Nutjobs have been shooting and killing pregnant goats and cows here in Maine

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Police seek person who shot and killed Ava, a pregnant goat, at Smiling Hill Farm

https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/02/22/someone-shot-and-killed-ava-a-pregnant-goat-at-smiling-hill-farm/

Scarborough police are investigating the shooting of a pregnant goat at a local family-owned dairy farm that has welcomed the public onto its property for decades.

In a message posted Thursday afternoon on its Facebook page, the police department said someone trespassed onto the property of Smiling Hill Farm and Hillside Lumber last weekend and killed a pregnant goat that was in a fenced-in pen.

“The killing of this goat was not an accident,” police said in the post.

Investigators said the goat, a 5-year-old Toggenburg doe named Ava, was last seen alive Saturday. Staff at Smiling Hill Farm found Ava dead during the Sunday morning feeding.

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Madison farmer closes snowmobile trail after ‘shocking’ shooting of pregnant cow

MADISON — A Madison landowner who allowed the local snowmobile club to maintain a trail across part of his property has closed the trail after one of his pregnant cows was shot and killed last week.

“They shot her between the eyes,” landowner Clayton Tibbetts said Thursday from his River Road farm. “It had to have been at close range. We raise beef. We’re just farmers. Got draft horses, cows, do a little logging — agricultural people.”

The shooting and the trail closure were met with shock and dismay from the Abnaki Sno Riders, the local snowmobile club, which maintained the trail for members and for the public to enjoy, club secretary LeeAnne Newton said.

“The fact that someone used the snowmobile trail to access Mr. Tibbetts’ property and then proceed to deliberately kill his pregnant cow is very disturbing,” Newton said. “We have been discussing having a spaghetti supper to raise money toward the loss of his cows.”

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1. gun owner(s) is a more appropriate description than nut jobs nt

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2. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat animals.

The person(s) that committed this heinous act have no conscience and no soul. Today the goats, tommorow their neighbors. Hope they catch and convict these monsters.