...right, ok. So there's this yearling-that's a baby deer? And it was orphaned because the main character shot its mom. Uh, he shot the mom because his dad was bitten by a snake while they were out looking for pigs that their neighbors stole...and something about the liver helped with getting the venom out of his dad? And he adopts the baby deer afterwards because he always wanted a pet.

[All things considered, Zack does have a decent memory. He clearly started reading the book.]