Rut

[ventrec]

It's the rutting season again. On the way home tonight in the fog I drove up on a small buck with magnificent antlers, just standing, stupified in the middle of the road. Ten miles per hour faster and he would have been venison. It was the gleam of his well polished antlers that saved him. I've seen this time and again in my life. These

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[ventrec]

How very appropriate that you think of me when you are near thousands of bats. I'm doing well, thank you. I miss you too, very much.

[spiritbine]

its a rough thing what we have done to so much of nature... Im glad that you didnt end up making of mess of the deer or yourself! Cars really are not something they have had enough time to fear... eventually people will hit and kill off the ones not afraid of cars, thankfully you did not have to take part in the natural selection process :P

- (un)dave

[ventrec]

Good to hear from you Un. We do select for traffic avoiding, hunter avoiding deer, but rut makes them idiots. Last year I was working on a house at a peanut farm and saw a deer stumbling across a field with his head down like a hound dog. It was hunting season, so I thought he was gut shot and dying. I pointed him out to the farmer. I wanted him shot so he wouldn't suffer to death. He was shot all right, but he was in perfect health. He was head down and stumbling because he was in rut and following the track of a doe. Shit! Had I known, I would have kept my mouth shut.