Don't mess with my baby

[Outdoor Writer]

http://www.break.com/index/mother-deer-destroys-dog.html

[CouesWhitetail]

Go MOM!

[JLW]

i love it!

now if the mule deer could fend off the coyotes like that...

 

james

[Guest Bandido]

I'd have gone out there and stomped the doe. Don't mess with MY baby.

[bonecollector]

It was all fun and games until the dog got hurt, then you hear the yelling!

[SilentButDeadly]

My vizsla got attacked by a doe up on the Santa Fe NF a few years ago. We were hiking up a trail and I had him off leash, he turned a corner 50 yards ahead of us, and as I came up toward it I saw a little brown flash come down the hill at us (I assumed it was the dog) I looked and saw it had white spots all over and realized it was a fawn; a second later it was gone down the hill, and I heard the dog barking somewhere above us... I thought 'Oh shoot'... Then I heard him yelping and getting further away from us, angling back down hill toward the trail we'd come up, I dropped my pack and chainsaw and went running down the trail calling after him... A moment later he appears on the trail, hauling butt, with a pissed off doe nearly on-top of him. She walloped him in the middle of his back and hind quarters twice before he skidded underneath my legs. She stopped less than 5 yards from us, eyes blazing at him. I looked him over and saw that she'd torn fur off his back in a few spots, but no blood. We stood there looking at each other for a minute, then she finally turned and trotted off back down the trail. I assume that she had twins, and that the dog ran into the middle of them, with one fawn taking off and his predatory instinct kicking in, all of his barking must have alerted the doe and thrown her into high gear. If I hadn't been there she probably could have finished him off with a couple more kicks.