I was born in 1962; you do the math. (See also: I'm too lazy to remember to update this thing regularly.) I bought my first house in the summer of 2009; I share it with four cats and with the memories of The Runt and Little Girl, who both passed away in 2011. Rocky, the cat for whom this blog was named, passed away in 2008; I miss them all. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't eight months long; other than that, life is good.
I thought the deer looked thin as well, so I showed the pics to a friend who is much more well-versed in all things deer. He explained that this deer had probably weaned a fawn or fawns a short time before (these pics were taken in August)and had not had a chance to fatten back up yet. He also said that this deer still had its "summer coat", which lies flat, and had not yet acquired its "winter coat", which is bulky and shaggy and makes the deer look "plumper". And, he said, deer do not usually start to really put on the pounds until the fall, when apples, nuts, etc. are falling from the trees. Of course, I have no idea if all this is true, but this guy knows a lot more about deer stuff than I do, and it all sounds logical. No starving deer pics on this blog!
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That a deer that's going to starve to death as soon as the ground browse gets covered with snow. She's pitifully thin right now.
I thought the deer looked thin as well, so I showed the pics to a friend who is much more well-versed in all things deer. He explained that this deer had probably weaned a fawn or fawns a short time before (these pics were taken in August)and had not had a chance to fatten back up yet. He also said that this deer still had its "summer coat", which lies flat, and had not yet acquired its "winter coat", which is bulky and shaggy and makes the deer look "plumper". And, he said, deer do not usually start to really put on the pounds until the fall, when apples, nuts, etc. are falling from the trees.
Of course, I have no idea if all this is true, but this guy knows a lot more about deer stuff than I do, and it all sounds logical.
No starving deer pics on this blog!
Phew!
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