09/24/2025
These were our animals, our beloved, cared for fat & happy animals. We shared our daily homesteading journey all across social media, between TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook. We have SO many videos of exactly how they were cared for. "Paper Bag" my oldests daughters bottle baby goat, loved truck rides, pup cups, birthday parties, and local car shows. We passed our "barn inspection" last fall, and were due again in the coming month. Every fall we also have the STATE comes out and BLOOD test every chicken, turkey, guinea hen, and they each get thier own special bracelet from the state, and we get MDAR certificate for a healthy flock, as we sold our eggs at a local business. Things got VERY toxic Saturday the 6th of September. When he was threatening my oldest daughter AGAIN. Then the homeowner/ landlord/my mother demanded we take down the security cameras that were in the (kitchen and dinning room) just so we could cook food, and be safe from him threaten us, and if he did we took it to my MOTHER out of respect for HER wishes, instead of calling the police first every time he threatend us. Its her house, so we took the cameras down, however I stood my ground and said I was NO LONGER going to allow him to threaten us, and we would be using our phones to record while in the common areas. This enraged him, he called the police. Police came and told them we were within our rights to record for our safety, and in fact the police preferred it, so there wouldn't be a he said she said battle.... They both got quiet, they were upset, but I thought it was passing. Monday afternoon my daughter came home from work and asked where G-ma was...? I thought she was still home so I said IDK, call her and ask. Apparently my oldest and her were supposed to go out and buy some smaller fish for the tank, she had a few big fish, and the jack Dempsey outgrew her 50gal, so she gave them away to someone with a 150 gal tank. No answer when she called.
Then 2 hours later the police showed up, they had a restraining order against ME, from my mother, I was given 15 mins to gather some belongings and leave the property. Meanwhile I had NO ware to go, my kids had no where to go, and we were scared to leave all the animals alone with them, so I left and lived in my truck, with a fractured hip, while the girls stayed there and made sure the animals had the bare minimum food & water twice a day.
On September 18th we had our court hearing, and she couldn't actually name ONE time she was threatened, fearful or coerced. The judge was very UNHAPPY that she had lied to get the restraining order to used as a forced eviction against me. So he VACATED it immediately. And told her she had to go to housing court and follow the proper channels.
This made her even more enraged. While I waited for the updated and stamped paperwork (so she couldn't send me to jail for a violation) she changed the locks, then went to the PD and screamed at them, as if its somehow the poor cops fault.
Upon getting home and finding the locks changed, we called the police, who made a report of it. And attempted several times to contact her. We quickly checked on the animals and then had to fly to housing court all the way in Fall River (Plymouth isn't open on Thursdays) where we sat for hours, till at 3:15 pl we were given papers for a court hearing on Monday the 22nd. We then were told to drive to the Plymouth sheriff's department office and drop the papers off to be served. However we were then told Brockton is the main office and we're closed, so this wouldn't be served in time, they gave us back the papers, and told us to drive to Brockton in the morning. Which we did. Once there, they said they had already handed out all the assignments and that they had NO way to serve the order and we needed to call a constable. 14 phone calls later, no one could serve it. So I called back the court who said this sadly happens all the time, to just show up on Monday and explain everything. And we did. We were given a court date for two more weeks away, and so I asked for emergency orders for entry and a key. As there were animals inside the house along with our belongings. The court granted the immediate TRO for entrance and keys, and we went and dropped the new papers off at the sheriff's department. While we were doing this. The landlord dumped ALL our animals water buckets and even flipped over the ducks pools, then called the police and MSPCA. Claiming that we never care for them, they never have food or water and they are dying.
I got a VM from the MSPCA officer and called her back at 5pm when I was driving home. She claimed she saw goat mandibles (JAW BONES) I explained we are NOT missing any goats or have any injured goats... and asked her to clarify. She said she saw several other "bones" I tried to explain that we processed our own deer last winter, and gave the deer legs to the 2 LGDs, along with the get TSC treats that are the cut up bones, with treats in the marrow... she didnt want to hear ANY of it, I also tried to explain that this is a case of domestic abuse and retaliation, that all the animals are fat, happy and well cared for. She said we had "several days of cleaning to do" and we would talk later. The moment we got home, we saw quail walking up to us. I started to record, as I could see the quail cage had its doors left open, which we would NOT have done. Then we walked out back in search of goat jaw bones, and to check on ALL the animals. A LOT of stuff was NOT how we left it. We recorded it all.
We cleaned up a bit. Because YES, we admitted it needed to tidying, but after being barred from the property for 10 days, and all the harassment and abuse the girls didnt feel safe outside alone to keep things tidy, and I dont blame them.
Woke up, barely cot dressed Tuesday morning and at 10am the MSPCA was here and seized every single animal. Even the 17lb house cats. My mother had closed the doors, and claimed we had ZERO cat litter bins in the whole house, even though she put one in the basement herself, and we have one in the girls bedroom because the cats usually slept with them. G-ma was constantly saying the cats were starving because they would pester everyone for attention and more food even though thier bowl STILL had food, but you could see the bottom in the center.
While the police were here, her boyfriend continued to harass and threaten us, to the point the cops had to WALK him away, saying they would NEVER give us Keys to the house, so we can just "f**k off"
After everything was finished and we were totally beaten down, sweaty emotionally drained we still had to go back to housing court because even after being served and the cops telling them they HAD to give us Keys, they refuse and are in contempt of the court order.... while also getting phone call after phone call from news stations. The poor court workers are probably sick of seeing us, we showed them videos of the animals and how much they are loved and they couldn't believe it. Even getting phone calls from the news again asking why the police were back at the house....
Driving home, the news crews were still parked out front with thier spotlights on.
Then started the hate messages, death threats and people driving by screaming things at the house.
Our homestead name is Happy Clucking Homestead same on TikTok or I can post some of the videos here.
The animals were WELL loved, taken care of, and fed and watered twice a day.
Can you imagine if at ANY point someone comes and finds an empty water container, and it doesn't matter how good of condition your animals are in, that 19 hrs later they just come back and TAKE them.
And the MSPCA has never returned animals from what I can find, they will charge "board" for each animal each day till its thousands and thousands in just a few weeks, then demand you surrender them, or I dont even know how they punish you for the money.. While court takes 3-5 YEARS... meanwhile the CEO makes 600k+ a year, and they will use this case to get flooded with even more donations.
We were given no paperwork, no orders to correct, no warning, no option to give them away... because YES, After the restraining order we started immediately looking for new homes, or friends farms we could bring the animals to ensure thier safety as well, especially with how often the homeowner actually threatened to poison the animals, because the chickens would fly over thier fencing and come to the door looking for treats. Paper Bag even jumped her fencing to come up on the deck to find her human. We had worked out homes for EVERYONE except the ducks and ferrets when they were all taken from us.
