Deer walks into a store for some cookies...

[jmbar2]

Link to tweet

[zuul]

1. Colorado, you say? Clearly these were laced with THC and she now has the munchies.

Cookies, mmmmmmmmmmm!!!

[jmbar2]

2. Must be some good stuff

Her whole family got the munchies!

[Bev54]

3. In Saskatoon Saskatchewan we have moose crashing

Through windows to get into school, while class is in session.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Looking for Boris and Natasha, no doubt.

Link to tweet

[jmbar2]

7. What a great show and tell!

[Rebl2]

10. 😳 yikes

[sdfernando]

13. Moose turd jewelery!

Its a real thing you know!

[left-of-center2012]

5. Is that why we leave cookies out for Santa?

So he can give them to the reindeer?

[jmbar2]

6. Maybe that's why he skipped my house last year!

[Crunchy Frog]

28. We used to leave carrots for the reindeer when I was a kid.

I guess cookies would have worked just as well.

[mitch96]

8. I'm curious how the deer communicated that this guy had cookies? nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. No cookies. Here's the story from 2017.

https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/deer-family-visits-colorado-store

[jmbar2]

11. Sweet story

Thanks for posting.

[crickets]

39. Aw, that's adorable. nt

[NurseJackie]

12. The deer around here are damn near tame... but they EAT everything I try to grow.

And they poop everywhere. And they carry ticks. (The young ones are adorable... so they get points for that.) But after they lose their spots, they're definitely a nuisance.

[Hortensis]

19. :) Ours too. Our big contributions are not to shoot them and,

now that we're gone a good part of the year, let them devastate most everything in what was once our garden. And try to be proud that they're so nice and healthy.

[NurseJackie]

21. It's always amusing to see the reactions of out-of-town visitors who aren't accustomed...

... to seeing "wild" animals just wander through the yard. You can't actually pet the deer, but they're about as carefree as the squirrels and they'll get just about as close to humans.

[Hortensis]

23. It is nice. For some reason a mom and her fawns started

often hanging in the driveway where two large oaks overhang it, woods they can scamper to on each side. They've gotten used to us using it, and we've learned to slow down when we normally accelerate up a curve because they might be right there. They know us, of course, and a new thing is that they've started taking their own sweet time moving out of the way.

[uponit7771]

25. The younger ones where (with spots) are less afraid of humans than their parents and ...

... interact with the kids here a lot

[NurseJackie]

31. The young ones here have never been that tame... but it's amusing to watch them learn to walk, and..

... then to see how quickly they start to bounce around the yard. When startled, Momma-deer will snort and stomp her feet, and the young one's understand to immediately drop and lay flat and motionless in the grass to avoid being seen. (But eventually they learn to eat my azaleas, daylilies, tiger-lilies... even the yew shrubs are not safe.

This year wasn't as bad as last year. It's unclear if a lot of them were hit by traffic... or maybe the county decided to cull the herd.

Now I'm reading that deer can catch covid. I just hope they're not spreading it to humans.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. So if you want a deer to think and remember ... give him the sweets

[Stinky The Clown]

15. White Tail Rats

[Chuuku Davis]

27. That is a lot of meat

For our freezer.
And fresh backstrap!

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Have at 'em! You can set a tree stand on my property and have target practice.

[North Shore Chicago]

34. Your sentiment is such a joy.

[Mossfern]

43. That's how I think of them

Between them and the local groundhogs, I've given up gardening.
They've become arrogant too- often blocking me from entering my house.

This is quite frightening during rut season.

[Auggie]

16. Fewer natural predators equates to more deer

[Progressive Jones]

32. Here in Northern Illinois there are special "off season" hunts to control the deer population. nt

[Permanut]

17. And so he said, "just put it on my bill"..

Oh, wait, that was the duck story.

[Xolodno]

18. At our family place in the mountains...

...we have an apple tree. Yet to have a single apple off that tree. The deer eat them before we can get to them.

[Hortensis]

20. :) We have probably the scrawniest, ugliest old apple tree in the state

standing midstage in our little pasture, but the deer practically climb it to eat the apples, which is funny to watch, and each year bluebird parents teach their babies to fly to and from it from the woods. The rest of the time I try not to see it.

[Maru Kitteh]

42. Most years, the bears get my apples.

Some times of the year it's very, very important to make plenty of noise on your way to the garage.

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. Excuse me

Do have animal crackers?

[uponit7771]

24. 9.2 on cuteness scale !!

[smirkymonkey]

26. Awww! They are so adorable!

I wouldn't have the heart to chase them away, I would want them to stay all day.

[roamer65]

29. Lyme disease carriers.

No thanks.

[Mosby]

36. And covid-19.

[roamer65]

37. +1000

[ShazzieB]

33. Deer walks into a store for some cookies...and photo bombs the security camera!

[Takket]

38. "Heard you have cookies. Nice store you got here. Shame is something happened to it..."

[Mossfern]

44. Do not feed the deer!!!

Feeding deer makes them dependent on humans,
upsetting whatever balance of nature - or what's left of that.