Post by Dawg on Nov 16, 2006 19:31:22 GMT -5
THIS IS A PAGE ABOUT WEIRD THINGS DEER DO.
Did you know - Michigan Deer
According to the Michigan State Police Website, if a deer exists in the wild, it is public property. But if you hit one with your car, it is considered "damaged property." Just so you know which "bubble" to fill in on your accident report if you hit a deer in Michigan.
Flying Deer Kills 2
Two people driving in Marathon County, Wisconsin were killed Nov. 28 when a deer that had just been struck by an oncoming vehicle flew across the highway, smashed through their windshield and continued out the back window. The driver of the first vehicle was not even aware that the large doe which had first smashed into his car had gone on to do anyone else damage.
Buck Chases Boy
A 12-year old boy on his way home from the YMCA was chased through a parking lot in Fond du Lac, WI, by a five-foot tall buck on Oct. 24. Young Alex Porter said he heard a dog bark and the next thing he knew, a buck with " huge horns² was running straight at him.The Porters have had other wildlife encounters; last year a wild black bear invaded their backyard. thanks to Rick Hendricks.
Deer Wants Education?
Some children and parents working after hours on a PTA project in an elementary school in the Port Huron, Michigan School District heard a strange noise that turned out to be a large white tail jumping around the first grade room. The buck crashed through a glass door, smashed a computer, tipped over desks and scattered papers, leaving a trail of blood. Quick-thinking parents shut the door to keep the deer enclosed. Officials figured the deer charged its own reflection in the door. November 12.Thanks to Rick Hendricks.
Tracking a Ghost Deer
There is a Ghost Deer inNorthern California, it is said, somewhere in the wilderness canyons of Mt. Eddy west of Mt. Shasta, A giant buck resembling the in the Hartford insurance elk, it is said to boast 12 points on one side of its rack and 10 on the other.Its weight is unknown since hunters say their bullets pass right through it. Hunters and trackers recount tales of following the tracks of some large buck only to see the tracks disappear at the edge of a ridge or other natural barrier. Hunters there speak of The Ghost Deer in hushed, reverential tones, and those who have seen it consider themselves honored.Thanks to Rick Hendricks.
Deer Order a Side Bucket of Wings
National Geographic News reported in August that mineral-deficient Scottish deer on the island of Rum have found a way to supplement their diets...by eating parts of live seabird chicks! The deer need calcium to grow their antlers, and evidently find Manx shearwater chicks the perfect snack. Thanks to Rick Hendricks. By the way, did you know that the original deer from which our modern deer descended had long canine teeth and no antlers?
Albino Deer Spotted in Burrillville, R.I.
Joshua Laprise spied it in a field from his city apartment building on August 1...a pure white albino deer lunching alongside an ordinary brown whitetail.According to a newspaper article in the Woonsocket Call, the odds of seeing an adult albino whitetail deer in the wild is better than 1 in 1,000,000. Laprise managed to get a photo from his window. Most albinos do not live for more than a few years without their protective coloration. They are protected by law in Wisconsin, Tennessee and Iowa.
South Carolina Ghost Deer or Rare White Piebald?
Prices Too Deer at Kroger's
In Blacksburg Virginia last week, a six-point buck picked his way past two sets of automatic doors and headed down a crowded aisle in the Kroger grocery store. Customers cowered behind their carts as the deer leapt over soup cans and trampled sushi and butter before squeezing past the automatic scanner and out the back door. Sadly, it was hit by a van but still managed to run off.
Casper the Friendly Deer West Quebec Canada
A white deer nicknamed Casper and referred to by locals as "the ghost deer" was killed by what papers called a "drive-by shooting." Found dead in a field near the community of Low, the deer was still a skinny fawn. Only one deer in 10,000 is born with all white coloration. Casper's mother was naturally colored. Seneca N.Y. boasts one of the first white deer sightings in 1954, a spectacular all-white 12-point buck. The animals are now protected. The mayor of Low plans to erect a memorial to Casper, using a white stone.
Deer Seeks New Low in Illinois
A Lockport woman said she's had squirrels and bats in her basement, but this was the first time she'd had a deer down there. A year old buck recently jumped through a window and landed in Phyllis and Reno Caneva's basement, trashing the laundry area and smashing waterlines and holiday wreaths. Animal control officers sedated it and moved it on a board to some woods near the Des Plaines river. It ran off and was fine.
Will BIG MAC attack add points to my rack?
