A white tail buck that was shot in the hind quarter with an arrow has been staying in the yard of John Lawyer’s Coeur d’Alene home for the past few days. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Shawn Gust)

John Lawyer is used to having four-legged visitors, but the one currently in his yard has him very concerned. "I was opening up the shades in the morning and all of a sudden I saw it lying there," he said Thursday afternoon. "It was staring right at me because the shades were moving. And then I looked close, and then I saw the arrow." The 88-year-old Coeur d'Alene resident was alarmed to see a carbon fiber arrow protruding several inches from the backside of the frightened, four-point whitetail buck that has been living in his backyard. "The poor thing is trying to get it out but it can't, you know," Lawyer said. "It breaks me up to see that ... I don't know what to do. I think it's suffering because it pulls its head back and it's trying to get the arrow out"/Devin Heilman, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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