DNR Kills Three-legged Pet Deer

Duncan and Luann McCannel live on a picturesque lake in western Wisconsin. They call it 116 acres of heaven, surrounded by nature, but now missing something special.

“You keep walking in the woods and you want him to come over,” said Duncan.

“He” is Buddy, a deer they found two years ago.

After they nursed him back to health, the deer bonded with their dogs and loved riding on their pontoon.

“We put it in the water, and he was the first one that jumped in, three legs and all,” said Duncan. “And if you didn’t take him on the pontoon boat, he’d swim out after you.”

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/05/19/wisconsin-family-mourns-loss-of-pet-deer/

I don't want to open the link as I find the article snippets sad enough (and depressing enough) from what you posted.... But, what is DNR and why did they shoot it?

people.

for instance, or is their repertoire limited to unarmed animals?



I mean,the whole complaint about the deer "after a few neighbors complained that he was eating flowers and bothering people".

So Cheney jacked with BILLIONS of people, and he damn sure was not eating a few weeds flowers!

and we call those natural resources...

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/deerplants.shtml

But a FEW people complained.....

I've seen them eat some of those. Plus many more. They're terribly destructive to fruit trees.

Fences?

Keeping in mind that 10,000 acre ranches in Texas are routinely fenced.

There are many plants that deer *tend not to* eat. Such as that list. But deer *will eat* almost anything, including almost everything on that list. Have you seen the youtube video of the deer eating a live baby bird? It's not unusual for them to do that, either.

And sure, they have long fences in Texas. It's a good thing cows can't jump.

I saw it on the news last night.

Now I've read that this morning the DNR shot and killed a bear in my area even though it was headed towards a wooded area. :(

Do Not Resuscitate

:shrug:

Neighbors were complaining.


When I first read this, I was thinking Do Not Resuscitate, but that doesn't fit in the context of the article.

Deer aren't pets -- and they can be, as the article points out, a nuisance.

and it pees in my yard. I don't even like cats. (sorry) I would never dream of hurting it though.

and take special care not to habituate nor imprint imprintable animals in my care. It is the best way to get them shot/killed after release as people will think they are rabid or a nusiance if they approach a human. Those that come to me habituated get released so far out into the boonies the chance they will come in contact with a human are remote. They did not do the deer a favor making it into a pet.

I do agree with you about not feeding the deer, but I have noticed that wild deer are becoming bolder and more acclimated to being around people. We have taken away so much of their habitat that they are living on patchs of woods here and there in between neigborhoods. Should they be shot for eating flowers too?

As long as there's "woods" two or three trees thick they'll live in it. They've been terribly overpopulated here for an extraordinary long time, and not very much is done about it. I hate the idea of people going out and shooting the excess deer, but the population is far too big, they have no decent habitat to support them anymore, and so many of them end up starving to death every year.

Sorry, but deer that come into your yard and eat your landscaping is a nuisance. Lyme disease became a serious epidemic here because of the deer ticks several years ago, and both my previous dog and one of my brothers got it in a single season. It never really goes away. The dog never did recover entirely and had terrible arthritis problems from it long before he should have that never ended and cost me a lot of money, and he just couldn't do a lot of the things we so enjoyed doing together after that... he just suddenly became like an old man long before he should have.

There should not be so many deer in an area that can't support them so they have no choice but to move into the human neighborhoods. The deer populations need to be thinned in these areas, and us humans need to stop paving over every square inch of land for our exclusive use. Deer are shy creatures and would only mingle so closely with humans when they have little or no habitat of their own that can support all of them. When the deer are coming into peoples' yards to eat their landscaping it's because they have no habitat that can support them and are desperate for food. Every year so many of them starve to death anyway which is a very slow and terrible way to go. Though I hate the idea of hunting the deer, the deer populations have to be thinned, and it's far better than starving to death.

they would not be shot for trying to make a living. It breaks my heart seeing bears wandering into neighborhoods here as we have paved over just about everything in Florida it seems. At the wildlife rehab center I am affiliated with, deer are fed their formula behind blinds so they will not get used to the staff feeding them. We are encroaching on what little the wild ones have left globally. It is terribly sad.
Here is a little armadillo I am raising among lots of other babies.

armadillos carry Hansen's disease (leprosy), you know. :scared:

but they couldn't give the disease to infant armadillos in the lab, only 45 people a year catch it that have handled armadillos, and the people who contracted it had handled the meat and consumed them so not too worried. :)
I specialize in wild rabbits and there is a tularemia risk there but I have raised several thousand and nothing!

Last year some baby squirrels fell out of the nest.

A neighbor took the squirrels and gave them to her brother to raise.

I found one later and brought it to a wildlife rehab center. I tried to convince the neighbor to have her brother take the squirrels there but they wouldn't. They all died.

I got a post card a couple of months later from the center (handwritten!) letting me know that the little female squirrel was very young and eventually was nursed to complete health and released into the wild.

So, thanks for all you do!

without a special license. There are good reasons for this.

A woman complained of wild deer eating her flowers, never mind that her home backed up against a NATURE PRESERVE. The city had a bow and arrow group come out to cull the deer. They left a fawn with arrow through it lying in a pond.

And yes, it was ONE complaint from ONE person about her flowers and the deer were wild.

watch them from their front yards. they're adored.

according to the ways of the wild, but didn't expect him to be killed because "he was a nuisance".

:cry:

Kids? Well, that depends on whether they are eating your flowers and being a nuisance.