I don't mean to brag, but momma deer thinks my front yard is safe, and left her baby to chill while she foraged.

[bbsmooth@pnw.zone]

@CDubbs @lmgenealogy Sorry about the flowers. Some years the deer will come through and get my rose buds. I got lucky and they didn't eat them this year.

[wheresalice@woof.tech]

@CDubbs So you decided to betray her trust by telling the entire internet where her child is?

[moriel@chaosfem.tw]

@CDubbs

That's actually a pretty common thing for mother deer to do. They leave the baby in some place they consider safe enough and then they go browse in the area nearby. i once found a fawn like that in my front yard, while the mother was on the other side of the house about 100 meters away!

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@CDubbs so you’re either a fairy tale princes or an woodland dwarf. so which one are you?

[cdubbs@infosec.exchange]

@wheresalice I did of course, delay the post until they had already moved on

[ewen@social.ewenbell.com]

@CDubbs

There's something so very special and affirming when wild creatures feel safe in your presence.

[ottaross@mastodon.social]

@CDubbs aha - I almost stepped on one just like that while backwoods hiking once! I was careful to divert around it after seeing it right in front of me, but it did a very good job of keeping still while its mom was presumably off at her meeting or appointment.

[scott_pleavin_sr@mstdn.ca]

@CDubbs Last year, the wife and I headed down to the dock for happy hour, and mom had left this newborn. We, of course, turned around.

[paculino@tech.lgbt]

@CDubbs When I was in college, I came across two adults asleep beside a creek once when I was jogging to class. When I was leaving class later that day, I came across the deer on the sidewalk near where the creek went through, which was amazing

[tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org]

@CDubbs

Wow now that's trust. Congratulations whatever you're doing is the right thing.

[tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org]

@CDubbs

I judge people by the animals around them. It is very telling.