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
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