Ugh, this is disturbing

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

This Deer is getting emailed around the net, kindof disturbing! Have you ever seen anything like this on a deer before? I read someone thinking they might be warts but I dunno... cancer maybe? Bot flys?

I dont think I want to hunt whitetails anymore Shocked

-DallanC

roklok · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

I dont believe I would even touch that animal! Do you know where it came from?

LittleMagnum · Member Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 105 Location: Vermont

Deer warts....nasty hugh !

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Humm

That looks infected or something Shocked

I dont know about any of you but I'd have took some pictures where it dropped, put my tag on it, and put the contents of a gas tank on it and lit it. Shocked

Maybe at most I'd have called the Ministry of Natural Resources to see whats up. They would shave surly Poke

the deer.

Dimitri

1895ss · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

I think someone did the poor thing a favor. I've never seen or heard of such a thing.

shrpshtrjoe · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

Never seen anything like it Shocked

It had to have bothered him i agree 1895ss someone did him a favor thats a shame!!
Joe

Irskii · Member Joined: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 54

If anybody does hear as to what this is, Please post it. It may sound sick but I would like to know. I hope the animal did not have to live like that for long.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

Intersting reading for it. Seems it is a virus deer can contract.

www.stargazettenews.co.../511060357

-DallanC

515034s10ring · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

Could that be an extreme case of Bovine TB?

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

Another article:

www.mdwfp.com/wildlife...rticle=115

Says its fairly painless and not a health hazard, just cosmetic.

1895ss · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

DallanC wrote:

Another article:

www.mdwfp.com/wildlife...rticle=115

Says its fairly painless and not a health hazard, just cosmetic.

Thanks DallanC, but it sure looks gross doesn't it. I certainly would not butcher it. Shocked

POP!! · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

Cosmetic or not...no way in hell. Disgusting

Shomebigbores · Member Joined: Dec 14, 2005 Posts: 77 Location: Arizona

I think we need to see what "Urban Legends" has to say about it. PETA probably created the pic to keeps kids from wanting to hunt.

Just my humble opine.

Walt

longwalker · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:40 am Post subject: Re: Ugh, this is disturbing

My dad shot a buck White Tail in Pennsylvania must be twenty years ago. Upon skin removal we discovered the neck most of the body covered with tumors. The deer outwardly looked ok. A friend who was a meat cutter, by trade, told us he wouldn't feed it to his dogs. We kind of felt the same way.

I don't think about animals getting dease like cancer and the such. I suppose we are so inclined to think we are the only ones that get sick and die.

longwalker

bubble-out-of-plumb · Rookie Member Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 9

I killed a 6 pointer this year and one side of his body inside of his skin was all bloody and had a open hole to his guts, the other side was perfect with a layer of fat. He was walking with no limp and he was very alert when I shot him, neck at 85, 7mm WSM. We don't allow dog hunting on our farms and the bucks only run after does not from dogs.

Needless to say I didn't eat the deer and I alway use rubber gloves and look somewhat like a proctologist (I must because my wife won't turn her back to me) when I clean a deer.