Deer Update

As usual there is more to the Lost Pet Deer Story.

Late last night a lady came to our back door. Saying she had heard that we "found" a deer.

(I guess my blog gets out to more than I thought?) :)

Anyhoo, she went on to tell a story of Ramsey.

Ramsey was third born of a doe that had wandered onto her property and died, just after giving birth. The other 2 died quickly and "Ramsey" had a bad hind leg. Evidently she took the deer to the vet and he said it could be a deformity but it may also drop as he got older. She said they set up a pen for him and figured if he ever got big enough to jump the fence and leave..maybe that was the best. But she also said she had tried to contact several places to see if it was legal for her to keep him, like maybe get a permit/license, but had not had much luck. She said Ramsey was 7 months old and was so worried about him being on his own, she wanted to find him.

We watched yesterday and the deer did stay in the field across from us most of the day. We told her that, but she was none too happy that he wasn't still there. Of course it was too dark to see anything so she was planning to come back today and look around the fields.

We left our outside lights on for a bit last night just in case as we were telling her that every time we turned on our lights Ramsey would show up. She smiled as she said he knows when the lights come on its feeding time.

We knew it.