De Drinkplaats seems to be working well now! I went inside the circle as a bat and came out as a bat! (In the last one, when you went inside the circle as something other than a deer, you'd come out as a deer)
The glitch caused problems with loading the appearance.
We'll try to make the mini-deer accept pelt changes in a future version. I agree that this would be nice. But it shouldn't require a glitch. It should be implemented officially as a feature.