The deer is responsible. Safety first.
This looks like something my mom would do.
She likes to feed all the nearby animals, and deer are no exception. They’ll show up in groups of about 10 or so, and in the spring, they always have baby deer with them. Sometimes, they get spooked and take off running as a group, but the baby deer will just lie down wherever their mothers leave them and wait for them to return.
It’s been happening like this for years, but I guess she felt bad for one of the baby deer or something, because she started getting close to it by talking to it or sitting really close, and eventually, she was able to pet it and feed it. I tried warning her about the diseases they could carry, but she wouldn’t listen. She just started using more hand sanitizer afterward.
The baby deer grew up, but it would always come over to my mom and let her pet its head while she hand-fed it. I’m sure she’d do something like put a high-visibility vest on it to protect it from cars if she thought about it.
Do people just legitimately not know about spotlighting anymore?
Like, they think “deer in the headlights” means the deer is suicidal and wants to die?
Granted I grew up significantly more hillbilly than most, but I thought everyone knew what an animal does when a bright ass light suddenly shines in its face. It stands completely still. Focuses only on the light, and won’t even respond to a car at 60mph, much less someone else approaching with a safety vest.
It might just be a really friendly deer. There’s one that travels through my neighborhood that will walk right up to you and I bet I could get a vest on it if I tried
There’s one that travels through my neighborhood that will walk right up to you
As crazy as it sounds, that’s more dangerous for the deer than spotlighting it and putting it on with no cooperation from the deer…
Like, I can’t stress it enough: don’t do either, just leave them alone.
Wild animals should be scared of humans and avoid us. Because some humans should 100% be avoided, and most animals are really bad at differentiating. If a deer learns one human can be trusted, they’ll trust all of them and walk right up to a hunter expecting food.
And there’s lots of ways it can go badly unintentionally too.
If you spotlight a deer and wrestle a vest on it, it’s sure as shit gonna avoid the next person it sees at least.
So long run, you’re doing more damage letting that deer walk up to you then psychopaths intentionally fucking with them.
Just let nature be nature. Give it space to do it’s own thing and remember in the long run no human has been executed for fucking with animals, but loads of animals are put down for doing what millions of years of evolution is telling them to do in a situation.
Keeping us seperate from them is for their benefit, not ours. So even if you like doing it, just stop for their sake.
They no longer need to be fed or encouraged to encroach in town anymore. At leas tin my experience. Their habitat is being reduced (by us) and they’re getting more desperate/brave
Dude, give some fucks and read the article.
The article, hell, just look at the picture!
I think you’re confused…
“It’s astonishing [to] me that someone was able to get it on the deer without serious injury to either party,” said Arnold. “I hope the jacket comes off either on its own or with help from conservation officers before it becomes a problem for the deer.
The answer is:
but I thought everyone knew what an animal does when a bright ass light suddenly shines in its face. It stands completely still. Focuses only on the light, and won’t even respond to a car at 60mph, much less someone else approaching with a safety vest.
I don’t understand why youre telling me to read the article for answering the question it asks…
Did you think I was encouraging this because I explained how it was almost certainly done?
That logical leap wasn’t explicit in your original comment at all.
Do people just legitimately not know about spotlighting anymore?
I identify the practice my name, “spotlighting”.
Like, they think “deer in the headlights”
I reference the widely known phrase in case someone isn’t familiar with spotlighting.
means the deer is suicidal and wants to die?
I mention sarcastically that there must be another reason they freeze when they see a car at night besides suicidal ideations.
Granted I grew up significantly more hillbilly than most
I pre-emptively explain that my rural upbringing isn’t common.
but I thought everyone knew what an animal does when a bright ass light suddenly shines in its face. It stands completely still. Focuses only on the light, and won’t even respond to a car at 60mph, much less someone else approaching with a safety vest.
Then I broke it down, which magically worked the second time…
So I know this is probably going to come off as me being a dick, but that’s not what I’m trying to do. This is a very very important point that needs to be made:
That logical leap wasn’t explicit in your original comment at all
If you don’t understand something, ask for clarification first before assuming someone didn’t read an article and throwing shade.
You personally didn’t understand the connection and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, ever. But the next step is just asking so you can understand.
Granted this isn’t incredibly useful information, but because I took the time to ask what you were talking about and took a guess with what you had difficulty with and explained that, you wound up learning something.
If I had just responded in kind, we’d have just pissed each other off on Thanksgiving and learned nothing.
So next time if you read something and it doesn’t click, just ask for clarification.
I didn’t read the article or your reply, but in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I’m going to tell you you don’t know what you are talking about.
Fair enough.
I don’t think this is spotlighting. I think it’s just someone thought it’d be funny.
And a reminder, if you get caught spotlighting, you can get your truck confiscated and face heavy fines.
What are you talking about? Wtf
