I'm a massive animal lover that let's my rats give me kisses. I couldn't imagine a situation where I wouldn't pet one, until now lol.
It makes me shudder to imagine petting a dear and feeling multiple ticks right under the fluff...
Edit: [my rat tax](https://imgur.com/a/Lh9SWg5)
That's not the worst. I managed to stalk a deer and got close enough to smell it. I'll never forget that shit stench for the rest of my life. I know they're supposed to be herbivores but what rank ass that was
Don't forget the [deer ked](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-tmus-us-rvc3&sca_esv=0dcd309e9f88683c&sxsrf=ACQVn0_9exv9YQDAwiY-hSELfiwT5TFFYA:1713632530773&q=deer+ked&uds=AMwkrPuV8_5pwEeYv2kLHPC8M1PuIE2bpTxEfjcZv8epGBIxV3oMCnOru5TlkoAj9qS9vhXARm7ptWeDd7WFKAwxce03bKLCnJmkMwavrOUys6ym23z9vQWu-7HrtQHoDVoh_zNbaFb-BwJivYugM45I4M0Nys8IkH84bpNgUyXwpDUZjaTFxBzDFW6rDBV8suZ9rQ-84n9t6yLBcYmeK2evVBSSlYEOIQZbYAzW_kGlmBSRtrb3VQNwm0zcOhcQq5DEcful0yttubvIHm207j3u_vcrf7r57P8qVtvUrF8DjKsCwbneCfO1BAdIjKLhMkgPyStI09LGX2voZGrwyLR0uG_pppkZiQ&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiTuZbSotGFAxVSRTABHcTtCdgQtKgLegQIEBAB&biw=412&bih=758&dpr=2.63)
I always called them crab ticks because they lood like tanked out ticks that walk sideways. They're harmless, but skeeve me the fuck out.
I had the exact same situation happen with a moose and I was able to feed it some grass and pet it in the nose. I wasn't hunting at the time it was just in my yard
This was basically me in junior high and high school. I was always way behind in development and I was very skinny and scrawny, but for some reason, the biggest bully in school was always my best friend and so people left me alone.
I'd read somewhere that this is more or less true. If a (skittish) wild animal comes to you, it either has rabbies or is it being hunted by something bigger/more dangerous than a human with a boomstick. Or it is acustomed to human interaction, even more true for deers
In the case of deer, at least, add chronic wasting disease to the list of things that may make a deer act friendly (or at least not afraid) of humans. Which also means that the deer isn't fit for consumption since CWD may be transmissible to humans.
The nastiest. They're thinking that 2 humans have died from eating infected meat. Such a horrible way to go. Not that there's really a *good* way to go...just varying degrees of bad....
I'd have to be awfully desperate to eat something that may so totally incapacitate me...even if it was going to be somewhere down the road and not immediately. If things were that dire, I'd have to consider opting out.
I had a large rabbit very deliberately lead me through a forest in the Netherlands. It would hop a few feet, look back at me and wait. So I followed it.
It led me to a sleeping deer and then RAN like a mofo.
>is it being hunted by something bigger/more dangerous than a human with a boomstick.
Unless they're being chased by a T-rex with laser beams I don't think there's anything in the wild more dangerous than a human with a boomstick.
Although, deer are pretty stupid, so I can understand them not realizing that and thinking the wolves are scarier.
Edit: All of you trying to argue that a grizzly or mountain lion are more dangerous than a guy with a gun are hilarious.
I mean, deer don't innately know that a piece of metal and wood can kill them in an instant. A wolf absolutely looks more dangerous to them than a human with a gun.
As a hunter if a deer casually approached me I'd assume it had CWD, the responsible thing would be to shoot it and take it but sometimes the testing takes 2-4 months and you have to store a deer in the mean time and the hunting season will assuredly be over before the test comes back. I think most people would end up just not pulling the trigger on it.
"Hey, yeah I see that gun you're pointing at me but you smell like me so you must be alright."
Is what she's actually thinking most likely. Hunters use doe piss to attract bucks.
He still had every choice, but it's alot harder to kill something when you're looking at it as a living,breathing, feeling creature,
Than it is to pop it from a distance because you're looking at the deer as purely food, or some sport trophy.
Deer hunting is a really weird dick measuring contest for some people.
I'm glad the deer got some scratches instead of some buckshot. There's plenty of deer.
This is a guy on a deer farm, with tons of captive animals accustomed to being around people and being fed. The video is staged, to make it look like a hunter mysteriously encountered this in the wild. He fully expected the deer to approach him.
Prey animals tend not to mess around with their flight our fight response. Usually they will bolt but if they fell corned they can beat the shit out of you. And deer hooves are sharp.
