Video. Nature really is red in tooth and claw. Dog and cat lovers may want to look away. I had no idea deer were that powerful (what sort of a deer is that, it seems a lot bigger than the ones we get in the UK?). That dog just gets mangled under the legs of the deer. I hope it survived :eek:
ETA: God damnit! A baby deer is a fawn, not a foal. Can’t edit the title :smack:
Normal-sized deer for the US. The cat was cute at the beginning, but it sure couldn’t take a hint.
Dogs should be on leashes in public, and based on this evidence, kept well away from female deer with young nearby.
I love dogs, but this was the owner’s fault.
That’s a White-tail, prevalent throughout much of eastern North America. Yeah, like most wild animals don’t mess with its young. Does have hooves, bucks have antlers and neither is afraid to use them. A whole lot of people too have been hurt very badly after thinking “Oh look at Bambi, let me get a little closer.”
The deer are whitetail. That was a mature old doe; I’d be surprised if she only had 1 fawn. And yeah, I’m not surprised that she beat the chit outta that dog. The cat probably was only curious about the fawn, but a cat can easily take down and kill something a little bigger than itself. The fawn certainly appeared to be newborn and still a little wet.
Coincidentally there’s a story in the front of this month’s Cook’s Illustrated magazine about a friend of the editor who claims he once tried to lasso a young buck deer with the intention of pen-raising him on corn then killing him after he was all fattened up. The way the guy told it (to the editor, who then relays it on to the readers), the deer ended up dragging him at high speeds by the rope for quite a distance, biting his forearm and bearing down on the bite (when the “captor” reconsidered his plan and tried to remove the rope), and finally kicking him, to the point where the guy had to take refuge under his truck until the deer went away.
And I thought it was bad when a cousin of mine was run over by a deer when he and his friends were attempting to “drive” the deer out of a cornfield. Deer are not to be messed with.
Ferret Herder, I was just in Snopes trying to see if that famous ‘Bambulance / Deer, Dog and Inebriated Driver’ story had ever been dispelled and I saw the story you mention. They say yours is probably to be believed, no reason to think otherwise. The other story, maybe not but it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard… "I was minding my own M^%(& F*%##@$ business…"*
On the other hand, you have this.
Yup - that’s a white-tail deer. They’re everywhere in the eastern US. We get them in the back yard fairly often. Normally mild and shy, they don’t do much more damage than browsing on crops or landscaping. But when cornered or defending their young, they can do a lot of damage in a very short time. Those hooves are hard, and they are sharp, too.
Like someone commented on the youtube page, the dog may have been identified as a wolf by the deer, and it used the tools it had to deal with the situation. Too bad, and I hope it wasn’t injured too seriously. In my view, the owner(s) of the animals were ignorant and at fault.
Additionally, they’re damn tasty.
Is there a follow-up? I hope the doggie was OK.
Did you see how the cat set it all up? Devious bastard.
That cat is a creepy little stalker.
That dog must have had some broken bones for sure, that one big back kick looked like it almost knocked it out. I hope he was okay. You’ve got to keep your dog away from wildlife.
It’s Pedobear’s friend, Pedocat.
Are you kidding? British red deer are big. Up to 190 Kg of pure muscle, bone, and sinew (not much brain, alas).
I’d say that “leave young wild animals alone, and keep your children and pets away from them” is a pretty good rule to live by.
It also shows why it is unwise to let your pets roam free.
In all fairness, given how close they were, I don’t think I would have wanted to be the guy holding the end of the leash when Angry Mom’s decided “dog too close”.
Mind you, if I saw a new mamma deer (ETA: any wild animal bigger than a squirrel), I’d been making sure my dog was hidden out of sight and not even on the front porch.
The stupid cat probably wouldn’t have gotten smacked if it hadn’t punched Mamma on the nose.
I doubt that mama deer liked that her fawn had predator scent rubbed all over it.
“You gave my kid cat cooties!” :: smack! ::
Now you can see why wolves and coyotes hunt as a pack. 
By the way, the video was titled Cranbrook Deer so that puts the incident at Cranbrook, BC, Canada.