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June 12, 2015 7:57 AM   Subscribe

Deer using dog door (SLYT)
posted by griphus (42 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Where is the dog?
posted by Mr. Yuck at 8:02 AM on June 12, 2015


This will not end well.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:05 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


they ain't stupid -- keep feeding them, they'll come back.

Though as my grandfather would say, "I'll feed you all summer, but you'll feed me all winter"
posted by k5.user at 8:06 AM on June 12, 2015 [25 favorites]


I can't be the only one who was kind of hoping for a third and a fourth and a fifth deer to squeeze through the door until the whole mud room was filled with a herd of fawns, right?
posted by maryr at 8:09 AM on June 12, 2015 [20 favorites]


I'm assuming those are domesticated deer. The other videos on that channel make it look like they have a deer farm or petting zoo. It's unlikely two fawns would get close enough to a human to let her feed them otherwise.

Because if those people are regularly feeding wild deer, they are asking to catch Lyme disease.
posted by riruro at 8:11 AM on June 12, 2015 [5 favorites]


It's a David Letterman outtake: How Many Deer Can Fit Into A Mudroom?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:17 AM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


I can't be the only one who was kind of hoping for a third and a fourth and a fifth deer to squeeze through the door until the whole mud room was filled with a herd of fawns, right?

Mike's meeting with the supremely ironic Genie did not go well.
posted by codacorolla at 8:19 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


Thelma and Louise.

You little shee-ats.
posted by gwint at 8:22 AM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


I think I saw Herd of Fawns open for Belle and Sebastian in '02.
posted by griphus at 8:30 AM on June 12, 2015 [15 favorites]


Clearly the dog has been using the deer door all this time.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:33 AM on June 12, 2015 [8 favorites]


(But the night the possum comes in the cat door is the night the cat door gets nailed shut.)
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:33 AM on June 12, 2015 [9 favorites]


I think I saw Herd of Fawns open for Belle and Sebastian in '02.

I've heard of fawns.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:34 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


My favorite part is that despite the fact that these people are obviously somewhat accustomed to having deer come in through the dog door, the guy behind the camera still sounds genuinely and unabashedly delighted about the whole thing. His laughter is so contagious. And those deer are ADORABLE.

Thanks for the post, it's a great little Friday morning pick-me-up!
posted by divined by radio at 8:54 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


Don't underestimate the willingness of woodland critters to use pet doors to get into houses. More than one raccoon and numerous squirrels (or maybe just the same squirrel every day, who can tell) have found their way into my mother's kitchen. I've seen other videos of wild deer using dog doors, too.
posted by briank at 9:17 AM on June 12, 2015


I made an FPP about exactly that a few years ago.
posted by griphus at 9:19 AM on June 12, 2015


I've always wondered if deer would eventually learn how to stand up and press the buttons on the water fountains at national parks.

Which reminds me of a great sci-fi short story by Terry Bisson called Bears Discover Fire.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:21 AM on June 12, 2015 [4 favorites]


Some neighbors of my parents started feeding a deer and now it views all the neighborhood humans as providers of food. It just walks right up to strangers. Hates dogs though.
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 9:26 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


If I start feeding money, will it start coming up to me?
posted by I-baLL at 9:32 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


Yeah, Key Deer are unfortunately way too used to humans, and humans are all-too-willing to illegally feed them and post cute vids to YouTube.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:43 AM on June 12, 2015


I thought the fawns rode a chopper, flashing a signature thumbs-up gesture at moments indicated in the script.
posted by mistersquid at 9:45 AM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


Nature needs to learn its place. I've (mostly) trained my chickens that they don't belong in the house but they'll still stroll in and check things out if I'm not diligent about shutting the door.
posted by tommasz at 10:00 AM on June 12, 2015


Stop feeding them you idiot.
posted by humboldt32 at 10:02 AM on June 12, 2015


Still better than dogs in elk.
posted by MartinWisse at 10:07 AM on June 12, 2015 [5 favorites]


MetaFilter: More than one raccoon and numerous squirrels (or maybe just the same squirrel every day, who can tell?)
posted by The Bellman at 10:12 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


Doe!
posted by Devonian at 10:58 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


a deer
posted by griphus at 11:01 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


A *female* deer!
posted by entropicamericana at 11:03 AM on June 12, 2015 [4 favorites]


Ray?
posted by tickingclock at 11:16 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


Whoa, and I swear I hadn't consciously read or noticed the Bears Discover Fire reference in the previous link. Synchronicity, man.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:22 AM on June 12, 2015


My old landlord in Santa Cruz was an ornery alcoholic from Georgia who lived in the little back house and rented the front to us students. For a while there was a juvenile possum living under the house that would traipse into his kitchen through the cat door and eat the cats' food while he sat there drinking his margarita. He enjoyed watching it for a few months, named it Ned. Then one day he decided Ned had gotten too big to keep living under the house, got out his .22 rifle (this is in a very densely plotted beachside suburban neighborhood) and shot it to death.
posted by contraption at 11:24 AM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


This guy is basically Bad Santa.
posted by oceanjesse at 11:40 AM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


I think it would be helpful if someone would write a comment here explaining why I do not really want a pet deer.
posted by amtho at 11:51 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


@amtho, thousands of dollars wasted on landscaping.
posted by humboldt32 at 11:56 AM on June 12, 2015


I don't want to talk you out of it. Just be prepared for the cold, hard reality that you will never be as cute as Audrey Hepburn and Pippen.
posted by riruro at 12:01 PM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


(I don't know if it was a happy coincidence that "Ned" rhymes with "dead" or if he planned it that way, but he sure did make some hay out that one)
posted by contraption at 12:19 PM on June 12, 2015


Just be prepared for the cold, hard reality that you will never be as cute as Audrey Hepburn and Pippen.

There's no way you could know that. Not for certain. I can't easily look at myself anyway; I could, on the other hand, view my hypothetical fawn paired with all kinds of other adorable creatures and people. There are toddlers in my neighborhood. Also... the market for deer halloween costumes is wiiiide open.
posted by amtho at 1:28 PM on June 12, 2015




Does eat oats. And mares eat oats.

But little lambsy divey.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 3:29 PM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


Think of all the ticks. :shudder:
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 3:30 PM on June 12, 2015 [4 favorites]


Is it deer-cussing season already?
posted by bibliowench at 5:46 PM on June 12, 2015 [3 favorites]




MartinWisse-Dogs in Elk blows this clip away. I think I laughed for a week over that, of course that was in the early days of the internet for me so I was still pretty easily amused at animal shenanigans.
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