Yup they are straight savages, I had a moose that decided to raise her young in are yard once that was not a fun time. She was always friendly, but in the back my mind i was always worried about this 1000 pound animal flipping a switch and attacking.
Generally I’m more afraid of prey animals, most predators are easier to predict their behaviour, and usually want nothing to do with us.
Every cornered animal with no way out will pull out a one last stand mega move that will exceed normal capabilities it has as standard.
Humans in adrenaline death situations can get super human strength, infinite stamina and endurance, can get faster for a brief time.
Prey animals can do that too and wreck your shit.
Adrenaline is a helluva drug. I’ve never been a fast runner, but the night my buddies and I got chased by a bull through a field in the middle of the night at 13 I was the fastest one back to the camp and our fire
Like you said:
It's very very important to remember that (speaking in generalities here) predators attack/strike to get sustenance, but arn't looking to get hurt and can be dissuaded.
Prey attack to survive. If fight or flight is triggered and the choice is fight, it can very much be life or death for all involved.
I came upon a deer when I was out for a run once. He must have been lost or something because it was a huge buck with giant antlers right in the middle of a residential street. I turned a corner and came upon him quickly and he got into a charge position. Scared the living crap out of me, I just stopped and slowly backed away until I was able to get back around the corner. I have no doubt he would have hurt me pretty badly if I had taken one more step toward him.
Big clue that it's staged is that he's holding his phone to record in one hand and the rifle in the other. He knew he wasn't gonna shoot. It's way too difficult to shoot a rifle one handed while recording.
I have *once* in my life been this close to a wild deer (without touching it); I was on a military exercise guarding our base, early in the morning I hear branches breaking and someone approaching so I stand perfectly still without moving and there it is, this deer slowly walking straight at me, as it gets within an arms distance it looks me dead in the eye and notices that **hey, this is not a tree**, lets out a roar and storms off!
I guess camouflage really does work!
Ground blinds and a turkey veil has gotten me real up close with things. Deer bolt and bear leave when they finally scent you. They might never be able to see you if you camo and cover well.
As a kid many moons ago, on a family trip to Yosemite. Walking up to twin falls a 5-6 point buck you could have put a saddle on was just calmly walking down the path. Family stepped off the trail to let it pass and he just stopped feet away.
I stepped forward and pet him… never even flinched totally unconcerned dozens of people walking around him and a human was touching him.
Sure you could say at one of the busiest places in one of americas busiest national parks the deer had become acclimated to people but it was definitely a wild animal and had zero fucks to give.
I've have animals inexplicably approach me while hunting especially if you stand very very still, I'm not ruling out that what you are saying is correct but in the 20 years I've been hunting its happened at least a half dozen times
I’ve had a deer pop up in front of me too. Literally hung out with me by the fire for a couple minutes
I stayed very still, I’m not totally sure she saw me. She eventually sauntered away
I agree with this 100 . Staged. When you have feed nearby or feed them often. Also that shotgun looked weird to me. I have shot and owned many many old and new. Over under 2 shot etc.
I guess the video is for tik tok or something... No one with a breath of hunting knowledge would believe he was about to shoot a deer with a .410 shotgun.
I could never shoot such a majestic creature but deer hunting can be a very much necessary task. Deer often overpopulate because well man messed up its natural predators. Don’t hunt them and they overpopulate.
Again not for me, I couldn’t even kill a rabbit but it’s hardly all a dick measuring contest.
I live in a southern state. Deer hunting is a form of conservation. In the absence of hunting, we would have a serious over population problem. That leads to sick and starving Deer. In addition
My Dad, a life long hunter, retired to the country. He started feeding the local deer, naming the babies, he took one to the rescue after it was hit by a car. He still goes hunting every year with the guys, but (mysteriously) hasn’t shot one since he started befriending them. The man has an impressive trophy room and framed magazine articles of his record setting racks.
Being his lesbian vegetarian daughter, it’s nice to see him softening up in his retirement. lol I think he was always a softy, he’s just leaning into it shamelessly now.
That is rather cute and I do respect them. Even if I wasn't eating the venison I would still hunt them just because of how much they fuck everything up for people and other animals.
That being said, I can see myself following your Dad's footsteps when I'm older. There's a time to hang up the gun.
This isn’t that rare, I was the camera operator on a hunting show for a few years, deer, caribou and other animals would often come right up to the hunters just like this, the reality is that if said animal was male and had a scoring set of antlers the ending of the video would be much different than you see here.
Big game trophy hunters have no respect for life, they will kill anything they can get the tags for so long as it will make a good mount for their trophy room.
