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09-09-2008, 11:30 AM
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Lifelong NJ, Winter in SC...Hometown NEPA
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Did you ever see an albino deer?
When we lived in Penn Estates we had an albino fawn. Such a cute little guy he was.
We'd stop the car always to gaze at him. It was made known he was off limits to hunters. I don't know what became of him........if he lived to a ripe old age, or not. ( just a few brownish spots on the white)
I noticed in the New Jersey threads that they have a white fawn also.
Seems they are not letting anyone come to harm him, just as we protected ours.
That color is not good for their safety in the least.
Just wondering if anyone else has had the pleasure of coming across one of these awesome creatures.
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09-09-2008, 11:43 AM
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The Pocono's; Peaceful & Pretty
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I knew a guy when I was a teenager who found one, and tried to make it a pet. It was the same, a few brown spots.. but one day it just disappeared from their fenced in yard...but the fence was only about 3 foot high... and I guess he didn't realize that deer can leap quite high..even a fawn 
I had a deer leap clean over my hood once...but then I've smacked one dead to rights...why didn't he leap??? |
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09-09-2008, 11:48 AM
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Lifelong NJ, Winter in SC...Hometown NEPA
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Yes, those deer can leap.........over sky, high, fences.......
One in NJ recently got totally injured, trying to leap over one of those black fences with the points........Not good, really.......not good at all. Poor guy......
One jumped from a high area right onto a friends truck.........bad news for both!
I've only seen one albino, and that was the one in Penn Estates.......it was free, but it didn't run......we got to admire it a bunch.
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09-09-2008, 01:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Summering
When we lived in Penn Estates we had an albino fawn. Such a cute little guy he was.
We'd stop the car always to gaze at him. It was made known he was off limits to hunters. I don't know what became of him........if he lived to a ripe old age, or not. ( just a few brownish spots on the white)
I noticed in the New Jersey threads that they have a white fawn also.
Seems they are not letting anyone come to harm him, just as we protected ours.
That color is not good for their safety in the least.
Just wondering if anyone else has had the pleasure of coming across one of these awesome creatures.
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When I lived upstate N.Y. we had 14 acres & 9 of that was wooded. We actually had an albino buck!! He was beautiful & in the winter when there was no snow & the moon was full, you could see him in the woods "glowing" in the moonlight & the 1st time I saw him he scared the &*$# outta me!!
Talk about thinkin' ya saw a ghost!! 
He disappeared after 2 years, & I hope he just moved to other stomping grounds (pun intended  ) & wasn't shot by 1 of the yahoos that were always trespassing on our property!! 
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09-09-2008, 03:25 PM
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Lifelong NJ, Winter in SC...Hometown NEPA
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How beautiful he must have been...........I can only imagine.
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09-10-2008, 07:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Summering
When we lived in Penn Estates we had an albino fawn. Such a cute little guy he was.
We'd stop the car always to gaze at him. It was made known he was off limits to hunters. I don't know what became of him........if he lived to a ripe old age, or not. ( just a few brownish spots on the white)
I noticed in the New Jersey threads that they have a white fawn also.
Seems they are not letting anyone come to harm him, just as we protected ours.
That color is not good for their safety in the least.
Just wondering if anyone else has had the pleasure of coming across one of these awesome creatures.
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Summering, I'm happy to inform you that the beautiful albino deer you speak of is still around a bit older looking though but definitely still here. We mainly see him on Penn Estates Drive. That seems to be his preferred spot. He's exactly the way you've described him. |
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09-10-2008, 08:21 AM
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Lifelong NJ, Winter in SC...Hometown NEPA
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Ohhhhhh really, That makes me so pleased. I saw the cute guy just after he was born I guess. He was very small. Oh so interesting ( I have goose-bumps) because I use to see him on the very"left" side of Penn Estates Drive. ( if one was heading towards the back gate).........So he remains all this time later, in the spot that he loves. I really appreciate you tell me about him.........
I once had a pet deer in Penn Estates who would come when I called her, and eat from our hands an apple or two. ( we didn't always feed her because they need to roam for health reasons)........"Girlfriend" we'd call her. What a sweetheart......
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09-10-2008, 08:37 AM
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We were driving up Route 309 up from the Stage Coach Inn going toward Mountaintop. I was on the passenger side and looking out the window. On the side is State Game Land. Looking into it I saw a white deer standing there looking at me! Turned to my husband quick and told him what I saw. Didn't know there were white Albino deer. He is a hunter and said in all his years hunting he never saw a white one. Its rare. And lucky me saw it.
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09-10-2008, 11:13 AM
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Came across this doe and fawn this summer on Skyline Drive in Virginia. She has stage of albanism but fawn doesn't.
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09-10-2008, 11:45 AM
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Apathy Rules!
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Albino deer.............The other white meat? Is pork in danger here? 
Just kidding....I have seen one white deer in my life on Moosic Mtn between Salem rd and 247. |
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