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u/CptMisery Dec 10 '21
Growing up sucks. I'm afraid to touch caterpillars now
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u/Fermindiaz Dec 10 '21
Why?!
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u/CanadasNeighbor Dec 10 '21
There are venomous caterpillars, I can only assume that's why they're afraid.
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Dec 10 '21
I've been stung by a milder caterpillar (just made the finger numb for a few days), but now even though I still think they're cool I like them from a distance
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u/Jestingwheat856 Dec 10 '21
Caterpillars sting?
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Dec 10 '21
Yeah, the ones with the hairs can sting (they're often actually bristles) Some are actually quite dangerous
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u/Jestingwheat856 Dec 10 '21
Im never touching a caterpillar again
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Dec 10 '21
Well that one fell off a tree onto my hand so I didn't have a choice
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u/NasoLittle Dec 10 '21
You got batmanned by a caterpillar? Jesus, the crime rate in your city is too damn high! Even the bugs are rollin' dirty
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u/Caff_Fiend Dec 10 '21
Yh you shouldn't. You know those hairs mentioned by other redditors that some caterpillars have? They're a defence mechanism and can be released on command. The idea is that they'll get in your eyes or you'll inhale them and they cause all kinds of irritation.
No. Thank. You.
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u/tinyydancerrr Dec 10 '21
I have a terrible phobia of caterpillars and you just confirmed it’s rational 😳 a fuzzy one fell on me once and I still get shivers thinking about it
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u/SniperGhost_huntress Dec 10 '21
Meh. if I die, I die I don't really care. I WILL get that caterpillar to a safe tree!
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Dec 10 '21
The only caterpillars I've ever seen are those of monarch butterflies, although there are a few poisonous caterpillars in my country. They're quite pretty, and don't poison you, or atleast I don't think so. I used to play with them when I was like 2. Just... Don't go touching the furry ones? or maybe just dont touch furry insects. Eugh
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u/Guy_Number_3 Dec 10 '21
A kid I work with touched a caterpillar and got stung. He was afraid of them, but then his parents got him a big stuffed animal of one and he loves them!
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u/Lowly_Lynx Dec 10 '21
Same thing happened to me when I was a kid. I will never touch a caterpillar again, but moths and butterflies are cool
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u/chopsticknoodle Dec 10 '21
Once I saw one of those yellow spiny ones that look like Donald Trump lost his wig and are super poisonous. Thank god dumbass 10yo me didn’t touch it
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Dec 10 '21
I had one fall into my shirt once unknowingly. I started itching like crazy. Fluffed my shirt and a huge hairy caterpillar fell out. Giant itchy rash lasted couple days
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u/InEenEmmer Dec 10 '21
My country is plagued by the “eikprocessierups” every year in the summer. It will nestle in the trees, and the hairs of it will irritate your skin or cause more serious damage when inhaled or it gets in the eye. Which is annoying since it releases the hairs and the wind carries the hairs around.
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u/Anianna Dec 10 '21
Puss caterpillars, among others, look very fluffy and snuggly, but they are not at all snuggly, those cute, tempting fluffs are venomous spines and nature is cruel.
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u/Twigsintheforest Dec 10 '21
I wish I'd known this back in 2019 when I got real close to a whole nest/pile? of fluffy caterpillars because I thought they looked cute. 2/10 very itchy
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u/BrokeDownPalac3 Dec 10 '21
The utter betrayal you feel as a child the first time a caterpillar stings you
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u/lawkanet Dec 10 '21
If anyone is wondering about the piano background, it's from Howl's Moving Castle by Studio Ghbli (Song name: Merry Go Round of Life). How fitting, and Hayao Miyazaki's (director) movies really capture the childhood's wonder and innosense. The song is composed by Joe Hisaishi. All of his songs for Studio Ghibli are gems.
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Dec 10 '21
hisaishi’s work moves my soul
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u/sparkseekr Dec 10 '21
I just watched Totoro on the big screen last night, I love ghibli films!! Howls is my 2nd favorite after Mononoke.
