NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved through Outdoor News Daily's website.
FRANKTOWN, Colo. – Outdoor News Daily reports on a suspected domesticated deer attacking a man after he stepped in to prevent the buck from attacking his wife near their Colorado home. Wildlife officers suspect the aggressive deer was hand-raised by people then released into the wild. According to the report, "The man and his wife told Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers they saw what was a “friendly deer” fitted with a fluorescent orange dog collar on the other side of their fence around 4:50 p.m. The wife reached over the fence and the deer approached touching her finger with its nose, then the buck came through a break in the fence line. It approached the woman and knocked her back, pinning her into the barb-wire fence." Wildlife Officer Casey Westbrook warns that some dangers come when you try to domesticate, or even just feed wildlife, and that it is a major issue the department starts to see this time of year. "These animals learn to expect something from humans and when they don’t get it, they become dangerous and encounters like what we saw here can happen."
If you know of people raising or attempting to domesticate wildlife, you can report to Colorado Parks and Wildlife at 303-291-7227.