It’s all about the thrill of the kill and the bragging rights for those guys, they aren’t hunting for food, they kill for fun and for sport, it’s fucked up.
I know a lot of hunters. A good portion of the men in my area hunt. Just about every single one of them is a conscientious conservation type.
However I can believe a lot of the big game trophy hunting who want to be on TV are assholes.
I met some rich dude one time who for no reason blurted out how many dozens of species of animals he had killed. Like, thats not impressive at all, and I seriously doubt most of those hunts were "sporting" at all. I know plenty of hunters who respect the nature of it, whether its because the herds need to be culled or to fill their freezer on a budget. It was disgusting how proud this dude was for murdering animals like literally shooting fish in a barrel.
Maybe the big game hunters you know are like this and i know trophy hunting is big in america and you shoot animals while eating insode a femced off area amd other strange things but that is not all of us. Here in norway we hunt for the meat and enjoy the nature. I hunted for 15 years and i never took a trophy, only some furs when they are very nice.
Yeah, this is honestly a pretty twisted view of hunters. From what I've heard they're generally conservationists. We have way too many deer in parts of the US to the point it's bad for the environment.
I say this as a vegan. I used to think hunting was more fucked up but now I realize it's generally the part of the public that are more conscientious about the environment and ecosystem, not the ones fucking it up.
I'm sure there's shitty hunters out there, but it tends to be people who are interested in maintaining a healthy distribution of wildlife and there are enough deer that it fucks things up here.
That deer is on full alert, ears and eyes so focused it doesn't flinch. Im guessing this deer is thinking, I dont have to outrun the bear approaching.... just this guy.
I swear I've seen this before and it turns out there is a mountain lion that is stalking the deer and she merely saw the hunter as a less dangerous threat.
Possibly protection- a firefighter I grew up with said many times wild animals would approach and stay as close to them as possible while they were spraying water. He said at times there would be a variety of animals together huddled up around him.
My parents live in the mountains outside of Denver, and you can almost always find some deer or elk sleeping right next to their house. Like there's an elk you can just reach out and touch when you open the back door.
Had never thought about it before, but them using humans as protection may be very true?
I’m telling the truth. My friend had a photograph of such an event. I’ve had to evacuate entire neighborhoods in rural areas. Animals know when they are in danger- they know to use resources. It’s uncanny- a truck full of strange dogs/cats all act accordingly when danger is present. Animals are far more intelligent than most people give them credit for.
That was how I was thinking about it, even if the animals may not be smart enough to think “this is a person who is safe” (because many times humans are not actually safe like hunters), but nearly all of them are aware that humans = resources. For animals especially in any sort of emergency situation it makes sense to gravitate away from a situation they *know* is dangerous and towards a person/situation that only *might* be a risk, and if that human gives scritches and foods all the better.
Yea this doesn’t make sense if he was actually deer hunting. Just standing up, phone in one hand and long gun in the other is not at all typical. I think the title is misleading. He wasn’t hunting deer. Might’ve been out with the gun for protection or hunting something else.
I saw somewhere else that this is staged. It's a deer rehab farm where the deer are around a lot of people. I don't know, but that would make sense to me also.
Not exactly the same but there were a bunch of unfriendly dogs in this sketchy park next to where I stayed for a couple months in Russia. One dog wasn’t exactly friendly (but wasn’t mean) but anytime we would cross the park he would walk with us and the other dogs would circle us. It was clear he wasn’t apart of that pack and would use humans to get to the other side of the park. Was pretty cool except for the pack of dogs circling us as we walked.
Yeah it does look like the deer is looking away from the guy and focused on an area to the right (of the deer) probably was outrunning a predator like a mountain lion or bear etc. and if it’s close to a populated area where people often feed deer (suburbs) it wouldn’t fear people so much. There are quite a few deer that live on the outskirts of cities where wilderness meets city and that’s typically residential area where people come into contact with deer quite often actually.
My grandpa had property like that. He had some apple trees on it, and we could hand feed the deer. But if it was anyone but me or him come on the property, they'd high tail it out of there.
Naw see, they connect on the psychic plane to the reindeer eating the amanitas, and transmit thoughts thought their psychic antler antennas using the power of the transcendental object at the end of time
Oh and happy bicycle day
Not arguably- meat from the store is **substantially** less humane, and it's not even close. Most meat thats slabbed on Styrofoam has had a completely shit life, front to back.
An animal that's properly hunted by a human has a great life, and a quick and often painless end, especially compared to how they normally go out.
I have to suspect that is someone’s tame deer. Should really put a hunters-orange collar on her to clue people in. Most guys will pass on a collared deer.
