What kind of insane reasoning is this?
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources blames Jeff and LeeAnn Carpenter for taking in the animals without notifying state or local officials, and affixing them with identifying collars. The identifying collars acted as a signal that the animals could not be regarded as wild - and thus posed a potential health threat to wild animals.
Diseases can fester among animals in captivity, Capt. Greg Salo, regional supervisor for the DNR’s enforcement division, said Monday.
“If he had contacted us, I think we could have corrected the problem without having to destroy them,” Salo said. “The minute he took them as fawns and put collars on them, he sealed their fate.”
“...Salo said. “The minute he took them as fawns and put collars on them, he sealed their fate.”
Its ALWAYS the fault of the peon. The DNR and LEO fascists cannot EVER make a mistake.
There’s a pic of the man with one of the fawns when it wasn’t very old at his YouTube of the incident here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c6ZceLVtqE
The guy has 10 acres. This has to be about showing the ‘little people’ who’s boss.
Okay, the humans are stupid for putting collars on the deer. They are not pets and can’t be kept as such, practically or legally.
Whether it needed to be handled exactly this way is very much open to debate. But in a state where deer are pretty much long-legged vermin, how much effort must be expended to deal with them ?