Deerter (Deer + Daughter)

 

While I was searching for an article or video to post/link to in my Entry #2, I went through a few videos and articles. There was a video that I found pretty interesting. It is a report about a family who found and rescued a deer about two days old from a ditch. http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/us/2013/02/15/dnt-in-family-raises-rescued-deer.wsbt . I found it interesting how they described the deer to be very similar to a dog, as well as one particular thing it liked to eat: mint. I have heard several stories of people who become closely related to certain types of wild animals, but this is the first time that I can actually see it. In my personal experience, the deer that I have encountered have always had to be watched from a distance and (in my opinion) not the type of animal who would become as involved as in this video with people.

I do have an explanation for this situation though. In my opinion, this situation has become what it is because the deer has grown up and always been around the family that it also seems to like. In the deers eyes, it does not encounter a threat around them, therefore, only security and comfort is displayed around the family.

There is also something very interesting that I find about the family in the video. That after raising the deer and caring for it, they are okay with letting go and they have reality very present in their minds. They know that even though they do compare the deer to a dog, it is not really a dog: meaning that they know that there is always the possibility of it leaving and possibly never coming back. The family knows that the deer can get hit by a passing car and they also know that it can just run away and not come back to their calls anymore.

At first the video title and topic do not seem very interesting, but as the video reaches an end, it can have pulled some more people for its unique details.