Update: compromise on captive deer breaks down
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A proposed compromise between the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the keepers of Snowball, a captive albino blacktail deer, broke down when property owner Jim Filipetti refused to consent to the arrangement.
The ODFW wanted to take Snowball's son, a healthy yearling buck, to be evaluated by a wildlife specialists and potentially released in the wild. They would have allowed Filipetti to release Snowball, who is crippled in her back legs, on his own property, as long as she was not fenced in.
Filipetti is in Central Oregon on a painting job, while his partner Francesca Mantei holds down the fort.
"Half of me was just ecstatic because they were going to let me keep Snowball, and the other half of me says, how am I going to protect this deer?" Mantei said. "She can't run, she can't jump. ... We let her go and we sign her death warrant."
With Filipetti, via phone, adamantly refusing to agree to the proposed compromise, the ODFW and the Oregon State Police may have to return to Plan A, getting a warrant to enter the property and seize the two deer.
"We didn't finish pursuing the warrant because we thought we could come to a civil agreement," ODFW public information officer Christie Scott said. "Right now we're at a standstill until either an agreement can be made or the warrant comes through."
The ODFW wanted to take Snowball's son, a healthy yearling buck, to be evaluated by a wildlife specialists and potentially released in the wild. They would have allowed Filipetti to release Snowball, who is crippled in her back legs, on his own property, as long as she was not fenced in.
Filipetti is in Central Oregon on a painting job, while his partner Francesca Mantei holds down the fort.
"Half of me was just ecstatic because they were going to let me keep Snowball, and the other half of me says, how am I going to protect this deer?" Mantei said. "She can't run, she can't jump. ... We let her go and we sign her death warrant."
With Filipetti, via phone, adamantly refusing to agree to the proposed compromise, the ODFW and the Oregon State Police may have to return to Plan A, getting a warrant to enter the property and seize the two deer.
"We didn't finish pursuing the warrant because we thought we could come to a civil agreement," ODFW public information officer Christie Scott said. "Right now we're at a standstill until either an agreement can be made or the warrant comes through."
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