Dern Deer!
- Thread starter Pilchard
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Looks like a cougar
Maybe bored kids?? Some of the seem awfully deep...
They'll get pretty brazen at times. Front yards and ornamentals in subdivisions aren't spared either. They'll wreak havoc.
My cousin sent video of seven bucks in his back yard last night. He went out to feed the dogs, they ran off, and five minutes later eight bucks were on camera. They're wearing his yard out.
My cousin sent video of seven bucks in his back yard last night. He went out to feed the dogs, they ran off, and five minutes later eight bucks were on camera. They're wearing his yard out.
He must be a tall sucker 
catman529
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Lol no...that's a young tree in a subdivision full of old deer.
A few years back we had a buck do the same to a small apple tree in our front yard... on Christmas Eve. Needless to say my two girls were extra excited when they saw it and the hoof prints. Couldn't have planned that one myself if I tried.
I use to hunt a deer that rubbed sign posts in Cherokee National Park
DoubleRidge
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I should probably post this in "you can't make this stuff up" thread....but it fits better here.
Buddy of mine brought a Aspen sapling or two back from Colorado and planted them in his yard....he figured they would never make it.... but the following spring one of them was actually alive! He kept it watered and it grew well that summer.....one morning he came out and the sapling was destroyed and the ground around it was tore up.... oddly enough there was this fine fuzzy brown hair on what was left of the sapling...nothing like deer hair? Puzzled he called the game warden ..... Warden was curious enough himself so he came down for a look.....stood there and looked at it speechless.....so the investigation began.....long story short (sorry) guy up the road raised bison.....a young bull had gotten out the night before and was on the loose.....owner offered to replace tree....even offered him some bison meat ....so it all worked out rather nice.
catman529
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He's in brentwood, no bears, plenty of big old deer.
jemo4570
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I'm a short drive down OHB from Brentwood, in Davidson Co, and keep corrugated pipe on all my trees less than 6" from late summer til the end of January. The deer were tearing up everything I planted until I started doing this 10 or so years ago.
That's what I was thinking. That looks like something other then horns hit that. I've never seen a rub that had cuts that deep.
BSK
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I live in Nashville and bucks have nearly killed a couple of my ornamental maple trees from rubbing them so often. Deer eat the snot out of my roses too. Little bast#%@s!
I dont see a how can live in an urban environment like that. Looks like the noise and traffic would drive them away
Judging by the house and knowing it's a neighborhood. That looks like prime cougar habitat. Although I don't believe they would scratch the trees like that.
Cougars do seem to stalk them suburbs. They like the "yuppies" as Phil Robertson would say. We dont see them out here in the sticks, and if we do they weigh as much as my tractor and are missing some teeth lol
Woodman
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Now that made me laugh-out-loud !!
In my line of work I need to be in close proximity to an airport and near one of the cities where we have large clients.
That means I can pick between Nashville, Boston, NY, Chicago, San Fran, Toronto or some countries in Europe, Asia or AUS. If given these choices, where would you pick?
I would love to live in the sticks but there ain't many large corporations needing what I sell along the banks of the Duck River.
And.... there are cougars in these hills. In fact there is one upstairs in my house right now. Her den is mighty cozy and she makes beautiful cubs.
Edit: I read your post again and it appears you were talking about the deer, not the yuppies like me :)
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No pictures= it didn't happen lol
Yes definitely wondering why deer stay in the city.
