Posted on 01/17/2022 4:23:15 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
I have a fenced garden. I have yet to ever see any deer 🦌 in it. 20 years now. 🐿 on the other hand...
The deer seemed to twist its hind legs around to adjust for the landing; somewhat the way a cat can right itself during a fall. Very neat.
Here’s my deer story... One Saturday morning (I think it was in October or so about 15 years ago), I slid into the office to do a few catch up things. At about 10 am, I got a frantic call from a daughter who said that the house had just undergone a wicked thud and shudder.... and “can you please get home to see what it is”. I drove home and as I got close to the house, I’m seeing hoof marks that just miraculously disappeared. I ran to the back of the house and sure enough, there were the rest of the hoof marks which continued on and then disappeared at a 6’ hedge. My neighbor on that side was outside and asked me “Hey, did you happen to see that big buck that just went through here?”
This house was a single storey but it’s a split level and on one side, it might be as low as 7 to 8 feet to the eavestrough. I took pictures of the hoof prints knowing that no one would ever believe me.
Yeah, but, it's just not the same without the cartoon sound effects.
I think in the movie Twister, they showed a cow flying through the air.
Lots of Axis & Fallow deer in Texas.
I had a deer jump my car once. I wouldn’t have known except my roof top antenna made a boing noise. I checked my car for damage but nothing.
I’m cute! I’m cute! She said I’m cuuuuuute!
+1
“Wipeout” by The Safaris would have fit
or “Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty.
That’s an impressive jump
In a car as a kid, on vacation, going through a cut in the rock a deer jumped from one side of the double lane to the other over the car just as we pasted. I was amazed.
Omg.. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk05E-jEnCo
I like the one above of the little bobcat jumping the river.
Here you go: https://youtu.be/B-G0SVEQW8A
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