Posted in Snowball the deer on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Eve L. Miller ruled that Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei can go ahead with a $60,000 lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for defamation of character, in a case that began when the ODFW confiscated a deformed piebald doe named Snowball from Filipetti’s Molalla home on Sept. [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on November 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
The family of Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei is now suing the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for $125,000 or more, for taking away a pair of deer that they raised on their property.
Snowball, a small, piebald-colored and deformed black tail deer and her healthy yearling son, Bucky, were both removed from [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
While a judge’s ruling today means that Snowball, the doe formerly kept by a Molalla family, will remain in the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s custody for at least several more months; Jim Filipetti and his family are not giving up yet.
Posted in Snowball the deer on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
At a meeting of the Oregon House of Representatives Interim Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources today, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife presented its spending to date on the case of Snowball, the blacktail deer whose confiscation from a Molalla family has led to a lawsuit and an appeal that could [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
State attorneys representing the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife filed an appeal yesterday protesting Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Eve L. Miller’s order to return the deer confiscated from Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei on Sept. 12.
Posted in Snowball the deer on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Eve L. Miller released a decision this morning granting the petition filed by the family Jim Filipetti to have the doe named Snowball, currently in the custody of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, returned to Filipetti.
According to a statement released by the office of Filipetti’s attorney Geordie Duckler, [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Can a deer fall in the same category as a sawed-off shotgun, an unlicensed pack of cigarettes or a bottle of moonshine?
That was the question of the day in the Clackamas County courthouse, where attorneys for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the family of Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei, the former custodians of a congenitally deformed blacktail deer named Snowball, filed a claim in the Clackamas County Circuit Court on Monday, asking the court to order the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to return the doe to them.
Posted in Snowball the deer on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today that Snowball, the doe confiscated from a Molalla family on Sept. 12, will be placed at Rosse Posse Acres, a commercial elk farm in Molalla.
Rosse Posse, a 52-acre farm with 80 head of elk, is one of the 24 facilities in the state [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on October 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After being given a vasectomy to ensure that his mother’s genetic deformities are not passed on, Bucky the young black-tailed buck raised by a Molalla family was released into the wild today.
Bucky and his mother Snowball, a 6-year-old doe with white coloring and a genetic deformity affecting her hind legs, were confiscated by the Oregon [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Test results have come back showing that the two deer confiscated from a Molalla home on Sept. 12, are both disease-free and in good physical condition, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported on Wednesday.
Snowball, a six-year-old doe and her yearling son Bucky are currently living at an licensed wildlife [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on September 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
State police and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials took two deer that had been kept as pets from the home of Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei at about 7 p.m. this evening.Keeping wildlife in captivity without a permit is illegal. But Mantei said the couple rescued Snowball, a crippled albino doe, when she [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Snowball the deer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
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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