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Health & Fitness

More details emerge from Giggles the fawn raid

By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – Complying with Gov. Scott Walker’s request to avoid SWAT team-style executions of fawns may force the Department of Natural Resources to reconsider how it does its job.

Responding to the recent uproar over last month’s euthanization of Giggles the fawn at a Kenosha shelter, Walker said he ordered multiple cabinet secretaries to a meeting Monday to change the DNR policy that led to the fawn’s death.

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DNR spokesman Bill Cosh did not immediately respond to an email or voice mail Thursday asking for details about the development of a new policy.

But earlier in the day, Cosh did provide more details regarding what exactly happened July 15 at the Society of St. Francis no-kill animal shelter in Kenosha:

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