Maine woman shoots goats and is charged with animal cruelty | Animals | Forums

I would like to more of the backstory here, it doesn't make sense that they are charging her

After learning from the state Animal Welfare Program of the improvements that were required of her to care for the goats, Damon shot and killed all 10 animals, according to a previously published report. She is not charged in connection with the slaying of the goats.

Damon declined Thursday to speak with reporters.

Last month, Damon told the Bangor Daily News that she she learned on Sept. 3 — just before the start of Labor Day weekend — that she was the subject of a complaint lodged with the state Animal Welfare Program about the condition of some of the goats she had been boarding at the Curran Homestead, a local living history and farm museum in Orrington.

After inspecting the goats and their living quarters, a state animal welfare agent provided Damon a list of things that needed to be corrected if she wanted to keep her herd.

Damon said, however, that she was unable to comply with some of the changes the state wanted because she did not own the property on which the goats were housed and because she wasn’t given enough time to address the corrections.

“There was a long list of things that needed to be corrected, some structural things and some complaints about lack of care and lack of feeding because I had two that were a little on the thin side, but they were older goats that had been bred every year,” Damon said in a telephone interview in September.

Maine law allows the owner of a livestock animal to shoot it provided it is done humanely.

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