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They literally take over our yard at night and happily graze right along the roadside as cars pass by.

From today's Times Union.

WATERVLIET - Police feared the worst when they were called to handle an injured deer Tuesday morning.

"Obviously our first thought turns to having to put the animal down," Watervliet police wrote on a Facebook post.

"Boy, were we wrong."

The deer was injured - not badly - but was happy to hang out with the police.

"This was one of the friendliest young deer we have ever encountered. He was injured, but walking, following us around and very calm."

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All of the cops were invited to a venison dinner at the firehouse next door. :eek: Only kidding, animal rescue picked up the injured animal to treat it and return it to the wild. The deer calmy waited in the public works garage until the rescue people arrived to pick it up.
 
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jackb said:
All of the cops were invited to a venison dinner at the firehouse next door. :eek: Only kidding, animal rescue picked up the injured animal to treat it and return it to the wild. The deer calmy waited in the public works garage until the rescue people arrived to pick it up.
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It might have been hand raised by someone.
My brother raised a newborn fawn whose mom had been killed by a bear. He wandered out in the road and got himself killed.The deer not my brother.
It's illegal to raise a deer btw.
 
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DNR used to bring orphan fawns to my dairy neighbor’s to raise. Last one they raised was a buck who loved to hang with her horses. When she fed her horses, she fed him. He went to neighbors place with horses. When they came out to feed their horses, he came running for his. When they didnt feed him, he just stood there shaking his head at them. They called DNR who promptly shot him. My neighbor lit him up......he knew that deer. She never took another fawn from them. Nor talked to them.....
 
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This beast has been showing up every night just after dark and hanging around till the wee hours, so far it has not bothered the garden plants. I have fine poly netting over the peppers to protect them, as the package said it would protect plants from deer and birds. Now, we have a flock of wild turkeys leaving droppings all over the driveway. I have not been able to get a photo of them so far.

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I saw a first deer in PNW in the past 3 years. It was hit by a car and layed dead on the road side of a swampy area bridge guard rail that is about 100 yards long for the last 9 days. Last night someone threw it's carcass over the guard rail . No buzzard or carnivore has fed on it's carcass.
 
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bobm said:
I saw a first deer in PNW in the past 3 years. It was hit by a car and layed dead on the road side of a swampy area bridge guard rail that is about 100 yards long for the last 9 days. Last night someone threw it's carcass over the guard rail . No buzzard or carnivore has fed on it's carcass.
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We have them all over, they graze like cattle and pay no attention to vehicles. There is no hunting anywhere near here and no natural predators either. The same with squirrels, I have removed more than a hundred from the property in the last 18 months and still, they keep coming, so I will continue to remove them. There are two more this morning so I had best get to work.
 
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