When I was going to work the other morning, My headlights lit up a buck standing at the edge of the road. Laying beside him was a doe with her head up, looking around. I thought it was odd, that the doe would be laying there intead of being chased by the buck at this time of year. They were about 15 yards from the road.

On my way home, I looked over where the doe was in the morning. There she was, dead.

I parked and walked over to see if it was the tame doe. She had a cawlik (sp) where the hair stood up on the back of her neck. She also had a swelled spot on her left jaw. Sure enough, both of these where there. It was her.

I looked for skid marks on the road, there were none. Just a few pieces of broken plastic. she may have been hit intentionally. Who knows?

I also saw several tufts of hair skattered all around where she was laying , yet it didn't appear that anything was feeding on her, such as a possum or skunk.

I then figired, that the tufts of hair were probably from the buck goring her with his antlers. The simple SOB was probably trying to get her to stand to breed her.

I called my wife and gave her the news. She saw her dead when she came home from work. She left an hour later and called to tell me that someone took her. She was no longer laying there.

Kinda makes me wonder if she wasn't hit intentionally and that person knew she was fresh enough to take to eat.

Always have people slowing down, when they ride by, to look at the deer in the yard. They spot our yard at night also. I don't mind it. I just woder if some YaHoo wdidn't want to fill his freezer.

Anyway, thanks guys for letting me vent. I'm surprised at the support. I guess us hunters aren't such a bad bunch of guys after all.