What was the real reason Bambi's Mother was killed on that fateful day?

Question

I dont buy that "Hunter killed her because he needed to thin out the herd/get food" bs.

I've got it down to three posibilities..

1. Friendly Fire, due to a returning WWII vet with PTSD misfiring at her after hallucinating a German Soldier,

2. Suicide due to Postpartum Depression,

3 Suicide because her husband had been killed in the war, leaving her a widowed single mother.

We never will know, because the camera men missed the footage, and lethal shot, but what are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Geez, how about putting "SPOILER ALERT* in there somewhere? Now you totally ruined the movie for me....

I'll go with #1. Seems a good possibility.

Answer 2

She was killed by a city-slicker liberal who was throwing his loaded gun away in the country.  

Answer 3

It was deer hunting season and the hunter wanted to kill SOMETHING, not bothering to check whether it was male or female

Answer 4

Bambi's mother was a w***e and it was his dad who shot her that fateful day after returning home from the pub.

Answer 5

1: Possibly. But I'm sure if you are familiar with the era, very few forests were as green and lush near the war-zones.

2: Do you really think she could get her little hooves around the trigger?

3: Her husband wasn't dead; he was a deadbeat dad. He adopts Bambi at the end of the film.

Have you ruled out Bambi as the killer? That poor boy was being raised a girl by his overbearing mother, it's enough to drive anyone crazy.

Or what about Thumper? Crackhead who refuses to admit he has a problem and refuses to seek counselling. He probably was so strung out he didn't know what was going on.