Care for coffee, deer? (update)

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Well, dragged my butt out of bed, rambled down the stairs and made it to the coffee pot (which starts automatically before I get up, so the coffee is ready).

Poured a cup, went to catch a little CNBC, and begin to "face the day". First cup goes down pretty quick and the eyes start to open--soon I feel, "semi-alive". Out to the kitchen for another cup.

Pour it, turn around, look out the glass doors to see what the yard looks like (windy last night--expect branches down) and there is a deer on my deck!!! Five feet outside the glass door, a medium sized doe is casually standing, munching whatever she brought up with her.

She turned her head, our gaze met, she momentarily stopped munching, but did NOT run away. After gesturing "would you like a cup of coffee" and getting no reply, I went upstairs to tell Dawn we had a guest.

All our cameras are at the office to take "pen pics", so Dawn used her phone from the upstairs bathroom (through the screen) to get this (cause it really happened!!)

Dawn left the grass and the lawn tractor in the picture so you can see the deck is elevated (3 steps up) and is wood. Deer didn't seem to mind.
 

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Awesome! We've had everything from baby deer rescued from wild off the track TB to three deer running through the polo field during our wedding... thankfully not while I was attempting to ride my buckskin sidesaddle for the first (and only) time! :-) So happy women ride astride now! I'd hate to be thought even more the rouge, but like they say... Well behaved women rarely make history!
 
Fun way to start your morning, deer can be very amusing except when they want to cross the road. I watched a small herd usually 8 or 10 does and a few fawns that lives in my woods and agitate my Shepherds to no end, 5 Big Bad German shepherds barking at them and they will get within 30 feet of the fence and drive the dogs nuts, it's turned into a game the last 3 or 4 years.
 
My dad calls those Colorado cockroaches. There are least 20 hanging out around the house nightly. Because they eat his plants he has wire cages all over the yard. I call it Bondagescaping. In the winter there are deer, and elk galore. Too close to other houses so no hunting. I think they know it is safe.
 
That's nice. We het them in the yard nut never that close. Makes you wonder why a guy has to spend so much time in the tree stand come fall. Guess they should be in your bathroom. 
 
We live next to an "instinctive bowmen" area. Hundreds of wooded acres where deer are targets, in the Fall. So, if they make it to my land, they are "home free" (unless they are injured, then they should be killed mercifully).

It's not unusual for me to see them in the yard, but NOT on the deck!! (More to the story tomorrow---when we have the "update" pics).
 
About the only wild animals we ever get in our back yard is a family of possums,the occasional skunk and the ever savaging raccoon, our corgi has a different bark for each of them letting us know which ones in the yard.
Miss when we lived in the country and had deer vist us.
 
wizard said:
Ed and Dawn, Sounds really nice and peaceful where you live.....Doc
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We have neighbors, across the street. But, I can run my tablesaw in the garage at 3 AM and no one can hear it!! (Did this often when I made the backdrops for the "show booths")

Now, we only see the house when we are stopping in for a "snack and a nap"!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
JohnU said:
That's nice. We het them in the yard nut never that close. Makes you wonder why a guy has to spend so much time in the tree stand come fall. Guess they should be in your bathroom. 
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There was a fellow in my home town..actually a nearby farm community that actually did have his deer stand on his back porch... he got two or three deer every year.
 
It's a nice site an sounds real nice there. There are a few people in my area that wouldnt agree with you after having deer jump through their picture windows an bleed all over their house as they break things jumping around. There was a nice 10 pointer taken that way last year, in his house. We also had a deer kump through a window of the grocery store in a town near by. OT was ironicly put down in the back room near the meat department.

I'm in the country with a few houses around me but my back yard is 2 acres that butt up to a nice creek and timber. We've been watching the same doe for about ten years now. We know it's her by the hind leg that's about four inches shorter than the rest. Not sure what happened to it but I'm guessing it's from when she was young. I'm an avid bow hunter but if they are in the yard they are safe here too. Next door in a business that helps the mentally challenged and I would hate for a deer to run over there and die in front of them. There are too many farmers that want the deer thinned out on their property that keep me busy. Although... I cant make that promise when I get too old to walk. 
 
