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Under the blanket	Compare his size to the man's shoe

I received these pictures from one of my rescue lists. It is an albino whitetail deer. The mother left him on the road. I guess she knew that living with her, either she, he, or both would have died. This lovely rescuer (from Rhineland, WI) found him, fed him, and gave him to a rehab farm, where he will live out his life. This type of albino deer is very rare. It occurs one in a million births. The man's shoe is next to the deer to show us how small this creature was.

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Here's the note that came with the pictures:

A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! I saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car—thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW!! A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Momma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of me.

Well, he is the neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a "freak of nature", that only 1 in more than a million is even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, and is doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested. But we're going to send him to a Rehab farm. Maybe he will make it in captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho. But, not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either. Here are a couple of pictures to show you. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW...how cool is that?? 

A normal whitetail deer looks like this:

A baby	An adult

As always, click on the picture to view the larger version.