They are neat to see, and indeed rare in most areas. They usually don't live too long in the wild, the white coloration is a genetic breakdown and they're usually more suseptable to illness and injury. There is actually a small population of them in one of the Northern states, but been awhile since I've seen the article, I want to say Wisconsin or Minnesota. As for them eating plants and shrubs..............good luck with that one, with the growing population of bambi's throughout the country, that's a next to impossible task, chemicals such as deer repel to hair clumps from beauty shops tied to plants have been tried, not much works.