This doe is keeping her fawn next to my driveway. When I took this photo (yesterday) she had just chased Cookie up the road and only stopped because, on rounding the curve, I was standing right in front of her. Cookie and Munch got behind me and shouted insults at her. A few weeks ago, when I wasn’t with the dogs, the doe chased Cookie down into the woods below the road. Took me a while to put two and two together –the missing Cookie and the doe standing in the road stamping her feet angrily. That’s also what she was doing yesterday while I took this photo.
Whitetail deer are a real nuisance. They eat everything, they multiply like rabbits, and they are dumb as a box of rocks. Look at this deer’s face. Those stupid eyes … and her ears are bigger than her brain.
They’re pretty when they’re running. Away.
-Julie
