Britians only White Stag, Killed...

[rAVES]

A white stag, thought to be the only one in Britain, has been shot and beheaded by poachers.

The decapitated 300lb carcass of the animal was found strung up from a tree.

It is thought that its head and antlers will be mounted and sold for thousands of pounds.

The existence of the white stag, actually a variant of the male red deer, which lived on the Devon and Cornwall border had been kept secret for years.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490058&in_page_id=1770


Very sad indeed..

[opihimoimoi]

1. Early stages of the coming Famines...the zoo s will be first on the Barbie

[dysfunctional press]

13. 20 years ago, some illegal immigrants went bow-hunting one night in our towns small zoo.

they bagged themselves an elk.
unfortunately for them, they didn't finish cleaning it before the staff showed up in the morning.

[opihimoimoi]

19. It gonna be a FREE FOR ALL...even the waspies will be in on it...

[Anwen]

2. Disgusting...

and very, very sad. :-(

[fishwax]

3. that does suck

:(

[Mrs. Overall]

4. Very tragic. The White Stag has importance in mythology:

The white stag is a familiar creature of myth and legend. Its origins are likely in the totemic period of early Indo-European society, particularly the northern societies of the Celts and pre-Indo-European cultures, whose subsistence was gained not only through agriculture, but through hunting.1 This dependence on deer may be seen in the zoomorphic Celtic god Cernunnos, depicted as being a man with the antlers of a deer.

The white stag in Celtic myth is an indicator that the Otherworld is near. It appears when one is transgressing a taboo--such as when Pwyll tresspassed into Arawn's hunting grounds, or when Peredur entered the Castle of Wonders in his second adventure at the house of the Lame King. It also appears as an impetus to quest--the white stag or hart often appears in the forests around King Arthur's court, sending the knights off on to adventure against gods and fairies. (C. S. Lewis uses this device at both the beginning and end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.2)

It also appears in French romance and lais as a similar indicator, such as in the lais of Marie de France, when Guigemar happens upon the strange sight of a white doe with antlers. He wounds the strange, hermaphroditic--note that word--animal, which curses him to grow up and fall in love.

more-- http://www.geocities.com/branwaedd/whitestag.html

[supernova]

5. Contemporary image

Here's a recent one:

[Sukie1941]

6. I would expect this out here in Oregon

but I thought the Brits were a bit more refined......

[rAVES]

7. Pouchers are pouchers no matter the continent :(

The more I think about this the more angry I get.. may they choke on their blood money.

[Retired AF Dem]

9. What do pouchers hunt?

Kangaroos for their pouches?

poacher

[Retired AF Dem]

8. I take it you have never been to Britain?

[Matariki]

14. We're talking the country where a man pissed on a dying woman.

No offense to the British in general, but brutish behavior is sadly universal.

It's what I call NOT HAVING ANY CLIT - i.e. a lack of sensitivity. (Sort of the flip side of not having any balls)

[hedgehog]

10. WHite deer are really startling. There is a herd down at the old Seneca

Falls Army base. The base was fenced off and the commanders forbade any shooting of the white deer, so eventually all the other deer were hunted out and the white deer thrived. I was lucky enough to see a white deer near here about a year ago. I don't know if it was a fluke or had wandered off from the Seneca Falls herd. It was like something out of a fairy tale.

[zalinda]

11. Here you go............white deer

Amazing, now this is white!

More info here:
http://www.senecawhitedeer.org/

zalinda

[renie408]

12. We saw these when we were in California!

I thought I was seeing things. We were driving near the Montgomery Woods State Park, where the redwoods are, and came out into a pastoral area high in the mountains. Three or four of these white deer trotted across the road, hopped a fence and toodled off into a field. When I got home I googled them and found out that they have small herds of white deer in northern California. It is a genetic mutation which will get them kicked out of the regular deer herd. Sometimes the white ones find each other and form herds of their own, passing on their white genes. Cool, huh?

[soothsayer]

16. racist kkk deer!

[hedgehog]

21. The video at the link is enchanting. They really do look look something

out of a story book!

[Annces]

15. I hope they find the people who did this

Should be relatively easy.

[aikoaiko]

17. Was it or was it not an illegal kill?

On one hand, they refer to the shooter as a poacher, but at the end of the article they say it was legal if in season.

:shrug:

[Toasterlad]

18. I Thought It Had to Grant You Three Wishes? Seems Supurfluous to Kill It.

[bigwillq]

20. Just awful.

:mad: :cry:

[tabasco]

22. A curse shall descend upon the land

until the birth of another white stag.