While cute, this would worry me were I the girl’s parent. Deer are skittish, and mother deerest could have been close by and not at all amused at seeing her fawn approached by a human.
1) When I was 7, I coaxed a squirrel up onto my chest. Forget how, but it was on a bet, IIRC, as several other kids were watching. An adult came by and made me shoo it, fearing i might get bit and need a rabies shot.
2) When I was 10, at summer camp (“Horse riding”) I was the only person who could walk up to a foal and put a bridle onto her (she was the age for “bridle training” — a bridle is a precursor to a harness with a bit). Everyone “older” tried to do it fast and rude, and she wasn’t having any… took them three times as long and took three of them to chase her down in a corral. I could walk up to her in about 3m in a big open field and have it on. Idiots. They still chased her down even after I showed how to do it.
3) Same camp, 2y later, a girl owned a mare who had had a foal. She (the mare) was out in a field with the foal @ about 14h, and I walked up to her first (allowing her to smell me), then walked to the foal. I could get right up to where I could reach out and touch her, but she jumped slightly away the moment I did. Tried a couple times, but was very careful about moving slowly and carefully the whole time, lest I anger/concern the mare. I walked away slowly, again.
I think size does matter, here, though I’ve not tried to replicate the horse stuff, as I haven’t been around any. If so, it’s one reason the fawn is unafraid of the child, as it doesn’t look bigger.
Story is, tigers are wary of humans, because of our upright stance. We seem as though much bigger than we are to its perceptions. This is why, once a tiger attacks a human and knows how easy we are to beat (assuming the obvious), it has to be hunted and killed, because after that point it won’t hesitate to attack humans.
This video was shot in Omaha.
The main east-west street in Omaha is Dodge Street. Interstate 680 is a ring road from north to south in the western part of the city. I frequently see flocks of turkeys on both roads. It really is crazy.
The Bookmonger at NRO has a new episode on The Yearling. It fits right in with this.
OBloodyHell,
Fun fact: squirrels almost never get or transmit rabies.
How do I know? Funny you should ask.
When I was 19, I got my first apartment. A squirrel got into the air space between the drop ceiling tiles and the old ceiling. It gnawed through the drop ceiling and started ransacking my apartment. My dad came over when I called him about it. He tried to help me get it to jump out a window or door.
He eventually got so frustrated, because as much as I love the man, he has no patience, he tried to grab it when it was cornered. It ran up his arms and scratched and bit his face while he flailed his arms and screamed like a little girl.
I will admit, I laughed while it was happening. Mostly because I had told him he better not do what he did. Anyway, my mom had a fit that he got scratched and bit by a squirrel due to his typical short tempered nature. After a call to the doctor and an urgent care visit, he was patched up and told that a possible rabies infection wasn’t very likely at all. Squirrels and almost all very small mammals (except bats) are too small and fast to get rabies: they usually can’t get caught by infected animals who are losing their coordination and even when they do, they don’t survive the attack long enough to live and actually contract the disease.
Intensely Cute. However – deer ticks and Lime disease.
Absolutely! …Moreover, neither that bambi—nor that bambina—are masked!!
Horrors!
(It’s only a matter of time before YouTube bans this dangerous—all the more so because it’s so seductively cute—piece.)
In Yosemite Valley, mule deer are especially common, seen browsing on leaves and tender twigs from trees, grass, and herbs. Male mule deer grow antlers each year and are a factor in the dominance hierarchy among males, both visually, and in jousting among males for mating access to females. Although they seem disinterested in humans, deer should be treated as any other wild animal. Human injuries can occur from people offering food to deer or any other wild animal. More injuries in Yosemite are inflicted by deer, with one documented death, than those caused by black bear or any other park animal. Additionally, human food is not healthy for wild animals, and it is illegal to feed any animal in the park.
My wife and I were stumbling around in the last remnants of dusk around the Housekeeping campground in Yosemite many years ago, when we flicked on our flashlights to see two black bears. We ran to the management office, since these bears were in the tent area proper. They laughed at us.
Now that’s some stupid/brave or brave/stupid there–
That’s Darwin Award Material there. It saddens me that this woman has likely bred or will now live to reproduce.
