In the years that we’ve had Sadie, Ryan and I have been told that she acts and looks like a little fawn on more than one occasion by a handful of people.
She’s sandy-colored, feeble and can be timid around strangers (or psychotic). She’s our little Bambi.
Today our little fawn got up close and personal with a real little fawn.
As we were hiking late this morning, Sadie all of the sudden stopped in her tracks and pointed.
Ryan immediately noticed the fawn and pointed it out to me behind the brush. It was so tiny and we were standing less than 15 feet away from the little guy.
We didn’t let Sadie approach the deer and we looked around for its mother. I immediately thought about that one YouTube video of the deer attacking the dog (it haunts my dreams, so I’m not linking to it) and told Ryan we should move on in case the mother deer was nearby and feeling protective.
Our hike ended up being rather short because the horseflies along the trail were horrendous and wouldn’t stop biting my legs.
Yes, I said my legs, not Ryan’s.
They swarmed around Ryan’s legs, but he didn’t get bit once while I left the forest with legs covered in horsefly bites. I will be growing lots and lots of leg hair for our next hike.
Lunch
After our 30-minute hike, we came home and made a quick lunch of sockeye salmon salad with roasted Brussels sprouts.
I added summer squash and carrots to the salmon salad and tucked it into a whole wheat tortilla so I could enjoy it wrap-style.
I also ate a sliced apple while waiting for the Brussels sprouts to roast in the oven.
Time to shower! It’s 2:20 p.m. and I’ve been wallowing in my filth. It is time.
Date night tonight! 
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What a cute fawn!
and the horseflies reminds me of when my husband and i went out hiking and ran into a swarm of gnats. was so nasty. and they were stuck in our clothes and hair… needless to say, we didn’t hike that trail again!
have a great weekend, Julie!
Ehhhh! Hate bug bites… Every time I go to the back of the yard to add stuff to my compost I swear I leave with 15 mosquito bites!
That lil baby fawn is adorable but Sadie has her beat 😉
There is a huge horse show up here (Pennsylvania) this weekend and there are a ton of horse trailers with Ocala listed as their hometowns!
I can’t stand any sort of bug bites! Heebie Jeebies!
Isn’t it amazing how well they blend in? I went for a hike with a couple friends and one friend was spotting deer all over the place that the rest of us were totally clueless about.
When you say horseflies do you mean the smallish black flies that bite horses? Because horseflies to me are these giant flies that leave huge marks and cause you to bleed.
Sadie is such a cutiepie! Her body type is so different from my dog Zeke. He’s so dense and muscular, I push him around all the time and he loves it! Definitely not feeble at all. But it doesn’t help when he tries to lay on me because he’s so heavy!
I’ve never even heard of that video but it sounds awful! Good thing you kept moving!
Oh my gosh that salmon salad looks delicious!
I always get eaten by mosquitos but my husband never does. I never thought about the leg hair thing, hmmmm, good excuse not to shave!
I have a crazy wild animal-dog attack story. Have you ever heard of Cumberland Island? There are wild horses that live on this beautiful island in GA and you can take a ferry or your boat over to it and hike around. One day we decided to take our dog (he’s a really cute 60 lb mutt) over to spend the day walking around. So we took our boat over and walked over to the ruins. There were some horses in the field next to the ruins and we stood and watched them. As soon as my dog noticed the horses he started straining on his leash harder than ever before, and he has dragged me across the beach before. All of a sudden his collar broke and he was off after the horses. The closest horse didn’t even run at first, it just tried kicking him, but he kept barking and trying to get at it. Then the horse ran towards the other two horses and my dog kept chasing them. They ran around this house and out of nowhere this huge stallion came to protect the other horses. Instead of running he stood up to my dog and was rearing up on his hind legs. My dog was still stupid enough to keep messing with the horses. So the stallion PICKED MY DOG UP BY THE BUTT WITH HIS TEETH AND THREW HIM IN THE AIR!!! I don’t think I have ever screamed so loud. I’ve never heard of a horse doing anything like that. It was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. By that point my stupid dog decided maybe he should leave the horses alone and we were able to get a hold of him. Thank goodness he was okay, he had a cut where the horse bit him and it seemed like he was pretty sore the next day. it was so scary. So I totally agree that you should be careful with dogs around wild animals!
I hate bites! They always leave scars that take forever to go away. It might not be about Ryan’s leg hair though… I’ve been told it depends on the blood type you have — something about the scent or taste that attracts bugs maybe? It makes sense to me and would explain why I’m always bitten while other people aren’t! But my theory is useless if you and Ryan have the same blood type… lol
That salmon salad looks amazing! Never thought of makin something like that but definitely going to experiment with that!
GAHH that deer attacking dog video! My class had extra time one day and this boy asked if he could show a funny you tube video about a dog (they know I love dogs so I was like sure why not). He proceeds to play that video and is LAUGHING through it. I turned it off and was like HOW IS THIS FUNNY! I think I have a sociopath on my hands..
That doe is soo pretty!! I love baby does. That’s so cool that you guys are surrounded by wildlife.
i am mighty useful mosquito-reppellant for other folks….i’ll get twenty bites and no one else around me will get any.
Wow, I didn’t know deer would ever attack a dog! I need to keep this in mind whenever I take my dog Eloise for hikes. Of course, being a golden retriever, she’s much more interested in the birds!
From my knowledge as an island dweller where there are lots of deer, the doe often “parks” the fawn in one place for most of the day. The fawn’s sense of smell is not developed so they don’t fear Sadie or others. The fawn remains very still. Later in the day, the doe will return to “pick up” the fawn. And, she may leave the fawn in the same spot more than once. You were really lucky to witness this.
You pretty much said what I was going to. 🙂
I am glad you keep Sadie out of the area, that is protective of the fawn as well and such a cute moment!
We have a similar situation annually with baby seal as well. There is actually a group that has to do baby seal watch between the dog and human traffic. But it is a similar process, mom leaves baby to hunt and returns hours later.
Have a great weekend!
Actually, women get bit mor by insects due to specific combinations of hormones. Looks like you and I both have that magic combo…. :/
Oh no! I thought my husband and brother-in-law were just joking about deer attacking dogs. We have a two-acres of land we plan to build a house on, and there are a lot of deer out there. My husband wants to shoot them, but I won’t let him. We have two dogs, and the deer attack argument is one he keeps trying. I never thought it was real. Oh man…
We always say that my dog looks just like a little deer, too. Whenever we have real deer in our backyard we call them big dogs haha.
Biting flies are THE WORST. Working at summer camp taught me about the intricacies of bugs, and it took me approximately .25 seconds to realize that given the choice, I’d pick mosquitos over biting flies any day. Not only do mosquito bites hurt less, particularly when they’re happening, but mosquitos are easy to kill when you hit them. Flies know you’re coming and buzz off for half of a hot second before attacking again. I absolutely hate biting flies. (Though given the choice between mosquitos, biting flies, and the other main bug culprit we have at camp, ticks, I’d always choose the biting flies over ticks).