Star VII, the famous reindeer, which led shows and cultural events as an unofficial mascot Anchorage, Alaska, was euthanized on Tuesday, just weeks afterwards The masked figure sprayed the animal with a mysterious fluid before it disappeared into the night.
Under the cloak of Darkness 20. February someone jumped to Star’s Conclosure and left eight -year -old male on Anchorage street, and security shots showed up. The next night after the police found the animal and returned it to its owner, Albert Whitehead, another masked figure approached the reindeer and sprayed it with an unknown cloth.
The Anchorage police department said on Wednesday that it had no leaders for a responsible person or persons. The department said it assumed that the person who released the star out of the cover was the same person who later sprayed it with liquid. The detective is working on the case and is looking for assistance to the public, the ministry said.
On the days after the star VII was attacked, he was diagnosed with pneumonia and became so ill that Mr. Whitehead, 84, thought about postponing him to take him. But the treatment program from the veterinary clinic helped to improve the state of the star, and Mr. Whitehead believed that Star could achieve complete recovery.
About two weeks later, Star deteriorated again.
“His relocation began to return through his nostrils,” Mr. Whitehead said on Wednesday in a telephone interview. “Something’s happening in the stomach. You don’t know what it is.”
Unlike cows “almost 100 percent” of reindeer will not survive stomach surgery, said Mr. Whitehead.
He said he would not know the cause of death until the autopsy was terminated. He said he thought the liquid that was sprayed at his animal was an air freshener, but he didn’t confirm it.
“We feel extremely sad,” said Mr. Whitehead. “For some unknown reason, they hurt an unknown animal. I just don’t understand why people would do that.”
Star VII was, as his name suggests, the seventh such unofficial mascot Anchorage. Normally, as with the Pope or the Dalai Lama, when one star die, another star is named. But Mr. Whitehead, who was also the main caretaker for Star VI, said it was not a comfortable name of the star VIII.
“I don’t feel safe when I put another animal into that pen,” said Mr. Whitehead. If the culprit is caught, Mr. Whitehead said, “would return” the possibility of care for star VIII.
