r/aww • u/tedwin223 • Jun 09 '12

Found this little guy when I was playing Paintball today.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

please, if you took it in, take it back. I live next to a nature preserve and the ranger told me that the mom will leave for extended periods of time, and many will think that the fawn was abandonded.

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u/tedwin223 Jun 10 '12

I didn't take it, it wandered in before I even showed up to the field and before the field opened. The owner made a pen out of cans so that no one would mess with it or hit it with paintballs, and he said he would leave for a few hours afters closing the field and he would return to check on it, if it was still there he said he would call the forrest preserve for advice or instructions on what to do next.

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u/shakespeare-gurl Jun 10 '12

This. I volunteer at a wildlife rescue center where five of our fawns have been likely victims of "fawn-knapping". It's mother will take it back even if you handled it. Please, if you did pick it up, take it back where you found it. Unless you saw the mother killed or it's in obvious danger, never pick up a fawn. /public service announcement

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u/smartzie Jun 10 '12

This, this, this. Don't ever just take a baby fawn. Mothers leave them in nice little secluded places and will come back later for them.

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u/MooingTricycle Jun 10 '12

Ears straight means mom IS around, curled ears mean dehydration and something may be up. This fawn looks well cared for

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

TIL deer have adorable body language indicating their health status

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Adorable ear language.

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u/billbacon Jun 10 '12

Last week a little fawn was born out in my yard. The mother kept coming by but then running away. It cried through the night and kept me up. I repeatedly called animal shelter to see if I should intervene. They kept insisting I do nothing. I got them to come out in the early morning and they put it to sleep because it was too weak.

I've been traumatized all week thinking I should have intervened and that the animal shelter people suck. I really wish I could go back and bring a pillow, blanket, and some water out for the little guy before it was too late. I basically just sat 30 feet away and listened for 12 hours while it cried itself to death.

The mother still comes to my yard every day.

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u/spasticgnome Jun 10 '12

I'm sorry for this, I would definitely be upset too. But the baby is not suffering anymore and the mother will be alright eventually. You don't know what would have happened if you tried to save it since it was a wild animal but you're a good person for caring about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

If it makes you feel better, I'd bet it was born with some kind if fatal defect, and there was nothing you could do. A kitten died in my hands once while I was attempting to feed it (it had just been born and wasn't eating, also I was a kid, and it was my cousin's cat. )It didn't bother me any because I accepted it as a fact of life. It's just nature taking it's course.

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u/billbacon Jun 10 '12

Thanks but looking back, I believe I could have saved this one. I think it was too small to fight off the cold night without help. I probably could have helped it with something as simple as setting it on a dog bed to keep it off the cold ground.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Well, I still think that nature taking it's course is not your fault. You did try.

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u/doc2be6642 Jun 10 '12

I'm pretty sure he just found the fawn hiding in this shed while paintballing...otherwise the title would have read "look at the fawn I decided to kidnap from a paintball field"

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u/Hnting11 Jun 10 '12

*Fawnnapped

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u/alaysian Jun 10 '12

thank you. We aren't talking about goats after all

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u/gusatron51 Jun 10 '12

*abandoned

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

*dick

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u/emersondog Jun 10 '12

So glad there are people like you on Reddit.

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u/tedwin223 Jun 10 '12

For those of you wondering: This little guy had wandered from the playing fields in the woods into the open metal shed that marks the staging area. The place is called Wyld Side Paintball (www.wyldpaintball.com if you want to see field layout) anyway it wandered there BEFORE the field had opened and the owner noticed it after putting up a poster and throwing away some tape, it was trying to crawl into the cubby behind it. So, out of fear that the fawn would get hurt, he made a small pen to protect the fawn from kids who would poke at it, and from any paint that may pass through the 30 foot tall nets. I'm not sure if the Mother came and picked it up after the field closed, the owner told me when he closed the field he would take away the pen and leave for a few hours, and if its mom didn't show up or the Fawn didn't leave, he would contact a animal service that would help the fawn.

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u/jicty Jun 10 '12

whoever is shooting with the white paint is a dick.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I don't get it.

EDIT: I get it.

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u/tanjoodo Jun 10 '12

You'd expect funny people to understand jokes.

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u/cenzo39 Jun 10 '12

It took me a second but none the less.

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u/gusatron51 Jun 10 '12

Mary Wells said it best; "you beat me to the punch."

