Interesting News Story

mom2my2cuties wrote: 7 Legged Deer

Just saw this on MSN and thought it was a bit

TheOaf66 replied: ahh yes in my home state none the less, we know how to grow em up here

sparkys2boys replied: ewww... glad that he has it and not me..lol!! Would be very freaky to see..

jcc64 replied: I want pictures.
Reminds me of a report my ds did a few years back about frogs in a particular area with all sorts of random deformities- too many legs, two heads, etc. The pictures were truly disturbing. Apparently, the water in which they swam had been contaminated by a nearby chemical company. Definitely makes you stop and think about what we're doing to our environment.

mom2my2cuties replied: I was hoping for pictures too - but it says the guy has already been eating the meat...so I doubt they took pictures. You would have thought the wildlife perserve would have taken some because it was so unusual for a deer to grown the extra legs, and even more rare for the hemorphadic effect.

ETA - Yu are exactly right on about what we are doing to cause this.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'm the google Queen... Ohh YEAH!

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Here's the link

http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/g...Params=Itemnr=3

mom2my2cuties replied: Ok that isn't as "odd" as they made it sound... The way it sounded on both the news and online to me is that the animal had acutal extra useable legs.

Calimama replied: Weird.

grapfruit replied: Yeah, I was imagining a deer with 7 regular sized legs, or at least 3 actual "extra" legs. Not little nubs. And didn't they say it had both sex organs. Strange....

And I can't believe he would eat something that was obviously deformed. Wouldn't you want to know WHY it was deformed. Like what CHEMICAL made it deformed? I would have at least had it tested first...

coasterqueen replied:
Yep, you see that a lot where there are high levels of pcb's in the waters.

mom2my2cuties replied: A large amount of inbreeding can actually do this to deer. I didn't realize that until Andrew was showing me last night. In areas where there isn't a large population, come mating season, wel you guys get the picture.