Unfortunately, it just made me sad. No matter how much I'd love to feed a deer -- and how adorable it is. I also don't think it will survive long. I can see her going up to and possibly in other houses.
When bears get used to people at campgrounds and go digging through garbage that is left out, they get trapped and relocated. If they come back again, their fate it sealed.
Now this isn't a dangerous animal, but with the abundance of deer, do you think they're going to keep relocating a deer that becomes a nuisance? Feeding was a bad idea, but bringing it into her house was just plain stupid -- she obviously wasn't thinking about the health and well being of the deer. :(
Wait til this spring when the baby ticks are hatching out. Then "little girl" will bring in anywhere from 50 to 200 adorable little blood suckers. Feeding this deer will not appreciably lower it's survival. Some of the largest Buck deer I've ever seen in NC lived around sub-divisions where hunting and predation pressures were relatively low. Many different types of food available too. There are actually many more deer in most southern states now than at the turn of the century. In many places they've become a nuisance.
I bet this woman probably lets her cats and other pets sleep in bed with her. A friend of mine acquired two different tick borne diseases over a 12 month period. Seems his wife liked letting the pets sleep in the bed with them. Never could figure why she was never bit.
Wait til this spring when the baby ticks are hatching out. Then "little girl" will bring in anywhere from 50 to 200 adorable little blood suckers. Feeding this deer will not appreciably lower it's survival. Some of the largest Buck deer I've ever seen in NC lived around sub-divisions where hunting and predation pressures were relatively low. Many different types of food available too. There are actually many more deer in most southern states now than at the turn of the century. In many places they've become a nuisance.
I bet this woman probably lets her cats and other pets sleep in bed with her. A friend of mine acquired two different tick borne diseases over a 12 month period. Seems his wife liked letting the pets sleep in the bed with them. Never could figure why she was never bit.
lol can't wait for the video.
Wendy. I know some hunters who feed deer all year long only to come back in early Nov to kill them.
Wait til this spring when the baby ticks are hatching out. Then "little girl" will bring in anywhere from 50 to 200 adorable little blood suckers. Feeding this deer will not appreciably lower it's survival. Some of the largest Buck deer I've ever seen in NC lived around sub-divisions where hunting and predation pressures were relatively low. Many different types of food available too. There are actually many more deer in most southern states now than at the turn of the century. In many places they've become a nuisance.
I bet this woman probably lets her cats and other pets sleep in bed with her. A friend of mine acquired two different tick borne diseases over a 12 month period. Seems his wife liked letting the pets sleep in the bed with them. Never could figure why she was never bit.
lol can't wait for the video.
Wendy. I know some hunters who feed deer all year long only to come back in early Nov to kill them.
whaaa! Doesn't surprise me, but it's still horrible.
lol, clearly a bad idea.. Still super cute, and it's very likely the deer will at least live longer because of her (assuming it was an orphan that would have died much earlier without feeding)
And, just to be fair, it's not likely that there are many hunters in her neighborhood (illegal to shoot in city limits, etc).. So that may be somewhat less likely..
Another issue of consideration is the fact that deer are carriers of ticks and that these can cause lyme disease. Around these parts the health authorities warn hunters Link to be on the lookout for ticks.
Wait til this spring when the baby ticks are hatching out. Then "little girl" will bring in anywhere from 50 to 200 adorable little blood suckers.....
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Another issue of consideration is the fact that deer are carriers of ticks and that these can cause lyme disease. Around these parts the health authorities warn hunters Link to be on the lookout for ticks...
Heh, that's the first thing I thought of. Fun video, though.
LOL Revenge of the deer! Poor dog didn't deserve the beating though, unless we didn't see what he did earlier. I didn't think a deer can give a whooping like that. Why didn't the dog run away, like the cat? He was probably just as surprised as I was.
your average whitetail deer: can casually bound a 10 foot fence, sprint at 40mph, has 4 very pointy and hard hooves, and an extremely twitchy fight-or-flight reflex..
