Show Your Snaps...September 26, 2022

benjilafouine wrote:

So there was this female deer always crossing the road about a thousand feet away from my home. Deers when startled just run in any direction. I almost hit it three times in the last 10 days. The third time was the closest. I had to jump literally on the brakes and the ABS brakes came on. I came to about five feet of hitting it.

Yesterday at 6 PM I took my old focus to go to the mailbox (those big multiple units that cover the whole road) and my neighbour also came out of her entry and was following me. We were not going fast, maybe 20-25 mph. When I came to the spot (it’s a hill) I drove without incident but when I drove to the other side of the hill I stopped seeing my neighbour’s car. I was a bit surprised. Made it to the box and came back right away (like two minutes later) and there she was crying. She hit the deer. She turned around quickly and went back home and came back with her husband.
They were picking up pieces on the road and he told me she had hit the deer. Could have been me. The deer was two hundred feet further in the field seated. Since I knew the owners of the house and field I went to see how the deer was. It got up and tried to run away into the woods but obviously it had broken hips. It sat down again 30 feet further at the edge of the woods.

I approached it and she was scared. I touched her gently on the belly and then on the head and started examining her.
Ribs were not broken, head and neck were ok. I was talking to her softly while examining her and checked her back legs (not broken). However, I noticed blood dripping slowly from her backside. I think she had an internal hemorrhage. She was obviously not going to survive this. I left her there after a last pat on the forehead. She was looking at me with the eyes of someone who doesn’t understand what’s happening.

Since the sun was going down and that the deer was more than three hundred feet from the road and still alive, we didn’t call the police to report (we obligated to do so when the deer is on the side of the road) because obviously they wouldn’t know where to find it in the dark.

End of story. Nature is merciless for animals. Even for us it is. I’m posting one of my earlier photos because I didn’t want to take a photo of an injured and about to die animal.

A touching story.