albino Whitetail deer

[WayneB]

Not srue about this, but it was sent to me in an email recently.


This was sent by a man in Rhinelander, Wisconsin

A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! I saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car-- thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW!! A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Momma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of me ...

Well, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature', that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested, but we're going to send him to a Rehab farm. Maybe he will make it in captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho, but, not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either. Here are a couple of pictures to show you. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW..how cool is that??

 

[Robert_in_NY]

They are amazing critters and if you didn't have any experience raising whitetail deer fawns you did the right thing by giving him to someone who does. They require special attention and albino and white-whitetails are more delicate then a regular whitetail deer. They are also a lot calmer then a normal whitetail deer which is something I could never figure out. Thanks for the pictures as you are lucky to have found such a rare and amazing creature.

 

[WayneB]

They are amazing critters and if you didn't have any experience raising whitetail deer fawns you did the right thing by giving him to someone who does. They require special attention and albino and white-whitetails are more delicate then a regular whitetail deer. They are also a lot calmer then a normal whitetail deer which is something I could never figure out. Thanks for the pictures as you are lucky to have found such a rare and amazing creature.

Robert just to set the record straight, I am not the person that found the fawn, it was pictures sent to my by someone else. Just hope it was a case of the mother be either hurt or killed and not just moved away until the fawn was able to stand and walk.

Wayne

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I read the first part where you said it was sent to you but by the end I read where it said "That is my shoe lying beside him" and forgot all about the first part

Sadly, if the story is true and he saw the deer run in front of him they most likely went and caught the fawn because, well, its a fawn and people do stupid things when they see fawns There were some Mexicans trimming the grape vineyard across the road a couple years ago. They found a fawn and took it and brought it to us. At first we thought they were trying to give it to us (which is illegal in NY for us to take any deer from the wild). Well what it was is they wanted to sell it to us. They stole the fawn from the wild in hopes of making money. We told them it was illegal to take fawns from the wild and that we would not pay them for it and they left. I have no idea what happened to the fawn, hopefully they put it back where they found it as their mother would have taken it back still.

Every year we get calls from people who saved a fawn that was "abandoned" out in a field or some such place and they want advice on how to raise it Our friend writes a sportsman article for the local paper and every spring he puts an article in trying to tell people to leave the fawns alone but only sportsman and Peta members read sportsman articles

At least if the albino is raised properly and given to a zoo it should be well taken care of and a lot of people will be able to see how amazing they are.

 

[B8FISH]

There used to be a herd of white (not sure if they were real albino) dear at an abandoned military site south of Geneva NY. We would see them on our way south to visit relatives--kind of neat to stop and watch. Not sure if they are still there-it's been a couple of years.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

There used to be a herd of white (not sure if they were real albino) dear at an abandoned military site south of Geneva NY. We would see them on our way south to visit relatives--kind of neat to stop and watch. Not sure if they are still there-it's been a couple of years.

They are still there. There was some talk of taking down the fence but the locals are fighting that move in hopes of preserving the white herd and I hope they succeed.

They are not albino though, they look identical to albino whitetails except they have black eyes. That is the only difference.

 

[B8FISH]

Cool..I hope they keep the herd intact--I don't they would survive more than a hunting season or two--unless there was alot of snow on the ground!

 

[WayneB]

Hey Robert, I just wanted you to know I would not take in a wild animal unless I really knew it was down and out. That is some story about the fawn though. Like you I hope they were smart enough to do the right thing and return it to the place the took it from.

Wayne

 

[ToadHill]

My neighbor found a fawn bleating behind his house in the woods this past summer. It had been making noise for over 4 hours and he was concerned that if he left it overnight the Kioti's (HA HA) would get it before morning. He got it and called the rescue people. They came and picked it up and said the lower jaw was very deformed and they didn't think the fawn could nurse correctly and the mother had probably abandoned it. They said they would bottle feed it until it could make it on its own.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Hey Robert, I just wanted you to know I would not take in a wild animal unless I really knew it was down and out. That is some story about the fawn though. Like you I hope they were smart enough to do the right thing and return it to the place the took it from.

Wayne

I believe you. We get at least 2-3 calls each spring from people who find fawns "abandoned" and they want to keep them and want to know how to raise them. A young fawn requires a lot of attention and a lot of fawns die every year because people try to "save" them

People need to leave animals alone and in the wild unless you can tell they really are injured or their mother has been killed. And even then they should give the animals to rehabilitators that have experience raising wild animals.