Cedar the goat was auctioned off in June at a Shasta County fair, but the family that owned the goat had second thoughts and offered to pay any losses to keep the pet from being slaughtered. A new lawsuit says Shasta sheriff’s officials later tracked the ...

Officials in Shasta County, California, will pay $300,000 to a family whose pet goat was seized and slaughtered in 2022. Cedar the goat was raised to be sold in a junior livestock auction, but his 9-year-old owner,

She] loved Cedar and the thought of him going to slaughter was something she could not bear. While sobbing in his pen beside him, [she] communicated to her mother she didn’t want Cedar to go to slaughter.

Sheriff’s deputies had seized the goat, named Cedar, in 2022 while he was staying at a Northern California farm. They delivered him to Shasta County fair officials, who claimed the county owned the goat, court documents say. Cedar was later slaughtered ...

The girl and her family reached a settlement after accusing the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office of unlawfully seizing a pet goat that was sold and slaughtered.

Jessica Long purchased the goat, named Cedar, in 2022 for her daughter who was enrolled in a youth development program in California. The same year, the family entered the animal into the Shasta County District Fair junior livestock, where animals can be ...

The woman had bought the goat for her daughter who called him Cedar or Cedes. The girl initially raised the goat to be auctioned at the Shasta District Fair but got attached to the cattle.

Nearly two years after deputies took their cherished pet goat, Cedar, and turned him over to the Shasta District Fair officials, who then butchered and barbecued him, a Shasta County family was awarded a $300,