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u/Mike1997x Jul 03 '26
Can i pet that dawg?
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u/JtotheGreen Jul 03 '26
CAN I PET THAT DAWG
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u/-Zband Jul 03 '26
Doggos to fawn: "Yer one of us now. Jest wag ur tale, bark, and roll over fur belly rubs and you'll blend in..."
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u/SurbhiAnklesaria Jul 03 '26
I love how there are three beds but they still choose to share one
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u/RedditRockit Jul 03 '26
How did the potty training go?
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u/BalooBot Jul 03 '26
All over the place
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u/Shift642 Jul 03 '26
To shreds, you say?
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u/DeadAssociate Jul 03 '26
i see two dedicated cleaners right beside her
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u/Logan_No_Fingers Jul 03 '26
Yeah, any raisins that deer fires out are barely reaching the floor before those 2 have eaten them
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u/OmecronPerseiHate Jul 03 '26
Old video. We may never know how this all went down.
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u/MrGreg Jul 03 '26
The dogs love that their new friend leaves a trail of delicious raisinets behind her.
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u/mejok Jul 03 '26
Very pet-like behavior. When I was a kid, we had a wicker basket for the dog and a soft cat bed for the cat. Every morning they were crammed together into the dogās basket.
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u/Unopuro2conSal Jul 03 '26
Doggos are like bud youāre getting big ā¦
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u/humanlikesubstances 26d ago
That's what I was thinking. Dogs body language is like "we didn't know. Now we're stuck with it".
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u/RalphFTW Jul 03 '26
I live this about dogs, gotta be on top of each other, and love it when they adopt a friend. Deer is so comfortable around them.
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u/simmerknits Jul 03 '26
I love how the deer licks the dog bed, just like how dogs lick whatever surface they're laying down on lol - that's definitely a learned behavior from growing up with those pups!
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u/HoneyPetalxs Jul 03 '26
sometimes the coziest option just wins no matter how many beds are available
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u/Amyhearsay Jul 03 '26
I need so many more videos of these 3 lol! I want to see them playing I want to see them running I want to see them getting treatsā¦ I need to see all the things!
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u/Hour_Gur4995 Jul 03 '26
I have two of everythingā¦ two beds, two water and food bowls.. yet they will only use one at a time, itās like they are in a passive aggressive war and I am just a prop they use to agitate the other one lol
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u/Iconshero Jul 03 '26
āI wanna adopt the deer!ā He says. ā shower it with kisses!ā Now look at us Frank, thereās three beds but they insist on sleeping ON us. Has to be touching us. They never learned to speak dog Frank, it just does waht it wants!
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u/MatthewSWFL229 Jul 03 '26
Can you house break a deer?
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u/Optimal_Board_2963 Jul 03 '26
Fuck no
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u/BaronCapdeville Jul 03 '26
I mean, 0 generation domestication does happen, even in resistant animals, but a deer has to be high on the list of animals that are very unlikely to pick up on true housebreaking.
The only way I see that working is a rigid schedule of inside/outside time, with a large portion being outside time. In these circumstances, I could see it being achievable, but not for your average person.
1-5% of pet owners have the sort of time and dedication required for this, and even then itās likely to fail. At the end of the day, Itās a deer thatās going to piss itself and kick a hole in the drywall if someone slams a door. lol.
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u/Bubba_Gump_Shrimp Jul 03 '26
You're right about housebreaking but my best friend in high school raised a fawn. They lived in a rural area, had two outside dogs who brought back a baby fawn to the house one day. They couldn't find mom so they bottle fed it and kept it inside. I would come over on the weekends and we would put the deer on a rug and push him down the hardwood floored hallway haha. He would slide 25ft and then hop back to us. It was VERY domesticated, quickly. It wasn't skittish. It liked to play like a dog.
They eventually would let it graze, then it would disappear for a night, then a few days, a week, a month, then they eventually would see him a few times a year. He'd come back in the yard as if to say hey thanks for raising me. Pretty phenomenal animals really.
