[ButterflyYorkie]

I am also ok with hunting if the carcass is used to benefit people. When I was little I was so against hunting. Bambi did it to me. But my dad who had hunted everything from deer to elk, convinced me to go squirrel hunting with him once. I actually got through it ok other than having to be so quiet which is why he probably never took me again, lol.

I do have an AWESOME exerience with a baby deer. My daughter and I were outside about 4 yrs ago...here comes hubby with a baby deer, tiny little thing still kinda wobbly. It was very skinny...I believe it was malnourished. I've seen several baby deer in my time where I live and this one looked very skinny and weak in compairson. He found it near a ditch by itself. It was not hidden away like a doe will do with her baby. Well we ADOPTED this baby that we called Buttermilk. Now to feed it. I took a regular child's bottle and fed her goats milk every day on cue when it would come to our back door and "call" us! I began to cut up apples in little chunks and thats how we got it on solid food. This little deer stayed in our back yard, right behind some brush at the edge of our yard every day for an entire month and would let us sit with it, rub it, talk to it, feed it, and clean it! By about the end of the first week it was there, it was walking around with us. Following us as if we were it's mother. I do have pictures of us with Buttermilk, they are not digital but I can share those with you some time! Several of our friends would come out just to see what they called "amazing"!
Then one day, she was just gone. I can only hope she was ready to leave and be on her own, or her mother finally found her. We actually searched and called for this little deer the day we couldn't find her. We did get attached. Throughout the time we "had" her so to speak, we were told by people that it was perfectly legal for us to be doing what we were as long as we did not keep her in captivity which we didn't have to...she stayed right near us! I can honestly say I've never met such a needy and trusting little animal in my life than her! She was never afraid of us from the first minute she was here! I guess the hunting posts got me to thinking about her because I've often prayed she was not a target. It was one experience I will never forget!