Star followed the man out into the neighborhood, and the reindeer wound up alone downtown, familiar streets because that's where Whitehead walks him. The next night, the situation turned more serious.

Star the reindeer almost had to be euthanized after a masked man sprayed a mysterious substance in the animal’s face on Feb.

Star is well-known in Anchorage. He has been in parades, featured on reality TV shows and visited by schoolchildren and ...