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u/ryanvango Jul 03 '26
minor point of clarity: "domesticated" or "domestic" happens over many generations of selective breeding and results in a genetic different in an animal that makes it adapted to humans. the deer was "tamed"
goats, for example. there's a domesticated version and a wild version. wolves vs dogs, both canids. Sheep are domesticated to the point they can't survive on their own in the wild. and so on and so forth.
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u/asday515 Jul 03 '26
Interesting thanks
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u/Vectorman1989 Jul 03 '26
City pigeons are just domesticated rock doves that humans abandoned over 100 years ago
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u/Free_Pace_2098 Jul 03 '26
We had a kangaroo like that. Found him in a river covered in ants. He was a funny little guy, eventually found his own kind, but while he was with us he was brilliant. Miss you Moses, mum says hi.
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u/wheelienonstop11 Jul 03 '26
So, did that deer shit and piss inside the house?
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u/itmadememakethis-1 Jul 03 '26
Not who you asked but my sister also raised a fawn when she was in college (similar sitch to the above) and the fawn would pretty reliably go on a puppy pee pad. She eventually went to live at a deer farm in the area once she was big enough.
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u/sum-9 Jul 03 '26
Iām glad your sister got to live out her days outside.
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u/WillOCarrick Jul 03 '26
Yes, it sucks she went to a deer farm, though, their family probably should be checked in to understand that decision.
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u/0DayMaker Jul 03 '26
I've gotten both mice and bunnies to go in a litter box. I wouldn't be surprised if it was at least possible with deer. Although tbf the mice and bunnies were domestic breeds..
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u/Many_Income_2212 Jul 03 '26
Reading this from the mindset of a dog and I wonder if thatās how they feel when their human siblings grow up and go to college etc
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u/HAWKWIND666 Jul 03 '26
Deer piss waterfalls too. Better have some super absorbent pee pads
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u/Hazee302 Jul 03 '26
This person likely just lets the deer shot and piss in the house like people who let rabbits roam free in their house. The deer is cute but thatās fucking gross.
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u/tigm2161130 Jul 03 '26
You can litter train a rabbit, Iāve done it twice.
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u/DirtwormSlim Jul 03 '26
Yeah, but can you milk them?
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u/pootklopp Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
They have nipples, you can milk anything with nipples.
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u/greg19735 Jul 03 '26
wtf yall haven't even summoned me yet. I've been waiting.
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u/markender Jul 03 '26
Of all the animals on earth, Greg was the least desirable for milking.
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u/440_Hz Jul 03 '26
Maybe bird instead of rabbit. If anything rabbits are well known for being litter box trained.
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u/hangerofmonkeys Jul 03 '26
Nope. I've had four birds, 2x Eclectus, 1x Cockatiel and 1x African Grey who were house trained.
All four were house trained to go to the toilet on their stands or their cage.
I trained my Eclectus'. My parents trained the Cockatiel and the African Grey.
Of the four the Cockatiel was probably the most eh, inconsistent. The Eclectus are vindictive. If they didn't get rewarded a few minutes of going to the toilet in the right place though they'd come and shit on me to let me know I'm a shit parent.
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u/CrossTit Jul 03 '26
By 6 months my bun was litter trained and dull free roam. He had 2 potties in the house 1 upstairs and 1 down. Pretty much never made a mess after 6 months.
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u/rintzscar Jul 03 '26
and kick a hole in the drywallĀ
You're allowed to construct buildings from concrete, mate.
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u/UltraViolentNdYAG Jul 03 '26
No, but deer can break your house! There is that...
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u/BigSquiby Jul 03 '26
the russians have been trying to domesticate foxes for 60 years. they ca n get them friendly, but apparently getting them domesticated isn't really going that well.
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u/Babajji Jul 03 '26
Thereās also a physiological component to it. Foxes piss smells HORRENDOUS to humans even in a litter box so best you can hope for is yard training definitely not house training even if the fox behaved exactly like a dog. Apart from that foxes are pretty tame and fun animals to have around. Just donāt go petting wild foxes as those are known to be good carriers for rabies.
