There's an INJURED deer in my yard!?
I know you mean well, but the best thing you can do is nothing. Most deer are terrified of humans, for good reason, so any attempt to approach her will only cause her to run on her injured leg, possibly doing even more damage and certainly causing her more pain. If she's with other deer, they'll lead her to food and shelter. If you were to call the authorities, especially "animal control," they'd probably just put her down and call it merciful. She's already survived the initial injury, so her body may be able to heal itself. Just keep her safe from neighborhood dogs and kids and "do-gooders" with guns and there's a good chance she'll survive. Keep an eye out for her and watch her limp diminish day by day.
I have a family of deer living in my backyard, and I’m scared that my dogs are going to see them and chase them. Do you think they would get scared and run away?
They aren’t living in your backyard (unless your backyard is many acres, but you wouldn’t be asking if that were the case). Deer have territories that range for many miles and won’t bed down anywhere close to human habitation, especially if the yard has dog scent.They are just visiting. Something in your yard is tasty to them.Obviously, dogs would chase them. Regardless of how cute they are, they carry deer ticks and just by being in your backyard means you have deer ticks in your backyard too. Deer ticks are carriers of Lyme Disease (and a few others). Be careful that you and your dogs don’t get bitten.
Deer laying in my yard?
For the past 5 days or so a female deer has been coming to my yard and laying in a pile of leaves (where my dad dumps leaves) in the woods. I'm wondering why she's doing this? I thought she might be pregnant, but she gets up every so often and looks very skinny, so now I'm thinking she might be sick? Also, my dad was working in the yard the other day and she was laying in the woods. When my dad went into the woods to dump the leaves she obviously ran away. This happened two or three times. However, later she came out of the woods stomping her foot and snorting. She kept coming closer and closer to my dad, as if she were going to charge. My dad moved and she ran away snorting. I don't know if this has anything to do with it? So, I'm just wondering what's going on so any answers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
A deer attacked my cat! What should I do?
I looked out my window and saw a bunch of deer. There was a baby deer and my cat was messing around with it so one of the big ones charged at my cat and trampled it pretty good. I ran out there to stop it and my cat was injured pretty badly. What should I do?
HELP!! A BABY DEER IS DIENG IN MY BACK YARD! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
The deer is suffering. The fracture is severe. When bone protrudes throgh skin, it is exposed to germs that invade the tissue. Soft tissues are torn apart. These types of fractures are challenging to deal with in humans who can linger in bed in traction, with direct antibiotic perfusions run into the fracture site. It is a painful and long recovery, requiring round the clock care and sometimes multiple surgical procedures,, and cooperation throughout from the patient. A deer cannot be kept like that. The fear and stress would be enormous, and he wouldn't be able to cooperate. Humane euthanasia is the best thing for this deer. I'm sorry you had to go through this. I know it's hard to see it the way I do, but my opinion comes from years of experience.
If you hit a deer and it was severely injured and suffering, would you put it down if you could safely do it or would you wait for the police?
This exact scenario happened to me just weeks ago. November 4, 2017.Some friends and I were on our way out to our duck hunting spot at around 5:30 in the morning. Going down the county road in northern Wisconsin at 55mph a huge buck ran at a dead sprint out from under a bridge in a creek bed, and took about 2 strides to get from there to directly in front of my truck. I had about 1/4 of a second to see the deer and was able to slow down from 55 to maybe 54. The deer was thrown 200 feet down the highway according to google earth. I assumed it was dead on impact after looking at the motionless deer and then the front of my truck, which looked like this:Its antlers caused the denting on the hood and its head had gone through the headlight, exploding the whole light assembly. Its body hit squarely in the center of the bumper.Anyways as my brother pulled up in his truck I could see the deer’s breath in his headlights so I knew it was in fact still alive, somehow. We discussed what our options were. I didn’t have my handgun on me. We had our shotguns but, in accordance with waterfowl regs, possessed no appropriate ammo for a deer. We had knives, but this thing was now awake and had 2 working legs and a rack of sharp antlers. It was a beefy 8 pointer, almost 300 pounds. Jumping on its back to try to slit its throat was not something we wanted to attempt. We could call the DNR or the cops but they were 20 minutes away at a minimum.Luckily right then a truck pulled up which turned out to be the landowner whose woods border the highway there, who was heading out to bow hunt. He dispatched the deer silently and swiftly with his bow from a safe distance. He offered to give us the deer but we declined (I would have said yes but for one, we had no way to store the meat and for two, I didn’t want to mess with calling the DNR to figure out what permits I’d need, etc.) so he used his bow hunting tag to legally bring it home for himself.Should I hit another deer in the future I would definitely do what I can to minimize its suffering. But I’m not going to risk my own safety to do so. If it’s rural enough and I have my .40 along, I wouldn’t hesitate to place a shot at the base of the head. If it’s in the city I wouldn’t want to fire a gun, but chances are the authorities are close enough to be of service then.
What should you do if you found a baby deer sleeping in your back yard?
I live in a rural forested area and there are dozens of deer around, enough to be real pests. So this scenario is quite likely for most of the home owners in the local area. I’ve come out to find a whole herd of deer bedded down in my front yard repeatedly before we put in the deer fencing.Generally it’s a good idea to avoid it as mom deer is undoubtedly close by. They really don’t go too far off from their young. And an adult deer is lethal if their defending their young. Those hooves are sharp and quite capable of doing serious harm. So I’d just leave it alone and watch it while puzzling as to how the heck a baby deer got over my fences. An adult deer I could possibly see jumping them but a baby? Not so much. I’d probably open the gate so it could leave safely when mom came back for it.It’s a myth that deer will abandon their young if you even accidently touch them, I once rescued a very young fawn that had got stuck on the property. I lifted it out of the accidental trap it had gotten into and got the heck out of the way while mom deer (who was only about 20 ft away, called it with some snorts, it ran to her, she nuzzled it, and led it quickly off into the woods.Btw fawns are not soft. That fawn’s hair felt bristley and almost harsh and not something you’d be all that happy stroking. It was fair cute though. And that from someone who actually isn’t all that fond of deer.