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I was trimming some trees on Monday and Tawny bought me a fallow deer kid. (Is kid right? Fawn? Not sure). I had Ffee with me as well but luckily she was so flummoxed by the baby yelling and me shouting 'no' that she didn't get involved.
It was the most beautiful thing you have ever seen, about the size of a rabbit but with incredible long legs. It seemed absolutely fine and was yelling it's head off so I put it back where it came from. Mum turned up, she must have been watching me from the top hedge, and was barking and running around me in circles. How incredibly brave, I had several knives and two dogs with me!
As I left (quickly and immediately) she was heading back down to where I had put it and they were calling each other.
This morning I saw them (I hope it was them, I think it must have been) very close to Monday's spot so fingers crossed no harm done.
 
glad the fawn was unharmed :)


last year I was walking my two in some waist deep grass (it had grown more quickly that I thought it would have since the last time I was there). I had popped the dogs back on the lead as I was going to be cutting back though neighbours field of sheep. I glanced down and there was the tiniest fawn just to the left of my left foot-both dogs had practically gone over the top of it! could see any sign of mum but just moved quickly on.
 
How lovely that they were reunited! I'm afraid big bad Bear would've killed it. He once brought me a baby bunny instead of his ball then on a training outing with our gun dog lady, fetched a full size and very much the worse for wear bunny. The Oh had to despatch it. I was cursing him for not shoving it in the game bag!
 
MotherOfChickens said:
glad the fawn was unharmed :)


last year I was walking my two in some waist deep grass (it had grown more quickly that I thought it would have since the last time I was there). I had popped the dogs back on the lead as I was going to be cutting back though neighbours field of sheep. I glanced down and there was the tiniest fawn just to the left of my left foot-both dogs had practically gone over the top of it! could see any sign of mum but just moved quickly on.
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Now fawn sounds wrong as I feel a fawn belongs to a stag and a hind, not a buck and a doe! I will take your word for it though. They must have very little scent, and sit so still, mine was very unlucky. Tawny was actually hunting for mice, her favourite off season hobby (and she does kill them I'm afraid)
 
Cinnamontoast said:
How lovely that they were reunited! I'm afraid big bad Bear would've killed it. He once brought me a baby bunny instead of his ball then on a training outing with our gun dog lady, fetched a full size and very much the worse for wear bunny. The Oh had to despatch it. I was cursing him for not shoving it in the game bag!
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She brings a lot of rabbits this time of year, I'm afraid we do cull those, it is like Watership Down out here. We have just had the first of this years cases of RHV though. so endless dead bodies to look forward to now.
 
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Oh blimey, I would have been shocked as well. Glad no harm done.

Buddy once brought me a chicken at my friend’s farm. Now, he knew to leave the chickens alone but this one had gone AWOL and he had flushed it from the heather. I think confusion just got the better of him at that point; chicken or pheasant???? No harm done, he had a very soft mouth :)
 
I always call them fawns, the trouble is when they are so small they dont move and are victims of silage makers, my dogs have come back carrying a fawns lower leg and Its obvious its very young and hs been cut up whilst lying very still. Both my Dobes are muzzled for this very reason and before we mow for hay I take one of them on a harness and long line looking for fawns, we will then mark where it is and avoid that area.

Its does seem ridiculous that I spend my time trying to keep them away from deer only to spend time actively encouraging them to find them. Incidentally the ticks this year have been relentless, even though my dogs are all treated they are coming in most days with one or too, this is all down to the over population of deer.
 
Dobiegirl said:
I always call them fawns, the trouble is when they are so small they dont move and are victims of silage makers, my dogs have come back carrying a fawns lower leg and Its obvious its very young and hs been cut up whilst lying very still. .
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yep, my farmer friend sends his dogs out to find them as well. Incidentally, had a deer jump in front of OH's car one night a couple of weeks ago, not a very big one so didnt go up over windscreen-did badly damage his front bumber, drivers door and the passenger door though (he's fine!). we've so many of them now-there's 1500 acres of unused grazing and forestry just behind us, been unused for a decade now and its just full of them.
 