It’s not wise to touch deer, if you can help it. My sister rescued a struggling doe that was trapped in mucky, swampy ground — maybe quicksand, she wasn’t sure — near her home in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. She had to wrap her arms and body around the animal’s torso and use all her strength to help it work free. The animal escaped safely, and all would have ended well, except that after a few hours, my sister developed a nasty, painful, itchy rash on all the parts of her body that had contacted the deer. It lasted days and days. Her doctor told her that it could have been caused by any of many parasites carried by deer and directed her never, ever again to touch one.
Some years after that, I found myself rescuing an orphaned fawn that had been all alone in our pasture for a couple of days and was desperately trying to suckle from our cows. We spoke with a wildlife rehabilitator, and at her direction, I gathered it up and bundled it into the back of our Suburban, while it sliced frantically at me with its knife-sharp tiny hooves and screamed in the strangest high-pitched squall — who knew fawns could scream? I remembered my sister’s experience and wrapped it in a blanket to protect myself from it as much as possible.
In the end, we got it to the rehabilitator, whose kitchen was stacked high with dog crates containing other orphan fawns, and whose other rooms and the pens behind her house held dozens of other wild animals that needed succor. A magical place, though it smelled wild and I was glad I didn’t live there. The fawn survived and, some months later, was released back into the wild. I never got a rash, maybe thanks to that blanket and my sister’s experience.
Realclearinvestigations has a lengthy synthesis on the subject oft lamented here: Almost overnight, standards of color-blind merit tumble across America in an unprecedented revolution. “Equity” supplants merit in corporations and education as testing is on its death bed — and 15 year olds in the US ranked 37th in science and maths.
Back in 2016, one big reason why I believed that Trump could win was the springtime survey results of a binary question: America, right track? Wrong track?
74% said WRONG TRACK.
I WONDER WHAT THIS POLL IS LIKE THIS YEAR?
PS Legal Insurrection gets a constructive mention towards the end of the RCI piece, linked above
While cute, this would worry me were I the girl’s parent. Deer are skittish, and mother deerest could have been close by and not at all amused at seeing her fawn approached by a human.
Yeah, humans aren’t automatically feared, esp. smaller humans.
1) When I was 7, I coaxed a squirrel up onto my chest. Forget how, but it was on a bet, IIRC, as several other kids were watching. An adult came by and made me shoo it, fearing i might get bit and need a rabies shot.
2) When I was 10, at summer camp (“Horse riding”) I was the only person who could walk up to a foal and put a bridle onto her (she was the age for “bridle training” — a bridle is a precursor to a harness with a bit). Everyone “older” tried to do it fast and rude, and she wasn’t having any… took them three times as long and took three of them to chase her down in a corral. I could walk up to her in about 3m in a big open field and have it on. Idiots. They still chased her down even after I showed how to do it.
3) Same camp, 2y later, a girl owned a mare who had had a foal. She (the mare) was out in a field with the foal @ about 14h, and I walked up to her first (allowing her to smell me), then walked to the foal. I could get right up to where I could reach out and touch her, but she jumped slightly away the moment I did. Tried a couple times, but was very careful about moving slowly and carefully the whole time, lest I anger/concern the mare. I walked away slowly, again.
I think size does matter, here, though I’ve not tried to replicate the horse stuff, as I haven’t been around any. If so, it’s one reason the fawn is unafraid of the child, as it doesn’t look bigger.
Story is, tigers are wary of humans, because of our upright stance. We seem as though much bigger than we are to its perceptions. This is why, once a tiger attacks a human and knows how easy we are to beat (assuming the obvious), it has to be hunted and killed, because after that point it won’t hesitate to attack humans.
This video was shot in Omaha.
The main east-west street in Omaha is Dodge Street. Interstate 680 is a ring road from north to south in the western part of the city. I frequently see flocks of turkeys on both roads. It really is crazy.
The Bookmonger at NRO has a new episode on The Yearling. It fits right in with this.
OBloodyHell,
Fun fact: squirrels almost never get or transmit rabies.
How do I know? Funny you should ask.
When I was 19, I got my first apartment. A squirrel got into the air space between the drop ceiling tiles and the old ceiling. It gnawed through the drop ceiling and started ransacking my apartment. My dad came over when I called him about it. He tried to help me get it to jump out a window or door.
He eventually got so frustrated, because as much as I love the man, he has no patience, he tried to grab it when it was cornered. It ran up his arms and scratched and bit his face while he flailed his arms and screamed like a little girl.
