Deer on Your Doorstep

[Rebel Darling]

Perhaps I'm tired so a tad touchy...but a couple of comments ,let's say bugged me . SO... in jest  or not, I'll say ...Just use your freaking brains . Honestly it gets to be a bit much. I Know . I mention years ago of  one goat...foaming at the mouth disoriented...foaming wasn't lungs thank you very much..it was guts had ingested a poisonous plant ....I have also mention a local that lost a couple of horses...same thing ,but theirs was due to a disease picked up from deer feces in the pasture.Both these vet confirmed. .Now this is going to sound nasty ,so be it, but if some are out there not able to use a little common sense when dealing with wild game meat as food.You shouldn't be eating it.
 

Hi, Grow...

I initially posted as a light-hearted story, and hadn't considered the serious consequences you raised. Since I didn't find the deer myself, I didn't think about the deer beyond the surface story. I was looking to have a laugh.

I don't have the experience you do, Grow, and will never catch up. But I always appreciate your input because of your wealth of experience, and enjoy learning from it - sincerely... I hope to have something valuable to contribute.

No one can say for sure what happened to the deer (without further examination) because no one saw it before it lay dead. The fella that found the deer called DEC, with the hope of the deer being donated to a food pantry. That's where the story I was told ended. He figured that the deer was hit by a car, because he didn't see any external wounds. It's a reasonable conclusion for an urban mindset living in the suburbs, as he does. He doesn't have that kind of rural expertise, nor experience. I imagine that's why he called the DEC and let them handle it.

Perhaps he was wrong, and the deer was poisoned, or rabid, as you mentioned. It's certainly possible, and I hadn't thought of that when I was told the story, as I mentioned above. I just relayed the story I was told. But I'm now reaching out to my co-worker to get word to the fella that found the deer. I won't be able to sleep, if I don't try...

My hope, at this point, is that the responding ECOs are trained and experienced enough to determine if they needed to think along the same lines you did, and would consider testing the meat before processing if something looked off or suspicious (like a deer dying at your doorstep). I don't know what their response was, because I wasn't there, but I will share, if I learn more.

I don't know what my response would have been if the deer had arrived at my doorstep. I'm of the thought that I would have called DEC, and not tagged it myself, because "something is off here." I can say, for sure, that if it happens to me tomorrow, I'll definitely have the idea of poisoning and rabies embedded in the back of my mind...


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[phade]

Occam's razor.

Some people just like to be devil's advocate or open a can of worms on what clearly was a light-hearted post.

Could it be poisoned? Sure. Could it be mad cow disease? Sure. Could it have just ate a cherry flavored Alka-Seltzer? Sure.

[growalot]

Rebel Darling....Thanks for seeing my comments for what they were,things to consider...my first response would have been said and done ,had I not seen the reactions to it...For it was meant as food for thought. This being especially for those that have little experience with animals in general.

I hope you can see from a few posts for the reason my previous post took the tone that it did. I could have put up a laundry list of links to causes of animals having foam and or bloody foaming mouths without any outward signs of harm, but honestly it gets tiresome. If trying to keep people informed  is opening cans of worms,well to bad to those thinking that.

[fasteddie]

Several years ago a dead deer was left in my daughter's driveway . My Son in Law was just about ready to leave for work and had to take care of the deer . The Iriondequoit Police left it there and it was roadkill . My son in law's mother had put him on a list in case a deer was killed by a vehicle . No call . No notification . They just dropped it off .

[The_Real_TCIII]

Growalot I hope you didn't take offense to my poison comment, it was a little Game of Thrones quote just to subscribe to the thread. I'm fairly certain you didn't poison that buck


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[growalot]

LOL No offense taken to that...you know me  no poisoner just a can of worms opener.... Who believes:

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skeptics and scientists alike -- who wield the razor like a broadsword. To these people it proves one theory and disproves another. There are two problems with using Occam's razor as a tool to prove or disprove an explanation. One, determining whether or not something is simple (say, empirical evidence) is subjective -- meaning it's up to the individual to interpret its simplicity. Two, there's no evidence that supports the notion that simplicity equals truth.

It's important to remember that the idea attributed to Aristotle says that perfection is found in simplicity is a man-made idea. It's not supported by math or physics or chemistry. And yet, it's taken by some as factual.

See when it comes to safety...well simplistic paths could lead to complicated endings.