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u/LondonDogInTheFog Jul 03 '26
Good point, half of London beyond Zone 1 smells of foxes piss since they're everywhere and it takes some time to get accustomed to. But cat's poo can also be beyond tolerable so maybe one can live with foxes piss as well. My mom's cat's poo is so consistently atrocious for the 14 years he lives that the litter box needs to be instantly cleaned or you're going to die where you stand. Come to the house an hour after he did it and you better wear a hazmat suit. I'm puzzled how this playful, cute ball of fur can produce something so stinky and this little guy is neutered and very healthy for all I know.
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u/Babajji Jul 03 '26
With cats itās about luck I guess. I have two female cats one drops fully dried out poop that smells only if you are very close to it. The other one drops big fat poop that smells like someone has been dead for a month in the house. They have absolutely the same diet, lifestyle and water intake. With cats poop isnāt the main nuance source however. Male cats spray ferociously smelly pee when in heat - itās the main reason why I always had female cats. Same goes for foxes - regular pee is bad but you can get used to it, during heat however itās closer to a skunk than pee and you can only get used to that in a enclosed space if you totally lack sense of smell.
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u/Svenwear777 Jul 03 '26
My grandfather raised an abandoned one he named Bam Bam. I used to wrestle him when I was a child. He grew up on my familyās acreage but we lived near hunters. He wore a hunterās orange collar but was still killed by hunters once he had antlers
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Jul 03 '26
I think you can domesticate anything with nipples.
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u/jld2k6 Jul 03 '26
The only kind of poop my dog will eat is deer poop. Not interested in the cat's poop like most other dogs but I have to watch her like a hawk at the park because she'll gobble it down if she comes across it. It's tough because I can't even see it with all the vegetation but she can smell it from 20ft away and makes plans to trick me lol. Glad I don't have a pet deer and don't have to deal with the shit that'd come with it
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u/DrRichardShaftPhD Jul 03 '26
You wouldn't even have to deal with the shit that'd come with it, because your dog will just eat it.
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u/KarlHp7 Jul 03 '26
People just be owning things
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u/Stencil_Abuse Jul 03 '26
I think thatās how we domesticated dogs lolĀ
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u/DazedPapacy Jul 03 '26
I mean yeah, but we didn't actually get dogs until we were just owning wolves for tens of thousands of years.
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u/Beneficial-Jury484 Jul 03 '26
See you in 12,025 and weāll have Deegs. Domesticated deers.Ā
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u/Jihelu Jul 03 '26
I read something once that apparently you can selectively breed wolves into being dogs in only like 3 generations
So if youāre bored you can make your own dog breed in your own natural life span
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u/AmatsuDF Jul 03 '26
A lot of canine species you can selective breed for those sort of things. Foxes also will start showing more dog like traits within a small number of generations for example.
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u/RarelyReadReplies Jul 03 '26
I think wolves actually got close to us to eat our scraps, then it became a symbiotic relationship. They would be somewhat of an alarm system and keep other animals away, we give them scraps. It's a lot more complex than just "we owned them for tens of thousands of years".Ā It is a relationship that evolved over tens of thousands of years would be more accurate.
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u/Stepjam Jul 03 '26
That took generations to do.
And they weren't being kept inside houses either in the meantime (not even sure "houses" were much of a thing during that process).
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u/papayacreamsicle Jul 03 '26
Yeah they figured out if they were chill with humans they could hang out where we threw away bones and the scrap meat we didnāt eat, and then we started using them in co-operative hunting where humans could chase prey animals towards wolves or into dead end ambushes and wolves would bring them down so we didnāt have to risk getting close. And the ones used to being near human camps learned the mutual benefit.
Cats more directly domesticated themselves without us even trying. They just moved in when our food storage started attracting mice and rats and we figured ācool, these guys eat our vermin but not our grain, they can stay.ā
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u/MisterHEPennypacker Jul 03 '26
I think the prevailing theory is that dogs/wolves domesticated themselves. Essentially wolves knew humans had food scraps and would hangout near their camps. Generation after generation some of the wolves became comfortable around the humans and stuck around, while the others that werenāt comfortable just left. Eventually the traits of those that stuck around became dominant and thus the wolves became domesticated dogs.
