Comments on: Mystery Deer Captured In Indiana

By: Richard888

Richard888 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:49:32 +0000

Oh, yes. That deer does look strange from close-up. Hey, Happy July Fourth to all Americans! From Canada.

By: crgintx

crgintx — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:54:23 +0000

Some fool probably captured it as a fawn in the wild and tried to raise it as a pet. There’s few animals as aggressive as wild male ungulates in rut. Suburban whitetails of crash though mirrored patio doors with astonishing regularity think there’s another buck in it’s territory. Yearling bucks like this one are just plain impish into all the things that they will do. Combine that with no older males to curb their aggressiveness and the Bambii lover is in for a very rude awakening. So they just let the buck go where ever they can and hope it doesn’t follow them back home.

By: Matt_J

Matt_J — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:01:25 +0000

Recently, there was a hunting preserve shut down in Logansport, which is about an hour almost due south of South Bend. Could be that the deer belonged there and when the state decided they couldn’t keep operations going, the deer were simply let loose, and this one happened to wander north.

Deer in South Bend aren’t exactly stunning news. I almost hit three or four while driving on Douglas when leaving campus to head home after a day in the lab, and that’s maybe a mile or two from where the events described here took place.

By: Medieval

Medieval — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:36:44 +0000

Looks like it may be a yearling male Japanese Sika Deer. They are wild here in Maryland (Eastern Shore)

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:08:54 +0000

An incompetent zoo and zookeeper, most likely…

Agree one has to keep the spotlight on this.

Interesting story.

By: girlygirl

girlygirl — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:34:29 +0000

This ‘mystery deer’ is mysterious? it looks like those one deers with tusks, but if its boy, then i have no clue what it is, considering it obviously doesn’t have tusks. Baby? or big?

By: Point Radix

Point Radix — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:33:16 +0000

Fortunately, it didn’t turn on the police officers when cornered. Otherwise, it might have ended up like the “Chicago Cougar”.

By: bozakgrundle

bozakgrundle — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:28:11 +0000

It’s clearly a Chupacabras with mange.

By: Amdusias

Amdusias — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:33:31 +0000

There are a lot of these game collections in Indiana, or at least there were when I was a kid. We used to go to one in Maxwell Indiana, where the owner had a gravel road down the middle, and you could see his collection of exotics, well some of them. To get to the inner sanctum you had to pay for a tour. I went deeper in with a youth group once. Usually you would go see the little deer, ostritches, camels, llamas, and what have you from that gravel road, offer some bread, and get bitten. Glory days.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:28:27 +0000

I don’t think most people would have even given it the time of day. I would be one of the few to notice it didn’t look much like the black tail or mule deer we get thru here. Okay, animal farm/ranch or maybe the zoo lost it. Kinda hard to imagine a private party trying to keep it confined. Although, I would love to raise deer, elk, moose and just about any other antelope that’s a little rare these days (and I don’t mean on a plate).