A family in Washington state says a mobile butcher mistakenly slaughtered their pet pigs recently after showing up to the wrong address.
“Both Patty and Betty were laying in a big pool of blood, and a mess, and one of them had shackles on her,” the pigs’ owner, Nathan Gray, told local news station KIRO 7.
Gray and his wife, Natalie, adopted the pigs in 2022 to join their other pets, including cats, dogs, ducks and a chicken.
An attorney for the family told the BBC that the “law treats Betty and Patty no differently than if they were golden retrievers or Norwegian forest cats”, and it is a serious crime to intentionally injure an animal without legal justification.
Some butcher companies offer mobile slaughtering services for farmers who don’t want to haul their animals to a larger facility.
The Grays are advocating for more safety protocols for mobile butchers, saying that if they are bringing firearms on to someone’s property, the person should be home.
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A family in Washington state says a mobile butcher mistakenly slaughtered their pet pigs recently after showing up to the wrong address.
“Both Patty and Betty were laying in a big pool of blood, and a mess, and one of them had shackles on her,” the pigs’ owner, Nathan Gray, told local news station KIRO 7.
Gray and his wife, Natalie, adopted the pigs in 2022 to join their other pets, including cats, dogs, ducks and a chicken.
An attorney for the family told the BBC that the “law treats Betty and Patty no differently than if they were golden retrievers or Norwegian forest cats”, and it is a serious crime to intentionally injure an animal without legal justification.
Some butcher companies offer mobile slaughtering services for farmers who don’t want to haul their animals to a larger facility.
The Grays are advocating for more safety protocols for mobile butchers, saying that if they are bringing firearms on to someone’s property, the person should be home.
The original article contains 420 words, the summary contains 166 words. Saved 60%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!