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FRANCIS SOCIETY ANIMAL SHELTER You Won't Believe What Happened When Agents Raided This Animal Shelter By Hunter Stuart News Editor, The Huffington Post Aug 2, 2013, 09:29 AM EDT |Updated Aug 2, 2013 LEAVE A COMMENT The story of how 13 armed law enforcement agents reportedly raided an animal shelter to capture and then kill a 35-pound baby deer has some questioning whether the state used excessive force. The raid occurred July 15 when nine Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources agents and four local sheriff's deputies stormed the St. Francis Society animal shelter in Bristol, Wis., to remove "Giggles," a baby deer that was being held in violation of Wisconsin state law. Advertisement "It was a nightmare. They closed down the shelter for two-and-a-half hours and scared everyone to death," the shelter's president, Cindy Schulze, told The Huffington Post over the phone on Thursday. Schulze said all shelter employees were corralled near the parking lot while agents went through the property. When a young volunteer took photos of the raid on his phone, Schulze said officers took his phone and deleted the pictures. Before long, Schulze said, agents could be seen bringing out a body bag with something inside. It turned out to be the deer. Schulze said the employees assumed the deer was dead, but they learned by watching the news that the deer had only been sedated and was later put to death. "What were they doing with a live baby deer in a bag?" she asked. "That deer must have been terrified." Advertisement The search warrant for the raid, obtained by The Huffington Post, lists a Wisconsin state law forbidding the possession of wildlife without proper permits as the reason for the raid. The warrant says the Department of Natural Resources had received two anonymous tips that the St. Francis shelter had a wild deer on its premises and that one of the callers said the shelter's staff would attempt to hide the animal if agents came to seize the it, according to the warrant. The question that Schulze and others want answered is, why was it necessary to kill the deer? While the Department of Natural Resources did not respond to our request for comment, Jennifer Niemeyer, the department's local warden supervisor, told local news outlet WISN-TV that state law requires the agency to euthanize animals "because of the potential for disease and danger to humans." On its Facebook page, the department notes that its agents requested voluntary compliance from the shelter's employees, and when that didn't happen, its staff "took precautions to keep everyone safe" as they executed the warrant. "None of our staff take joy in these situations," the agency wrote. "In the end, we are charged by the citizens of Wisconsin to carry out state laws mandated by the legislature." Schulze acknowledged that Wisconsin state law allows only 24 hours to transfer a wild animal to a vet or other organization with proper documentation, and she admits to having kept the deer for two weeks. However, she says because the shelter is registered in Illinois (its property is across the street from the Illinois border, Schulze said) and since the deer came from an Illinois family that had found the animal separated from its mother, St. Francis should have had more than 24 hours to transfer the fawn to a licensed organization. Advertisement Schulze said the shelter had planned to send the fawn to an Illinois wildlife rehabilitation facility the day after the raid took place. 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