What was she feeding them? Pork Rinds and Potato Chips? I have been around deer nearly my entire life and never seen one that died of obesity. LOL!!!
Posted on 01/07/2017 8:34:29 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
On Dec. 19, 2016, Kansas game wardens came to the home of Mark and Kim Mcgaughey regarding a deer they said the family kept illegally as a pet. The mule deer doe, which the family had named Faline and which they had had for about 22 months, was eventually shot and killed by game wardens a few minutes later on the property. (Video courtesy of Taryn Mcgaughey) brader@wichitaeagle.com
A western Kansas family is angry that game wardens killed a deer that had been their pet for 22 months and “was like one of the family.” Kim Mcgaughey said the deer would butt its head on the door to be let inside the house, go on walks with the family, snuggle with people and play with her grandson and dogs.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article124627634.html#storylink=cpy
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Inherent dangers of keeping a friggin’ deer as a pet.
This nation needs an enema ... Regulatory Decapture now!
Typical of a pretty fair % of Game Wardens. They fancy themselves Storm Troopers. If they ever got in a real jam they’d wet their panties. IMHO.
Our masters are ever so much more tolerant now.
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Game wardens may have euthanized the wrong animal here. Just sayin.
“Typical of a pretty fair % of Game Wardens. They fancy themselves Storm Troopers”
We have park rangers that strap on so much tacticool gear you’d think they were trying to dress like pictures they’ve seen of SEALS. Gave my girlfriend a ticket for having her poodle off leash at the river shoals. There was also a young girl visiting from out of town and wearing a bikini. The dips#it called for backup to help stare at the cute TEENAGER while he wrote her a ticket for her dog being off leash. Frikkin perv...
Wow! Just like the “Yearling.” Except dad didn’t do the killing.
My girlfriend worked for a woman who was feeding the deer. She over fed them so much that she killed 20 of them, that we know of. Wealthy woman. Nothing happened to her.
Those park rangers are peace officers after the patriot act.
This needs revision after Jan 20.
Taming a 150 lb wild animal and bringing it into the neighborhood? Whats next.... a bear?
My brother worked with an engineer in Tennessee who kept a whitetail buck as a pet. He did get a permit for it after rescuing the baby deer from its mother’s corpse on the side of a road.
Had it a few years- every year the suited it up in an orange hunting vest during hunting season.
It knew how to open their screen door by flipping it opem with its antlers; loved ice cream cones and just hanging out with people like a big dog.
They did have to neuter it in its second or third year because it was getting too worked up during the rut and they didn’t want it to get hurt trying to get loose and run after wild does.
It’s antlers fell off shortly after getting neutered... they regrew the next year [but not as big as before] but it remained a big lovable mush bag... until one day they returned home to find blood in the pen.
Then they heard word that their neighbor had been down to the checkin station with a super fat deer.
They looked and found a poorly obscured trail leading towards their neighbor’s house and a gutpile along the trail where it wasn’t visible from their property.
Neighbor’s barn burned mysteriously with all his tractors and ATVs inside within the week.
Who knew gutpiles were flammable?
“Our officers on the scene felt (shooting the deer) was about their only option.”
They were just being patronizing and “teaching this family a lesson”. Don’t you just love big brother? We have mule deer that hang around our yard and eat our shrubs, but they are so cute that we do not chase them away. These are urban welfare deer that lots of people put treats out for and will come up and eat out of your hand. Last year a poacher illegally killed a big buck that was well known in the neighborhood with an arrow. The poacher wounded him and he was found dead in the bushes a couple weeks later, which aided in prosecuting the guy.
My wife came home with squirrel that had been run over and was paralyzed. I told her to call the wilderness vet. She did and was told that she was illegally harboring a squirrel and that she needed to bring it in immediately so they could put it down. We kept it inside for a few months while it recovered. We called it Princess Meany Pants because it was very vocal and never was happy about receiving our assistance. Think Lt. Dan from Forrest Gump.
Eventually it was able to walk again, although it never regained the use of its tail which made it easy to differentiate from the other squirrels. We let it go in our yard in the early fall. Most of the time it stayed in a tall fir tree next to our back porch waiting for handouts and making a racket. It stayed with us for a couple years after that. I assumed that the neighbors cat or a coyote got it when she disappeared.
“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......
What was she feeding them? Pork Rinds and Potato Chips? I have been around deer nearly my entire life and never seen one that died of obesity. LOL!!!
Sad truth is that the animals will return on their own to the wild. Natural hormones kick in. If the idiots, game wardens would just leave the animal alone, it would all straighten out.
I wonder if you can turn the game warden in for hunting out of season or shooting a deer with out hunting tags.
Need his name
No way. Their rumen fails or they suffer acidosis or some form of bloat.
Funny picture.
here where we live the wardens are nice guys...were deal with them almost every year..
the county we live in you can own what ever animal you want...county sheriff has to be informed first...you should see what these folks run on their farms...family farm a few doors down from our farm has MONKIES in a huge cage...another one about a mile away has a huge enclosed pasture with 12 foot fence with them little deer in it..to each their own
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