In late October, two male deer crashed into a Washington D.C. McDonald's, possibly on the run after female deer in rut season. Just an hour before the noon rush, one whitetail jumped back out after scaring the customers half to death, and was found later in a field. The other was trapped and had to wait for animal control officers. Both were so injured they had to be euthanized. Where they came from was a mystery as there are no heavily wooded areas in the vicinity
Deer Tries out for Hurdles
Virginia Middle School Middler schoolers in Cockeysville Virginia got an unexpected break in late October when a deer broke a window in their school after seeing its own reflection and mistaking it for a competitor. The deer made its way down a slippery aisle and into a classroom where it jumped over the head of a teacher who was sitting at her desk. The principal bravely used a chair to trap the buck behind a row of chairs and desks until the DNR could arrive and safely remove the animal. The school is planning to adopt a new motto, "The Buck Stops Here."
Two white deer get stuffed for display in different parts of country
In Garner, Delaware, a white deer who had become the town's beloved mascot was hit and killed while crossing a highway last year. So the townspeople had her stuffed and displayed on the high school stage, complete with real pine trees. The town's name for the 2-year old albino, (no points for originality) had been "White Deer," and they had renamed a park "White Deer Park" just days before her demise. Some people wanted to put the stuffed animal on display inside Plexiglas in the park, but others thought she might still attract loving bucks in autumn, so no one knows where she'll end up. Closer to home, Lake Mills, Wisconsin also stuffed a local white deer to display in an educational wildlife exhibit at the Glacial Drumlin Trail Office at the old train depot. The majestic buck was a favorite of locals, often wandering as far as Aztalan State Park. In fact, the deer was hit a year ago near those famed Indian mounds. It is thought to have a white daughter, and perhaps another white offspring also seen near the park. According to a story by Anna Marie Lux in the Janesville Gazette, a representative of the Ho Chunk Nation said that white deer have no special significance to their tribe.
Xtreme Deer Sports at Sports Store
A deer practicing xtreme leaping jumped through a plate glass window in a newly opened sporting good store in LaCrosse WI this month on a busy Saturday morning. The deer appeared as stunned as the customers but kept trying to escape. Luckily, the store which sells ATV's, snowmobiles and other sports vehicles had a big tarp on hand which customers used to throw over the deer. Another manly customer wrestled the buck by its antlers to get it out of the store so it could practice some xtreme running.
Victor/Victoria Doe with Antlers
When is a 5-point buck not a 5-point buck? When it's a 5-point doe. Joe Kiefer, a hunter from Chewelah, WA, was happy at shooting the 250-pound whitetail until he began field dressing it and discovered the buck stopped at the antlers. Local papers made jokes about cross-dressing deer, but Kiefer kept the venison just the same.
Did you know - Michigan Deer
According to the Michigan State Police Website, if a deer exists in the wild, it is public property. But if you hit one with your car, it is considered "damaged property." Just so you know which "bubble" to fill in on your accident report if you hit a deer in Michigan.
Flying Deer Kills 2
Two people driving in Marathon County, Wisconsin were killed Nov. 28 when a deer that had just been struck by an oncoming vehicle flew across the highway, smashed through their windshield and continued out the back window. The driver of the first vehicle was not even aware that the large doe which had first smashed into his car had gone on to do anyone else damage.
Buck Chases Boy
A 12-year old boy on his way home from the YMCA was chased through a parking lot in Fond du Lac, WI, by a five-foot tall buck on Oct. 24. Young Alex Porter said he heard a dog bark and the next thing he knew, a buck with " huge horns² was running straight at him.The Porters have had other wildlife encounters; last year a wild black bear invaded their backyard. thanks to Rick Hendricks.
Deer Wants Education?
Some children and parents working after hours on a PTA project in an elementary school in the Port Huron, Michigan School District heard a strange noise that turned out to be a large white tail jumping around the first grade room. The buck crashed through a glass door, smashed a computer, tipped over desks and scattered papers, leaving a trail of blood. Quick-thinking parents shut the door to keep the deer enclosed. Officials figured the deer charged its own reflection in the door. November 12.Thanks to Rick Hendricks.
Tracking a Ghost Deer
There is a Ghost Deer inNorthern California, it is said, somewhere in the wilderness canyons of Mt. Eddy west of Mt. Shasta, A giant buck resembling the in the Hartford insurance elk, it is said to boast 12 points on one side of its rack and 10 on the other.Its weight is unknown since hunters say their bullets pass right through it. Hunters and trackers recount tales of following the tracks of some large buck only to see the tracks disappear at the edge of a ridge or other natural barrier. Hunters there speak of The Ghost Deer in hushed, reverential tones, and those who have seen it consider themselves honored.Thanks to Rick Hendricks.
Deer Order a Side Bucket of Wings
National Geographic News reported in August that mineral-deficient Scottish deer on the island of Rum have found a way to supplement their diets...by eating parts of live seabird chicks! The deer need calcium to grow their antlers, and evidently find Manx shearwater chicks the perfect snack. Thanks to Rick Hendricks. By the way, did you know that the original deer from which our modern deer descended had long canine teeth and no antlers?
