#also saw three adolescent bear triplets roll under some bushes next to a churchbushes

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Deer I have known more intimately than I wanted to:

1. The fawn our extremely friendly to other animals dog greeted (startling her out of hiding) that I then had to pick up to rescue from the OTHER dogs who were very curious and MY dog who was ten pounds and full of Murder. It was extremely damp and covered in gravel bits and dirt. I put it back in the woods after getting my siblings to corral all the dogs inside.

2. The deer that screamed at me because it was hiding (badly) beside the road and I was walking softly and startled it. It was a hot summer day, it screamed, I screamed, that’s when I learned deer scream! Yay!

3. The peeing deer in Astoria. We were driving through there for our honeymoon and walked up the big hill to their nice tower thing. There was a deer. Peeing. For a very very long time. Did you know that lady deer squat to pee? Now you do! What a memorable deer that was.

#close encounters of the cervidae kind #wildlife #deer #I was reminded of this by that post about large mammals in the US that’s doing the rounds #also saw three adolescent bear triplets roll under some bushes next to a churchbushes #in a ritzy neighborhood in Western NC #but that’s neither here nor bear