I'm surprised she doesn't get busted by wildlife control people. A guy who brought a deer back to health was arrested back in 2000 or 2001 for caging a wild animal, or some other stupidity. No good deed goes unpunished.
I know I was threatened with jail and heavy fine for having a orphaned squirrel, luckily, I gave them false name. How ironic that I could get a license on line to blow the squirrel's brains out, but I couldn't keep it till it got big enough to release.
Yep, it's amazing what stupid things people do these days, but I think it's largely because many people live so far from nature and farming, and don't realize the dangers of treating wild animals as domestic--everything from harm to humans, to harm to the animal itself, to harm to the population. I wonder about these "Animal Rights" activists who release caged research animals, or nurse animals back to health and release them, only to find that they carry a domestic disease back to their herd and wipe out many wild animals.
You don't have to be a Darwin evolutionist to realize that even intraspecies, nature's way is sometimes rather cruel...but messing with it can be crueller.
You are right! I've got a neighbor who had a very young deer enter his small pasture where he has cattle and goats. A "Do-Gooder" notified the Game Commission who sent someone out to investigate. My neighbor pointed out that, while the deer had stayed in his pasture for more than a year, the deer could always jump over his fence to get out just as easily as he had jumped in! The deer stayed until his first rut and left his secure feedlot for female company!!!
You are right! I've got a neighbor who had a very young deer enter his small pasture where he has cattle and goats. A "Do-Gooder" notified the Game Commission who sent someone out to investigate. My neighbor pointed out that, while the deer had stayed in his pasture for more than a year, the deer could always jump over his fence to get out just as easily as he had jumped in! The deer stayed until his first rut and left his secure feedlot for female company!!!