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Summary

A mule deer in McBride, British Columbia, was spotted wearing a zipped high-visibility jacket, baffling residents and conservationists.

Locals are unsure how or why the deer was dressed, with some speculating safety motives while others worry about potential harm.

Conservation officers are trying to locate the deer but caution that sedating it poses risks, including fatal stress.

They hope the jacket falls off naturally and warn against dressing wildlife, which is illegal under provincial law.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sgt Eamon McArthur of the BC conservation officer service told CTV News he did not want to speculate on how the jacket ended up on the cervid, although he noted: “Deer are not predisposed to wearing clothes.”

This quote is amazing. I laughed so hard. The real captain obvious for sure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Dang it. You're right.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hunters have been taking deer skins and wearing them since time immemorial. Why's it so weird for one of us to flip the script for a change?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"us"

sees username

Carry on...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's them...

It's "Deer Sir/Madam" :O

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As old time bull fighters used to say: some days the bull fighter wins, some days the bull wins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did they? I thought they were pretty particular about the bull dying as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, they did. Those times were just slightly less made known to broader audiences. But bulls win and usually with terminal results for the bull fighter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, it’s rare so weird works?

[–] Viking_Hippie 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make up your minds! Is it elusive or is it wearing high vis?

[–] ziggurat 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is both, until you observe it, only then does the wave function collapse

[–] Viking_Hippie 14 points 3 days ago

Schrödinger's Bambi

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They hope the jacket falls off naturally and warn against dressing wildlife, which is illegal under provincial law.

I want to know the story behind this law.

[–] lando55 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling

[–] MycelialMass 18 points 2 days ago

Shut it down boys

[–] BleatingZombie 12 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, I'm willing to bet that it's not "you can't put a jacket on wildlife" as much as it is something generic like "you can't handle or touch non-domestic animals"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

It's about harassing or disturbing wildlife.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

that really is one of those ones that made you think "who made some poor law writer to come up with this??"

[–] tomjuggler 6 points 2 days ago

Clearly evolution in action

[–] ikidd 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We had a neighbor that had a pet moose names Baby. They spray painted her sides with big fluorescent X's to let hunters know to not shoot her. That lasted 2 seasons until she disappeared. In hindsight, maybe big X's weren't the best idea.

Which is probably for the best, because if she thought you had marshmallows, she was getting big enough to stomp you to death for them. She frickin' loved marshmallows and was becoming a hazard during campfire nights.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Feeding wildlife, even one treated as a "pet", is a death sentence for them just as surely as if you had fired the gun yourself. Your neighbor killed that moose.

Other prime examples include: feeding alligators (now you've created a danger to others as well, so you've not just killed the animal, which will need to be destroyed by officials, you've potentially maimed or killed a person); feeding ducks and geese (I once has a neighbor that would feed ducks in the parking island adjacent to the main entry to our apartment complex, no surprise to me that we saw many near misses and a few dead ducks in our driveway); bears (this one should be obvious, same scenario as the gators except bears are faster, climb trees, and are probably smarter than the average person they are going to encounter when they leave the woods looking for human food).

Undomesticated animals (wildlife/wild animals) are not pets. They're never going to be pets. They've just learned to manipulate some humans for food or shelter. Maybe you'll get along for a little while with them, but that relationship has poisoned the fear keeping them safe for and from other humans.

[–] ikidd 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mom had abandoned it in a field and neighbor had ran a coyote pack off a few times that were going after it and had torn it up a bit. He finally took it home and patched it up. It would hang around the yard but he never really fed it or encouraged it to stay. But it loved people and stayed near.

I know people like to get on their high horse about this, but moose, like reindeer, have been domesticated in the past. And he wasn't even trying to do that, he just saved an animal and it hung around. So, yes, I agree that they don't make great pets, but this moose was going to die that night, and it lived a couple years longer for his efforts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This whole idea that they "saved" it is philosophically flawed and deeply problematic from a moral and ecological perspective. Claiming that the mother "abandoned" it demonstrates ignorance of the way these animals live and care for their young.

Regardless, a proper wildlife rehabilitation program by a zoologist would have actually kept the moose alive and been in a position to judge if the moose was safe to be re-released. Your moose story could have easily ended in the death of people in addition to the moose. This isn't some kind of vain high horse I'm on. It's just simple facts learned through decades of direct experience with wild animals in the wild, in rehabilitation, and in zoos. I stand by my earlier statements. I'm sorry this bitter pill is hard for you to swallow I guess. So it goes.

[–] FlyingSquid 50 points 3 days ago

I'm responsible. And I'll do it again if that deer takes it off. I'm tired of it smoking on the side of the road at night and having to swerve to avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

everyone freaks out when you don't wear the PPE, and then they freak out when you do wear the PPE smh

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The deer isn't stupid, it knows it's hunting season. Orange would have been better, but if you find yellow laying on the ground, you just go with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Hunters are gonna be looking for brown deer!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Simple explanation:

Alcohol

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So the deer blacked out at the party and woke up with a high-vis vest on with no idea why?

[–] tpihkal 13 points 3 days ago

Every damned time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It was either shaving or the vest.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Simple explanation is that it's someone's semi-pet they didn't want to get shot during the hunting season..

[–] dogslayeggs 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the high viz jacket make it easier for hunters to find and shoot?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Who would shoot the deer wearing a high-viz jacket?

It's not that uncommon, depending on how actively the state DNR hunts down pet deer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

More likely to prevent her from being hit by a car

[–] Rato 20 points 3 days ago

'...he noted: “Deer are not predisposed to wearing clothes.”

[–] LesserAbe 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dressing wildlife is illegal? The nanny state at work again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

God forbid a guy finds a new hobby

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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