{"id":255262,"date":"2026-04-07T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255262\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:03:20","slug":"malheur-county-sheriff-says-seized-dairy-goats-may-stay-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255262\/","title":{"rendered":"Malheur County Sheriff says seized dairy goats may stay in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VALE, Oregon \u2014 When an investigation into animal cruelty claims at a Nyssa dairy farm revealed <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/malheur-county\/nyssa-oregon-dairy-goat-farm-owner-arraigned-on-felony-animal-cruelty-charges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of instances of alleged animal abuse<\/a>, Malheur County Sheriff Travis Johnson acted quickly to ensure the farm&#8217;s dairy goats were transported to a safe and welcoming home. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, over <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/malheur-county\/210-goats-seized-from-malheur-county-dairy-farm-following-animal-abuse-investigation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200 dairy goats were transferred<\/a> from Grand Barr Dairy to out-of-state animal sanctuaries in California. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Sheriff Johnson made it clear that the goats would not be coming back to Oregon. The Sheriff told Idaho News 6 that his office is working on a plan to keep the goats in California, where they are being rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Malheur County Sheriff explains what happened to the goats that were seized from Grand Barr Dairy<\/p>\n<p>Seized Nyssa dairy goats will remain in California for now<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any need to bring them back to Oregon at this point. I don\u2019t know where we put them in Oregon,&#8221; said Sheriff Johnson. &#8220;The facilities down there are capable of taking care of what the goats need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the ending Dan Baden, an animal rights advocate for PETA, was hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 239 goats that were seized, 210 were moved to California.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, three had to be euthanized, and the remaining goats are receiving veterinary care.<\/p>\n<p>Baden told Idaho News 6 the seizure in this case was significant and claims the criminal animal cruelty charges stem in part from two PETA undercover investigations.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/malheur-county\/oregon-woman-faces-hundreds-of-felony-animal-cruelty-charges-over-alleged-mistreatment-of-dairy-goats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taunia Barr<\/a> and her son, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/malheur-county\/nyssa-oregon-dairy-goat-farm-owner-arraigned-on-felony-animal-cruelty-charges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Barr<\/a>, were arraigned on the same 249 felony animal cruelty charges and are due back in Malheur County court to enter pleas on June 10th.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/canyon-county\/animal-advocates-raise-concerns-after-canyon-county-shelter-deal-collapses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Animal advocates raise concerns after Canyon County shelter deal collapses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VALE, Oregon \u2014 When an investigation into animal cruelty claims at a Nyssa dairy farm revealed hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,113062,113063,348,113064,113065,85771,45491,2637],"class_list":{"0":"post-255262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-goats","12":"tag-grand-barr-dairy","13":"tag-investigation","14":"tag-malheur-county","15":"tag-nyssa","16":"tag-peta","17":"tag-sanctuary","18":"tag-sheriff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}