There is a good reason that it's against the law to do so. It's equally unfortunate that the Kenosha shelter decided to blatantly break the law and take in a deer that had been illegally transported across state lines and which they were not licensed to possess. They knew it was against the law to do so, yet they did it anyway. What they should have done is simply called the DNR, either in Wisconsin or Illinois and have the couple surrender the deer to a CO in the first place. Instead they decided to knowingly flaunt the law and take matters into their own hands. When it turned out badly, they have only themselves to blame. The ultimate victim of their scofflaw attitude was unfortunately an innocent one in this case, the deer.