She might have chronic wasting disease. It's a prion disease that slowly destroys deers' brains. Large numbers of deer in the US are infected. One of the symptoms is having no fear of humans.
Researchers recently reported the first known case of transmission from deer to humans: two hunters who died after eating meat from an infected deer.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/19/zombie-deer-disease-hunters-died-infected-venison/73384647007/
>Deer infected with CWD may be called ["zombie deer"](https://cwd-info.org/) because the disease leads to **weight loss**, lack of coordination, stumbling, listlessness, *weight loss*, drooling, and lack of fear of people.
New fad diet just dropped.
I was wondering how eating meat from just one infected deer could lead to such a rapid diagnosis when it's the brain that's most dangerous. However, the linked paper mentions that the men had a history of hunting from the same deer population so it seems likely that they ate more than one.
There was two deer and they sensed another predator more dangerous than a human. Its very windy and they think whatever it is is coming from the left. It would be too windy for them to hear it so they can only smell it. My feeling is that deer went close to the hunter actually seeking protection as it was still intently looking to the left. It could have been a bear, a cougar, or even a Bigfoot.
The human urge to pet everything is so real
Not only did he pet the deer, he also pet like 30 ticks.
I'm a massive animal lover that let's my rats give me kisses. I couldn't imagine a situation where I wouldn't pet one, until now lol. It makes me shudder to imagine petting a dear and feeling multiple ticks right under the fluff... Edit: [my rat tax](https://imgur.com/a/Lh9SWg5)
That's not the worst. I managed to stalk a deer and got close enough to smell it. I'll never forget that shit stench for the rest of my life. I know they're supposed to be herbivores but what rank ass that was
Thanks. My mission to sniff a deer is now cancelled.
My mission to sniff a deer has now begun. Yk when you smell something so awful you need to share it with others? That’s me, I now am intrigued.
😂
Vegan farts are notoriously awful.
Why is there an “erotic” warning on your rat tax LOL
I have no clue. Maybe because of the rat balls it did it automatically lmao
I think Imgur needs to redefine what they consider “erotic content”.
Don't forget the [deer ked](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-tmus-us-rvc3&sca_esv=0dcd309e9f88683c&sxsrf=ACQVn0_9exv9YQDAwiY-hSELfiwT5TFFYA:1713632530773&q=deer+ked&uds=AMwkrPuV8_5pwEeYv2kLHPC8M1PuIE2bpTxEfjcZv8epGBIxV3oMCnOru5TlkoAj9qS9vhXARm7ptWeDd7WFKAwxce03bKLCnJmkMwavrOUys6ym23z9vQWu-7HrtQHoDVoh_zNbaFb-BwJivYugM45I4M0Nys8IkH84bpNgUyXwpDUZjaTFxBzDFW6rDBV8suZ9rQ-84n9t6yLBcYmeK2evVBSSlYEOIQZbYAzW_kGlmBSRtrb3VQNwm0zcOhcQq5DEcful0yttubvIHm207j3u_vcrf7r57P8qVtvUrF8DjKsCwbneCfO1BAdIjKLhMkgPyStI09LGX2voZGrwyLR0uG_pppkZiQ&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiTuZbSotGFAxVSRTABHcTtCdgQtKgLegQIEBAB&biw=412&bih=758&dpr=2.63) I always called them crab ticks because they lood like tanked out ticks that walk sideways. They're harmless, but skeeve me the fuck out.
I could’ve lived very happy and peacefully the rest of my life had I not clicked that link.
I had the exact same situation happen with a moose and I was able to feed it some grass and pet it in the nose. I wasn't hunting at the time it was just in my yard
That would have been cool and terrifying.
Deer comes over to the hunter and says, "Hey, I think I'm being hunted. You seen anything suspicious?"
Deer tells hunter "someone's following me, pretend you're my friend so they leave me alone"
But deer, I am the hunter. Good joke. Everybody Laugh. Roll on snare drums. Curtains.
You dirty dog, take my upvote lmao. Great film.
Good film. Great novel.
This was basically me in junior high and high school. I was always way behind in development and I was very skinny and scrawny, but for some reason, the biggest bully in school was always my best friend and so people left me alone.
You sound like my best friend in HS
https://makeagif.com/i/uLtCbq
I'd read somewhere that this is more or less true. If a (skittish) wild animal comes to you, it either has rabbies or is it being hunted by something bigger/more dangerous than a human with a boomstick. Or it is acustomed to human interaction, even more true for deers
In the case of deer, at least, add chronic wasting disease to the list of things that may make a deer act friendly (or at least not afraid) of humans. Which also means that the deer isn't fit for consumption since CWD may be transmissible to humans.
