Legislature Advances Measures to Improve Vermont’s Response to Animal Cruelty


by Seven Days

Seven Days— Lark Thompson heard desperate cries coming from a dark Charlotte farm on Ferry Road late one night in July 2022. When she went to investigate, dozens of emaciated, bleating goats desperate for food and water swarmed her. Thompson, who was then 22 and house-sitting at a neighboring property, did the best she could to comfort the animals but was ill-equipped and overwhelmed. "I showed up the next morning and found four dead baby goats," Thompson told lawmakers in February. "That's when I...

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