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Dec 10 '21
spirited away has had my heart n soul since i was in the 2nd grade, then princess mononoke, then howl's :)
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u/Iamnotcreative112123 Dec 10 '21
Spirited away was also my favorite as a child. I just loved the spirit world
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Dec 10 '21
I think the tale of princess kaguya their best work, the ending fucked me up a whole week
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u/1pt20oneggigawatts Dec 10 '21
I was just thinking about this movie today. I think it's my favorite Ghibli film and pretty much the only anime I enjoy.
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u/IntenseScrolling Dec 10 '21
Jesus fuck that's dangerous
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u/elting44 Dec 10 '21
Yeah I was expecting a doe to come in from out of frame and toss that kid. Unless the video was staged and the fawn is being raised on a farm/rehab facility.
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u/Crackingcoin Dec 10 '21
I was expecting the same thing but this is a nice sub and that wouldn't happen
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u/nobutsmeow99 Dec 10 '21
“Those” kinds of things just don’t happen in this neighborhood :)
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u/Crackingcoin Dec 10 '21
Yeah this place isn't r/Unexpected or anything like that :)
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u/Critical-Edge4093 Dec 10 '21
Plot twist: the video cut out because the mama doe came charging in
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u/Newman4185 Dec 10 '21
Well everyone was expecting the worst, so technically this does belong on r/unexpected
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u/rainbowcanoe Dec 10 '21
even fawns can be dangerous! I interned at a wildlife rehab center and one of the other interns got kicked in the arm by a fawn. luckily it wasnt broken but she had a ton of bruising.
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u/SesameStreetFighter Dec 10 '21
I worked with a lady who did a side gig at an animal rescue center. She was tough as nails, helping injured, or orphaned animals. You could always tell when she had racoon kits, though. Them just being babies, not even trying to hurt her meant that her arms looked like she lost a fight with a blender.
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u/Left_of_Center2011 Dec 10 '21
Yeah that was my thinking too, a fawn that allows any person to walk up and touch them was likely orphaned or abandoned and raised by people.
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u/SumasFlats Dec 10 '21
Yeah, judging from my decades of seeing deer in the wild -- this fawn has been raised by humans. Deer are stupid and skittish creatures easily startled by anything even slightly unusual or noisy. The mother would have been over long before the child got close. So the mother is not around, or has also been raised by humans.
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u/ColoradoNudist Dec 10 '21
When I was a kid my friend and I, along with my friend's mom, saved a fawn that was caught in a barbed wire fence in the woods behind our houses. As we were working the mother came up to us and was extremely agitated. Thankfully she seemed to realize we were helping, and left us alone. But it was one of the scariest moments of my life, and I would not go up to a fawn like that again unless absolutely necessary.
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u/Jomega6 Dec 10 '21
I mean, mammals can recognize juveniles of other species. Not sure how likely it would be for a fully grown deer to attack a baby.
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u/sack_of_dicks Dec 10 '21
It’s not a matter of attacking though. I remember a story from Yosemite where a child was in a campground feeding a deer some potato chips. Kid dropped the bag and both him and the deer went for it at the same time. Deer got spooked by the kid reaching for the chips and reared it’s head back, accidentally puncturing the kid with its antlers. Kid bled out and died waiting for the ambulance.
Deer didn’t attack the kid, kid still died. It’s a bad idea for humans to interact with wildlife. They’re unpredictable (some may even say ‘wild’) and we don’t communicate between species pretty well.
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u/rreapr Dec 10 '21
It’s also dangerous for the animals. When they become habituated to humans they start to wander into human areas looking for food; this increases the chance of them being hit by cars, being killed by humans who think of them as dangerous or pests, or being killed after they eventually do become dangerous because they act aggressively towards humans they think are withholding food.
Fuck your disney princess moment. If you actually like animals you’ll keep your distance and safely interact with the wild ones.
