Re: Re: What are you reading/cats NOW deer

And they're so sweet and trusting!  They'll literally eat out of your hand, they're such dolls.
I remember bottle feeding them when they were little.

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From: "Jesse Bell" <jesserenebell@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:56:24 -0600

>How awesome!  We worry about our two bucks this time of year too.  We've 
>heard stories of wildlife rehabers going out and finding their bucks 
>"missing" with just a collar left on the ground.  One of our bucks is a 10 
>point and the other is 12.  Hunters around here just drool over them.
>
>
>
>>From: Zemuly@aol.com
>>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: What are you reading/cats NOW deer
>>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:21:29 EST
>>
>>In a message dated 12/3/2003 3:59:34 PM Central Standard Time,
>>jesserenebell@hotmail.com writes:
>>I wish more people would go out and save a wonderful
>>creature for Christmas.  *sigh*
>>Me, too! I have noticed a new presence who told me his name was Clyde --
>>guess that means I'm up to 31.  A while back I tried to get people around 
>>here to
>>donate some dry food for them, but only one person responded with a 7 pound
>>bag.  I use between 50 and 75 pounds of dry food per week.  I have to share 
>>an
>>awesome experience my grandson and I had last Saturday.  We arrived at my 
>>house
>>around dusk and were just getting out of the car when I hear a huge 
>>commotion
>>-- lots of running feet and grunting.  I looked up to see a tiny buck 
>>(looked
>>like an 8-point) and about 8 tiny does running as fast as they could into 
>>the
>>church yard across the street. One of the does ran into the magnolia tree
>>there when she first saw us.  They all stopped and looked at us (we were 
>>only
>>about 25 feet away from them), and, as if they recognized us, the does 
>>calmly
>>began to graze while the buck slowly walked to the edge of the woods where 
>>he
>>faded into invisibility. I'm sure they were running from the literally 
>>hundreds
>>of hunters in the woods just past the city limits.  I am always shocked to 
>>see
>>just how small the deer in this area really are.  They way they are 
>>described
>>under the kill shots in the paper ("Big Bad Bucks") always makes them sound
>>huge.
>>
>>zem
>>zone 7
>>West TN
>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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