The deadline for the alpaca’s owner Geronimo to arrange for his execution passed on Friday night, and there is no sign that government officials have entered his biosecurity fence.
On Thursday, a group of alpacas received a 24-hour probation. supporter Vigil at Geronimo’s house farm Try to prevent government killers from entering.
Ms. MacDonald had previously stated that she was “not prepared” to arrange his death and is now facing a dramatic showdown with the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Ministry of Agriculture) If the group comes to kill.
She said: “I am not going to do this, he is a healthy animal.
“As a registered veterinary nurse, this goes against everything I know, believe and sign.”
say protector, She added: “I’m still standing, which is almost the best I can say. To be honest, it’s painful. Mental torment.”
A sort of Real-time webcam Ignore the alpaca pen to ensure that the public around the world can see the moment Defra tries to enter to perform the destruction.
By 6:20 pm, Geronimo appeared to be alive and safe in his enclosure, and any signs of Defra officials had appeared on the farm.
Ms. MacDonald said that supporters fought against her farm in Wickwall, South Gloucestershire.
She said: “If they show up, we will do what we said we will do, which is to do our best to protect ourselves without breaking the law.”
“If they want to shoot a healthy alpaca in front of the world, I wish them good luck, but we will do our best to protect him.”
Geronimo imported from New Zealand to the UK tested positive for bovine tuberculosis twice. He faced a sabotage order.
Ms. Macdonald believed that the test result was false positive, and she was refused a third test.
She called on the government to “classify like adults,” and more than 130,000 people signed a petition calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stop the killing.
Meanwhile, veterinarian Ian McGill told Independence“We have obtained a lot of data from alpacas. These alpacas were killed after false positives. They were not infected with tuberculosis at the time of the post-mortem.”
Earlier this month, Ms. MacDonald lost her final appeal to save Geronimo and signed an arrest warrant to destroy him.