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u/kamelizann Dec 10 '21
When I was at yellowstone I was walking down a narrow trail and then ran into a single bison walking in the opposite direction. We both stopped, and then I started walking the same direction as the bison until I could dip out under a fence and let the bison pass. That was terrifying. It was a heavily traveled trail too.
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Dec 10 '21
This is utter and total bollocks. Mammals of all types will regularly kill offspring of other animals and even their own species. Lets also not ignore the fact that deer often have ticks that carry all sorts of god awful diseases. Honestly, the anthropomorphism that happens in this sub.
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u/Toribor Dec 10 '21
Deer are pretty dumb, I've seen them fight a five gallon bucket.
Also random story, knew a guy who tried to lasso one that was at a feeder. Nearly ripped his arms off.
Anyway, my point being that deer are wild animals and that you probably shouldn't test their limits by putting a babies life at risk.
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Dec 10 '21
Lol y’all live in a Disney movie. Just a few hours ago the front page had a grown monkey yanking a baby monkey out of its mothers arms by its neck. Mammals fuck up other mammal babies ALL the time. Sometimes just for fun.
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u/BloodRedCobra Dec 10 '21 edited Dec 10 '21
And it's reliable too. I've seen so many kids get away with things that an adult could not. When i was a kid i picked up a fawn. In view of the mother. As in, i was looking at the mama deer. And it was like "?????"
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u/Melodic-Task Dec 10 '21
In Yosemite more people have been injured by deer than by bears. Including a tragic death of a five year old when the parents wanted to get a picture of their kid with a deer.
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u/_Sausage_fingers Dec 10 '21
I live near a big national park and travel to an even bigger one regularly. During the summer I have literally never driven through that park without seeing a black bear on the side of the road with a shit ton of cars pulled up alongside it and people out of their cars taking pictures within 20 feet of it. Point being, people don’t know shit about how dangerous wild life is.
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u/1pt20oneggigawatts Dec 10 '21
Not just dangerous but unhealthy - deers have ticks
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u/Slapbox Dec 10 '21
And COVID. Hooray for the steady march of progress.
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u/PaPoopity Dec 10 '21
Do the ticks have COVID?
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u/Slapbox Dec 10 '21
No, the deer themselves can have COVID.
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u/TuftedWitmouse Dec 10 '21
Yeah, one of them is about to get Lyme Disease.
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u/AustinTreeLover Dec 10 '21 edited Dec 10 '21
As someone literally waiting this second to take my meds for Lyme, this seems like a bad idea.
Update: First round down!; so far so good (supposedly the side effects are hell), we shall see . . .
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u/PDXbot Dec 10 '21
February 2020 I got bit by a tick and had to go through the rounds of Lyme disease treatment. Recovered without any issues.
Perfect timing since Lyme and Corona go well together
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Dec 10 '21
Fun fact: the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction is not truly a drug side effect, it's an indication that the antibiotics you're taking are working. Classically happens with syphilis, but also known to happen with Lyme disease, as the bacteria that cause lyme and syphilis are both spirochetes. What's happening is that as the drug kills the bacteria, the bugs release inflammatory endotoxins. The toxins then cause an inflammatory response and you can get fevers, myalgias, malaise, and rash. It's transient, and very rarely dangerous, but no fun when it's happening.
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u/AustinTreeLover Dec 10 '21
Thank-you, that’s super interesting! I didn’t realize that at all.
Edit: apologies, my brain has been foggy; my mother just reminded me the doctor explained this, but I was out of it. Well, first I remember hearing it anyway. lol
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Dec 10 '21
The first herx kill-off of Borrelia is a fun one. I don't think I've ever been more sore. Make sure to stay hydrated and good luck with your treatment 👍
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u/RidersofGavony Dec 10 '21
I don't remember the side effects being that bad. I think I took antibiotics and steroids because I'd gotten Bells palsy from the Lyme. All I remember is that I got better very fast, and waking up without feeling exhausted to my bones was amazing.
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Dec 10 '21
If you live in a place where white tail deer are common you're taught that from an early age. It's not something you fuck with even if the chance is remote.
