A total outrage

Just now I was going through the news websites that I follow. One, www.10nbc.com, a local news station, had an article on a Buddhist Temple here that for the last two years has kept a deer as a pet. It was dropped on their doorstep as a fawn. They nurtured it, cared for it, and everything was fine. . . until a neighbor turned them in to the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation).

The DEC, in their grand wisdom, determined that the deer must be killed. That, according to them, is the law. After a public outrage over that stupid decision, they agreed to take the deer to a "licensed rehabilitation expert", whatever THAT means. It seems it is even against the law to feed deer.

No wonder our country is in such sad shape with idiots like this running it.

Now, if the temple was harboring a bear, or a tiger, or other animal that could be dangerous, I could understand. But please explain to me what harm can come from a deer???