Why drunken? Two reasons:
Yesterday Dad discovered that something large had run into the chain-link fence, from the inside of the yard, and bent it severely out of shape. He saw the fence around lunch time, but Mom had walked by that spot a few hours earlier. It's distorted enough that there is no way she wouldn't have seen it.
Then this morning, as Mom was walking out to the barn to let the horses out, she found a broken antler in the middle of the yard. Buster had been out around 7:00, and if it had been there at that time, he would have found it and brought it back up to the house or gone nuts barking at it.
Deer normally shed their antlers after mating season (rut) in the fall, but this one hasn't been naturally shed -- this guy ran into something and it broke off above the base. The broken end was still bloody when Mom found it.
The other aspect that makes this unusual is that it is still covered in velvet. They shed the velvet after their antlers have fully grown for the year, but you mainly ever see bare antlers.
And apparently deer velvet is a natural dietary supplement? No thanks.We rarely if ever have deer inside the fence in the backyard. I'm very curious about what's up with this guy.
And I kind of feel sorry for him, too, because now when someone says, "Hey, nice rack!" you know it will be in jest instead of meant as a compliment.
Camera: Canon 40D 1/250, f/4.5 at ISO 100 in sunlight at about 6:30 p.m.
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