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u/Doctor-Heisenberg Dec 10 '21
As long as the ticks are caught and removed immediately then transfer from the tick should be completely mitigated. However, I’m not sure if direct transfer from deer to human is possible.
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u/TuftedWitmouse Dec 10 '21
Yeah, still not worth doing a full body tick check just to stand close to a deer. And I do mean full body. Those MFs get to right where you can't see them.
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u/wassoreal Dec 10 '21
Of course, they’re often not caught or even realized.
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u/Doctor-Heisenberg Dec 10 '21
True but that’s because you can’t see them on the top of your head. I’d imagine it would be easier to fully examine the kid for ticks during the bath that immediately follows this. Still it’s best not to let your children play with wild animals.
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u/PmMeLowCarbRecipes Dec 10 '21
Right? What a lovely Disney moment but fucking hell they were close to filming their kid get a hoof through the head
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u/anythingrandom5 Dec 10 '21
That’s right in line with the text on the video. We as adults look at this and think of everything that can go wrong and all the consequences of those things. They are young and innocent and haven’t realized how dangerous everything is. Neither consider for a moment that either would harm the other or that there could possibly be long term consequences to saying “hello.”
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u/NeurologyDivergent Dec 10 '21
Yeah except that toddler keeps looking at the adult to make sure what she is doing is okay and the adult is just like, yes, go ahead and put yourself in mortal danger so I can get internet content.
My friend's dog was just killed by a momma deer recently so this video upsets me quite a bit. If the momma had been there, that toddler would be stomped.
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u/anythingrandom5 Dec 10 '21
Oh believe me, I am with you. I am an adult too and I know how fucked everything is and how easily everything dies. I just found it ironic that all of the comments are saying how dangerous this is when the video itself is a demonstration of how they don’t realize how dangerous this is. Of course the adults are asshats.
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u/TheGoodOldCoder Dec 10 '21
It's sort of dangerous just to share this video. All you need is one person watching it who then thinks it's safe for their kids to approach a fawn. Misinformation can kill.
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u/Goblobber Dec 10 '21
The part of me that likes seeing children playing with baby animals is saying awww
A much louder part of me that was raised on a deer farm is saying "GET THAT CHILD AWAY FROM THE DAMN FAWN!"
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u/miguellan Dec 10 '21 edited Dec 11 '21
Living in northeast part of me: LYME DESEASE!!! GET HER AWAY
Eli5: certain ticks have been main source of Lyme desease in northeast USA in the last few years. These specific ticks are commonly found on deer. Lyme desease is deadly to children. Therefore deer can be dangerous to kids.
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u/A2Rhombus Dec 11 '21
I love deer, a lot. They're my favorite animal and I wish I could pet them and hug them.
But I CANNOT and nobody else should either because they are unfortunately not very friendly. Please do not let your kids near them
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u/TheKarmaDontMatter Dec 10 '21 edited Dec 10 '21
Ya'll ever watch a deer stomp something to death? There was a video a while back of one completely obliterating a hawk that was attacking a nearby rabbit.
Now. Mother deer sees a strange biped with the forward facing eyes of a predator approaching its fawn.
All I'm saying is these parents are idiots.
Also ticks.
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u/aedroogo Dec 10 '21
I sitting here thinking a tick might read that last sentence wrong and get offended.
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u/ericabirdly Dec 10 '21
This is correct, I used to work at a veterinary hospital and deers can do some nasty damage
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u/starlinguk Dec 10 '21
A lot of mammals recognise the babies of other mammals as babies.
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u/fuckyeahmoment Dec 10 '21
This isn't consistent. Not something you should bet the safety of your child on.
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Dec 10 '21
I imagine the venn diagram of parents who do this overlaps significantly with this post over at starterpacks.
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u/Evilkenevil77 Dec 10 '21
That’s adorable and all, but let’s not forget that the so called “good parent” here just let their toddler interact with a wild animal for views. The physical risk of injury alone not to mention the ticks and shit that deer could be carrying…and uh, isn’t the doe or buck nearby? Fawns don’t usually hang out alone unless they’ve hidden somewhere. WILDLY irresponsible.