Albino Deer Spotted in Burrillville, R.I.
Joshua Laprise spied it in a field from his city apartment building on August 1...a pure white albino deer lunching alongside an ordinary brown whitetail.According to a newspaper article in the Woonsocket Call, the odds of seeing an adult albino whitetail deer in the wild is better than 1 in 1,000,000. Laprise managed to get a photo from his window. Most albinos do not live for more than a few years without their protective coloration. They are protected by law in Wisconsin, Tennessee and Iowa.
South Carolina Ghost Deer or Rare White Piebald?
Prices Too Deer at Kroger's
In Blacksburg Virginia last week, a six-point buck picked his way past two sets of automatic doors and headed down a crowded aisle in the Kroger grocery store. Customers cowered behind their carts as the deer leapt over soup cans and trampled sushi and butter before squeezing past the automatic scanner and out the back door. Sadly, it was hit by a van but still managed to run off.
Casper the Friendly Deer West Quebec Canada
A white deer nicknamed Casper and referred to by locals as "the ghost deer" was killed by what papers called a "drive-by shooting." Found dead in a field near the community of Low, the deer was still a skinny fawn. Only one deer in 10,000 is born with all white coloration. Casper's mother was naturally colored. Seneca N.Y. boasts one of the first white deer sightings in 1954, a spectacular all-white 12-point buck. The animals are now protected. The mayor of Low plans to erect a memorial to Casper, using a white stone.
Deer Seeks New Low in Illinois
A Lockport woman said she's had squirrels and bats in her basement, but this was the first time she'd had a deer down there. A year old buck recently jumped through a window and landed in Phyllis and Reno Caneva's basement, trashing the laundry area and smashing waterlines and holiday wreaths. Animal control officers sedated it and moved it on a board to some woods near the Des Plaines river. It ran off and was fine.
Will BIG MAC attack add points to my rack?
In late October, two male deer crashed into a Washington D.C. McDonald's, possibly on the run after female deer in rut season. Just an hour before the noon rush, one whitetail jumped back out after scaring the customers half to death, and was found later in a field. The other was trapped and had to wait for animal control officers. Both were so injured they had to be euthanized. Where they came from was a mystery as there are no heavily wooded areas in the vicinity
Deer Tries out for Hurdles
Virginia Middle School Middler schoolers in Cockeysville Virginia got an unexpected break in late October when a deer broke a window in their school after seeing its own reflection and mistaking it for a competitor. The deer made its way down a slippery aisle and into a classroom where it jumped over the head of a teacher who was sitting at her desk. The principal bravely used a chair to trap the buck behind a row of chairs and desks until the DNR could arrive and safely remove the animal. The school is planning to adopt a new motto, "The Buck Stops Here."
Two white deer get stuffed for display in different parts of country
In Garner, Delaware, a white deer who had become the town's beloved mascot was hit and killed while crossing a highway last year. So the townspeople had her stuffed and displayed on the high school stage, complete with real pine trees. The town's name for the 2-year old albino, (no points for originality) had been "White Deer," and they had renamed a park "White Deer Park" just days before her demise. Some people wanted to put the stuffed animal on display inside Plexiglas in the park, but others thought she might still attract loving bucks in autumn, so no one knows where she'll end up. Closer to home, Lake Mills, Wisconsin also stuffed a local white deer to display in an educational wildlife exhibit at the Glacial Drumlin Trail Office at the old train depot. The majestic buck was a favorite of locals, often wandering as far as Aztalan State Park. In fact, the deer was hit a year ago near those famed Indian mounds. It is thought to have a white daughter, and perhaps another white offspring also seen near the park. According to a story by Anna Marie Lux in the Janesville Gazette, a representative of the Ho Chunk Nation said that white deer have no special significance to their tribe.
Xtreme Deer Sports at Sports Store
A deer practicing xtreme leaping jumped through a plate glass window in a newly opened sporting good store in LaCrosse WI this month on a busy Saturday morning. The deer appeared as stunned as the customers but kept trying to escape. Luckily, the store which sells ATV's, snowmobiles and other sports vehicles had a big tarp on hand which customers used to throw over the deer. Another manly customer wrestled the buck by its antlers to get it out of the store so it could practice some xtreme running.
Victor/Victoria Doe with Antlers
When is a 5-point buck not a 5-point buck? When it's a 5-point doe. Joe Kiefer, a hunter from Chewelah, WA, was happy at shooting the 250-pound whitetail until he began field dressing it and discovered the buck stopped at the antlers. Local papers made jokes about cross-dressing deer, but Kiefer kept the venison just the same.
