There has never been a case of CWD in Arkansas. Any time they want to ban the ownership of anything here they play the disease card. Almost every other state allows breeding of deer. They can be sold as meat or to the hunting preserves. Arkansas never ask how do other states do it. They just take things away.

the game fish care more about police the people of areansas the they do about cleaning the mess they created with the russian hog.

My wife and I have raised several orphaned fawns that lost their mothers to motor vehicles on the highway in front of our property. These fawns would suffer and starve to death if we didn't intervene. There is no relation to our actions and importing some disease from other states, that appears to be a very weak excuse for the passing of this law. Game and Fish also stated that rarely are these fawns orphaned, most are left alone by their mothers while they go to feed and are mistakenly picked up by people thinking they are abandoned . Wake up, Game and Fish! Countless deer are killed by vehicles, If people haven't seen them along the highways then they haven't been on those highways.It's not hard to tell if a fawn is orphaned or abandoned, either we see the doe dead or have the fawn show up for several days in a row, crying because it's starving. The fawns we saved have have had freedom to roam the property and have eventually assimilated back into the local deer population. Their instincts take over and they become more wary of people, which is a good thing. We are not raising pets, simply trying to be humane and not let a baby animal suffer. In this state it is okay to plant a food plot to lure deer in to shoot them, but will be criminal to feed a starving animal? So, Game and Fish, come up with an alternative for these animals because your answer to a few problems that haven't even occurred is to turn your heads so you don't have to watch the slow suffering and death of these babies. We would gladly turn these fawns over to somebody that would rehab them. The work, time, and expense it takes to save these animals is not something that we look forward to. Feedings every few hours until weaned and constant attention is a job. I believe it is more of a crime to ignore a starving animal than to follow some poorly thought out statuate written by those who don't seem to care about the animals they are charged with regulating and protecting.