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?
put the deer in a petting zoo, and be done with it?
Not a bad idea.
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.
Too often laws get misapplied. Disease is a worry in some cases, but clearly not in this case - the vet is the first place this deer went. Some people see baby animals alone and wrongly imagine that they’re abandoned or sick. Well, in this case the fawn was clearly sick - legs that needed casts to straighten them.
Wisely, the possibility of euthanasia was dropped the day after it was impounded.
As for the general issue of raising wild animals... as long as the animals are properly taken care of and kept on the owner’s property and are not endangered species taken from the wild - where’s the problem? (Or maybe that’s part of it - expense of checking to see if they’re properly taken care of?) It may be dangerous to the owner, but that should be the owner’s choice.
That or do something compassionate and feed the homeless & hungry some venison.