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 ?
I just think the way this was handled by EVERYONE is just ridiculous. Whatever happened to brains? I mean, did we all regress to the caveman stage or what?
Actually, they're not. The hunters orange collars were likely placed on them to warn potential hunters that these deer were semi, if not completely domesticated and not worthy of being shot during hunting season........
P>In rural areas it is not uncommon for farmers to place sucn hunters orange vests, or a facsimile thereof, on their cattle, especially after losing cattle to hunters who couldn't tell the difference between a deer and a f'n cow.........
This family's only crime was saving two baby deer from death and subsequently raised, nurtured and tried to protect them via the hunters orange collars. They did nothing wrong.....In fact, they did everything right!
If they were really worried about disease and the fawns were so tame that collars could be put on them how hard would it be to take blood samples from them? Isn't that part of what the DNR is supposed to do with their $900 million dollar budget? If they wanted to intervene in the taming of these deer and ultimately put them down how hard would it be to capture fawns that let you put collars on them and take them to a DNR facility to test them and put them down with drugs?
Instead they open fire with a shotgun without any warning to the residents making a bloody public spectacle of the whole thing? This was nothing but a power trip completely devoid of rational excuses. Every cop and DNR employee involved should be fired and banned from ever working for any government entity again. No pensions and no severance pay either.