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Reindeer's Antlers Toupee

By Alex in Animal, Fashion on Dec 13, 2008 at 2:21 pm


Shaggy the reindeer lost his antlers but that didn’t stop him from strutting his stuff in a Christmas performance: his owner, Trevor Hill, made him an antler toupee!

The two-and-a-half-year-old reindeer lost his horns because of
raging hormones produced during the mating season this year.

They fell off three weeks ago, just before he was due to star in Christmas performances in front of thousands of excited children. But rather than disappoint the children with an odd-looking version of one of Santa’s pets, a bizarre new solution was found. [...]

Mr Hill revealed the festive animal had lost his confidence after he fist lost his antlers, where they are kept in Tenbury Wells, Herefordshire. He said: "People don’t even notice that it’s on there – the mark of a good toupee.

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  1. Tiny Dancer
    Dec 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    "... the festive animal had lost his confidence after he fist lost his antlers.." Oh my, those are some raging hormones indeed ;-) Just the thing to get ya in the spirit, a horny reindeer in a rug, gets ya right there *sniff*

  2. eru
    Dec 13th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    At first glance I thought this years Kidrobot naughty reindeer dunny was stupid (sorry chuckboy) but after seeing the reindeer in your post I think I can see the inspiration.

  3. vero4902
    Dec 13th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    Aww, that's pretty cute.

  4. liphttam1
    Dec 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    What a nice story. Keep it on your head raindeer!

  5. Ali S.
    Dec 13th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    I wonder Santa would think of a bald reindeer in his sleigh troop?

  6. ted
    Dec 14th, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Maybe the kids would have learned something about reindeers, instead. Now we know Santa doesn't encourage a diverse taskforce.

  7. Daves
    Dec 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Most male reindeer lose their antlers at the start of winter so this isn't much of a surprise. There are occasions when they don't - castrated bulls and some young bulls - but it's usually only the fmales that retain antlers over winter.

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