Woman Annoyed By Deer Ringing Her Doorbell

[BlueStateSaint]

This one's kinda funny, but it's also kinda sad.

Woman Annoyed By Deer Ringing Her Doorbell: Ontario Deer Population Getting Pushy

November 13, 2010 06:36 AM EST
 
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Did Rose Allin shoot Bambi's mother in a past life? The Ontario woman has to wonder why she's being annoyed by deer ringing her doorbell. They also don't run away like a neighborhood kid would.

When the deer annoyed Allin by ringing her doorbell, she tried coming out after them with her cane to yell at them. But the woman decided when the doe who'd woken her up that morning started to snort and scratch the ground, she'd better back off.

The Calgary Sun said Allin's nephew warned her not to try annoying the deer who were ringing her doorbell despite the fact it was bugging her. "Don't you know they could put a hoof right through you?" he told her. Granted, horns are more likely, but it's the principle of the warning that's the thing.

The simple solution to being a woman annoyed by deer ringing your doorbell is not available to Ms. Allin, unfortunately. Since she's in a developed area, she can't hire a deer hunter to sit on her porch and shoot the bell-ringers. A pity, since it'd both solve her problem and fill her freezer.

There's only two more paragraphs in the story, which is here:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978691107

Ya know, one of these would solve the whole problem:

[Thor]

or one of these with some decent arrows..... (since its a "developed area")

[longview]

I'd go with a bow, too, in a subdivision.  Regardless, I'd definitely be eating some deer meat.  Opportunity knocks/rings, and all that...

[BattleHymn]

This smells of overpopulation.  Do they have a deer season up there? 

[Evil_Conservative]

Oh how cute!

Anyway, if you are annoyed by it, disable your door bell.

[ColonialMarine0431]

That's pretty funny. 

[Thor]

With the doe out there trying to intimidate the old woman, I'd be more apt to turn it into freezer stock and then, ultimately, dinner. If it went away when she came out, then, maybe not so much.

[Ptarmigan]

I see dinner. 

[true_blood]

OH DEER!! lol
Maybe the deer just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar?

[vesta111]

OH DEER!! lol
Maybe the deer just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar?

Don't know much about deer do you True.

It is not sugar the deer want but SALT.

Little known internet fact I learned, The herders in Finnland of Raindeer use their urine to draw in and tame the deer.  The deer are attracted to the salt in Urine and are tamed very easily.

Only way I can see for a deer to nose a doorbell is if it it coated with salt-----, sort of like the hunters that camp out around a field with a salt lick for the cattle knowing it will also draw the deer.

The Indians found this out and passed it on to the hunter trappers French Canadians.

MY Pep'ere knew this and days before open season would go out alone, find the deer falls and piss on the area tree trunks and brush. 

This has to be a scam of some sort, the deer had to be trained to butt the bell with their nose.

[JohnnyReb]

I was building a pond back in 1973. I'd park the scraper at night with dust all over it. Next morning, the tire would be nice and black and the rest of the machine where there was any oil/grease would just sparkle like it had been waxed....caught the dang deer  licking the dust off it at night....must have tasted salty.

[true_blood]

Don't know much about deer do you True.
It is not sugar the deer want but SALT.

I was just making a "funny".

[JohnnyReb]

I was building a pond back in 1973. I'd park the scraper at night with dust all over it. Next morning, the tires would be nice and black and the rest of the machine where there wasn't any oil/grease would just sparkle like it had been waxed....caught the dang deer  licking the dust off it at night....must have tasted salty.

[cavegal]

We have deer all over the place around here.  They love salt licks.

[Thor]

While deer like salt, it could have been a number of things. Deer also like fruits & some squashes. (Think pumpkins) Hell, it could have even been some sort of hand lotion that had a certain fragrance to it. So, Vesta, enough of the old wives tales.....   

[littlelamb]

Very funny dinner at her door

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Little known fact: most deer are also Jehovah's Witnesses

[Eupher]

Little known fact: most deer are also Jehovah's Witnesses

Not unless they travel in pairs - and that happens rarely.

[vesta111]

While deer like salt, it could have been a number of things. Deer also like fruits & some squashes. (Think pumpkins) Hell, it could have even been some sort of hand lotion that had a certain fragrance to it. So, Vesta, enough of the old wives tales.....  

We are not talking of old wives tales here we are talking  about city people that move into territory that has been home for the wildlife .

If one does not  intices the wildlife, feeds them and causes them to hang out in people areas,  then you will seldom find a Moose on your front lawn.  Not that that is unusual where I live but they are just passing through on their way to do what Moose do.

Old wives tales have a basic in fact, like the mid wives that would take a new born not breathing and immerse them in cold water to shock them into life.

Or the old time folks that poured honey on a wound to keep it from become infected.


Edited to remove excessive white space....

[thundley4]

Or the old time folks that poured honey on a wound to keep it from become infected.

But, honey does have antiseptic properties.