Six-Legged Deer Recuperating After Dog Attack

[Hum]

ROME, GA ? Veterinarians at a north Georgia college have been treating an odd-looking deer after it was attacked by a dog.

The deer, according to vets at Berry College, has six legs and was found over the weekend near Rome. The animal is recovering from wounds it suffered in the attack.

Vets believe the deer should be kept in captivity.

Due to the injuries, one of its two tails had to be amputated. The fawn has two distinct pelvises and uses one leg from each pelvis to walk.

Atlanta television WSB said the six-legged creature could be sent to the University of Georgia to be studied.

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[Starbuck84]

:o That's an odd looking fella :)

[Hum]

2 of the legs seem useless -- it's a wonder they don't remove them. :huh:

[WastedJoker]

How did the dog catch it? The deer should've legged it!

[Xeta]

Weird. I saw a stuffed cow with 6 legs at one of those Ripley's Believe it or Not places. But I figured it was just doctored up like most of the stuff there.

[C++]

It's a shame that the dog didn't kill it... I mean, let's be serious here for a second and cut all the Bambi and PETA bullsh*t. Should a creature so genetically corrupt really stay alive and pass on it's illness to offspring? No, it should not.

[Mrs_Angel_D]

Well if they are going to keep it for study, I'm sure they probably won't let it reproduce.

[Kerm]

2 of the legs seem useless -- it's a wonder they don't remove them. :huh:

They probably can't as it uses one leg from each of it's two pelvises.

[ozgeek]

It's a shame that the dog didn't kill it... I mean, let's be serious here for a second and cut all the Bambi and PETA bullsh*t. Should a creature so genetically corrupt really stay alive and pass on it's illness to offspring? No, it should not.

This is the sane as saying any human born with extra or no arms should be killed just because they were born like it.

[Boktai1000]

I think they should let it live in the wild

[Hum]

Update:

6-legged deer gets new home after dog attack

ARMUCHEE, GA (AP) -- A six-legged deer found in north Georgia after being attacked by a dog has a new home. An Athens woman with a permit to keep unique animals in captivity has agreed to take the unusual deer. The animal was found July 18 near Armuchee and underwent surgery to repair its minor injuries.

Berry College animal science professor George Gallagher took the deer after its surgery.

He said he is hoping to avoid making the deer a ''circus sideshow.'' He said the animal's condition prevents it from surviving in the wild.

The fawn has two complete pelvises and two tails. One of the tails had to be amputated.

Gallagher said the fawn has a condition that is similar to Siamese twins in humans.

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[shihchiun]

It's a shame that the dog didn't kill it... I mean, let's be serious here for a second and cut all the Bambi and PETA bullsh*t. Should a creature so genetically corrupt really stay alive and pass on it's illness to offspring? No, it should not.

That would make sense (in a heartless sort of way), but it's not a genetic thing.

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[Gotenks98]

This is the sane as saying any human born with extra or no arms should be killed just because they were born like it.

Not killed but just shouldnt be allowed to breed and pass on those defective genes. If I was ever diagnosed with some genetic disease that could be passed down to my kids there is no way I could live with myself for doing that, condeming a child to be a freak of nature. I would get a Vasectomy to ensure I never had kids.

[Budious]

Berry College animal science professor George Gallagher took the deer after its surgery.

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Ah crap, that's in my town... I go mountain biking there a lot since they have good trails. I would have liked to stop and seen the circus freak if I had read about the story earlier.

[Huleboeren]

This is why nuclear plants are wrong :p

either that or that deer was just giving birth, hence the legs sticking out of the rear :p

[Matrix XII]

That looks terrible :(

[Dev Null Zen]

It's a shame that the dog didn't kill it... I mean, let's be serious here for a second and cut all the Bambi and PETA bullsh*t. Should a creature so genetically corrupt really stay alive and pass on it's illness to offspring? No, it should not.

So lets just go kill this girl too right?

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/11/07/i...rgery-girl.html

[Shadow Dragon]

Not killed but just shouldn't be allowed to breed and pass on those defective genes. If I was ever diagnosed with some genetic disease that could be passed down to my kids there is no way I could live with myself for doing that, condemning a child to be a freak of nature. I would get a Vasectomy to ensure I never had kids.

Heh, if everyone thought like that then G. W. Bush probably wouldn't be here today :D .

Seriosly though, we should not regulate nature like that, evolution is the best decider (yeah, that was intended :p). On the subject of humans though, I would probably agree, for example if I had aids and somehow I knew that I would pass it on to my kids, I wouldn't get kids simply because they would live a very difficult life for no good reason. But, this also leads to the controversial subject of euthanasia because should you "kill" people with such severe handicaps that they have no possibility of enjoying life at all? I would probably say yes, but I know a lot of people who wouldn't agree.

Just today I was listening to a radio show about Vietnamese "agent orange" victims who were still so poisoned that even their grandchildren were born with horrible defects, some so messed up that all they would do all day was to shake violently and scream, just scream.