I had a doe and fawn browse through my backyard about 3 hours ago.
Oh my. I would like to invite all illegal hunters to West Virginia.. We have more than our share of deer. Blasted rats with antlers.....
Your post reminded me of when my Uncle was still alive and lived in Colorado Springs, CO. He was in a wheel-chair by then, his wife had died, he was elderly, and he’d get lonely sometime. He still lived in the house he and his wife raised their kids in.
Where he lived, it was still a little bit rural, with a few old homes around. Some little deer would come into his yard at times. He would sit in his back-yard and feed them! They never really bothered him much, and he loved to have them there, as long as they didn’t get too numerous, and cause problems.
The animal control came around and told him not to feed them anymore! This bummed him out, but he tried to understand. I don’t know if they were bothering the neighbors, and one of them told on him, I don’t know. He was sad about it, but complied.
That made me sad too. When he was a bit younger, he would go deer hunting and fishing, etc.. I think he still would’ve if he could. Since he couldn’t, he would feed the little ones and the mothers instead, it gave him comfort.
They are wearing out my two Scuppernong arbors-I’m about to fill my freezer really early this year!