"Suja" wrote in message
news:XJgyd.1938$Tf5.1272@lakeread03...
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| Since I brought that up in another thread....
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| If your dog(s) ever decide to engage a buck with very pointy horns that
| is standing its ground and stomping its feet, don't just stand there
| laughing your head off, and looking for a camera. Them SOBs can be
ORNERY!


oooh, I hope the pups are ok, although I suspect if not you would have
posted so. Careful!

"Suja" wrote:

I can laugh about it now. It was scary, especially after I got my wits
about, and realized that those horns could've done serious damage to us.

Heck, they don't even need the antlers. From what I've heard, if a deer
gets serious, and decides to slash with the hooves, s/he can badly injure or
even kill a human being, let alone a dog.
IIRC, there's more than one case on record of humans being injured or
killed by "pet" deer.

"Suja" wrote:

This was definitely a boy. He was large, with a very nice set of
antlers on him. And like I said, he was pissed.

I wonder if it's rutting season? IIRC, deer - like sheep (Rodgers and
Hammerstein had it wrong!G) - mate in the late fall/winter so the babies
can be born in the spring.

In article , Sionnach wrote:
I wonder if it's rutting season?

Yes. Tail end up here, anyway.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Imaginary stock returns don't offset real benefit cuts

Sionnach wrote:
I wonder if it's rutting season?

That'd certainly explain the 'tude. We interrupted his Menage a whatever.

All this brings up the question of what to do when this happens the next
time, 'cause it will certainly happen again. I have the option of
chasing the deer off myself, or sitting back and watching them as they
eat all my precious plants into the ground.

Suja

In article 5PJyd.2048$Tf5.1145@lakeread03,
Suja wrote:
All this brings up the question of what to do when this happens the next
time, 'cause it will certainly happen again. I have the option of
chasing the deer off myself, or sitting back and watching them as they
eat all my precious plants into the ground.

I don't think they can be chased off permanently. The guy
who delivered my fruit trees suggested hanging little bars
of soap from each of the trees, and someone who lives about
a mile from here hangs unwanted AOL CDs on hers (she says
they work just fine). I have cages around my trees but the
bucks stick their antlers into them and pull them off (I
found one about 30 feet from the tree, so he really threw it
with some gusto), so I need to get those anchored more
firmly in the spring.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Imaginary stock returns don't offset real benefit cuts

Sionnach said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

I wonder if it's rutting season? IIRC, deer - like sheep
(Rodgers and Hammerstein had it wrong!G) - mate in the
late fall/winter so the babies can be born in the spring.

Yup - at least those around here (mostly mule deer and a few
white tails). That's why I mentioned to Suja that the fawns
would be Pan-sized about now.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

In article ,
dogsnus wrote:
When we used that device,we also used a metallic tape with
red on one side,and silver on the other.

Stupid question - tied to the trees?
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Imaginary stock returns don't offset real benefit cuts

Suja wrote:

All this brings up the question of what to do when this happens the next
time, 'cause it will certainly happen again. I have the option of
chasing the deer off myself, or sitting back and watching them as they
eat all my precious plants into the ground.

A couple of suggestions. Buy some mountain lion urine and sprinkle it around.
You'll have to refresh it occasionally.
Also, electric fence treated with peanut butter. The deer licks the peanut
butter, gets zapped and stays away. Of course the dogs would have to go out on
lead until the deer had learned not to get near the fencing.

Beth

WHERE in the world can a person buy big cat urirne?
I used to buy zoo doo back when i lived in seattle.. kept the neighborhood
kitties from crappin in my flowers


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"Sionnach" wrote in
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"Suja" wrote:

I can laugh about it now. It was scary, especially after I got my wits
about, and realized that those horns could've done serious damage to
us.

Heck, they don't even need the antlers. From what I've heard, if a
deer
gets serious, and decides to slash with the hooves, s/he can badly
injure or even kill a human being, let alone a dog.
IIRC, there's more than one case on record of humans being injured or
killed by "pet" deer.

When I was a kid,(back when dirt was a precious commodity),my Dad found a
fawn in a hayfield that had been injured during a mowing.He brought home
this fawn who still had his spots,and we named him Charlie Brown.
We bottle fed it and got to know a lot about deer in general by
caring for him.
I spent a lot of time doing my one of my favorite past times and that
isbserving.

Charlie Brown's feet were *sharp* as in,he could slice up a snake,lizard
or
any other thing he chose to slice,had he had all of his legs.

Then,there was the time in Idaho,when it was very cold and a lot
of deep snow fell that year and the local Game Warden down the road
went to feed the elk with some hay bales.
He managed to somehow **** of the bull royally by suggesting to
the bull that the man and SUV were encroaching upon his harem.

The bull proceeded to chase him back to his SUV where it then proceeded to
beat the living crap out of his automobile with his hooves and antlers.
When the elk got through with the vehicle,a photograph was taken
of it. There wasn't enough body of the vechicle left to identify
the make and model.


Terri



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And puhlease - stop with the eating of two-dimensional things! You'l put
an
uvula out!
Dave Delaney-ARK