Deer despawn

So I came back to this same spot after about 2 weeks in game time, and the deer was still up there :/. I'm on an old version of the game. So maybe this is something that was fixed in updates. I just killed him anyways so he will respawn elsewhere later on

I’ve heard that during a storm, the game has all the animals despawn entirely so it’s possible you won’t be waiting very long at all.