Went out to my garden one day to pick some tomatoes. A few of them had big chunks taken out of them. I couldn’t figure out what was doing that.
A couple days later I go out to check on them and there is this huuggggeee buck standing there! (I live in suburban DC and wasn’t expecting that.) Slowly backed up into the house and knew what was happening to my tomatoes.
About an hour later my little dog wanted to go out. Checked the yard and saw no deer. So let her out.
Within a few minutes my 20 pound dog is barking her head off and chasing a this 300 pound deer around the yard!!!! It would have been funny but I kept thinking “This deer is gonna figure out he has the advantage in this situation.”
Luckily he just jumped the fence and left. (Lot of screeching breaks right after that.)
Now live in a townhouse with a shaded yard. Can only grow herbs if I move the pots around the yard all day long during the days when I’m home. It’s worth it.
We live in the Maryland suburbs just Northeast of DC. There’s a house we used to pass often, and once we saw a doe in the fenced yard of the house, apparently eating acorns from a tree there.
That animal had to cross railroad tracks and wander through a housing development, to get to that house and tree from anyplace nearby that deer might commonly hunker.