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Bambi Vs. The Bureaucrats (State Wants To Euthanize Doe Man Raised From Fawn)
MSNBC.com ^ | Sept. 19, 2007 | Winston Ross

Posted on 09/21/2007 8:31:50 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

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Well...if this doe must be "euthanized" Jim Filipetti might as well put her down himself and then he could have some good venison.
1 posted on 09/21/2007 8:31:52 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Unusual Pet: Filipetti with Snowball in a family photo from several years ago
2 posted on 09/21/2007 8:34:07 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Virginia Dare?


3 posted on 09/21/2007 8:36:10 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Rules against raising wildlife are there for good reason, but this is stupid. Why not just put the deer in a petting zoo, and be done with it?


4 posted on 09/21/2007 8:36:38 AM PDT by r9etb
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“The White Doe”

http://www.coastalguide.com/tales/manteowhitedoe.shtml


5 posted on 09/21/2007 8:37:07 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: r9etb

put the deer in a petting zoo, and be done with it?

Not a bad idea.


6 posted on 09/21/2007 8:39:34 AM PDT by rineaux (Just say NO to taglines)
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To: DogByte6RER
The vast majority of the phone calls Oregon officials took were from all over the political spectrum: bleeding-heart Bambi lovers and government-out-of-my-business types alike, united in their call for the return of Filipetti's deer.

I'm with the second camp. It may not generally be a good idea to raise wild animals as pets, but there are exceptions to every rule. Government laws are not good at dealing with exceptions, but that shouldn't be the pet owner's problem. Return the deer.

7 posted on 09/21/2007 8:42:19 AM PDT by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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Rules against raising wildlife are there for good reason,

What good reason?

We keep being told that man is the problem with species going extinct. But that is not true. We have no shortage of pigs, cows, dogs, cats, goats, hamsters, etc. All these animals are close to man and are cared for by man. The animals that are in danger of extinction are the animals that man is forbidden by the state from nurturing.

8 posted on 09/21/2007 8:43:57 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Bureaucrats act like souless ghouls. They operate strictly “by the book” and act incapable of independent thought, good judgement or compassion. They are petty little dictators exercising their only lifetime opportunity to flaunt authoritative power over someone else. How important they are! It isn’t hard to imagine why the Nazi or Communist regimes were so dangerous — the leaders would have been ineffective without legions of these subservient ghouls to carry out their bidding. /RANT


9 posted on 09/21/2007 8:50:05 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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What good reason?

Mostly having to do with humane treatment, but also having to do with elementary safety.

1. It's generally bad for the health of the animal in question. Not this time, perhaps, but generally, because most people don't know how to take care of the needs of a wild animal.

2. Wild animals are ... well, they're wild, and thus can be unpredictable. For some species, there's real danger in having wild animals living among humans. Even for deer (older than fawns), they could cause injury.

3. Possibility of disease: if the animal escapes back into the wild, it could take diseases with it. Similarly, bringing a wild animal in among domesticated animals could bring disease into the domesticated population. As an example, brucellosis could be spread in either direction.

There are more examples, but I think you get the point.

10 posted on 09/21/2007 8:56:06 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: DogByte6RER; cyborg; dighton; martin_fierro; jdm; RockinRight; Tijeras_Slim
State Wants To Euthanize Doe Man Raised From Fawn

Let the poor "doe man raised from fawn" live! Think of the scientific research benefits.

Has there every been a doe man before? Don't kill him because he's different! He was raised from a fawn and they want to kill him?

Don't hate, appreciate!

11 posted on 09/21/2007 8:59:38 AM PDT by Petronski (Cleveland Indians: AL Central -3)
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To: Petronski

12 posted on 09/21/2007 9:01:39 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: DogByte6RER

Where’s the “leave Bambi alone” YouTube video?

I’m waiting...

*tapping feet*


13 posted on 09/21/2007 9:08:09 AM PDT by Disambiguator (What's the temperature, Albert?)
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To: TexasRepublic

LOL. Too true.

Return Snowball and leave this man and his pet alone. Free Snowball!


14 posted on 09/21/2007 9:10:30 AM PDT by khnyny
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To: r9etb

“There are more examples, but I think you get the point.

I get the point. Rights should be limited under the auspices of the ever-bureaucratic “just in case” scenario. Gun-grabbers like that one, too. I’d be interested to see some data where citizens keeping deer actually ever harmed anything.

I grew up down the street from a man who kept horses, cows, goats and deer without incident or complication so to me this story is another attack on individual rights.

Not a flame, I just don’t agree with you.


15 posted on 09/21/2007 9:10:47 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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Doe man or dough man?

Shhhh, don't tell anyone but I think this guy has his own show on MSNBC called "Countdown" now...

16 posted on 09/21/2007 9:11:16 AM PDT by jdm
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To: rineaux

Good idea, but better yet lets euthanize the stupid person who brought up this moronic idea.


17 posted on 09/21/2007 9:16:30 AM PDT by chiefqc
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Ah yes. "Individual rights" trump common sense.

Disease control alone justifies rules against keeping wild animals.

18 posted on 09/21/2007 9:17:18 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: DogByte6RER

Why can’t the state just give them a permit to continue to keep those particular deer? Too easy, too just.


19 posted on 09/21/2007 9:17:29 AM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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There are more examples, but I think you get the point.

Please expound on how any of your points cannot be applied to domesticated animals, please.

For example, feral cats fit all of your points, but they can be successfully domesticated. If cats were left in the wild and prohibited access to human, many would die of preventable disease. And yes, a feral cat is a very wild animal and cannot be domesticated successful, but offspring can easily be turned around while small. Disease of cats can for the most part be controlled with modern medicine.

I also find it insulting that you think that man is too dumb to take care of the health issues.

20 posted on 09/21/2007 9:25:45 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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