I saw an albino deer this morning!

[conwaydave]

On my way to work this morning SB I-5 @ Skagit/Snohomish county line approx 5:15 am. Looked to my right and and stepping out onto old 99 was an albino doe. It was pretty cool, last time I saw one I was a little kid and saw one on Orcas Island.

[jackelope]

Albino or piebald?
Completey white or broken color with white like a paint horse?

[Tbob]

I remember when I was a kid there were 2 albino bucks up near index ( white with pink eyes and noses) both were poached my dad later told me..

[conwaydave]

I did not see it broken up, looked all white to me, it was not dark out, fairly light out now at 5:15am.

[Skyvalhunter]

It was a white moose chances are

[Okanagan]

There were two along that stretch of I-5 about five years ago.  One was totally white and the other a pinto patched mix of white and almond colored off-white, very pretty.  Once I saw them I looked for them each time past, and saw the pinto one several times.  It was the color of bleached grass in late summer and Fall and hard to spot in tall dead grass, but it was almost always with a normally colored deer.  I'd see the dark one and then pick up the light tan one near it.   It had a healthy coat, nothing to do with shedding or hair slip, etc.

Look for your white one each morning as you drive past that area.   

[50CalJim]

About 10 or 12 yrs ago there was a white doe that hung out right in the same area.

[police women of America]

awesome! nice to know there are some out there.

[cryder]

Unicorn ?? Ya ! that's it a Unicorn , that's what it was,I saw A huge buck across the highway from loon lake yesterday whith a unbelievable rack this has to be lasy years of course but wow huge ,and still on his head wow !!

[bowtechian]

Last 10 yrs always see a white doe not quite albino her eyes & nose are brown & her offspring end up being all brown or have white patches

[Martinhunter]

I saw a albino family a couple years ago just outside of Rochester. A doe and two fawns all three were albino, it was pretty cool to see.

[cryder]

I saw a flying saucer and a alian out by west medical a few times,, true story go look for yourself hes just standing there waveing 1

[fishnfur]

Hmmmm......

[cryder]

WOW NOW THATS A COOL SHOT !!!

[trophyhunt]

I used to know the answer to this but now I'm just not sure, is it legal to shoot any albino big game animal?  Of course during season with tags!

[KenPCPilot]

Had a  piebald doe living behind me that always had piebald fawns. 

[heronblu]

It is illegal to kill albino animals.

[RadSav]

I found nothing on WDFW website.  But it was my understanding that Washington did allow shooting of albino deer.  Only reference I found was this.  Not sure how reliable it is.

http://www.southeasternoutdoors.com/outdoors/hunting/hunting-albino-deer-illegal.html


Just don't post pictures of your albino deer all over Faceplant unless you like receiving death threats.

[bobcat]

A deer is a deer. If it's legal to kill it doesn't matter if it's white or brown.

[bigmacc]

A deer is a deer. If it's legal to kill it doesn't matter if it's white or brown.

Well that could be true depending on the era of hunting?....when I was a kid back in the 60,s (about 9 years old) there was a small herd of albinos that a lot of hunters would see every year,a few nice bucks in the bunch also. all the hunters hunting the area these deer held up in never pulled a trigger on one. Well someone shot one in the 70,s I believe, and you would have thaught the poor guy who did pull the trigger was a lepper   Different times I guess?

[jay.sharkbait]

A deer is a deer. If it's legal to kill it doesn't matter if it's white or brown.

Well that could be true depending on the era of hunting?....when I was a kid back in the 60,s (about 9 years old) there was a small herd of albinos that a lot of hunters would see every year,a few nice bucks in the bunch also. all the hunters hunting the area these deer held up in never pulled a trigger on one. Well someone shot one in the 70,s I believe, and you would have thaught the poor guy who did pull the trigger was a lepper   Different times I guess?

I couldn't shoot one.....

[bobcat]

I sure could! It would make a cool mount. I see no reason to protect them.

[browney5er]

Hmmmm......

What would cabelas pony up for that mount?

[bigmacc]

I sure could! It would make a cool mount. I see no reason to protect them.

Like I said, a different era. Not to many were thinking of a "cool mount" back then....they were just neat to see. They wernt protected, but looked at as something special.....there were other deer to shoot

[bobcat]

I've never even seen an albino deer.

[fishnfur]

They are legal to shoot last I read.  There's a couple states left that still outlaw killing albinos.  WA isn't one of them.

[heronblu]

I take my original comment back. Apparently it is not illegal. It used to be but it looks like they repealed that law.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I used to see a few around my place in past years but none lately ...

[cryder]

Im not shooting just to cool and rare.

[adamR]

They are legal to shoot last I read.  There's a couple states left that still outlaw killing albinos.  WA isn't one of them.

Any idea where you read this? This is something I've always wanted black and white proof of.

[RadSav]

They are legal to shoot last I read.  There's a couple states left that still outlaw killing albinos.  WA isn't one of them.

Any idea where you read this? This is something I've always wanted black and white proof of.

How about hearing it from BigTex.  Would that be black and white enough?

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,59487.msg735965.html#msg735965

[bobcat]

Just look in the reg's. Does it specify anywhere in there that white deer cannot be killed?

[bobcat]

Just look in the reg's. Does it specify anywhere in there that white deer cannot be killed?

[KB88]

I worked on one of the cell towers on MT. Constitution on Orcas Island for about a month... that island is littered with piebald deer.