HARRISBURG (TNS) — A Fayette County woman was arrested earlier this week for keeping a wild deer as a pet.

According to WPXI and KDKA, a Pennsylvania Game Warden received a report of a white-tailed deer buck wearing a dog collar and ear tags in Bullskin Township on Tuesday, according to WPXI.

A woman was seen in her vehicle driving next to the deer and trying to escort it back to her house.

The woman was later identified as Tamara Shiery, 64. She told authorities she was keeping the animal in a fenced-in area around her house. The animal had been castrated and altered to prevent its antlers from growing, officials said.

Shiery refused to open the fence for police and was placed under arrest for interfering with a valid search warrant. The deer was taken into custody.

Deer and other wild animals can be kept as pets if they were born in captivity and licensed as domestic. But the Game Commission said the deer in question wasn’t born in captivity and is thus illegal to keep as a pet.

Shiery told KDKA that she believed she had had gone through the proper channels with the Department of Agriculture to be able to keep the deer, named Baby, as a pet. She said she had raised the animal since it was a few weeks old and had even had it vaccinated.

The Game Commission said it has not euthanized the deer and is working to determine what the next steps should be.