A proud father who shared photos of his young daughter after she shot her first deer has been called "sadistic" for allowing her to taste the animal's raw heart.
"I'm a proud Dad ... check out my little pink ninja princess Chloe, 8, with her first deer a young stag," Johny Yuile wrote on the NZ Woman Hunters Facebook page.
"Shot in a bush block on a friend's farm last weekend. She made tricky downhill shot using my shoulder as a leaning rest and shot with dads 7 mm-08 at about 40m. Then she took a bite from its warm quivering heart , Go Chloe."
Yuile shared photos of Chloe and himself with the dead deer, as well as a photo of the little girl grinning as she has a taste of the stag's heart.