if you are easily upset, do not read this

Please do not read if you are easily upset by hurt animals--the only reasons I am posting are to vent and to see if anyone out there has some ideas of what to do. Yesterday, I was home, cleaning the living room, when I looked out of my picture window (I live in a rural area of Felton and we get lots of wild critters--wild turkeys, bobcats, owls, and deer are the most common things). I saw a deer in the backyard, looking up at me, but something seemed wrong with it--I thought it was eating a big stick or something, and then I saw that the poor thing had an arrow stuck right through its face! I was so utterly horrified--I've NEVER seen a living animal with an injury that awful. It kept looking at me, and then it started grazing, as if nothing was wrong with it! I called Mr. Strega at work, and he suggested that I call Animal Services (he reassured me that if the deer was moving around and grazing, it was probably more okay than not okay). An Animal Services officer came out (miraculously, the deer stayed in the backyard, eating some green tomatoes that had broken off my vines and rolled out there). He said the deer looked okay and that perhaps there could be a way to tranqulize it and pull the arrow out. He suggested I call Fish and Game, which I did (left a message)--he said that they tranquilize animals such as mountain lions to transport them out of the area, but maybe because the deer seems "fixable," they might be willing to do this (ie tranqulize it and clip the arrow, then pull it out).

I still don't know what to do, if anything--as of today, the deer has not come back. It still disgusts me that anyone would just shoot a deer like that and leave it--most responsible hunters would track it and dispatch it humanely, not leave it to wander around in the woods like that. The other disturbing thing is that somebody in this area is shooting off arrows--it's rural, but not that rural!