No. Just Bambi’s mom.
My one whitetail deer collision was almost exactly this.
Maybe it was about sex, maybe just about being “tail end Charlie” of a group of about 6. But several had crossed ahead of me while I was slowing to avoid them, then there was a thud as the unseen straggler ran headlong into the side of my truck. Leaving hair & a bit of skin stuck under the fender trim and a bit more wedged between tire and sidewall. And a ~$1500 IIRC bill for bumper, fender, & tail light repairs. Stupid MF.
And then it disappeared into the forest scampering after its friends. So a hit and run, the bastard.
I knew someone who had a deer land on top of her car and cave the roof in. Her insurance agent took a bit of convincing. Not a lot of convincing, just a bit.
With god as my witness, I thought deer couldn’t fly.
It was a curving mountain road. The deer came off of a 15 to 20-foot cliff.
No one in town was the least bit doubtful. I think the agent was located in Redding and just wasn’t familiar with the roads.
I hate long-legged, white tailed rats. They are the wild animal I am most afraid of. Seriously! We don’t have lions, tigers, bears, or oh-mys around here but we do have those moving road obstacles, which turn into the non-moving ones only partially blocking the outer part of the road (where bikes with skinny tires ride); they’re also portable weapons, carrying lime diseased infused very small deer ticks.
Met a friend to drive north thru Pennsyltucky this weekend some years back. Every place to pull off looked like a weekend warriors* at work with all of that orange; except the weekend warriors aren’t allowed to have guns.
* Weekend warriors are those serving their (typically DUI) sentences 48 hrs at a shot; frequently by picking up roadside trash.
Yea, this time of year I am extra-cautious on the roads. Especially at night. The (very rural) roads around here have a default speed limit of 55 MPH, but I will often drive at 40 MPH or less. I’ve also learned that, if I see one doe, there’s more to follow.
I hate them as well.
Oh, they so cute! How pastoral to see them munching in a field(of some farmers money crop), at twilight.
Then they put a hit out on you.
Forest mafia.
Tree thugs.
Mass murdering herbivores.
And worse, they draw the hunters in, who haven’t shot a gun in 3 years. Out of shape. Brought too much alcohol to camp. In rusty, beater “hunting trucks”, with questionable legality. And no mufflers.
They start huge fires at the camps filling the air with putrid smoke because they throw anything into it.
Loud music at night is how we’ve caught them camping on our place.
Well, once we caught a couple swimming in the pond. If that’s what you call swimming. Seemed a bit friendly for plain old soaping up.
Come to Greater Suburbia where I live; they are overrunning everything & have no natural predators here & you can’t shoot 'em because neighbors are too close; it’s not only illegal to shoot guns here it would be very stoopit given how close other houses are.
I don’t even need a gun to hunt them; I could go out with a fishing net & catch one; seriously, they’re so not scared of people anymore you can get within feet of ‘em. It’s interesting to see the different herds as you go up the road. Near me, maybe 20’, next neighborhood up, I can almost pet 'em I can get so close but drive up the road a bit further to the state park & you step on a leaf & they go scattering from 100 yards away. They’re quickly becoming like locusts & decimating new growth saplings & if someone doesn’t do something soon we’re going to lose an entire generation of new trees. Whenever they try to close a park for a night for a culling they get all sorts of bambi protesters. You know how hard it is to convince the deer to take The Pill?
Oh, sure. Make it the Doe’s responsibility.
Maybe Buck needs to keep it tucked in.
I kid
It’s a mess. We’ve partially created by moving in to their areas.
Suburbia will be the first to fall in any take-over, be it Zombies or Deer.
White tailed deer thrive on human habitation especially agricultural. There are more now than ever. The moving into the others’ area is mutual.
We’ve created it by a) providing a whole lot of excellent deer habitat (they love a mixture of woods and open spaces; deep woods or open plains not so much) and b) wiping out, in much of their range, all of their natural predators except for us.
And yes, they do massive ecological damage. And then, after they’ve eaten everything within reach including what other species needed to eat and all the new growth which should have replaced the trees and all the undergrowth species, they starve to death over the winter.
We badly need deer hunters. We need, however, deer hunters who both know what they’re doing and give a damn about doing it right. And aren’t drunk, at least until after they put the guns away for the night (though the ones who both know and care what they’re doing won’t be drunk while they’re hunting in any case.)
Of course.
Suburbia is what Sububia is.
When you go to buy a house in a suburb called “Deer Ridge” or “Deer Run” you might get what you’re paying for.
Plant your grass and shrubs thoughtfully.