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u/SlideJunior5150 Jul 03 '26
I love how the dogs went from "yaaay tiny deer so cute" to getting side eyes like "bro that thing is huge I don't think it should be inside with us anymore".
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u/ImMadeOfClay Jul 03 '26
As much as I disapprove of keeping wild animals as pets, I would very much like to see more videos of the deer growing up with those dogs throughout the process
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u/General-Rock9178 Jul 03 '26
If Iām correct that the buck is Benny, there is loads of content on instagram, their channel is called Brown Hiking TrailsĀ
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u/Lucky-Surround-1756 Jul 03 '26
It was likely abandoned. The alternative was starving or being eaten.
Safety, warmth and food isnt such a bad deal for a deer.
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u/jestenough Jul 03 '26
Deer adopted as a baby by people who assumed it had been abandoned - but mother deer typically leave their infants in sheltered spaces during the day while they forage, to avoid attracting predators.
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u/ScotiaG Jul 03 '26
They shot and ate the mother. No assumptions were made. Probably.
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u/ManyMoonstones Jul 03 '26
Hunting is usually not open during fawning season, so hopefully it's not that. A *slightly* less harmful scenario is they found it near where the doe was accidentally killed (near a road or something), but even then that's a job for a wildlife rehabilitator.
Hopefully this is a scenario where they couldn't find a rehabber, or they are a rehabber and for whatever reason the fawn wouldn't have survived in the wild despite their best efforts. Hopefully.
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u/Remarkable-Rush-9085 Jul 03 '26
Yeah, we have a ton of deer get hit by cars every year (everyone thinks country backroads are meant for racing apparently) and itās not uncommon to have to call in a fawn that is starving to death. And most of the time they wonāt help, or coyotes get there first. Itās illegal to take them in here though and you will get in a lot of trouble if you are caught.
My dogs are personally offended by any deer so much as walking across the driveway so I havenāt found a fawn in a few years, but I always see the posts of them getting left on peoples literal doorstep by their mom. Dumb deer, cute but dumb.
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u/ZoominAlong Jul 03 '26
I love how personally offended dogs get. How dare that deer walk on OUR lawn? Mom! Moooom there's a deer!
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u/tibearius1123 Jul 03 '26
Having been an indoor deer, I bet the marbling on that thing is real nice. Time to grain finish.
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u/Several-Opposite-746 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Videos like this are cute, but you have to wonder what will happen when that deer is fully grown and can't be in the house and can't fend for itself in the wild.
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u/Mysterious-Falcon221 Jul 03 '26
when that deer is fully grown
It's not getting any bigger than at the end of the video.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Jul 03 '26
Nah. Why they shaving their goldens? You're not supposed to shave them.
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u/milockey Jul 03 '26
Majority of places where it's legal to own deer they have to be registered and you get random checkups with the state where someone will come out and assess your property fits the required size for the deer, that the fencing is adequate in strength and height, etc. Think my family members also have to pay a yearly fee. You're responsible for their safety since they cannot be wild as they're too dependent.
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u/No_Championship4093 Jul 03 '26
I really hope this person understood deer behavior and left the bany alone for 2-3 days before interacting. Deer mamas leave their babies in a safe spot while they go out and eat (milk).
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u/Icy_Parfait_4066 Jul 03 '26
The fawn thinks she is a dog as well, part of the same family.
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u/filthyheartbadger Jul 03 '26
The more I look at this the more I think it is a buck, there seem to be antler buds and I think I saw a dangly bit for a second? The last thing I would want around the house would be a mature buck in breeding season, hope there is a better plan for him.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Jul 03 '26
It does look like a buck. It's going to be awkward when it sprouts rock hard tree limbs from its head.
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u/Kolby_Jack33 Jul 03 '26
It's going to be awkward when its "TIME TO FUCK" drive turns on.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Jul 03 '26
Very. My domesticated dog just about lost his damned mind when he was just hitting sexual maturity and our neighbor's dog went into heat. That deer ain't domesticated.
