Thread: Where Deer show up.

This is not a thread about how to find deer.

This is one about where they show up when you don't expect them to.

Deer to me, are a paradox. On the one hand they can be very hard to find, on the other they can be standing in your garden, scarfing down your fruit and veges, when you look out your window in the morning.

I worked on a small dysfunctional deer and sheep farm for about 18 months, long ago.

One day I got the quad stuck in the middle of a paddock with a herd of deer. After trying to get out, I conceded defeat and walked off to get the Hilux to tow the damn thing out.

I came back and to my surprise and mighty pissedoffness (there, I made up a new word), The bastard deer had been at my bike and yanked every possible thing off it into the mud. Gloves, fence tester, pliers, bits and bobs scattered in a kind of messed up halo around it.

They were all backed off, standing down the other end of the paddock with a smug "It wasn't me your honour " look about them.

They are curious, and sometimes, smart.

I've seen videos on you tube of deer tangled in christmas lights (thinking they were auditioning for santa's sleigh maybe?), heard stories of deer jumping out in the middle of the road and munting cars and themselves in Fiordland.

Been told of deer eating shrubbery between houses in the Catlins (No doubt being aware of the physics of over penetration: "You cant shoot me mofo, you'll have to pay for your neighbours window" )

So if you've come home one evening to find they've drunk all your beer, and passed out in your favourite chair while watching re-runs of Bambi, (Or something more plausible), add a comment below