upfrombottom
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I have gotten a few e-mails and PMs about my avatar and want to say a few things about it here.
This doe's name is Dosie. She was actually raised by a neighbor but was never penned so everybody in the area had a hand in raising her. She is 1 1/2 years now and she runs with the wild deer that are here. I see her almost everyday for a week and then I won't see her again for a month sometimes. Back in February we had an ice storm and some idiot ran over my mail box and destroyed it. I built a new post and was digging a hole for it and when I got finished, I leaned up against the fence to rest a spell. She snuck up behind me and stuck her nose in my ear, I nearly jumped over the entire road. I took the picture with my phone when I settled down.
She is very friendly and will let anyone pet her. She wears a orange collar so the hunters will leave her alone. Her favorite food is corn flakes (gave her a stale box once and have been buying her one every since) and I feed her when I see her. She also loves azaleas and keeps mine trimmed. I raised a buck deer a few years back and he got a little aggressive but she is like a kitten. It is not uncommon to see her with 5 or 6 other deer and it's kind of funny when the other deer run and she stands there trying to figure out why. I have a pasture about a 1/2 mile from here and have even seen her there twice, and she always comes up so I can pet her.
It is not illegal here to raise wildlife and people do it all the time but there is a limit to the number of each species you can legally keep. Disease control is the reason for that. When my kids were young they had all kinds. Each spring as the deer are birthing and wheat harvest is going on, there are many orphaned or abandoned deer found in the fields during the harvest. Many are killed because their instinct tells them to lay completely still and they are very hard to see from the inside of a dusty combine in 3 ft. tall wheat. Mother deer love to use the wheat fields to have their young and ,yes, sometimes the mother will come back to retrieve them; but, if they are real young most times its the coyotes that get them because they are vulnerable when left out in the open in the middle of a field.
This doe's name is Dosie. She was actually raised by a neighbor but was never penned so everybody in the area had a hand in raising her. She is 1 1/2 years now and she runs with the wild deer that are here. I see her almost everyday for a week and then I won't see her again for a month sometimes. Back in February we had an ice storm and some idiot ran over my mail box and destroyed it. I built a new post and was digging a hole for it and when I got finished, I leaned up against the fence to rest a spell. She snuck up behind me and stuck her nose in my ear, I nearly jumped over the entire road. I took the picture with my phone when I settled down.
She is very friendly and will let anyone pet her. She wears a orange collar so the hunters will leave her alone. Her favorite food is corn flakes (gave her a stale box once and have been buying her one every since) and I feed her when I see her. She also loves azaleas and keeps mine trimmed. I raised a buck deer a few years back and he got a little aggressive but she is like a kitten. It is not uncommon to see her with 5 or 6 other deer and it's kind of funny when the other deer run and she stands there trying to figure out why. I have a pasture about a 1/2 mile from here and have even seen her there twice, and she always comes up so I can pet her.
It is not illegal here to raise wildlife and people do it all the time but there is a limit to the number of each species you can legally keep. Disease control is the reason for that. When my kids were young they had all kinds. Each spring as the deer are birthing and wheat harvest is going on, there are many orphaned or abandoned deer found in the fields during the harvest. Many are killed because their instinct tells them to lay completely still and they are very hard to see from the inside of a dusty combine in 3 ft. tall wheat. Mother deer love to use the wheat fields to have their young and ,yes, sometimes the mother will come back to retrieve them; but, if they are real young most times its the coyotes that get them because they are vulnerable when left out in the open in the middle of a field.