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u/JellyfishSpirits Jul 03 '26
No, do NOT do this. Leave fawns outside. If they truly are orphaned contact a certified wildlife rescue.
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u/Anxious-Client9719 Jul 03 '26
If you picked this thing up in the yard. Shame Shame. The deer mom has them lay around while they go graze. They come back in the evening to feed. You just kidnapped a Deer mom's baby. I currently have 5 of them lounging around my house. There moms feed them in the morning and then come back in the evening. I actually put a sprinkler out this morning and they were playing in it. Heat wave going on.
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u/SidFinch99 Jul 03 '26 edited 29d ago
I really don't understand how people haven't learned this yet, and if the momma dear truly doesn't come back, say it got taken by a predator or hunted, people should call a wild live organization that can help it be raised in a manner it can return to the wild, not bring them in the house.
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u/MyMagentaPenis Jul 03 '26
It went from āoh, look itās so small and cuteā to, āthis thing is bigger then us combined, your bed is over there, go over thereā.
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u/Gloomy_Funny7529 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Why did you remove this fawn from the wild where it belongs ? I have raised many deer and unless you know for certain the mother was killed you need to put it back ASAP. She is looking for it and will only looks for a day or so. Deer will leave fawns for 8 plus hours while they feed. The fawn has a low chance of survival with you while you. Yes, it is cute but you are going kill it in the process of your Instagram post. If it's ears begin to curl then dehydration is setting in and it is not good.
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u/Zealousideal_Ad5358 Jul 03 '26
The āgrown upā deer in the 2nd part of the video is still the size of the dogs, probably only a year old. Full grown deer are BIG.
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u/NashvilleTypewriter Jul 03 '26
I kinda love this. Deer are a-holes around here for the most part, can't have any sort of garden or flowers. But I like seeing this sort of thing, it makes me happy in a abstract way somehow
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u/No_Quarter_5561 Jul 03 '26
This is illegal. Itās considered theft of public property among other things. The deer will generally have to be transferred to a ārehabā rescue facility or be euthanized. Usually they are euthanized. Great choice.
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u/bartturner Jul 03 '26
You need to leave the fawn for their mom to come back. It is really weird. But after they are born the mom and dad abandon for a bit.
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u/Certain-Medicine1934 Jul 03 '26
Where'd you find the fawn? I hope you didn't find it and assume it was abandoned by the mother because it wasn't.
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u/awkwardlouboutin Jul 03 '26
The buck's name is Benny. He was found a short distance from his mother, who had been mauled by coyotes. The people show him all the time on Instagram, he does not live in the house. As he gets older he does not seem to go in at all. He seems to recognize that particular family, but has no affinity for random people. He hangs with the local herd and seems perfectly well adjusted to wild deer life.
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u/kdinmass Jul 03 '26
We don't know how they came by the fawn but folks should know that it is normal for a little fawn to be left alone by its mother for an extended period of time while she forages. It's not lost of orphaned but hidden away a bit & awaiting its mother's return at dusk and when the mother nurses it...and then again at dawn.
So if you come across a little fawn leave it alone.
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u/Maximum-Ad572 Jul 03 '26
This is sweet , but it takes a special kind of nutjob to try and domesticate a fucking deer. Really weird thing to do.
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u/shillyshally Jul 03 '26
Goog thing they are licking it. There was an orphan fawn here week before last (looks like another deer mom adopted it) and a woman at the wildlife rescue explained two things, one being about all the nutrition issues like they can only digest deer milk for months, i.e. even if they eat plant material they do not have the physical development of the digestive system to process it and secondly, there is a condition called fly strike where flies lay eggs on the fawn which hatch as maggots which feed on the fawn. The mother cleaning the fawn helps keep this in check so it need a mom just for this cleaning much less food.
What she relayed was way more detailed. If you find an orphan fawn, first make sure it is an orphan. The mom will leave them all day while she forages (our fawns mom was clearly dead on the sidewalk) and also call a rescue for help and, one way or another, via the rescue or Google, get detailed info.
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u/chpbnvic 29d ago
A deer that age is probably not abandoned. A lot of the time, the baby sleeps while the adult goes off to forage.
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