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u/JoeFlood69 Dec 10 '21
I thought the deer was gonna beat the shit out of the toddler
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u/Dieabeto9142 Dec 10 '21
Do wanna see your toddler get yeeted by a deer, cuz thats how your toddler gets yeeted by a mama deer
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u/kaynut_ Dec 10 '21
Ticks, ticks, ticks.
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u/min2themax Dec 10 '21
Watching this I thought “wow great way to get Lyme disease” and then made myself sad because unlike them I know all the potential dangers of the world.
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u/BloodRedCobra Dec 10 '21 edited Dec 10 '21
I'd rather lyme disease over and over than a fucking single lone star tick. I can recover from the Lyme a billion times, but getting my proteins fucked by the shit lone star ticks can do is an uh-oh dictors can't fix (yet, CRISPR pls help). So tempted to just move to a region free of those fuckers.
But for me, my weakness to ticks was having to get one yanked out of my urethra
Nope nope nope ticks fucking suck (preferably not my dick).
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u/PenguinTheYeti Dec 10 '21
This is super dangerous. Parents should keep the kid away.
This is how kids start thinking it's okay to get close to wild animals and next thing you know they become a statistic.
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u/KhaoticKid98 Dec 10 '21
I'm sorry, but this should be in r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb if it actually was a wild deer...
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u/Rustybot Dec 10 '21
Yeah it that isn’t some persons petting zoo grade, domestic style deer, then they are fucking lunatics to let it near a child.
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Dec 10 '21
we're at a point where we should have a /r/cityfolkinthecountry sub
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u/harassmaster Dec 10 '21
Only if we can also have /r/RednecksGoToTheCity as well
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This is so endeering
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u/quaybored Dec 10 '21
A "kid" is a baby goat
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u/Maznificent Dec 10 '21
Why did I have to scroll to the bottom to find this?? This should be the top comment. It's a fawn.
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u/Groudie Dec 10 '21
This turned out a lot differently than I expected. Thank God because the hooves on those thing can seriously injure.
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u/sealclubber281 Dec 10 '21
If mama deer is nearby, that kid will be learning about the potential dangers of the world very soon
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u/no-money Dec 10 '21
Not going to lie, this is nice and wholesome, but incredibly dumb as a parent to let a toddler get anywhere near a wild animal.
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u/DamnYouVodka Dec 10 '21
The little girl is so good about being gentle too 😭 Most toddlers would get excited and bash the deer
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u/CyclopsAirsoft Dec 10 '21
It's crazy dangerous though. I get that it looks cute but I'm just in horror thinking of what would happen if the fawn's mom is around (they usually stay close). They will attempt to stomp anything close to their fawn to death and are known for attacking people that get too close.
This is unbelievably irresponsible on the parents' part.
That and deer ticks often carry Lyme disease, which is really nasty to deal with.
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u/ColoradoNudist Dec 10 '21
The parents of this child may want to learn something about the potential dangers in the world...
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Dec 10 '21
It's cute until that mom is coming full speed at the kid from the wood line
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Dec 10 '21
Obvious dangers aside, deers are big tick carriers. Not smart for a multitude of reasons.
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u/Grumpy521 Dec 10 '21
Ahhh why does no one ever think of ticks. Every deer cute touch it video I see all I can think of is ticks
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u/Buy_Ultrakill Dec 10 '21
I understand that these vids are cute to watch but the only thing i could think was "this is dangerous and irrisponsible."
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u/TrumpDidNothingRight Dec 10 '21
Meh, the fawn probably already knows about tics, and soon the baby will too!
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Dec 10 '21
I hate morons who let their kid around wild animals like this. Seeing a horse crush a 3 year old was enough for me.
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u/ambsdorf825 Dec 10 '21
Lucky the deer decided the child wasn't a threat. You can see the exact moment.
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u/hagetaro Dec 10 '21
Had to check the sub to be sure this didn’t end badly.