Alabama Man Facing Charges After Being Attacked By Pet Deer



The good intentions of an Alabama man have led to injury and charges filed against him for illegally keeping seven deer as pets, according to ABC News.

On October 30th Julius Dunsmore entered the small fenced pen on his Marshall County property where the deer were kept and was attacked by a nine point buck that was among the deer he had rescued from the wild. Mr. Dunsmore sustained injuries to his ribcage, hips, legs and face where one of the deer’s antlers punctured his face and severed an optic nerve to one eye leaving him partially blinded. His injuries will require several surgeries.

According to Dunsmore, the buck lifted him up on its antlers and carried him thirty feet. He stated that he will never again keep deer as pets. “People need to know how dangerous these things are,” he said. “You never know when they are going to turn.”

Kevin Dodd, the enforcement chief for Alabama’s Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division agrees that keeping deer as pets is a bad idea. Bucks can become combative during the breeding season and will normally attack other bucks or people when kept in captivity. Does, or female deer can inflict serious injury by kicking.

The deer on Dunsmore’s property were destroyed by state wildlife officials who are now waiting test results to determine if the deer were infected with any disease.

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