Two things you don't hear about very often... People keeping deer as pets, and deer attacking humans. Both happened in this one Colorado story.
A 73-year-old woman has been cited in a vicious wildlife attack after she admitted to raising the animal since babyhood.
That animal, now an adult buck, gored a woman late last week while she was walking her dog in Black Forest.
Wildlife officers said that prior to the attack, they had been tipped off that a neighbor had been feeding and raising an orphaned deer for the last year and a half. After the attack, the neighbor admitted to taking in the buck back when he was a days-old fawn and raising him in her home. She has been cited with illegal possession of wildlife and illegally feeding wildlife, both misdemeanors, and was issued a warning for possessing live wildlife without a license.
The victim survived the attack, but suffered serious lacerations to the top of her head, her left cheek and her legs.