Cell phone video that a game warden said showed a hunter petting an illegally shot and injured deer, and saying "good boy" before killing the animal, has raised calls from wildlife advocates for ...

I would be lying to you if I said the thought of petting a deer has never crossed my mind. They are so adorable and seem so docile, so yes I have thought about it. However, I have never done it ...

Someone in Missouri thought it would be a good idea to fasten a collar around a deer and write “PET” on the side of its body, apparently thinking it would protect the animal from hunters. Whatever the ...

Visitors to local parks are being warned not to feed or pet deer after multiple sightings of people coaxing them over with food and treating them like tame animals. The practice is unsafe, according ...

FRANKFORT, Ind. (WISH) — A deer found injured last week at a central Indiana petting zoo has died. Previously, zookeepers at the Frankfort Parks Department’s TPA Park Aviary & Petting Zoo reported a ...

"Somebody most likely took that deer out of the wild as a fawn and tried to keep it as a pet and put a collar on it," the Missouri Dept. of Conservation shared The Missouri Dept. of Conservation (MDC) ...

A deer with a collar and the word “pet” painted on its side was recently spotted wandering Jefferson County, Missouri, capturing attention on social media and concerning state wildlife officials.

An Elyria man is using a high-tech drone to help families and hunters find what they’ve lost. Lucas Kincaid launched “Grid, Search, Pursuit” in July, a drone recovery business serving Lorain, Cuyahoga ...

FRANKFORT, Ind — Officials in Frankfort are investigating the deaths of three animals at a city-run petting zoo. In a Facebook post Thursday, Jan. 16, the city announced that zookeepers conducting ...