Update: compromise on captive deer breaks down

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 [...]

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State officials compromise with family in case of captive deer

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
It started one morning almost six years ago, when Jim Filipetti was driving his kids to the school bus stop and something in the bushes caught his eye.
“He called and said, ‘Honey, I saw a little white deer,’” said Filipetti’s longtime girlfriend, Francesca Mantei. “I said, ‘Honey, you’re a South Florida city [...]

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