The saga over the slaughter of Cedar the goat continues to unfold and now both parties involved have filed lawsuits over the family’s decision to take the goat and fair officials’ actions to locate ...

Seventeen months after Shasta County deputies and fair officials tracked down a 9-year-old girl’s pet goat and had it slaughtered after the girl backed out of a 4-H auction, California Attorney ...

The 15-page search warrant and affidavit were very specific about the target Shasta County sheriff’s officials were after. “The location is a single family residence in a rural residential area,” the ...

Jessica Long's 9-year-old daughter brought the family's goat, Cedar, to the Shasta District Fair and Event Center in Anderson, Calif., 150 miles north of Sacramento, last year to sell him for ...

Cedar the goat was sold in June 2022 at a Shasta District Fair livestock auction, but the family that owned the goat had second thoughts and offered to pay any losses to keep the animal from being ...

It's a devastating story. A little girl loved her pet goat more than anything, but California auction officials ended up killing and barbecuing the animal. The auction got the law involved. California ...