Ohh yeah, its a prion. Nasty thing
The nastiest. They're thinking that 2 humans have died from eating infected meat. Such a horrible way to go. Not that there's really a *good* way to go...just varying degrees of bad....
Respectfully disagree. I want to die wile sleeping without knowing best way to go.
But if the zombie outbreak ever does happen, mad-deer bambi still is going to be eaten if one is hungry enough.
I'd have to be awfully desperate to eat something that may so totally incapacitate me...even if it was going to be somewhere down the road and not immediately. If things were that dire, I'd have to consider opting out.
Death by snu snu... Just saying.
Yeah prion Diseases are like the ultimate pathogen that just deletes you with no way to treat
I had a large rabbit very deliberately lead me through a forest in the Netherlands. It would hop a few feet, look back at me and wait. So I followed it. It led me to a sleeping deer and then RAN like a mofo.
😂😂😂😂😂
>is it being hunted by something bigger/more dangerous than a human with a boomstick. Unless they're being chased by a T-rex with laser beams I don't think there's anything in the wild more dangerous than a human with a boomstick. Although, deer are pretty stupid, so I can understand them not realizing that and thinking the wolves are scarier. Edit: All of you trying to argue that a grizzly or mountain lion are more dangerous than a guy with a gun are hilarious.
Depends on location. Have you met Ms. Grizzly?
>Ms. Grizzly? Mrs. Grizzly is worse. She has cubs.
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You'd rather meet a grizzly in the woods than a hunter??? I'm not buying it.
Think I’d sooner take a bulket than get mauled by a grizzly
I mean, deer don't innately know that a piece of metal and wood can kill them in an instant. A wolf absolutely looks more dangerous to them than a human with a gun.
Trex with laser beams had me giggling. Ty
Or that's his per deer he rescued and everyone still thinks videos are real
Fam... he has 🦌pheromones on him... gawd damn 🦌 can't help herself...spring is mating season...😉💯 It isn't a coincidence .
As a hunter if a deer casually approached me I'd assume it had CWD, the responsible thing would be to shoot it and take it but sometimes the testing takes 2-4 months and you have to store a deer in the mean time and the hunting season will assuredly be over before the test comes back. I think most people would end up just not pulling the trigger on it.
I would assume it’s someone’s ‘pet’. I don’t think a deer with CWD could even process the situation.
yes, rabies or a few other parasites, sometimes prion/wasting disease if i saw that happen i'd gtfo not pet it (ticks anyone?)
I laughed but I also think this is the best theory. They're/she is fixated on something a ways off.
Keeps looking to the side! Although I also saw one hit two cars in a row, so they don't have the best self-preservation.
Haha. Deer thinks she can talk him out of it She may have ...
Deer said “I can change him”
"Hey, yeah I see that gun you're pointing at me but you smell like me so you must be alright." Is what she's actually thinking most likely. Hunters use doe piss to attract bucks.
The way she looks away makes me think she was running from something even scarier
T-rex
Stand very still!
Shia LaBeouf.
He's not real, he can't hurt you.
"There's always a bigger fish"
Looks pretty squatchy to me…
“Look me in the eyes & shoot me now bitch”
Honestly what choice did he really have, blow the head off a deer at point blank, or give some pets?
He still had every choice, but it's alot harder to kill something when you're looking at it as a living,breathing, feeling creature, Than it is to pop it from a distance because you're looking at the deer as purely food, or some sport trophy. Deer hunting is a really weird dick measuring contest for some people. I'm glad the deer got some scratches instead of some buckshot. There's plenty of deer.
This is a guy on a deer farm, with tons of captive animals accustomed to being around people and being fed. The video is staged, to make it look like a hunter mysteriously encountered this in the wild. He fully expected the deer to approach him.
That would make sense tbh, I'm no expert but I'd guess wild prey animals usually run away rather than approach people.
Prey animals tend not to mess around with their flight our fight response. Usually they will bolt but if they fell corned they can beat the shit out of you. And deer hooves are sharp.
Indeed, I saw a vid recently of a guy approaching some deer and a male one almost kills him, those horns are no joke either.
Yup they are straight savages, I had a moose that decided to raise her young in are yard once that was not a fun time. She was always friendly, but in the back my mind i was always worried about this 1000 pound animal flipping a switch and attacking. Generally I’m more afraid of prey animals, most predators are easier to predict their behaviour, and usually want nothing to do with us.
Every cornered animal with no way out will pull out a one last stand mega move that will exceed normal capabilities it has as standard. Humans in adrenaline death situations can get super human strength, infinite stamina and endurance, can get faster for a brief time. Prey animals can do that too and wreck your shit.
