An Easy Quiz,

guess the book,

I will not post a picture of the cover until the end, also I have changed the lead characters name to 'Hero' or 'the Hero' so as not to give the game away,

so here goes, guess away,

A ferret kills a mouse, one jay calls another a murderer, a deer is shot and killed, a crow commits infanticide of a hare's offspring, a ferret mangles a squirrel, a fox tears a pheasant apart, humans commit mass slaughter of pheasants, a ferret kills a squirrel, an owl kills a squirrel, and the Hero gets violent: another deer dies, a fox kills a duck, and the hero takes drugs: an owl kills a mouse, a dog kills a fox, and finally a man ("He") is shot and killed, "He turned to flee from the silent hero who came rushing after him. Karus knew that hero was furious and would kill him without mercy..."

"Eat that," he commanded suddenly, stopping and pushing aside the grasses. He pointed to a pair of short dark-green leaves growing close together near the ground, the Hero obeyed. They tasted terribly bitter and smelled sickeningly,"How do you feel now?" he asked after a while, "Better," the hero answered quickly. He was suddenly able to speak again. His senses had cleared and his fatigue grew less." and the name of the book is?

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Bambi, Walt must have read it with rose tinted spectacles! all of the above from No Such Thing As A Fish.