• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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      4 months ago

      I love deer on every level, and am generally happy to see them where I live. Except for this-- that they can carry deer ticks.

      Which for a person already disabled, would pretty much be curtains. But even for the completely healthy, getting Lyme Disease is generally a complete disaster.

    • TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      We have a small herd of deer that comes through our yard and we leave corn out in the winter and in the summer fill up a boulder that was carved out like a bowl over many years of sitting in a creek.

      We have names for a few of them

      • round ear (she has round ears, and is very old)
      • chicky mama (she has at least 1 fawn every year)
      • limpy ( she got hit by a car and now has a limp
      • ticks ( this is the unlucky one that gets all the ticks)

      That’s the 4 of them