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 ...

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.

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,

California sheriff’s deputies have been forced to pay a girl’s family $300,000 after taking her pet goat and sending it to slaughter. Jessica Long purchased the goat, named Cedar, in 2022 for her daughter who was enrolled in a youth development program in California.