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Cedar the goat was sold at auction, destined for the dinner table. But his owner, a 9-year-old girl, loved him too much for that. She decided, instead, to save him.
Then the sheriff came and took Cedar to the slaughterhouse.
You might've heard about this story. It lit up the news last spring, and then again in November because the girl's family filed a lawsuit — the mere existence of which serves as a spoiler to you, a sophisticated consumer of news, that a whole lot of bad stuff went down.