Rhinelander? Awesome. It's a good thing they found it before the Hodag ate it.

Fantastic!!

Aw, Satan's pet dear. Anyone else getting Woodland Critter Christmas flashbacks?

Am I freak for thinking it would be cool to have a baby deer as a pet? Well, until it grows up then kill it for meat.

Looks tasty...mighty tasty.

The Vengence of the Albino Deer would make a great movie.

Good thing he picked it up. The mother probably abandoned the poor thing - albino animals tend to die pretty quickly in the wild.

Pet deer are probably more common than pet ducks.

Probably.

Two words-

Venison!

Well... One word then...

My father's hiking group passed around that photo, and another of the same animal, on their mailing list last year. Old news.

Oh, and the originating email that time said that a hiker found it in the woods, not running in front of a car, and made note of his own sneaker behind the fawn for size comparison.

Hmmm. I'm thinking photoshop. Those eyes look utterly unnatural, even for albino. The whole post reeks of BS.

devil deer! devil deer!

two related tales:
1. the least enjoyable of my grandmother's husbands was a john wayne look-alike, marine colonel. called me and asked me to come over one afternoon when i was around 15. turns out he just needed to show someone the pure, snow-white pheasant he had killed that day. true quote: "never saw one before, never knew they existed. aren't you glad i killed it so you could see it?"

2. 1st grade, whitewater rafting on the clackamas river in OR. baby deer, almost drowned, middle of river on rocks. saved. became pet. brought to school, played with dogs, came in house. neighbor fed it ferns over the fence. oops, poisonous! deer died. first time i saw my mother cry.

sincerely,
diggum

ps. gramma dumped idiot 'grampa' who died shortly after, but no one in the family told me for almost 3 years!

#1 is my hero for knowing the Hodag! Go northwoods!

Albino or white deer and other animals are sacred for their rarity to most of our Native American tribespeople, but they also have a legend that says that too many albino animals appearing is a portent that something is out of alignment in the ecosystem...

I think that's a chihuahua, not a deer.

I'm from Wisconsin, and when I was in high school several years ago an albino deer was donated to our school. It was hit by a truck, but they fixed it up so it looked fine. It's on display near the office. Ah, rural towns.