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yourfriendinspirit Moderator Posts: 2670 From: California, USA Registered: Oct 2006	posted May 02, 2008 02:15 AM Kevin Cox, a seventh grader at Cascade Middle School in Bend, pets a deer that wandered into the area where the meet was held. The deer let others pet it as well, but seemed to take a special liking to him, LOL! continued Below IP: Logged
yourfriendinspirit Moderator Posts: 2670 From: California, USA Registered: Oct 2006	posted May 02, 2008 02:17 AM Continued Below IP: Logged
yourfriendinspirit Moderator Posts: 2670 From: California, USA Registered: Oct 2006	posted May 02, 2008 02:17 AM You can read more about it here: Channel7 KTVB News Here's a story ABC NEWS did on it too... Seventh-grader Kevin Cox was reminded this weekend that animals are unpredictable, and sometimes, just plain odd. Deer Attack Oregon seventh-grader Kevin Cox flees from a deer during cross-country practice. (ABCNEWS.com) Kevin was warming up for a cross-country race in Bend, Ore., when a deer strolled by. He and the other kids decided to say hello, but this Bambi wasn't quite as sweet as the Disney deer. "I thought it would be pretty cool to pet a deer," Kevin said. "So I walked up and started petting this deer. And then it jumped on my back so I pushed it off and started walking away. And then I looked back and saw it running after me. That really scared me." "So I started running away, and I thought it was kinda funny at first," Kevin said. "Until, you know, it ran after me for a good about seven minutes." Kevin's cross-country training came in handy in this situation. "I didn't know what the deer was gonna do to me when it caught up," he said. "I ran off. … And I was jumping over bushes. And I was running around in circles to get it to stop following me, and it kept on following me. That was kinda creepy." Bambi Just Wanted to Say Hello, Too Finally, the deer overtook Kevin and got a little overly friendly. "It caught up to me, and then it jumped on my back and started licking my ear, so I pushed it off and it started licking my ear again," Kevin said. "So I just kept on running, and there were coaches with sweat shirts and they yelled at me to come towards them. So I ran towards them, and they shooed the deer off with their sweat shirts." Kevin and his coaches have a theory on why the deer chased him. "The coaches said that it wanted the salt from the sweat on my back, and, um, I think it was using me as a human salt lick," said Kevin, who learned a valuable lesson from the bizarre encounter. "I don't think I'm ever going to pet a deer again." IP: Logged
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 13765 From: * Registered: Jun 2004	posted May 02, 2008 02:22 AM Thank you I needed a good laugh. IP: Logged
fieryscales Moderator Posts: 315 From: My own private world Registered: Jan 2008	posted May 02, 2008 03:16 AM Ahh nature and animals IP: Logged
Nephthys Moderator Posts: 3827 From: California Registered: Oct 2001	posted May 02, 2008 01:14 PM That's a good theory about the salt lick and probably the best idea...... However, with the deer appearing so domesticated, it also could have been raised by a human and then released into the wild, therefore not afraid of humans. Most deer are very shy. IP: Logged
deuxantares Knowflake Posts: 204 From: Female, Dubai Registered: Nov 2006	posted May 02, 2008 05:52 PM IP: Logged
angel_of_hope Moderator Posts: 1447 From: Palmer, AK Registered: Jul 2004	posted May 02, 2008 06:09 PM That's great! I'm glad to see he was alright and the deer didn't actually "attack" him. IP: Logged
SunnyRains Moderator Posts: 108 From: Registered: Apr 2008	posted May 05, 2008 02:36 PM How cute is that!?! You gotta wonder how domesticated that deer was.. hhmmmm... IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 25571 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000	posted May 07, 2008 06:48 AM I agree, deer are typically shy around humans. Strange but very cute. ------------------ "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz IP: Logged

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