[buffaloguy]

They are not the kind gentle creaatures that are portrayed by Disney. They are wild and will attack if they feel threatened as will any other wild animal. I was attacked by one while photographing him. I fortunately stayed behind a tree and the buck slammed into the small tree trying to hit me. His antlers literally went by my legs on both sides when he attacked. I think it knocked him a bit silly.

So I stay away from deer.

[goat granny]

Last week my daughter was doing her daily jog down their drive way with her dog running ahead..(her drive way is 1/3 of a mile through the woods) she hear the dog yelp and saw her running back to my daughter, hot on the dogs tail was a doe still trying to get the dog mid back....my daughter screamed at the doe and flapped her arms. The doe didn't stop until she was about 20 feet from my daughter. The doe was still huffing and it was a standoff between my daughter and the doe, after eyeballing each other the doe turned around and walked back down the drive way...her dog had a knobber on her head and that doe was bent on killing that dog who was now hiding behind my daughter....When they went out a while later, they saw that the doe had just dropped a fawn at the edge of the driveway. (its a dirt drive way and heavily wooded...she now carries a large stick with her so she at least has a change to give the deer a knobber on her head...the doe moved her baby but only about 15 feet off the driveway....Bambi's mom will kill you if she gets a change....funny now, but was scary when it happened to her... Her dog is a standard poodle that has brought up to the garage small critters its killed, but that deer scared the shi! out of that dog and my daughter...