Video of the day... Cat + deer + dog

[ericire12]

It starts out cute, but gets pretty rough

[Hazcat]

Woulda been lunch!

[ericire12]

Woulda been lunch!

I have to disagree. Discharging a firearm in a residential area like the one shown in the video is a bad idea.




Here is what I would do:

I would draw and start charging… yelling authoritativly and trying to be as menacing as possible and hopefully the deer would back off. If not, I would start kicking at the deer and see if that would make it back down.

I would not fire unless the deer started to attack me or squared up and started to get aggressive with me. I dont think you can justifiably discharge a firearm in that area in defense of a dog that will probably have to be put down anyway. Being able to tell the cop that you fired to defend your own life (or any other human life) is vastly different and IMO much easier to justify.

[sledgemeister]

This video was posted on the aussie forum I inhabit.
Most of the comments was directed at the cat causing the angst and the dog copping it. 

My thoughts was (tone down and modified for a more refined audience like DRTV  )

Stupid #$^#ing people should think themselves lucky it was a dog that got clobbered and not some three year old wandering out looking at bambi.
Wild animals are wild animals not the sh#t they see on a walt disney cartoon.
It continues to baffle me when people take videos of bears, tigers and lions etc that they hand raise and show them on TV and tell every one how kind, and gentle they are when all they are doing is inviting some tard with no common sense to try and get a little closer in the wild which gets them killed. Not all deer are bambi, not all bears are gentle ben, Lions are simba the whitle lion and tigres are not Tigger from winnie the farkin poo. Idiots like steve irwn and jack hannah have a lot to answer for as does Walt bloody Disney for humanising wild animals in the first place.

[crusader rabbit]

What Sledge said, +1.

So many people seem to think wild animals are like Disney's audioanimatronics and simply do not understand the concept of wild animals.  Similarly, these same sorts of innocents think of the wilderness as if it were a Disney theme park.  They go into it, unprepared, and too often need rescuing at great expense to the taxpayer. 

I would strongly support having the great expanses of American wilderness turned into a "you're on your own" zones.  Explore, hunt, fish, trek, hike, climb or whatever.  But, if you get your azz in a jam, you better think about self-rescue, because no one on the taxpayers' dime is coming to get you.  That would give greater access to those of us who prepare for what we may encounter.  And Darwin would take care of the others.  Seems like a win/win to me.

Still, I feel sorry for the "city" dog who had no idea what a deer would do.  And, I feel sorry for the dogowner who was unprepared to obtain a venison roast. 

Thoughtfully offered by Crusader who would not get close enough to take a deer hoof to the head (you go ahead with that one, Eric), but would get close enough to place a .40 S&W Gold Dot between the deer's ears.

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[Timothy]

Even here in the civilized 'burbs 40 miles from Boston, I carry a .357 in my hand when I take out the trash after dark.  I have to walk about a hundred feet to the barrel.

We've had numerous 'yote and bear sightings recently in this part of the state because it's not legal to hunt them this far east.

[tombogan03884]

Sledge is completely wrong. The "humanization of Wild animals by outfits like Disney is an excellent aid to Darwinian selection. The folks who can't tell "The Lion King" from a REAL lion are no loss when they wind up as a lion turd.

[sledgemeister]

Sledge is completely wrong. The "humanization of Wild animals by outfits like Disney is an excellent aid to Darwinian selection. The folks who can't tell "The Lion King" from a REAL lion are no loss when they wind up as a lion turd.

Yes and no, yes it works on "special" people (frankly good riddence) but it also works on the latte sippas that never see an animal in the wild or venture past their favourite muffin shop for their chai soy latte and vegan bran muffins. These are the asswipes of humanity that pay big $$ to such organisations such as PETA, ALF who through their influence change the peoples perceptions further by their so called information packages distributed to school kids, lobbying half assed politicians etc ergo stupid laws, rules and legislation are passed on recreational hunting and vermin control by people who quite frankly have NFI. ie releasing wild wolf populations back in to ranching areas and farms.

[ericire12]

Thoughtfully offered by Crusader who would not get close enough to take a deer hoof to the head (you go ahead with that one, Eric), but would get close enough to place a .40 S&W Gold Dot between the deer's ears.

Well, I'm not as old and slow as that grey beard in the photo, so I think I would be up for getting a good swift kick or two in that might change that doe's mind. 

-ericire12, who will not often pass up a chance to remind rabbit that he is.................................... OLD!

[Walter45Auto]

Nobody thought to throw something at the deer while it was stomping the dog?