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Couple faces jail for saving the life of an injured baby deer
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Date: January 30th, 2013
Category: Nutty News
CONNERSVILLE, Indiana – Jeff Counceller says a dying fawn he found on someone’s porch three years ago surely wouldn’t have lived had he and his wife not nursed it back to health on their eastern Indiana farm. The Connersville police officer insists they had no clue that they could be breaking the law.
The couple’s good deed put them at odds with the state Department of Natural Resources, and prosecutors earlier this month charged Jeff and Jennifer Counceller with illegal possession of a white-tailed deer, a misdemeanor that carries up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
Counceller told The Indianapolis Star that he found the deer in 2010 curled up on a front porch with maggot-infested puncture wounds, so he brought it back to his family’s 17-acre farm to try to save it. The couple named the fawn Dani and kept it in a fenced enclosure.
Jeff Counceller said he and his wife didn’t know it was illegal to keep the deer, and that returning it to the wild when they were told to do so “would have been a death sentence.” Full Article
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January 30th, 2013 at 8:47 AM
Sad. Very, very sad. Come on people.
January 31st, 2013 at 7:23 PM
Just like the woman who patched up the bird and got nailed with a big fine.
January 31st, 2013 at 7:25 PM
I hope they don’t come to my house. I have a bunch of spiders that moved into my cellar for the winter so they wouldn’t freeze to death over the winter.