Your right, I think being disconnected as to how we get our food is a big part. Bambi is so cute, but my daughter just 2 weeks ago had a situation out jogging. Her dog was with her and she was jogging down her driveway, 1/3 mile to the road through a hardwood forest....The dog was running ahead of her and she her the dog yelp and she came running back to my daughter (around the bend) hot on the dogs heels and still trying to get her hoofs on the dogs back was a doe..when she way ahead my daughter she didn't stop and she was terrified that that dam doe was going to kill her..Finally stopped about 20 feet from my daughter, still huffing, her yelling at first had no effect on the doe....it was a stand off with her dog hiding behind her. (standard poodle). Finally the doe turned around and walked back down the drive way....She carrys a big stick with her now, but they found out driving out a while later that the doe had just dropped a fawn right next to the driveway thats a dirt driveway...They noticed a couple of days later the mom had moved her baby, but still was only about 15 feet off the road....Bambi's mom will kill you if she could....LOL now but not funny for my daughter...
They have so many deer, they come up on the patio and look in the kitchen door. Have to use repellent to keep their landscape intact....my grandson got his first deer with a bow and arrow last year at 16. Not her son, her brothers son....(have 13 grandchildren). The whole family hunts both gun and bow and arrow.