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Doe, a deer, a female East Boston deer
By adamg on Thu, 01/14/2016 - 6:37am
Photo by Massachusetts Environmental Police.
UPDATE: State officials now say the deer was not a pet; she moved into somebody's backyard and the homeowner didn't even know she was there.
State Environmental Police report:
Today, January 13, 2016, Massachusetts Environmental Police officers and members of the agency’s Large Animal Response Team (LART) executed a search warrant in East Boston to remove a white tail deer that was suspected of being kept as a pet.
With help from the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, the deer was "immobilized" and brought somewhere a bit more rural, where officials monitored it until it recovered from the tranquilizer and was able to wander off on its own.
It is illegal to keep deer as pets in Massachusetts.
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Comments
Pet?
Fattening it up for dinner.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
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Shows my ignorance
I think of East Boston as densely developed. Where is there a location where you can put up your own chainlink fence to create a secret deer paddock? I'd love more details on this!
Once you get away from Maverick Square and Jeffries Point
And head up towards Winthrop, there are all those marshes and even backyards. Alas, police didn't say where the deer (if not the antelope) roamed.
Condor street for one, and
Condor street for one, and any place that borders the water. Why mess with deer anyway, dont people understand deer ticks?
The western side of Eastie is
The western side of Eastie is incredibly dense. But on the western side in Orient Heights along Saratoga St. leading to Winthrop there's a lot of houses and buildings that border the Belle Isle Marsh reserve
Way to go, idiot
Your "pet" will never be able to survive in the wild and will be dependent on humans for food for its entire life. You're an idiot and you should be slapped. You like wild animals? Great, take their picture. Otherwise leave 'em strictly alone.
I agree. I wonder why they
I agree. I wonder why they are not naming nor citing this person. Whomever did this should be named, shamed and fined.
It's abuse.
From the Globe and WBZs
From the Globe and WBZs online stories, it was on a fairly large property (for East Boston), with a fence that had a large hole in it, and a goat that lived on the property. The owner allegedly didn't know the deer was even there, and PD believe the deer stayed because the goat food was plentiful. So no citation, as the evidence suggests there was no wrongdoing, and therefore no reason to identify the less than observant property owner.
I feel better about it.
I feel better about it.
Thanks for the information.
To anyone who might
To anyone who might prematurely excoriate the owner of the property I would suggest that before doing so you educate yourselves about the subject in question. Whitetails are easily capable of jumping a fence the height of the one that the deer was supposedly being corralled in. Common sense would dictate it was not captive.
i agree
but also think we should kill as many of them as we can
Something I've observed
In forested areas to which the deer have returned there is much less underbrush and invasives because the deer keep it mowed down. Over the course of the last 5-10 years, during which deer in my area have gone from being a rare sight to sleeping in my back yard and hanging around the area, I have noticed a big improvement - the tangled over growth has pretty much vanished and native species and fungi and flowers have a better chance. I had never seen lady slippers until the last couple of years.
That also means less fire risk and the other sorts of troubles that stem from overgrowth of vegetation.
This may explain
This may explain the unexplained deer that was found wandering in an East Boston cemetery in 2013:
http://www.universalhub.com/2013/doe-deer-eastie-deer
Not a pet or livestock
I've updated the original post: The state now says the homeowner didn't even realize there was a deer in the backyard.
Back to deer island?
They going to take her to deer island ;)?
And, yes, it is very easy to not see these creatures. We have learned to look for them in the winter, as we had several sleeping in our back yard over several winters. Dawn comes, they arise and shake off the snow, and into the woods they go!
According to the Globe
they took the deer to "an undisclosed state forest."
hmm
a nice farm for her to live on with many animal friends no doubt