Weekend happening

The boys, Cooper and Chase and I were out for our morning walk on Saturday. All was good till we made the turn on the road heading towards our house. The boys started running fast towards some thing. I was sort of day dreaming and when they both started scrambling towards the shrubs it took me by surprise. I then saw a doe, a very big white tail, right in front of the boys trying to attack them and the boys were going for the doe.  Picture of the doe is similar to the one here. (Picture source and you can also read more about the white-tailed deer.) 

I have the boys on their leashes.  I should have just let the leashes free.  I was protecting the dogs but when I told DB what had happened, he said the boys are actually trying to protect me. 

Anyways, the doe was not a happy camper.  She was huffing and puffing and going back and forth across the marsh and the pond where all the tall shrubs, trees and prairie grass are.  Cooper took a few tumbles when I tried to pull him away from the deer.  I could see the doe was ready to kick, stomping away!  Her hooves are loud when she cross the road, clomp, clomp, clomp and when she was stomping on the road.  And the way she was leaping high over the tall, tall shrubs was a sight. 

Once I got the boys in a short leash I walked so damn fast away from the doe but she kept following us and huffing away.  If the temp was in the 40′s F I would be able to see the steam from her nostrils!  She was hopping along the shrubs on my side, disappear into the thick shrubs and popped back out with just her head, exactly like this picture below.

(picture source)

 And here I am trying to get across the road but she did the same.  I finally went over to the side where there are town homes.  I heard a lady’s voice saying get away from the deer quick (the lady was standing on her balcony watching the whole thing).  When I got over to the row of town homes, the lady said she has seen the doe around lately.  She just gave birth and she also pointed to me where the doe had her baby….right by the marshes…..tall prairie grass.  The lady said it is very common for a doe to do what she just did when she sees other animals….proctecting her fawn(s), just in case the animals eat her fawn(s) up.

That doe kept following us all the way back home doing the same thing, disappear behind rows of homes and reappear.  She was so, so  fast.  Finally she disappeared into another wooded area when we were nearing our house. 

That was my very first seeing a deer/doe standing right in front of my face, blowing steam!  Usually when deers see humans, they will run super fast but this doe is keeping her hatch safe. 

DB said she could have came forward and start kicking at the dogs and me as she see us as a threat.  That was why he said I should let the leashes free.  Dogs no matter how domesticated they are will know how to defend their master against other animals.  That’s what the man said but honestly, that was my first reaction…keep the dogs safe – the opposite of his thinking.  Is it a woman/motherly kinda instinct?  Honestly, I was a little scared and yet wanted to take my phone out to take a pic of the doe!  Crazy right?    Of course I couldn’t, no free hands.  As for the boys, them boys were growling and heckles were up.  So they must be pissed of too! 

This morning, when I was out for my walk with the same C’s, I saw the doe again…but this time I was at a distant away.  She must have smelled us (per DB) and she hopped away into the marsh.  I continued on with the walk and she didn’t pop her head out.