Deer Breaks into Minnesota Fur Company, Head-Butts Owner, Escapes

A six-point buck head-butted the owner of a rural Minnesota fur company last week before trashing the shop's warehouse, currently full of deer hides being tanned for hunters. The owner of Johnson Fur, located in rural Wilmar, Minnesota, believes the buck was seeking a mate and became confused after smelling the deer hides.

Scott Johnson, 67, told the Pioneer Press he was in his office when he heard a worker in a back room yelling his name. He got up from his desk and stepped around the corner only to see a "big buck coming right to me."

J0hnson walked away from the deer's head-butt with light bruising, but the deer proceeded to dash through the office, leaping over tables and making a mess of the office's paperwork. The buck even jumped onto a refrigerator.

"He kind of tore the place apart," Johnson told the Pioneer Press.

After the Johnsons' Jack Russell terrier began nipping the deer at his heels, the confused animal eventually ran back out the door and escaped into the wild.

Lynette Johnson jokingly suggested that perhaps the deer was looking for a lost love or sibling.

Read much more at the Pioneer Press.

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