Today i found out that a seven year old deer that i knew very well had been shot, for no reason. Well seven years ago when i was still in school and living at my parents house my dad and I started to see a doe in the back yard every night. We named her our pet because of the way she would come and layout in the yard like our old lab. My parents back yard meets up to their timber. Well one day we saw the doe but it seemed to be walking with alot of trouble. After getting the spoting scope out we saw that she had lost half of her back left leg. We debaited weather to put her down and decided to let nature play its role. Day after day we saw her only to be getting stronger and by spring she was even walking on it, she even had a single yearling that year. She had a little trouble keeping up but she could still keep a good run. The year after and every year following shes had twins even this past spring. Well I got a call today from my Dad saying that one of the local police officers had seen her in a horse pasture next to my Dads place and said it was suffering do to the way it walked and shot it..... He did it last night at 11:00 or so and he even said "yea my wife even said to shoot it" which she isn't to be riding along as it is. Im very upset by this and not sure what to do. I talked to the chief and he said "man those night guys... what are they thinking" and thats it. Oh and by the way a local store got broken into last night maybe he should have been patroling instead of shooting deer in a horse pasture. Im very upset and not sure how far I should go with this just asking what the rest of you guys would do in my place. Thank You Cody B.
