Raoul, is this a relative?
Thread Starter
|
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 118
Likes: 0
From: Surprise, AZ
Raoul, is this a relative?
I ran across this, and for some reason thought of Raoul.
CORINTH, Vt. - State officials are investigating a man whose goats and his religious convictions against killing them have collided in a possibly inhumane and definitely stinky way.
There were three goats on the farm Chris Weathersbee's mother bought seven years ago. Now there are 300 — including 70 living in his house, much of which is covered with a mix of goat droppings and hay.
Authorities last month raided the farm in Corinth, about 20 miles southeast of Montpelier, and seized 44 deemed unhealthy by a veterinarian. State police and the Central Vermont Humane Society are weighing whether to pursue animal cruelty or neglect charges.
"He has more goats than he can care for," said Sherry LeMay, the humane society's director of operations.
Weathersbee, 63, admits he cannot afford to give the herd sufficient care, but he refuses to get rid of the animals. He said his Buddhist religious views prohibit him from slaughtering any of the goats.
"Getting rid of goats means killing them," he said.
Weathersbee said he brought dozens of invalid goats and nursing mothers with babies inside his home last December because of cold temperatures.
His only income is from monthly disability checks, which, he said, he spends mostly on hay at a cost of $150 a day in the winter. He's in debt $15,000 to his neighbors for hay.
Weathersbee said he wants time to find a group that does not believe in slaughtering animals to take the 30-acre farm and house. In exchange, he wants to remain with the goats, living in the barns and fields
CORINTH, Vt. - State officials are investigating a man whose goats and his religious convictions against killing them have collided in a possibly inhumane and definitely stinky way.
There were three goats on the farm Chris Weathersbee's mother bought seven years ago. Now there are 300 — including 70 living in his house, much of which is covered with a mix of goat droppings and hay.
Authorities last month raided the farm in Corinth, about 20 miles southeast of Montpelier, and seized 44 deemed unhealthy by a veterinarian. State police and the Central Vermont Humane Society are weighing whether to pursue animal cruelty or neglect charges.
"He has more goats than he can care for," said Sherry LeMay, the humane society's director of operations.
Weathersbee, 63, admits he cannot afford to give the herd sufficient care, but he refuses to get rid of the animals. He said his Buddhist religious views prohibit him from slaughtering any of the goats.
"Getting rid of goats means killing them," he said.
Weathersbee said he brought dozens of invalid goats and nursing mothers with babies inside his home last December because of cold temperatures.
His only income is from monthly disability checks, which, he said, he spends mostly on hay at a cost of $150 a day in the winter. He's in debt $15,000 to his neighbors for hay.
Weathersbee said he wants time to find a group that does not believe in slaughtering animals to take the 30-acre farm and house. In exchange, he wants to remain with the goats, living in the barns and fields
Certified Goat Breeder
Joined: Feb 1999
Posts: 6,182
Likes: 19
From: the moral high ground
Why is it someone has to post about some nut with a goat everytime a story surfaces?
Goats don't kill people...
People kill people
When goats are outlawed,
only outlaws will have goats.
'This Property Protected By A Loaded Goat'
You can have my goat,
when you pry my staff from my cold dead hands.
Goats don't kill people...
People kill people
When goats are outlawed,
only outlaws will have goats.
'This Property Protected By A Loaded Goat'
You can have my goat,
when you pry my staff from my cold dead hands.
Thread Starter
|
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 118
Likes: 0
From: Surprise, AZ
Originally posted by Raoul
Why is it someone has to post about some nut with a goat everytime a story surfaces?
Why is it someone has to post about some nut with a goat everytime a story surfaces?
Evidently, he's not a friend of Burts either:
His only income is from monthly disability checks, which, he said, he spends mostly on hay at a cost of $150 a day in the winter. He's in debt $15,000 to his neighbors for hay.