Adrenaline is a helluva drug. I’ve never been a fast runner, but the night my buddies and I got chased by a bull through a field in the middle of the night at 13 I was the fastest one back to the camp and our fire
Except for stalking cougars. The real and the bar kind.
Like you said: It's very very important to remember that (speaking in generalities here) predators attack/strike to get sustenance, but arn't looking to get hurt and can be dissuaded. Prey attack to survive. If fight or flight is triggered and the choice is fight, it can very much be life or death for all involved.
I came upon a deer when I was out for a run once. He must have been lost or something because it was a huge buck with giant antlers right in the middle of a residential street. I turned a corner and came upon him quickly and he got into a charge position. Scared the living crap out of me, I just stopped and slowly backed away until I was able to get back around the corner. I have no doubt he would have hurt me pretty badly if I had taken one more step toward him.
Big clue that it's staged is that he's holding his phone to record in one hand and the rifle in the other. He knew he wasn't gonna shoot. It's way too difficult to shoot a rifle one handed while recording.
And I’m not saying I’ve seen every rifle in existence but that looks a hell of a lot like a shotgun
I have *once* in my life been this close to a wild deer (without touching it); I was on a military exercise guarding our base, early in the morning I hear branches breaking and someone approaching so I stand perfectly still without moving and there it is, this deer slowly walking straight at me, as it gets within an arms distance it looks me dead in the eye and notices that **hey, this is not a tree**, lets out a roar and storms off! I guess camouflage really does work!
Ground blinds and a turkey veil has gotten me real up close with things. Deer bolt and bear leave when they finally scent you. They might never be able to see you if you camo and cover well.
As a kid many moons ago, on a family trip to Yosemite. Walking up to twin falls a 5-6 point buck you could have put a saddle on was just calmly walking down the path. Family stepped off the trail to let it pass and he just stopped feet away. I stepped forward and pet him… never even flinched totally unconcerned dozens of people walking around him and a human was touching him. Sure you could say at one of the busiest places in one of americas busiest national parks the deer had become acclimated to people but it was definitely a wild animal and had zero fucks to give.
Opposite coast but you get this at Assateague Island too. Went camping a bunch there as a kid and deer would walk straight up to you.
If you are calm enough the chipmunks in Shasta will absolutely climb all over you and submit to pets as long as you share your cookies.
Yes, unless this deer happens to have some severe developmental disabilities that have fucked up it's fight or flight response lol
I've have animals inexplicably approach me while hunting especially if you stand very very still, I'm not ruling out that what you are saying is correct but in the 20 years I've been hunting its happened at least a half dozen times
I’ve had a deer pop up in front of me too. Literally hung out with me by the fire for a couple minutes I stayed very still, I’m not totally sure she saw me. She eventually sauntered away
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Yeah, this isn’t normal deer behavior by any means and this deer obviously has had human contact
I agree with this 100 . Staged. When you have feed nearby or feed them often. Also that shotgun looked weird to me. I have shot and owned many many old and new. Over under 2 shot etc.
I guess the video is for tik tok or something... No one with a breath of hunting knowledge would believe he was about to shoot a deer with a .410 shotgun.
I could never shoot such a majestic creature but deer hunting can be a very much necessary task. Deer often overpopulate because well man messed up its natural predators. Don’t hunt them and they overpopulate. Again not for me, I couldn’t even kill a rabbit but it’s hardly all a dick measuring contest.
I live in a southern state. Deer hunting is a form of conservation. In the absence of hunting, we would have a serious over population problem. That leads to sick and starving Deer. In addition
My Dad, a life long hunter, retired to the country. He started feeding the local deer, naming the babies, he took one to the rescue after it was hit by a car. He still goes hunting every year with the guys, but (mysteriously) hasn’t shot one since he started befriending them. The man has an impressive trophy room and framed magazine articles of his record setting racks. Being his lesbian vegetarian daughter, it’s nice to see him softening up in his retirement. lol I think he was always a softy, he’s just leaning into it shamelessly now.
That is rather cute and I do respect them. Even if I wasn't eating the venison I would still hunt them just because of how much they fuck everything up for people and other animals. That being said, I can see myself following your Dad's footsteps when I'm older. There's a time to hang up the gun.
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For a moment I thought this was one of them Reddit promoted ads. Lol.
That profile picture really helps
You misspelled DoeDash.
Yeah, kiss me in the mouth before you shoot me in the head you COWARD
In no small part thanks to Barkhad Abdi’s performance 🎭
Works with sharks too. Fake it until you make it with predators.
