CL-MotoTech t1_isxemgb wrote on October 19, 2022 at 12:21 PM

Reply to comment by IrrumaboMalum in Odds Of Hitting A Deer In PA Go Up: How To Avoid It This Season | Across Pennsylvania, PA by oldschoolskater

I grew up in a the country and would see turkey, deer, bear, all sorts of wildlife all of the time. The biggest deer I have ever seen are in the city. They pick over gardens and well groomed yards and aren't hunted so they live long healthy lives.

GargantuanWitch t1_isxqmmd wrote on October 19, 2022 at 1:58 PM

Same here. As a kid, I never managed to get closer than maybe 50 yards away from one.

Now, it's a completely different story. I could easily walk up to one and chokeslam it, if I wanted to. They don't run away.

ICKSharpshot68 t1_it1z1h7 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 10:59 AM

I used to have a Great Dane, they weren't even skittish around a dog his size, we could easily get within 10-15ft of them.

GargantuanWitch t1_it2n9l1 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 2:23 PM

We have chickens, and I have a video from last year where my wife and I are standing in the backyard, on a June afternoon, taking dumb pictures, and a deer walked in between us (we were standing 5 feet apart) to come sniff a chicken that was near our feet, and it tripped over another hen it didn't notice.

My wife had to literally shove the deer with two hands to get it away from the chickens, who wanted nothing to do with it.

Everyone around us has motion security lights, and they'll bed down on my back patio, right up against the house, because they don't trip the lights on. All of our adjoining backyards are connected, and if you go out at dusk you can see them all gathering underneath trees, waiting for it to get dark.