Just a small road hazard

8NTX · Jun 27, 2005

Our driveway is a long, dirt road (sugar sand) through heavy woods with a couple of blind turns. Yesterday, I was in a rush to get to the local TSC before they closed, and as I rounded a turn I scared off a deer out of the road. But there was something else.... a rabbit maybe? Nope. A tiny newborn fawn. I managed to skid to a stop about 4 or 5 feet before hitting it. I got out to check and it was trying to find it's legs and scoot out of the way. By the size of it, probably not more than a day or two old.

TonyV · Jun 27, 2005

Great picture 8NTX!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

8NTX · Jun 27, 2005

Thanks!

But it's really not all that great. All we had was my wife's cell phone camera and it doesn't do that good of a job.

Steve

BubbaJr · Jun 27, 2005

I wouldn't be surprised if you could measure that fawn's age in hours rather than days. It's pretty neat to see nature doing what it's supposed to do. Thanks for the picture. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Jagmandave · Jun 28, 2005

Now wait a minute, I know baby anythings are cute and all, but aren't those the same animals you guys are all erecting electric fences and so on to keep away? Might not be the popular thing, but maybe killing it would have been better? Don't mean to be the scrooge here, but there are a LOT of threads on this forum on how to get rid of pesky deer........

This just seems like it's going to be this fall or next springs's problem....

Junkman · Jun 29, 2005

I can't believe that you would even post such a thing. Give it a chance and it might turn out to be another Bambi....

Jagmandave · Jun 29, 2005

yeah, another Bambi that you guys will be talking about how you hunted it during the fall, or that you shot because it was in your garden or something.............I knew this wouldn't be a popular position, but is sure seems hypocritical to want this one to survive just because it's cute and others to die..........

newtothis · Jun 29, 2005

( I knew this wouldn't be a popular position ) 

I cringed at first then almost laughed at how it isn't PC to say such things. My wife has gone from "you just want to shoot anything that walks" when I go after coons, possums and groundhogs in our yard to "kill em all" after they started eating all her plants and destroying bird feeders. Mind you it's just the listed critters, not the deer out of season.

I for one just planted 3 acres of crops for food plots and intend on another 2 or so before the summers done. I'm now like a mad scientist checking on them each night to see the growth all the while taking my camera as there is always deer in them. I get as much pleasure seeing them now, maybe even more so, as I do during the hunting season.

Slamfire · Jun 30, 2005

That ain't no Bambi, it can't talk. Next year it'll be a "Yearling" and just like his mom told Jodie that thing will be jumpin' a 9" high fence to git at the sweet corn in the kitchen garden. Then his pappy'll git bit by a timber rattler and have to drink a gallon or so of corn squeezin's but the corn got et by the yearling and so he'll die. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Lots of apologies to Gregory Peck and the rest of the cast and crew for the slight modification of the story line but this ain't the movin' picture show. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon · Jun 30, 2005

Good thing the area I live in has no poisonous snakes. Cause there sure ain't no corn to make the squeesins with cause the long legged rats ate all the corn.

Egon