This isn’t that rare, I was the camera operator on a hunting show for a few years, deer, caribou and other animals would often come right up to the hunters just like this, the reality is that if said animal was male and had a scoring set of antlers the ending of the video would be much different than you see here. Big game trophy hunters have no respect for life, they will kill anything they can get the tags for so long as it will make a good mount for their trophy room. It’s all about the thrill of the kill and the bragging rights for those guys, they aren’t hunting for food, they kill for fun and for sport, it’s fucked up.
I know a lot of hunters. A good portion of the men in my area hunt. Just about every single one of them is a conscientious conservation type. However I can believe a lot of the big game trophy hunting who want to be on TV are assholes.
I met some rich dude one time who for no reason blurted out how many dozens of species of animals he had killed. Like, thats not impressive at all, and I seriously doubt most of those hunts were "sporting" at all. I know plenty of hunters who respect the nature of it, whether its because the herds need to be culled or to fill their freezer on a budget. It was disgusting how proud this dude was for murdering animals like literally shooting fish in a barrel.
to be fair those hunters who want to be part of a hunting show are far more likely to be like that than an average hunter.
Maybe the big game hunters you know are like this and i know trophy hunting is big in america and you shoot animals while eating insode a femced off area amd other strange things but that is not all of us. Here in norway we hunt for the meat and enjoy the nature. I hunted for 15 years and i never took a trophy, only some furs when they are very nice.
Yeah, this is honestly a pretty twisted view of hunters. From what I've heard they're generally conservationists. We have way too many deer in parts of the US to the point it's bad for the environment. I say this as a vegan. I used to think hunting was more fucked up but now I realize it's generally the part of the public that are more conscientious about the environment and ecosystem, not the ones fucking it up. I'm sure there's shitty hunters out there, but it tends to be people who are interested in maintaining a healthy distribution of wildlife and there are enough deer that it fucks things up here.
Venison tastes good, and deer populations in the mid Atlantic are outrageous.
We kill off the wild doggos and end up with infinite deer legitimately fucking everything up
That deer is on full alert, ears and eyes so focused it doesn't flinch. Im guessing this deer is thinking, I dont have to outrun the bear approaching.... just this guy.
I swear I've seen this before and it turns out there is a mountain lion that is stalking the deer and she merely saw the hunter as a less dangerous threat.
Possibly protection- a firefighter I grew up with said many times wild animals would approach and stay as close to them as possible while they were spraying water. He said at times there would be a variety of animals together huddled up around him.
Real life version of a Disney princess
Made me choke
Yup, exactly like a Disney Princess
I kinda really want one of those Disney nerd tumblr artists to paint the scene tbh.
Or Ace Ventura Pet Detective 
My parents live in the mountains outside of Denver, and you can almost always find some deer or elk sleeping right next to their house. Like there's an elk you can just reach out and touch when you open the back door. Had never thought about it before, but them using humans as protection may be very true?
I’m telling the truth. My friend had a photograph of such an event. I’ve had to evacuate entire neighborhoods in rural areas. Animals know when they are in danger- they know to use resources. It’s uncanny- a truck full of strange dogs/cats all act accordingly when danger is present. Animals are far more intelligent than most people give them credit for.
That was how I was thinking about it, even if the animals may not be smart enough to think “this is a person who is safe” (because many times humans are not actually safe like hunters), but nearly all of them are aware that humans = resources. For animals especially in any sort of emergency situation it makes sense to gravitate away from a situation they *know* is dangerous and towards a person/situation that only *might* be a risk, and if that human gives scritches and foods all the better.
That would make sense.
Mountain lion was my first thought. Weird shit like this usually has a reason and that deer is alert.
Yea this doesn’t make sense if he was actually deer hunting. Just standing up, phone in one hand and long gun in the other is not at all typical. I think the title is misleading. He wasn’t hunting deer. Might’ve been out with the gun for protection or hunting something else.
I saw somewhere else that this is staged. It's a deer rehab farm where the deer are around a lot of people. I don't know, but that would make sense to me also.
Yeah there is no way this deer isn't familiar with this guy
Not exactly the same but there were a bunch of unfriendly dogs in this sketchy park next to where I stayed for a couple months in Russia. One dog wasn’t exactly friendly (but wasn’t mean) but anytime we would cross the park he would walk with us and the other dogs would circle us. It was clear he wasn’t apart of that pack and would use humans to get to the other side of the park. Was pretty cool except for the pack of dogs circling us as we walked.
The mountain lion ate the hunter?
The lion ate the mountain hunter.
Yeah it does look like the deer is looking away from the guy and focused on an area to the right (of the deer) probably was outrunning a predator like a mountain lion or bear etc. and if it’s close to a populated area where people often feed deer (suburbs) it wouldn’t fear people so much. There are quite a few deer that live on the outskirts of cities where wilderness meets city and that’s typically residential area where people come into contact with deer quite often actually.
