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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Wildlife rehabilitation advocates in Washington state say state officials went too far when they seized and killed three young deer and an elk calf from a wildlife rehabilitation center.
KING5-TV reports the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife at a meeting Friday says the law required the animals to be seized and euthanized from Heaven’s Sake Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation in Rochester last month because they were too habituated to humans.
Jasmine Fletcher-Glaze, a rehabilitation advocate, closed her own facility, A Soft Place To Land, after the Rochester incident over concern it could happen again if policies aren’t changed.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Jim Unsworth says the agency is reviewing its procedures.
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