Deer adopted me!
03-29-2009, 06:09 PM
#39
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 148
RE: Deer adopted me!
Very cool story. Thanks for sharing.
My guess would be that somebody shot his mom and hauled her off on an ATV. He associates the ATV with his mother. The only thing that makes me think that is two years ago I shot a doe. I didn't see the fawn when I shot her but while I was field dressing her the fawn walked up about 20 yds and stayed there. I put the doe in the back of my truck and the fawn followed me for almost two miles until I got up to a road I could speed up on. A couple of days later I went to the same location to hunt and after an unsuccessful hunt I was walking back to my truck and there was the fawn, trying to look into the bed of my truck. Again the fawn tried to follow me. After that day I didn't see it again but it was the next year before I went back to that spot. Just a thought.
My guess would be that somebody shot his mom and hauled her off on an ATV. He associates the ATV with his mother. The only thing that makes me think that is two years ago I shot a doe. I didn't see the fawn when I shot her but while I was field dressing her the fawn walked up about 20 yds and stayed there. I put the doe in the back of my truck and the fawn followed me for almost two miles until I got up to a road I could speed up on. A couple of days later I went to the same location to hunt and after an unsuccessful hunt I was walking back to my truck and there was the fawn, trying to look into the bed of my truck. Again the fawn tried to follow me. After that day I didn't see it again but it was the next year before I went back to that spot. Just a thought.
03-30-2009, 11:01 AM
#40
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Northwest Missouri
Posts: 830
RE: Deer adopted me!
That would be a rather cool experience. I wouldn't do anything with him and just tell the neighbors that you have a tame wild deer (Oxymoron). If the day came that he became too aggressive that might be a different story. I would have to get a decoy and see what interaction he had with it. That would be interesting. I would just cherish the relationship for the time being and cross that bridge if or when the time comes that you need him to move on.
