Sick Buck Killed today - My Story (PICS)
07-29-2008, 08:14 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Sick Buck Killed today - My Story (PICS)
Today turned out to be a very interesting evening.
Monday night my father in law had been telling me about this buck he kept seeing in the back yard in the apple orchard….WELL…today the retired neighbor lady was taking a walk and managed to walk 15 feet from the buck..at that time she knew something was wrong….Apparently the buck was sick…he was hunched over and very unstable.....
The following activities took place today:
1) She called the DNR and they said they did not handle things like this
2) She called the police and they told her to call 911…imagine that
3) She called 911 and a nice sheriff showed up…..with his 9MM and put the deer out of his misery.
The deer was left there. That’s when I was contacted….When I got there the neighbors had covered the buck in Lime to preserve it…..which is what you will see all over him…..weird….
Anyway…I did not explore the animal too much to understand its sickness…it could be anything……
Here he is….a good Michigan Buck….it’s too bad this happened….
(When I look back on this....Could it just have been heat exhaustion? I wonder...
Monday night my father in law had been telling me about this buck he kept seeing in the back yard in the apple orchard….WELL…today the retired neighbor lady was taking a walk and managed to walk 15 feet from the buck..at that time she knew something was wrong….Apparently the buck was sick…he was hunched over and very unstable.....
The following activities took place today:
1) She called the DNR and they said they did not handle things like this
2) She called the police and they told her to call 911…imagine that
3) She called 911 and a nice sheriff showed up…..with his 9MM and put the deer out of his misery.
The deer was left there. That’s when I was contacted….When I got there the neighbors had covered the buck in Lime to preserve it…..which is what you will see all over him…..weird….
Anyway…I did not explore the animal too much to understand its sickness…it could be anything……
Here he is….a good Michigan Buck….it’s too bad this happened….
(When I look back on this....Could it just have been heat exhaustion? I wonder...
07-29-2008, 11:02 PM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Sick Buck Killed today - My Story (PICS)
Could be any number of things..........surprised the DNR did not want to test it. If that would have been here in wi. they definately would have wanted the head to test for CWD.
