Comments on: Pet Deer Seized From Oregon Family

By: Darcy s

Darcy s — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:20:38 +0000

These outdated laws need to be updated..this is outrageous to separate these pets from their family simply because they don’t have enough permits.GIVE THESE PETS BACK TO THE FAMILY THAT LOVES THEM AND HAS CARED VERY WELLFOR THEM!!!

By: Darcy

Darcy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:18:43 +0000

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:32:04 +0000

I sure hope you got your deer back! Please let me know? lisaheathcoat@yahoo.com. This is So Rediculous That as happy as they seem to be!!! I have never seen a deer this color beautiful!!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:18:52 +0000

How has this turned out since this is 2009 now, I sure hope you got the sweet deer back!!

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:02:56 +0000

Let the family keep the deer. Fine the bloody hell of them at the same time. State will still get it’s money and enforcement will be done.

In this case it appears to be no disease issue. Captive deer posing a health problem? Not unless you count things like wasting disease or hair loss syndrome. Which only kill huge numbers of animals causing them to suffer.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:51:45 +0000

It’s horrible that they took the deer away, they were obviously well cared for and loved by the family. I hope they have been returned.

By: misty

misty — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:40:21 +0000

These deer should have been left with the people who raised them. The DEC should have given them time to get a licence. Under the rehab laws. The sad part of all this is the deer will never make it in the wild? what did they do with theses two deer is my question?

By: C Heffner

C Heffner — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:10:48 +0000

Hi I am apalled and disgusted with the authorites in this matter.the deer was well taken care of and was NOT a problem.Why they stick their nose in is beyond me, unless they are just plain jealous that they don’t have one.the deer should be returned to people that raised her, and NEVER should have been taken.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:18:52 +0000

This article is from 2007. I searched for updates and it turns out Bucky was released into the wild and Snowball went to live on a ranch where the owners raise elks for slaughter… I wonder if either are still alive. What a tragedy that authorities stick their noses in when they are NOT needed and completely fail to intervene in cases where they may be needed.
I agree with what people here have said, it’s all about the rights of hunters. Even though Bucky was dumped in a no-hunt area, I doubt they’d care if he wandered into the hunting areas.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:37:07 +0000

This is the most out rages state law I have ever heard!!!!!!!GIVE THESE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS BACK TOO ITS LOVING HOME. WHY IS THIS EVEN BEING DISCUSSED?? GO OUT AND WORK SOMETHING ELSE BUT LEAVE THESE ANIMALS ALONG!!! WHY DISTURB THEIR HAPPINESS??? SOOO MUCH ANIMAL CRUELTY WHY NOT GIVE PRAISE TO SOME GREAT FOLKS!!!!!! FOR DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR OUR LITTLE FURRY FRIENDS!!!!!!

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:14:43 +0000

Akrube just because it belongs to the state doesn’t make it right to take something that is loved and charished from someone, that is wrong! I’m sure these people pay their state taxes so they HAVE a right to their state animals just as much as hunters.

This government is so fucked up. Our government trys to act like it’s so righteous and just it sickens me. Is this the just and right thing to do, to take a loved animal away from somone? This animal was obviously well cared for and probably already been to the vet. It didn’t have disease that is just a excuse for an unjust practice done to these people.

I’m willing to stand up and fight this and I think everyone else should too! It WORONG and UNJUST, period! Laws are meant to provide justice based on what’s right and wrong, they are doing the opposite.

By: Mechelle

Mechelle — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:37:36 +0000

Arkrube sounds like quite the bigot. “Bleeding heart liberals from the Pearl District or Eugene? ” !!! Where died that come from? Is there something about these two locations that Arkrube has an issue with? And on ALL the above Blog entries, NONE stated they were from EITHER of these locations.
Arkrube should get the facts straight before spouting his hate. This family did NOT poach a deer. They found an abondoned crippled deer, contacted the proper authorities who DID NOT WANT THE DEER. The State Dept Of F&W wouldn’t have cared for this deer, but euthenized it.
Think of all the tax payer money that has been spent by these state officials all because of a ‘control issue’ they have and not wanting to admit they were wrong in the first place. They could have just as easily ASSISTED this family in meeting their requirements to keep the deer. They could have made this a win-win situation. No taxpayer money needed to be spent on this.
What would Arkrube suggest this family have done? They could have left the abandoned baby deer and let die a slow death. Is that what you want?
Or had the vet kill the deer? Is that better for you? No one wanted the deer. They went above and beyond to care for this animal who was permanantly disabled and unable to ever be returned to the wild.
Arkrube sounds like he’s got some ‘anger issues’ that are not related to this issue.

By: Arkrube

Arkrube — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:02:16 +0000

It is not “their” deer to choose if it stays with them or not, but the property of the State of Oregon. These folks are not wildlife managers, but actually one step short of being in the same category as a poacher…they have possession of wildlife, but just didn’t kill it.
The State of Oregon and it’s wildlife department have lost sight of their true objective of wildlife management when they let the I-5 corridor and the bleeding heart liberals of Eugene, Portland, and Salem “hi-jack” their mission by outlawing the use of dogs in the pursuit of cougars and bears.
Now, the monies received from the general populace and license revenues goes to pay out-of-state hunters with dogs to kill/thin the population of bear and cougars in Oregon.
So, with this deer fiasco and their lack of prosecution of the offenders (I think I’ll poach a deer and then, whine to the media to avoid a ticket/prosecution) and the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s impotence in repealing or overturning the ballot measure outlawing the use of dogs spells trouble in the near and distant future for management in the near and present future.
Wildlife should be managed by the wildlife managers, not some emotional bleeding heart liberals from the Pearl District or Eugene.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:49:59 +0000

I think the anonymous tipster was jealous. The dear should stay with the family.

By: Thom Dickey

Thom Dickey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:50:54 +0000

We can’t keep killing all our resources. When someone wants to properly take care of an animal then more power to them. Stop interferring with what we were all put here to do…be caretakers of the world.