"Do you have a little doe?" "Yeah! About three bucks!"

[veronica_rich]

Everyone else on LiveJournal can backyard-bird all they like. It would seem that some select few of us have backyard deer.

Four of them yesterday evening, all big does in the woods off to this side of the apartment complex. It was like playing Where's Waldo? You'd see one and then catch movement and spot another. I brought Sylvester over to look out the window, and I thought he was going to have a myocardial infarction. When I put him down, he was rotating his ears and bobbing his head around up and down to get the best view of them - you know, like it's the Serengeti and they're gazelle? "Sure," I told him, "you go right for it. Never mind they're all about seven times your size. And have longer legs."

(I don't have a deer icon, so I guess I'll have to give you Sylvester instead.)


In the way of more AWE spoilers, a couple of passages someone posted from the jr. novelization over thisaway.

ETA: Go to Google Maps and "Get Directions." Tell it you want to go from New York to London, then scroll down to #23 on the step-by-step directions.

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[ballincollig.livejournal.com]

My sig other has a male Maine Coon cat named Miro who's not entirely right in the head. They live in a fairly rural area and they see deer regularly pass through the yard. One day, Miro, outside on his morning constitutional, spied a buck in the backyard and took off after him. And the deer? He ran away from the crazy cat.

[philosophercat.livejournal.com]

Ah, maine coons...

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

Munchkin gets to see it all from her perch on the sewing machine in the back bedroom. While we live "in town," there is a very large deer population and about four lay claim to my backyard. When Muncher was a kitten she would freak over the deer asleep between our flower beds and garage each night. Now, she is just content to watch and talk to them through the glass.

As for the Google Maps, that is beyond funny! Like they can't sell you a plane ticket!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Syl likes to go outside, but he hasn't done it much since we moved here. I can only guess the colder, windier Midwest is bothering him too much.

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

We literally have Munch on a leash for outside trips and it pisses her off. One of us following her makes her made and she typically ends up hissing at me so she will be alone. It doesn't work.

[philosophercat.livejournal.com]

Awwwwr! I totally know the kitty radar thing. My kitty would be doing the same.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yep. Little rotating dishes ...

"beep beep beep beep beepbeepbeepbeepBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP!"

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Deer? Them's good eatin' =)

I don't know how my cat would deal with seeing that. It would be quite a step up from chipmunks.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, Sylvester's caught enough chipmunks in his life, too. When we were down South, he used to catch squirrels, chipmunks, mice and birds on a regular basis. Once or twice, a rabbit. And last winter, he killed a small owl that attacked him at night (but he didn't eat that one, I think because he didn't consider it prey). Been too cold and windy here to do any proper hunting, yet.

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Aww, now I'm missing living back home in Bear Grass. There was many a night where you could sit out on our back steps and see a whole herd of deer on the edge of our property grazing. The cats I had growing up all got used to seeing them back there.

The one thing I never saw at the edge of our property was a bear. Durn it all, when we had a momma bear and her cub strolling through the back of our neighborhood, nobody thought to wake me up so that I could see them! Just because I worked third shift back then, grrrrr...

Now I'm stuck here at work, and all I wanna do is make the two hour drive back to Bear Grass and watch deer. I guess I'll have to settle for dodging the deer along our driveway here at work when I leave after midnight. Have fun deer watching with Sylvester! :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

That's the only day I've seen the deer. I hope they come back again when the cold and wind passes (you know, when SPRING finally catches up with the Midwest).

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Spring? What is this "spring" of which you speak? Is that when we finally have more than five days of temperatures in the low to mid 70s in a row? Please let me know if you find out that this "spring", if that is indeed what it is, is finally coming to North Carolina to stay.

Thus far, all I have seen cold, pollen and rain. Mix those up in any order you desire, we've had it. Plus some places got snow flurries last weekend. This "spring" you speak of - I believe it has gotten lost getting here.

[nobleplatypus]

I had a close encounter with deer as well, just yesterday! I was bringing food out to the ducks, and noticed three does out in the woods. I held really still, and they hopped the fence and strolled right on by me... got within 20 feet. They must not have smelled me because there was no wind to speak of. Still, it was really cool.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Deer are odd. Sometimes you can walk right by them with no reaction, and other times, you can get within half a mile and they run off.

[nobleplatypus]

We've had some that are just bold as brass. A few years ago there was a real troublemaker that didn't seem afraid of us at all... we would yell and throw clods of dirt at it, and it would just stand there chewing on Mom's hostas without a care in the world. :P

[tesan.livejournal.com]

I used to have deer in my yard during the summertime but my neighbors, fed up with having their flowers eaten, drove the deer away by shooting at them. Rednecks. *sigh* They're the only group I'm prejudiced against -- if you don't count the rest of the whole fuckin' human race. :P

I'm sure my cats would freak if they ever saw a deer. Being indoor kitties, they get overly worked up when they can look at a squirrel outside.

"ETA: Go to Google Maps and 'Get Directions.' Tell it you want to go from New York to London, then scroll down to #23 on the step-by-step directions."

LOL Yeah, that whole "swim across the Atlantic for 3,000 miles" would kind of put a damper on the trip, don't you think? ;)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's Tourist Season! Shouldn't you be hearing "Howdy, Y'all!" through the woods right about now? ;-)

[tesan.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I've been listening to that, off and on, for two months, already. "Hey bear! Howdy y'all! How y'all doing?" Ka-BOOOOM! :P

Someday I'm going to blow that place up. And then they'll hear what a REAL "Ka-BOOOOM!" sounds like. :P

But I'm not bitter. :P