“He told me as long as the deer was not confined, and wasn’t kept in any kind of enclosure, I was fine. Legal,” she said, adding that she doesn’t remember the game warden’s name.
She said the deer was never confined, and that it regularly showed up at a neighbor’s place 2 1/2 miles away. The deer also had dozens of chances to move off with a number of wild deer that inhabit that area.
I have absolutely no problem with a rural Kansas family such as this who live on a farm with horses 12 1/2 miles out in the country and their nearest neighbor being 2 1/2 miles away with having a free ranging female mule deer as a pet.......
Her only mistake was posting the missing deer on her Facebook page where some know-it-all butt-in-ski saw it and reported her to their DNR......
That also brings up the point that whenever you interact with an agent of the (any) government you get names, and preferably any answers in writing.