Pet Deer Fatally Shot
C.veto Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, July 18. Julie, Rissington’s tame deer, was fatally shot by a gang of hunters and left bleeding to death on the Rissington-Puketapu highway early yesterday.
She was found, still standing, a few hours later, leaning slighUy against a fence, her lower jaw broken and hanging by a few shreds of skin. She was shot shortly afterwards by a nearby farmer Mr C. A Wooster, whose children, together with many others, looked on the deer as their own pet “It was a filthy trick.” Mr Wooster said. “I found her just standing there, in great pain. I guess. She had a white collar on. “Normally she was locked away in the paddock of her owner, Mr John Davey, although she sometimes came across country to visit my children. This time she somehow got on the road. “A party of hunters pulled up, got out and shot her. I heard a car start up after the rifle shot. “Surely they could have put Julie out of her misery. “There’s no excuse for this, even if the hunters did’nt see the white collar.”
Residents say Julie was so tame she would take food from any donor’s hand.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 2
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