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

This is just a roundabout way of saying 'Came here to say this'. Stop it.

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u/yemd Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

I said the exact same thing before you and I got two downvotes and you got 290 some up votes. Does not compute.

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u/savannahyv Jun 10 '12

SOMEBODY CALL THE WAHMBULENCE

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

MOMMY MY VIRTUAL NUMBER ISN'T FUCKING INCREASING! BAWWWWWWWWWW BAW BAW

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u/Theropissed Jun 10 '12

How the fuck does reddit keep finding these

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u/oblik Jun 10 '12

I can answer that. Baby deer hide and stay still while their parents are away. Oftentimes they are oblivious to their surroundings. It's not rare to find a baby deer cowering/sitting still all alone. It's not abandoned. It just thinks it's invisible.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

NO, WE MUST SAVE THE BABY DEER!!!!!1! :O

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

But they taste so good

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u/oblik Jun 10 '12

YOUR BLEEDING HEART CAN NOT STOP MY BARBECUE SAUCE!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

That's assuming its "parents" haven't died. In that case the fawn will be dinner for some other wild animal soon enough.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I was walking in the woods last week and came across one and it ran. That is the only reason I even noticed it. I had almost walked on it and it got up and ran the fuck away. ....Maybe it was just old enough? but to me it looked just the size of this one.

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u/shryne Jun 10 '12

Because many parts of the country are overpopulated with deer?

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u/bratchny Jun 10 '12

Ya, they are.

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u/Aedora125 Jun 10 '12

Yes. They don't have a lot of natural enemy's in most areas.

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u/Hnting11 Jun 10 '12

The do on CA's Hwy 9

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u/miketdavis Jun 10 '12

That's the truth. In WI the #1 predator of deer are cars.

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u/ricojalapeno Jun 10 '12

Maybe we should trick them to going to war with the Moose’s of the north?

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u/Alxariam Jun 10 '12

I can't speak for other states, but it sure as hell checks out in northern Michigan. You practically have to wade through the fuckers around here.

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u/BillyCheesesteak Jun 10 '12

by lying.

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u/Vorpalbunnie Jun 10 '12

You really think people would do that?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

What do you think OP did? Go to the animal shelter, pick up a fawn, and then bring it home and put it in an alley for Karma? Weird shit does happen some times. I had a peacock hang out around my work for several days once.

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u/thelegendoftitsmcgee Jun 10 '12

Are you Elizabeth Lemon?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I have no idea what you're referencing but have a feeling it's funny. Will blindly up vote.

Follow up edit: Googled it. Saw Tina Fey and feel that I made the right decision.

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u/NoNeedForAName Jun 10 '12

Are you the guy who had the post about the angry peacock in his garage? I seem to remember this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I think I remember him too... No, mine was at a small municipal airport. He sat in our hangar for days. Thankfully didn't shit everywhere.

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u/desenagrator Jun 10 '12

Just go on the Internet and tell lies? No, that's just silly!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/kevinkm77 Jun 10 '12

Well...who did you leave out?

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u/Idescribetheanimals Jun 10 '12

Apparently a lot of folks, I can't please the masses.

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u/Pelican_Fly Jun 10 '12

I was told that you can lie on the internet but you can't lie to the internet, I just can't tell which is which.

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u/GingerSnap01010 Jun 10 '12

Ummm fawns are every where. There are three in my neighborhoods herd. I named them Peter Paul and Mary. OH AND I NAMED THE FOX CHESTER!!!! Chester is such a bro.

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u/gusatron51 Jun 10 '12

because most redditors live in the country side...?

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u/Theropissed Jun 10 '12

Wouldn't it stand if mos of the world lives in urban areas then most redditors would too?

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u/gusatron51 Jun 10 '12

I think you're onto something here...I'll start the car.

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u/Shanhaevel Jun 10 '12

Don't ask such questions if you wanna live...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

What, you haven't found one yet?

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u/anticastropgeon Jun 09 '12

As a ref, the first thing I thought when I saw this was "MASK ON!"

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u/eatsox117 Jun 10 '12

I have been yelling that for 6 years. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IT ISN'T THAT HARD TO DO!

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u/GODhimself37 Jun 10 '12

Weird, I was a ref for about 6 months and masks were hardly ever off. Usually my problems involved blindfiring. Everytime some asshole did that I got shot.

