Thursday, July 24, 2008


Aack! Bambi gots six legs!

When I saw this, I thought it sounded oddly familiar--that's because a hunter bagged one with 7 legs in Wisconsin in 2006. I would have thought something like this would have little to no chance in the wild, but I think the Wisconsin deer was full grown.

Looks like something from Greek Mythology, don't it? Hexafaun?

Anyway. It had to get it's second tail removed and is recuperating at a Rome, Ga vet clinic. It will be moved to UGA's deer facility to live out its life.

This sort of thing would become part of the local folklore here. There'd be some story attached to it. Something. Let's make one up.

7 Comments:

  1. Peggy said...
    I can't wait to read what everyone comes up with. I am brain dead at the moment. (grandkids can do that to you don't ya know)
    Joan of Argghh! said...
    Dateline: Rome, GA-- Martha Berry's legacy lives on in the sad and fateful life of campus deer. Berry College's 33,000 acres, a favorite park-n-spark place in Rome Georgia, is host to a bizarre aberration of the local fauna, the result of experimental recreational drugs from the 70's.

    The famous dairy farm there was a hotbed of tranqs and speed, LSD, and anything else the kids could get their hands on. They never meant to get the sugar cubes mixed up with the sweet little squares they loved to leave out for the cattle and deer...
    Mike Golch said...
    Mother nature sometimes get it wrong. i hope that you are haveing agood day!
    Hugs and God's blessings.Mike G.said that.
    Margy Rydzynski said...
    Aaaaaaakkkk! What a dear! Uh, deer.
    Goat Yoda said...
    Good news- my blog just got added to the K'ville News Sentinel citizen blog roll.....kewl.
    Peggy said...
    Hope you are okay. Just dropping by to say Blinkin had twin bucklings. Very easy labor and kidding. Kids are doing great and Blinkin is a loving sweet mom. Of course I had to name them Winkin and Nod.
    Velociman said...
    UGA? It must be at the deer research facility at the Warnell School. That's like 18 miles away. I'm on the case!

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