Pat the Deer

What a rack:

When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe.

A man named Carmen shoots an androgynous deer... Not in the wildest, drug-induced fever could I dream up such a thing.

"It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats...it was pretty unusual."

Gary Rankin, district game warden in Larimore, said he has seen a couple of antlered does over the years, but for a doe to have a well-developed rack is unusual.

Insert your own sexual innuendo.

"It definitely was a keeper," he said.

Sorry.