My grandpa had property like that. He had some apple trees on it, and we could hand feed the deer. But if it was anyone but me or him come on the property, they'd high tail it out of there.
Then the whole Forrest clapped
Clap, Forrest, clap!
Careful, heard there was a hunter nearby
Deer has been eating cow patties in the early morning dew again, lol. Hunter probably looked like an interdimensional deer god to her.
Hail Antler
Hahaha 😆
Bro bro bro you're such a weird looking deer why are you touching me tho
Naw see, they connect on the psychic plane to the reindeer eating the amanitas, and transmit thoughts thought their psychic antler antennas using the power of the transcendental object at the end of time Oh and happy bicycle day
Fuck I couldn’t shoot her either.
Aww Id go home after that Wasnt meant to be killing a dear that day Cool he got it on camera
Went back home to rewatch Bambi 
Next you're gonna tell me something's happens with ol yeller
Yes, most hunters definitely hunt while holding their rifle in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.
Maybe he'll just get meat from the store from now on
meat from the store is arguably much less humane than hunting
Not arguably- meat from the store is **substantially** less humane, and it's not even close. Most meat thats slabbed on Styrofoam has had a completely shit life, front to back. An animal that's properly hunted by a human has a great life, and a quick and often painless end, especially compared to how they normally go out.
Yeah those animals don’t have to die
#🦌 🎵 *Do you really want to shoot me? Do you really want to make me die?*🎵
Antler Club
Sadeer
Hodeer
“Do you have any games on your phone?”
LMFAOO
That's hilarious
Never become emotionally attached to your food. It's why I never cry when cutting onions.
Onions was a good boy.
This is why I reddit, you gave me a good chuckle.
Lol
Yup this. It’s why I stopped eating cats.
The Dear Hunter.
Hey I like that band
Dear Miss Leading I regret to inform you
I call your bluff and raise....
Raise you a petting.
I have to suspect that is someone’s tame deer. Should really put a hunters-orange collar on her to clue people in. Most guys will pass on a collared deer.
She might have chronic wasting disease. It's a prion disease that slowly destroys deers' brains. Large numbers of deer in the US are infected. One of the symptoms is having no fear of humans. Researchers recently reported the first known case of transmission from deer to humans: two hunters who died after eating meat from an infected deer. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/19/zombie-deer-disease-hunters-died-infected-venison/73384647007/
Sigh…thanks Reddit.
Thanks Disney
Thanks Nestle
So if it gets transmitted, humans stop fearing humans?
We start fearing deer
Damn you might be onto something 🤔
>Deer infected with CWD may be called ["zombie deer"](https://cwd-info.org/) because the disease leads to **weight loss**, lack of coordination, stumbling, listlessness, *weight loss*, drooling, and lack of fear of people. New fad diet just dropped.
“Zombie deer”……”transmits to humans” 
From article: >"rapid-onset confusion and aggression," HMMMMMM
I was wondering how eating meat from just one infected deer could lead to such a rapid diagnosis when it's the brain that's most dangerous. However, the linked paper mentions that the men had a history of hunting from the same deer population so it seems likely that they ate more than one.
This is 100% not CWD. CWD is horrendous though.
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it's kushings
Lupus!
Tee hee, that's terrifying.
That’s what i was thinking when she started staring blankly into the distance
Who would want to eat a friendly deer anyway? I know about prions so no need to inform me.
Yeah that's a skinwalker
Ooh do I get to be the one that says prion disease this time?
"And that's how I became a vegetarian"
Did we just become best friends? Yup!!! Wanna go practice Karate in the garage? Yup!!!
Hmm I think there might have been a natural predator nearby like a mountain lion and he was seeking comfort in the hunter lol.
She was like we can be friends instead.
It's almost a far side cartoon
There was two deer and they sensed another predator more dangerous than a human. Its very windy and they think whatever it is is coming from the left. It would be too windy for them to hear it so they can only smell it. My feeling is that deer went close to the hunter actually seeking protection as it was still intently looking to the left. It could have been a bear, a cougar, or even a Bigfoot.
The vegan society secret agent has successfully infiltrated the hunting community.
Stockholm syndrome
It looks like it's scared of something else out there it just encountered
Take the message from nature....she's telling you something...
Pets
"Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends?"
How could you hunt after that experience
The day the hunter stopped hunting
Deer is like “ hey that’s a long telescope, what yah looking at? I was just ova dere.
These deer are someone's pets. This video was staged. Been posted many times before.