I will admit, I laughed while it was happening. Mostly because I had told him he better not do what he did. Anyway, my mom had a fit that he got scratched and bit by a squirrel due to his typical short tempered nature. After a call to the doctor and an urgent care visit, he was patched up and told that a possible rabies infection wasn’t very likely at all. Squirrels and almost all very small mammals (except bats) are too small and fast to get rabies: they usually can’t get caught by infected animals who are losing their coordination and even when they do, they don’t survive the attack long enough to live and actually contract the disease.
Intensely Cute. However – deer ticks and Lime disease.
Absolutely! …Moreover, neither that bambi—nor that bambina—are masked!!
Horrors!
(It’s only a matter of time before YouTube bans this dangerous—all the more so because it’s so seductively cute—piece.)
I was looking for info. on people injured by deer and found this from the Nat. Parks Service pages on Yosemite. It sounds more a bit more severe than I was expecting.
My wife and I were stumbling around in the last remnants of dusk around the Housekeeping campground in Yosemite many years ago, when we flicked on our flashlights to see two black bears. We ran to the management office, since these bears were in the tent area proper. They laughed at us.
Now that’s some stupid/brave or brave/stupid there–
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78hAtrn9110
@Snow on Pine:
That’s Darwin Award Material there. It saddens me that this woman has likely bred or will now live to reproduce.
It’s not wise to touch deer, if you can help it. My sister rescued a struggling doe that was trapped in mucky, swampy ground — maybe quicksand, she wasn’t sure — near her home in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. She had to wrap her arms and body around the animal’s torso and use all her strength to help it work free. The animal escaped safely, and all would have ended well, except that after a few hours, my sister developed a nasty, painful, itchy rash on all the parts of her body that had contacted the deer. It lasted days and days. Her doctor told her that it could have been caused by any of many parasites carried by deer and directed her never, ever again to touch one.
Some years after that, I found myself rescuing an orphaned fawn that had been all alone in our pasture for a couple of days and was desperately trying to suckle from our cows. We spoke with a wildlife rehabilitator, and at her direction, I gathered it up and bundled it into the back of our Suburban, while it sliced frantically at me with its knife-sharp tiny hooves and screamed in the strangest high-pitched squall — who knew fawns could scream? I remembered my sister’s experience and wrapped it in a blanket to protect myself from it as much as possible.
In the end, we got it to the rehabilitator, whose kitchen was stacked high with dog crates containing other orphan fawns, and whose other rooms and the pens behind her house held dozens of other wild animals that needed succor. A magical place, though it smelled wild and I was glad I didn’t live there. The fawn survived and, some months later, was released back into the wild. I never got a rash, maybe thanks to that blanket and my sister’s experience.
Train Food:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBkttA23H24
AKA: You Don’t Have to Live Like That.
Another One:
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-jupiter-paulsen-14-year-old-white-girl-murdered-stabbed-more-than-20-times-by-a-black-male-in-fargo-nd-was-he-a-refugee/
Diversity means you don’t have to be stabbed 20+ times by a boring old crazed Swede in Fargo.
A New Hope:
https://youtu.be/cCk0qWthMcE
Are the Finns finished?
https://vdare.com/articles/is-finland-headed-to-civil-war-are-we
Realclearinvestigations has a lengthy synthesis on the subject oft lamented here: Almost overnight, standards of color-blind merit tumble across America in an unprecedented revolution. “Equity” supplants merit in corporations and education as testing is on its death bed — and 15 year olds in the US ranked 37th in science and maths.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/06/09/almost_overnight_standards_of_color-blind_merit_tumble_across_american_society_780262.html
Back in 2016, one big reason why I believed that Trump could win was the springtime survey results of a binary question: America, right track? Wrong track?
74% said WRONG TRACK.
I WONDER WHAT THIS POLL IS LIKE THIS YEAR?
PS Legal Insurrection gets a constructive mention towards the end of the RCI piece, linked above
And now since Zaphod wanted it:
“The Finland Song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baHsoEAAMZU
Canada Do! and England Too!
But wait there’s more for Zaphod and civil war (maybe not).
From Finland, Ian McCollum (aka “Gun Jesus”) of Forgotten Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlGnKX73nE
@om:
Not Triggering Enough.
How about Simo Hayha AKA The White Death?
https://www.simohayha.com/