My Cocker has a job soon - walk the hayfields and check for fawns so they don't get chopped up - he's obsessed with bringing me fledgelings at the moment, usually just release them unharmed! He does eat mice though - must be some kind of delicacy for dogs!
 
Dobiegirl said:
I always call them fawns, the trouble is when they are so small they dont move and are victims of silage makers, my dogs have come back carrying a fawns lower leg and Its obvious its very young and hs been cut up whilst lying very still. Both my Dobes are muzzled for this very reason and before we mow for hay I take one of them on a harness and long line looking for fawns, we will then mark where it is and avoid that area.

Its does seem ridiculous that I spend my time trying to keep them away from deer only to spend time actively encouraging them to find them. Incidentally the ticks this year have been relentless, even though my dogs are all treated they are coming in most days with one or too, this is all down to the over population of deer.
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I am glad that OH won't be topping that field until late autumn, if at all. I have not seen any deer near the main hay fields.
 
MotherOfChickens said:
yep, my farmer friend sends his dogs out to find them as well. Incidentally, had a deer jump in front of OH's car one night a couple of weeks ago, not a very big one so didnt go up over windscreen-did badly damage his front bumber, drivers door and the passenger door though (he's fine!). we've so many of them now-there's 1500 acres of unused grazing and forestry just behind us, been unused for a decade now and its just full of them.
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That'll be expensive, but at least OH is OK. I hit a fallow once, it was awful.
 
maisie06 said:
My Cocker has a job soon - walk the hayfields and check for fawns so they don't get chopped up - he's obsessed with bringing me fledgelings at the moment, usually just release them unharmed! He does eat mice though - must be some kind of delicacy for dogs!
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Tawny doesn't eat the mice, she retireves them for a couple of days, if I leave them somewhere accessible, and then rolls in them. :-)
 
Tawny is a good girl.

I’m glad Luna didn’t find it.


Have seen a few deer around here in the distance over the fields. When we lived down south, used to see them all the time around the forest. A lady I worked with had 2 accidents with deer a few years apart. I also remember being stuck in a traffic jam on way home from work one evening. As I crawled along, I saw 2 men lifting a deer off the road and move it to the verge. I guess they’d hit it, or been behind someone that had. As I drove away, I saw it lift its head. I pulled over and called the forest rangers to report it. They said they would send someone out, and as I was on the phone, I saw it make off into the forest. I got a call later that evening from a deer stalker saying he’d tracked it some way, but then lost it.
 
TheresaW said:
Tawny is a good girl.

I’m glad Luna didn’t find it.


Have seen a few deer around here in the distance over the fields. When we lived down south, used to see them all the time around the forest. A lady I worked with had 2 accidents with deer a few years apart. I also remember being stuck in a traffic jam on way home from work one evening. As I crawled along, I saw 2 men lifting a deer off the road and move it to the verge. I guess they’d hit it, or been behind someone that had. As I drove away, I saw it lift its head. I pulled over and called the forest rangers to report it. They said they would send someone out, and as I was on the phone, I saw it make off into the forest. I got a call later that evening from a deer stalker saying he’d tracked it some way, but then lost it.
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I doubt there is anything except a gun dog that would just bring you a deer, unharmed! It would be a big ask for a husky. I don't think it is in their job description!
Shame they couldn't find the deer, I hit a kangaroo once in Australia and broke it's hind legs, I had to kill it, it was awful. (I was in the middle of nowhere and mobiles were not yet invented).
 
As I frequently say, I hate deer - we are infested locally with muntjac and roe, and all my dogs would kill them without a seconds thought! It makes for a lively walk when we see a deer (always see one once or twice a week) and 100kg plus combined weight of dogs wants to go after it 😂
 
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