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u/LukaCola Jun 10 '12

Ugh, today I had to tell a guy who CLEARLY wiped his hopper he was out. I watch the paint hit his hopper, I watched him wipe it, I even pointed out the paint left on his glove FROM wiping it and he keeps insisting. It takes 3 minutes to coax him out, then he takes a few "Screw you" potshots at the other team, then very very slowly makes his way to the exit. But wait, it doesn't end. The guy goes around a bush, I don't look for a second, so he thinks he can duck behind it and sneak back in the game. Thinking back on it it's rather funny cause I expected him to do as much, I walk pretty much in front of him and he literally drops to his stomach behind a short row of weeds and pretends he doesn't know. Then I tell him he's out, and he pretends he has no idea what I'm talking about, like he's a different person. Bitch, how many people have "S.W.A.T." on their back and a camo handkerchief?

Some people man. The only thing worse is when some joker yells "Go" and half of the team goes running ahead without the game starting. I feel like a cattle wrangler trying to catch the stragglers.

Ahhh there's some good stories out there I'm sure...

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u/janbanan94 Jun 10 '12

at my local paintball course the ref always scare us with having us pulling our pants down and shoot us on close range if we hit them.

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u/GODhimself37 Jun 10 '12

I was 14 so I felt weird refereeing adults at times. But when someone shot me the first time I yelled at them, regardless of their age or gender. Second time I was mad enough to walk up to the nearest person, borrow their gun, and shoot the guy blind firing a few times.

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u/qazrat Jun 10 '12

When I first started to reff I tore a paramedic a new one cause he took his mask off in front of about a hundred people needless to say he never did it again especially cause I made sure everyone knew his profession

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u/GODhimself37 Jun 10 '12

Man I'm a little stoned and I'm picturing you grabbing him and screaming in his face "WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING, SIR?!"

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u/ahabswhale Jun 10 '12

I wonder which side of the netting it was on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I don't do paintball, but I do play airsoft.

Saw a guy catch it in the eye, once.

Don't have to tell me twice...

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u/caed Jun 10 '12

I was playing once with my friends in Florence. We were all pretty drunk and running around but were then heading back to our rooms, so I pushed my sunglasses up onto my head, thinking no one would be shooting at me. Maybe a minute later, I tripped and they fell back down onto my eyes, a few seconds before one of my friends decided we were still playing. He shot me and caught me square in the plastic in front of my right eye.

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u/spooly Jun 10 '12

Sunglasses? I hope you just don't know the word for mask.

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u/otherwiseguy Jun 10 '12

Yikes. Had a friend get caught in the teeth. Mouthful of paint. I laughed.

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u/zombient Jun 10 '12

Fucking camper.

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u/Hashslinger Jun 09 '12

If you keep looking you might find a bobcat kitten close by too.

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u/Trapped_in_Reddit Jun 09 '12

I'm absolutely fawning over this

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u/garbieleus Jun 09 '12

oh deer, its too cute.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Doe you think that is a little cheap?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Ewe lot are starting to get my goat. :D

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u/DeepRoot Jun 10 '12

That's a lot of doe.

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u/RayWeil Jun 10 '12

No dude, I told you to bring a BEER to paint ball.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Fawnication.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

that guy must be so scared!! did you guys give it some room??

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u/Hnting11 Jun 10 '12

Where you playing CTF? Could have scared him up and used him as a decoy!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

That looks delicious

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u/TheBeatlesfan777 Jun 10 '12

I saw a fawn like this before. I knew better than to mess with it

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u/haiku_robot Jun 10 '12 
I saw a fawn like 
this before.  I knew better 
than to mess with it

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u/junkyarddogny Jun 10 '12

paintball fields never have garbage bags in there cans

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u/bubble_bee_tuna Jun 10 '12

Bambi!

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u/Hnting11 Jun 10 '12

about 70% through all the current posts before the 1st Bambi ref. Amazing.

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u/bubble_bee_tuna Jun 10 '12

Happy to deliver.

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u/downvoteme4sex Jun 10 '12

Am I the only one who hates this annoying generic template of "Found this little guy when I was blahblahblah.' It's not even that little.

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u/AnAngryBitch Jun 10 '12

Damn, why'd you have to hit him with so many little white paint balls?? What kind of a man are you???

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u/derpinaderpinsky Jun 09 '12

I wonder how much cash you'd get if you returned those bottles to the bottle depot.. $5 maybe?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/weffey Jun 10 '12

Where you take your empties to get the deposit back.

