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Published: 2009-05-04 05:13:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 602; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 10
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the sun was just coming around the hill when these female mule deer decided it was time to get up from their bed in the flowers
edit: and suggested that I crop out a fencepost...so, I did
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Beautiful....love it Ruth!
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it really is but my husband's paying the price for our letting stuff grow "for the wildflowers and deer" this spring...he's doing the fire weed clearance and has already burned out the wimpy string cutter we brought from southern CA and another that we just bought (we returned that one!) He is clearing more than the people before us did, they just poured poison on the ground right around the house and you're supposed to have at least 100 feet - so it is a lot of work! He's having to rake and then cut 
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Ewwww, sounds bad! I know what he's going through! When I first moved to that horse property in Washington, one of my first jobs was to clear the pastures of brambles, blackberry bushes and some other kind that I don't know the name of that was grown up all over so thick it was an absolute nightmare trying to cut down. I feel for him.
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brambles and berries are a whole lot worse than what we've got here!!!
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I'm not familiar with what you've got there but I do know that once blackberries get set in good, the branches get really thick and tough and even if you cut them to the ground, they just come back again and again. 
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yuck!!!! we've just got lots of grasses and some weird wirelike thing - I've never seen it before...and there's the poison oak...He doesn't get it, but Cait and I do...we get it from the cats fur
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Can't hardly train them to stay out of the poison oak can you.
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wonderful capture...so nice they were different colors and that the one sensed your presence, trying to check you out...I suspect editing out the post was a good idea because they look so ...out in the wild now
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Yep, clone tool is neat....figured it was a backyard, or pasture section.
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we've got almost 8 acres that goes up against a huge cattle ranch...there is one deer-proof garden area and then a couple other two and three strand fenced areas - the deer have pretty much taken down all of those...
We're talking about getting some mini goats, if we do we'll have to repair/replace some...
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sounds wonderful, goats and all, except for the deer invasion.....deer are beautiful, but they sure can be pests and require really high fences (I hear) to keep them out...
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I'd be more concerned about keeping the coyotes out than the deer 
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maybe you should get a Kuvaz, nah, probably not....good fences, I think
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LOL, I wondered if you would have to. We used to want a Kuvaz, but you really need fantastic training with them and high fences, because they are very intelligent and protective and are prone to making decisions on their own on how to handle a situation...but they are supposed to be excellent dogs to train to stay with your livestock and protect.
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I've heard about some programs (I think it's in Africa) to train the dogs to protect the livestock from big cats 
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i've heard of that, too
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Food!
Sorry- I love deer and fish dinner. I'm a country gal I know
Nice shot! ^__^
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LOL! We've had several friends and family members ask to come hunting on our property...but at this point it'd be a bit like shooting neighbors
We've also got quail and turkey that wander through so we may go after them...
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We have lots of deer here.
If we don't eat some, they will eat our gardens
I myself don't hunt, but I wouldn't mind deer hunting lol
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It may get that way around here, but for now we're not having a big problem...just have to be careful on the roads...
I don't yet know anyone up here (I moved to northern California from southern California a year ago) who's hit one, but we do see the occational dead one on the side of the road...ironically the only person I know who has hit one hit it down in southern California
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hehe! I see them daily in the fields and on the roads.
They walk around with the cattle too
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Really awesome.. you live in a nature lovers paradise !
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Beautiful Ruth!
I'm with David, the metal post needs to go.
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I just switched photos...to be honest I was concentrating on cloning out the barbed wire and didn't think about just getting rid of some with the pole...I originally thought the deer needed more room around them...but this works
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ok, I'll go play with cropping...haven't had a chance until now
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It's beautiful!! (I probably would have cropped out the fencepost on the left though ..picky picky picky)
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OK, OK, OK...I just did it!
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How cooool is that?! I am green with envy!!! Thanks so much for sharing this shot!!
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it is really fun having them around
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