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wizard said:
Ed and Dawn, Sounds really nice and peaceful where you live.....Doc
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We have neighbors, across the street. But, I can run my tablesaw in the garage at 3 AM and no one can hear it!! (Did this often when I made the backdrops for the "show booths")

Now, we only see the house when we are stopping in for a "snack and a nap"!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
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So which one of these paragraphs is the problem?

1) The tablesaw isn't running to keep the deer away?
2) You aren't home enough so the deer is wondering who is on the other side of the window from THEIR porch?

:)
 
Ed, if you're trying to get cheap antler for Exotics, you might want to get the BUCK up on the deck. The doe should make a nice incentive, if you can keep her there.:biggrin:
 
So, WHY in the world would a deer be on our deck???

Well, the weather was terrible--high winds and rain Wednesday night. Trees falling, generally not the type of night you would pick to have a fawn. BUT, if you were a doe that was screwing around on Thanksgiving----well, you'd pay the price June 8ish. So, what was NOT swaying Wednesday night?? My uninhabited, completely dark two story home. Winds strong from Northwest, so southeast corner of the house in the shrubs looks like a place to drop a fawn!!!

"Grass guys" called me at the office to tell me I had a fawn living in the bushes, of course I replied, like any old IAP member----"GET PICTURES!!"

The last one shows mom keeping tabs on the situation-----
 

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Friday morning---I checked the area and it is obvious where the baby was, but they have, thankfully, found a more appropriate home in the "woods" around our home.

Hope I will see them both from time to time throughout the summer--we have a swampy area that the deer love, so I suspect they will not be lonely.

For the moment--that's the end of my "deer tale"--and a HAPPY ending it is!!
 
Atleast she didn't try to move in while yall were out that night! Also glad momma and baby are on their happy way now. Shea touched on this earlier, but we had a wild morning about 2yrs ago when one of the horses here went crazy out in the pasture early one morning. Shea and I rushed out only to find this lil guy just laying there hanging out. No momma around. We had to move him out of there or else he woulda got stomped to death. We ended up taking him to a deer sanctuary near by. Last we heard he was doing great. Our greyhound Harley wanted to be it's momma that day.
 

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Those are all great pictures. Always wanted to raise deer, but like everything, they grow up and get a little mean in the fall. Assisited in taking a fawn out of a car on a traffic stop, about 15 years ago, once after a couple kids found it in the country and tried to take it home. (that was before cell phone cameras). It was given to a hunt club to raise and was the town pet in Utica Il. for several years wearing a blaze orange collar. Wish I had a dollar for every call the Sheriffs Office got from a motorist saying..."you'll never guess what I see walking down the sidewalk in Utica".
 
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Those are all great pictures. Always wanted to raise deer, but like everything, they grow up and get a little mean in the fall. Assisited in taking a fawn out of a car on a traffic stop, about 15 years ago, once after a couple kids found it in the country and tried to take it home. (that was before cell phone cameras). It was given to a hunt club to raise and was the town pet in Utica Il. for several years wearing a blaze orange collar. Wish I had a dollar for every call the Sheriffs Office got from a motorist saying..."you'll never guess what I see walking down the sidewalk in Utica".
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Your dispatcher could have had a BLAST!!!

"I suppose you're reporting the ****zu (ok, make it a poodle) walking the deer!!"

Now the guy will crane his neck backward to see why he didn't notice the dog!!!

And, you get another "fender bender" to investigate!! (Always drumming up business for you!!):biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
Lol! Thanks Ed... Please don't drum up any more business for me. . If I have to work late, i'll never get these feather blanks done. 
 
We were out at the cottage this past week and saw the subdivision dog, a collie/heinz 59 mix, get chased buy a doe. He must have found a fawn in the pasture behind then cabin and momma didn't like that. He was running as fast as he could but she was still hanging a lickin in him with her front legs. He went under the fence and she went over the top without missing a beat. I don't know where the chase ended as they were out of sight in the willows along the edge of the lake very quickly. I'm willing to bet that that dog will not be wandering too far from home for the next little while. Funny as heck to watch. We've had does bring the little ones into the front yard to feed on the grass on a regular basis. We don't bother them and they don't seem to mind us watching.
 
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