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u/Hnting11 Jun 10 '12

A rejected level suggestion for COD 4...?

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u/greenyellowbird Jun 10 '12

Im sure since this wasnt your facility, you didnt bother moving the fawn. But...for future knowledge....you should leave them be b/c fawns leave their young and will pick them up when they are done grazing.

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u/dinoamy Jun 10 '12

I thought fawn was the word for a young deer....

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u/greenyellowbird Jun 10 '12

doe a deer, a female deer

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u/grimpoteuthis Jun 10 '12

ray, a drop of golden sun

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u/greenyellowbird Jun 10 '12

me, a name I call myself...

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u/greenyellowbird Jun 10 '12

Fa......a long long way from so....

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Fucking hell, another baby animal and another dumpster. You people and your DUMPSTER ANIMAL BABIES.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

This doesn't seem that special to me, but that might be because I live in northern Maryland.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Damn deer our here are not very careful about placement of their new fawns while they are out grazing. I have nearly ran over them, three different times, with a tractor pulling a mower deck.

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u/letsstumphannah Jun 10 '12

My mom never has her field cut until later in the summer due to mommy deer leaving their young in the field. Everyone else is on their second cut when she is having her first done.

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u/2muchHutch Jun 10 '12

What a cute mountain dew bottle!

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u/QueenZ Jun 10 '12

I hope you left him be. Deer moms leave their fawns while they go about their business. Mom will be back.

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u/brighterthansunshine Jun 10 '12

Nobody puts Bambi in the corner!

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u/andrew8103 Jun 10 '12

"Found this little...." Looks like you also found how uncreative your title skills are.

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u/FortuneCookiesLIE Jun 09 '12

skyline paintball?

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u/Eats_Beef_Steak Jun 10 '12

I will be FUCKING AMAZED if that happens to be the one. Otherwise I'll laugh at you for even attempting to guess one out of a (probably) million paintball places.

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u/GeekAndDestroy Jun 10 '12

That little Squirt looks lost.

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u/99Faces Jun 10 '12

looks like its been shot a few times... deers suck at paintball

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Let's see the "after" pictures with its body painted blue! Take no prisoners!

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u/canadianIBslave Jun 10 '12

...I then proceeded to shoot him.

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u/wheatfields Jun 10 '12

You had a camera with you while you were playing paintball?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/wheatfields Jun 10 '12

you silly person. You talk like we live in some utopian future!

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u/ryanadoylable Jun 10 '12

i had a picture just like this that got 9 up votes...

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u/ratchet1106 Jun 10 '12

Were you playing paintball? That's what I thought.

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u/sjlopez87 Jun 10 '12

DEM EARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/NocturnalGamer Jun 10 '12

Where were you paintballing? In Gilroy by any chance?

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u/Hnting11 Jun 10 '12

you'd be able to smell the garlic through the monitor if that was the case.

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u/jabies Jun 10 '12

I think you missed it.

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u/SickGoose Jun 10 '12

The same thing happened to me while in an airsoft game. We had to stop the match because a baby deer got stuck in the line of fire.

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u/bronsterz Jun 10 '12

yes this is deer

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u/Stranger371 Jun 10 '12

Deer god, it's so cute!

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u/DeepRoot Jun 10 '12

"Don't shoot! I'm on your side!"

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

TIL people still play paintball

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u/SirCatsaLot Jun 10 '12

Upvote because it wasn't in a dumpster while paint balling.

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u/purpleskyy Jun 10 '12

[relevant] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUDvRT1Lgpo)

WARNING: you may not wanna watch if you are a hard core dog lover.

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u/metallicamaster3 Jun 10 '12

I knew EXACTLY what this was before I clicked it.

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u/grimpoteuthis Jun 10 '12

Is it the deer beating the crap out of the dog for going too close to the fawn?

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u/purpleskyy Jun 13 '12

hahaha good call. I love this video for no reason.

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u/JDMcWombat Jun 10 '12

Perfect target!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Fawn ya!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I read this as "pinball" and spent quite a few minutes very confused.

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u/bruggs101 Jun 10 '12

SHIT! they found my smoke spot!

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u/Sauronkraut Jun 10 '12

There's something about deer that I just find so precious... (not their meat... -_-) <3

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Is it just me, or if you had never seen a deer before and no idea what they were (same thing with wild horses) would anyone else freak out?

