Deer at the table

[EddieWalker]

This is a video that you have to see, to believe.

It's a couple sitting down to eat a meal on their porch, or something outdoors. From our count, 14 deer are there, with half of them eating off the table with them.

All we could say while watching it was, "WOW."

Eddie

Deer For Breakfast - Yahoo! Video

 

[scott_vt]

All we could say while watching it was, "WOW."

Eddie

Deer For Breakfast - Yahoo! Video

Mornin Eddie,
Well thats about what I said too ! Very neat video, just amazing to have them that close and breaking the bread at your dinner table ! Thanks for sharing ! I might feel a bit different if the animal of choice was a mountain lion !

 

[motepoc]

Have seen that earlier, and it is an aqmazing video. My trouble is that most of the time when I fix a good meal, I have a bunch of hogs (two legged ones) come by and share. Don't really mind though, because most of the times it's one or more of the five kids along with various grandchildren (12).

One time about 15 years ago we were on vacation in Hilton Head, SC along with another couple. The other fellow liked to go to pawn shops looking for good buys. We went to this one on one of the side streets on the island and walked into the store and up to the counter. In just a second or two we were looking eye to eye with a cougar. The owner stepped out of the back and scolded the cougar and told her to get down and go lay down. Thank the lord she did what he said. He said that he had her for about a year now, and she was nothing more than a big house cat. The whole time we were in the store I kept my eye on her and the whole time she was swishing her tail like a house cat does when she wants to play. Was glad my friend didn't find anything he wanted to barter the owner for, cause I thought he had the best hand at the time.

 

[WayneB]

Nice one Eddie, sent off to a couple of my north country hunters! Deer season is right around the corner so it might give them a few ideas.

 

[N80]

We vacation every summer on Fripp Island near Beaufort, SC. (It is a resort island and the only reason I can vacation there is that my aunt has a house there that she lets us use for a week every summer.) In any case, the island is covered with deer. They eat all the nice green lawns and shrubs, they don't get hunted and they never leave the island and people feed them. They have grown extremely tame and some will eat out of your hand. It is very common to see them poking around in people's garages and walking up on porches. I've got some great pics that I'll try to post later.

On a similar subject, my dog was going bonkers the other morning and there were three does in my front yard in broad open daylight. We'd seen one deer in the back yard a few months ago, and we've noticed some shrubs and yard plants that had been eaten. But I live in the suburbs!

The truth is, we're destroying their natural habitat on the one hand and they are discovering that our habitat suits them just as well if not better. They are adapting and thriving in suburban environments. I think this has been true up north for a good many years now.

 

[saparks10]

This is a video that you have to see, to believe.

It's a couple sitting down to eat a meal on their porch, or something outdoors. From our count, 14 deer are there, with half of them eating off the table with them.

All we could say while watching it was, "WOW."

Eddie

Deer For Breakfast - Yahoo! Video

Yup... i'd say "wow" pretty much sums it up.

 

[J_J]

You guys have got to know that scene was staged. Did you notice that they made a special food for the deer. They have probably been feeding them for years. Wild deer just don't just come up and eat out of a human hand. They also had the video all set up as if it were a family gathering.

 

[saparks10]

You guys have got to know that scene was staged. Did you notice that they made a special food for the deer. They have probably been feeding them for years. Wild deer just don't just come up and eat out of a human hand. They also had the video all set up as if it were a family gathering.

Of course it was staged. Any hunter knows that BS wont fly with wild deer that are hunted. The woman even touched one of the deer. Some wild animals will become more people friendly over time though.

 

[EddieWalker]

You guys have got to know that scene was staged. Did you notice that they made a special food for the deer. They have probably been feeding them for years. Wild deer just don't just come up and eat out of a human hand. They also had the video all set up as if it were a family gathering.

J_J

I dont think anybody said that those deer just came out of nowhere and decided to join those folk for dinner. I imagine that they have spent years and years devoloping a level of trust with those deer in order for that to happen.

Of course, it might be that they are domestic deer, and kept behind a deer fence that forced them to become used to humans, but I didn't get the feel for that. High fence, deer operations don't normally keep the animals in and around object that they can hurt themselves. It's not worth the rist to a very expensive investment.

It could also be that those deer are in a neighborhood that never has and never will have hunting. The deer could be around people all the time, and just don't consider them to be a danger. Where my parents live, the homes are on 2 to 5 acre lots and there's no hunting of any kind. Road kill takes care of most of the deer as you'll see a dead one along the road almost every day. Those deer will walk right through your yard day or night and not even look at you. They will eat every flower that they can get to, and they will even go into a garage to eat dogfood!!!!

About ten years ago, a guy took some pictures of a buck that he was feeding in his backyard. He lived in an area of small ranchettes, but there was large acreage around him that people hunted on. That buck might have been the new world record, non-typical whitetail. It was absolutey massive with points everywhere!!!! He had been feeding it for years and the buck had no fear of him. But once that buck left his yard, he disapeared. Nobody ever saw him and he was never killed by a hunter. A buck that could be the new world record is posing for pictures in the guys backyard, but nobody can find him during hunting season tells me that they know where they are safe and they know where danger is.

Those does in that video may be totally wild and as soon as they leave what they consider a safe area, go into allert overdrive again.

There's just to many options to know, but it's a realy cool video and I'm glad that I was able to see it.

Eddie

 

[irwin]

What a build-up. !!!! Yeah this'll be great! Eddie says WOW!

Soo, I click on the link to watch this amazing deer flick ...beep!..beep!..beep!

" Sorry! this video is no longer available on yahoo! video"

What a let down ...

Anyone know where I can see it?