Posted on 07/02/2020 1:52:09 PM PDT by SJackson
I'm hard pressed to think of any wild animal I'd pet, or let my dogs approach.
A deer killed an old woman in her backyard a few years back. After that the massive resistance to a bow season in that township disappeared.
Technically, bulls, rhinos, elephants, hippos, are all prey animals but will royally mess you up.
Bucks during the rutting season are NOT safe to be around.
A couple of years back a fellow was driving on a road south of San Antonio. A buck was standing in the road and would not move. The man got out and tried to shoo the deer away and the deer attacked. The man was gored to death.
A DPS trooper arrived about an hour later and the buck charged him. The trooper shot the deer with his service weapon. It was during the rut.
Do you know what would happen if a ranger sees you throw a rock at a deer?
Funny that FR is having this discussion about deer today. Two nights ago, I looked out a window in my Baltimore apartment complex at 2 a.m., and there was a young buck nibbling on the yew hedge right below.
Camping at Elkmont Campground in the Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park several years ago....
Just finished supper and my plate was still on the picnic table as I sat in a folding chair reading a book with a lantern on the table when a skunk waddled over to the table...I just sat still...
He hopped up on the bench and put it’s front paws on the table, leaned over and started licking my food plate...
I sat still as it finished and walked down the bench to the chair I was sitting in...It looked up at me and put it’s front paws on the arm of the chair and just looked up me...
I reached over and scratched the top of it’s head...It shut it’s eyes like a cat would do...
It climbed down and went under my chair and laid down curled up...
I thought I was going to have to sit there still in that chair all night...
After about 5-6 minutes, it got up and waddled back off....
Now, living near the Park and spending a lot of time outdoors and there in the park, I knew the skunks around the campgrounds were used to people and unafraid, but I had never had one act like that...
“After all, deer are considered passive creatures.”
Not when the buck is in rut. YouTube is full of people that have gotten it precarious situations with deer in the wrong place and wrong time.
In reference I submit the following:
These nimrods don't belong in the wild. They should stick to the zoo.
Pound for pound, a deer is stronger than a horse. They have sharp hooves and a mean bite. I usually run early in the morning and when I spot one of them on the trail, make some noise or what it takes to make them leave. Have never been attacked but wouldn’t confront them without at least a Louisville slugger.
Must have had new fawns.
In recent years, I’ve had close encounters with two different large, wild mammals that I didn’t want to mess with, with my overly friendly and curious dog along, unleashed.
Most recently was what I can only describe as a herd of whitetail deer that were startled out of the undergrowth as we walked past them totally unaware that they were even there. They darted our mere feet in front of us and just kept coming, a good twenty of them. This was on my mother’s acreage in North Carolina, just uphill from the Yadkin River. My dog started after them, not barking or aggressive at all, he had his frisbee in his mouth. He no doubt thought he was going to play with them. He was so close I was sure he’d get kicked, gored, bitten or otherwise mauled. He disappeared over the hills and into the woods running after them. He was gone for hours and I didn’t have the first clue how to begin searching for him. But, he came back on his own, muddied and sans his precious frisbee.
Second was several years ago during a weeklong vacation to the NC Outer Banks. I’d gone outside after dark to put the day’s garbage in the garbage can, much younger same dog along with me as he always insisted whenever I went outside. I practically walked into the large ass end of a wild Spanish Mustang, which was munching on the bayberry bushes growing on the dunes to either side of the sandy driveway. Muah dog ran straight up to it, again wagging his tails. I panicked thinking he was about to be kicked. Fortunately, the wild horse just backed out of the bayberry bushes, snorted and ambled away down the drive and the dog listened when I called him back. This house was in the 4x4 area just above Corolla.
I took my little Sheltie Collie out for a walk in the country.
I saw a group of mules on a hill a ways away. They came charging.
I figured they wanted some food.
They didn’t.
They surrounded me and had their ears back and showing their teeth.
I noticed they were all looking at my dog.
I picked her up.
The mules were like, “Oh. It’s just a dog.”
They left.
My dog looked at me and said, “Let’s go home and chase tennis balls in the backyard.”
A lot of animals think dogs are coyotes.
Hanging out with a dear is about the BEST WAY to get Lyme Disease, in much of the country.
...thanks to the Left.
“Deer may be the deadliest animal in the United States...”
You ain’t seen a bull moose in heat, or a mama bear with cubs. That’s why I carry a .50cal Beowulf (AR-50) and a .357mag when in the wilderness, which isn’t that often, these past few years.
Campground skunks and raccoons are different creatures than their wild brethren who aren’t easy to see. And don’t approach humans. I’ve noticed the same thing with urban deer who allow walkers and dogs far too close. I’d be afraid to pet even a friendly skunk. Even domestic animals can have a reaction to being touched.
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