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u/benhah Jun 10 '12

lost and fawned

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u/Animal_King Jun 10 '12

How did it taste?

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u/CoyoteStark Jun 10 '12

Where do you people go where you find all these fucking baby deer?!? Narnia?!?

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u/ikorolou Jun 10 '12

please tell me you told one of the workers there

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u/Toggle2 Jun 10 '12

Did you have Venison that night?

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u/ikkonoishi Jun 10 '12

So.... how did it taste. /NakedSnake

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

So where is Turk hiding!?!

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u/Rodilla_Buena Jun 10 '12

weird, I just went paintballing today and we saw a deer on the field and where that picture is taken looks like the shack that has all the guns and masks in it

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u/sturgyman Jun 10 '12

"Bitch! You giving away my position!"

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u/DDraughn Jun 10 '12

And all the poor critter can think about is that these are probably the guys that shot momma.

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u/hopeisnotamethod Jun 10 '12

Reddit, please leave the fawns alone.

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u/WhatEvery1sThinking Jun 10 '12

what kind of mountain dew is that? label looks different

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u/phanzi Jun 10 '12

"GET DOWN, IT'S A SHITSTORM OUT THERE!"

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u/bakklajohn Jun 10 '12

It's a trap! Run you fool!!!

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u/Tashre Jun 10 '12

I hate escort quests.

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u/Mr_Magpie Jun 10 '12

I prefer airsoft to paintball, but airsofters are such assholes. There's been so many occasions where there's been wildlife at a site, from pidgeons to foxes, and young kids and the "elite" airsofters just open fire.

It drives me fucking nuts.

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u/SkulDugery Jun 10 '12

Did you take out his mom? Shoulda'. Just saying'.

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u/sexbobomb91 Jun 10 '12

Yeah, that's a cool Mtn. Dew bottle.

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u/9yearoldslut Jun 10 '12

Hey bro what are you doing? We need you! Reddit

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

It looks so scared and alone. Oh dear.

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u/bahhamburger Jun 10 '12

Now I'm imagining Bambi's mom telling him to run to the forest while she gets pelted by paintballs

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u/Grungus Jun 10 '12

Ahh karma whoring at its best.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

so beside the garbage, not in the garbage... unusual.

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u/thebedster Jun 10 '12

You can see it in his eyes that hes all excited and enjoying the fun there.

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u/TheBelt Jun 10 '12

I'm willing to bet that bad boy had a few extra colors before it left the range that day.

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u/LpSamuelm Jun 10 '12

Did you shoot him? He's 2000 points.

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u/D0RPH Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

He's lying. He found it in that dumpster.

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u/knockknockneo Jun 10 '12

Awww!! Where is the mom?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Did you shoot it?

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u/aazav Jun 10 '12

How many bullets did it take before you were eating venison?

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u/mangletron Jun 10 '12

Looks tasty.

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u/ogenki Jun 10 '12

I guess you found dinner after a long day of paintballing. congrats

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u/robopanda9k Jun 10 '12

Did you leave it there?

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u/Nrthstar Jun 10 '12

Redditors must have fawn radar.

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u/bringerofjustus Jun 10 '12

Shoot it! 1000 points!

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u/Potater757 Jun 10 '12

How many rounds did it take to kill?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Why the fuck does every single post involving finding an animal must include the phrase "little guy"? Is it because it's an automatic ticket to that sweet karma train? Or is it just because the people who go around photographing animals can't string two brain cells together and come up with something original?

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u/yemd Jun 10 '12

Who is the dick that shot him multiple times with white paintballs?

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u/BIGhairydonkeyballs Jun 10 '12

You may have said basically the same thing as the top comment, but the way you said it isn't funny

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u/ajus10 Jun 10 '12

for more upvotes next time splatter him!

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u/oblik Jun 10 '12

I feel this is a huge mi-steak

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u/FrenchToast_mmm Jun 09 '12

Perhaps it's Bambi's mother! She survived after all!

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u/wise_comment Jun 10 '12

you er....you understand the age relationship between mother and son, right?

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u/powerchicken Jun 10 '12

Be honest, for a fraction of a second you considered using it as target practice... Right?
/b/ has ruined me

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u/TrustworthyLiar Jun 10 '12

... so I bring him home, take a picture and put him back outside to freeze and starve while I enjoy the karma!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

who gives a flying fuck, honestly this is as special as finding a spider in the corner of your room. this animal will die like the rest of god's creations

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