[MD] dying deer

[Heather Perella]

     [Dan]
> Here a good percentage (well over half) of deer are
> infected with prion 
> disease (mad cow) and there's much debate on the
> safety of the meat. I 
> personally wouldn't take the chance. But then I eat
> very little meat anyway.

     I didn't know about the prion disease.  I know
quite a few hunters and this never popped up before. 
Interesting though, I wonder how far this disease has
spread and how new this disease is, and harmful to
humans.

     [SA previously]
> >I found a bullet hole in the skin.

> [Dan]
> Isn't hunting season over?
  
     Yeap.

     [Dan]
> Sounds like the work of a poacher? How terrible 
> to shoot an animal then let it run away without
> tracking and finishing it off.

     Upon further inquiry, when I went back to this
deer after somebody I knew showed up, I found other
bigger holes in the same area.  This deer may have
been shot, but eventually it was hit by a vehicle,
probably.  The deer was alive for some time apparently
while starving as well.  Very bony in the spine
region.  The one hole had puss, a big blood clot was
in another hole, and other blood clots were in the
snow apparently from the other holes that were open
wounds when I was checking it out.  The leg was not
moving, as the other three were.


     [SA previously]
> >It was a very calm experience being with this deer
as he died.

> [Dan]
> I somehow doubt it was for the deer. It probably
died cold and 
> frightened and alone.

    I'm sure the deer felt cold, noticed fear, and
alone, well, not sure about that.  The crows found out
what was going on early.  While I was sitting with the
deer a crow flew onto a tree close by speaking.  Other
crows flew in, and then a hawk flew by and the crows
did their all time favorite activity, seemingly, and
chased the hawk for a bit, then the crows came back. 
I was looking for a very real felt experience.  Calm
came to mind, but alert as well.  It was meditative. 
I mean this is it, life and death right here, right
now, very real, very deep, bone and marrow, with life
in the teeth of death with life fighting back.  I
thought about killing the deer, you know the whole put
it out of its' misery, but I didn't know how much the
deer processed what was going on.  For me to try to
kill him might have induced more shock, more fear as I
would try to cut his throat.  I didn't have anything
else that would have made the death quick.  This is
natural, the wind kept blowing in the dry oak leaves
hanging on the branches.  I could hear the crows and
other birds.  Quiet would hang in the air at times,
until the wind would blow again and the eye lashes on
the deer would blow in the wind, too.  Very touching
moment might be a better way to put it.
     When this buddy of mine from work showed up and
we found these other holes, well, that deterred any
cutting and eating of this deer.  So, we dragged it
into the woods away from the houses to avoid any
stink.  Tomorrow I'll go and see what happened
overnight.


night is cold, but not as cold, but still around 15
degrees F.
SA


 
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