We have in my opinion a deer problem in our community. We have a herd of at least 17 deer and they have become a nuisance because people feed them and thus they hang around their free food source. It wouldn't be so bad if they would stay where they are fed but they wander all over the neighborhood including our property which is roughly in the center of the community.
I have researched if it is illegal to feed them in N. Carolina and it is legal to feed them. One neighbor lost his entire crop of okra to them along with other vegetables he was growing. Carol planted some bushes along our fence and they like to eat them. But that is not the worse. Our fur family members can't stand them and they have no real fear of our dogs either. Last night one came up and looked in the kitchen window and of course our dogs went crazy over their brazen taunt.
When they moved off Carol let the dogs out into the back yard but one lingered and Rex went wild and when the deer moved off to the front of the house he immediately ran on the deck, jumped the fence that keeps them off the front of our deck, ran down the deck and climbed the hand rail/wire fence barrier and launched himself over the rail before we could get to him.
He went airborne off the end of the deck to fall about 15/16 feet to the gravel driveway. Suffice to say that he hurt himself and we were in emergency care until just before midnight. He had no broken bones but did suffer a rather nasty cut on his left rear leg. He had numerous Xrays and we still don't know if any of his heartworms broke off and got to his bloodstream.
Today he is on pain meds and limping around but nothing else seems to be surfacing. So 4 hours in a small room while they were treating and checking him out and $900.00 later plus little sleep last night, the whole family is suffering for his impetuous act of running the deer off.
It had to be a pretty bad impact for an 82 pound German Shepherd dog to hit the ground from that height.
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