I thought deer were supposed to be afraid of people

[payneed]

so, I'm no expert but it was my understanding that deer, as wildlife, would generally not want to be near or interact with humans. well, wtf is going on in dekalb county?

I've seen them before in my backyard (inside the city of Atlanta, literally the hood by a lot of folks definitions) and a few times they have gotten as close to me in the backyard as maybe 15 to 20 yards.

well today I'm out at constitutions lakes to walk the dolls head trail and as I am I stumble across a rather large deer not but 10 feet from the trail. I am surprised, and it notices me I guess and runs about 5 to 10 feet away and then it stops. I kinda keep following the path slowly but watching the deer as its watching me. I kick the gravel with my foot to make noise and try and scare it off. it doesn't budge.

at this point I'm like WTF, because its strange and also I am a city guy so I'm not use to seeing deer up close but it was pretty ****in big and I know that on occasion they can turn territorial and maybe open up some whoop ass. so considering this I decide to yell at it and move my arms up. it ducks its head a bit and take a step to me like its sizing me up. so **** that, all I have is a .25 and I dont want to be on the news as that guy who got his ass kicked by a deer so I started slowly making my way along the trail as this prick of a deer mean mugs me.

so I do my walk, and I backtrack part of the trail and 20 minutes have passed and i come back to the spot where I first encountered the deer and wouldnt you know it that thing is still there. it basically repeats what it did earlier, going 10 to 15 feet from the trail then stopping and staring at me. I just kept on that time

its weird, never seen them do that before. and I know that as a nice Sunday there were **** loads of people probably walking the trail too. y'all need to come to the city and hunt some of these things

Was it an albino deer like this one?

 

[Thomas Eeyore]

Well they had to learn to put up with us since we moved into their back yard.

 

[chucklenut]

Was it an albino deer like this one?
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Its a titan or a beretta damnit!!! Lol

 

[carver]

Yep.we have some killers up here in the mountains too

 

[Chris V.]

That cat was pretty brave after that dog got a beat down.

It probably thought of the deer as an ally after that.

 

[Tazz]

They eat everything my daughter in law tries to plant in their yard, flowers, herbs & stuff. My son even saw one up on the porch licking his freakin' grill, another one resting UNDER the dang porch. I've seen em' walk through his yard less than 20ft from me sitting on the porch having a smoke, they just look at me like "hey, how ya doing?" They're not even scared of his dogs, but come bow season it's just POOF! They vanish, don't even see em' at night and a week after season's over everything is right back to normal, half a dozen does & fawns passing through twice a day. Smdh....

 

[EMC45]

Dude.......I can't stop watching the dog video. That deer worked that dog like a second job. That cat was super ballsy to see what just happened to it's patnuh and wanna start swatting at the doe's snout. It almost got turned into a bag of bones too.

 

[coach482]

Fire up a chain saw in the woods, the deer will come see what the noise is.

 

[CardsFan]

Deer around my house are wild animals and act as such, but I live in the country. If I drive half an hour to all the cookie cutter subdivision communities, deer are semi-domesticated and will come in people's yards. There is no hunting and they're used to people there. I have been on several military bases where deer have very little fear of humans or cars. Same thing.

Noticed the same thing. First job out of college was a gig at Fort Knox. Eerily timed with the start of hunting season, I would notice a bunch of deer hanging around living quarters.

One of them must have known how to read the post hunting regulations.