The nearsighted fawn

by Meg on September 25, 2006

First of all, this clearing/meadow/back yard tewtelly looks like a Ranger Rick poster, like there should be a caption at the bottom that says "Working Together!" on it. The kind of poster on the wall in third grade. Radical!

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Apparently, this fawn wandered out to make the scene even better. Have you ever seen a smaller fawn? Didn’t thiiiink so! [singsong]

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You know that horse is all "git out the way" and the fawn is all "I shall mimic your grazing pattern!"

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I think I’m cruisin’ for a C.O. coma…Amy M., call the DOCTAH!

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1 llism 09.25.06 at 6:36 pm

Okay everyone, all together now–

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

2 falnfenix 09.25.06 at 6:36 pm

lol…your captions always get me rolling

3 Chinny B 09.25.06 at 6:39 pm

“the fawn is all ‘I shall mimic your grazing pattern!’”

Heehee :-D

4 shanchan 09.25.06 at 6:40 pm

Not awwwwww: Faaaaaaaaawn!

5 BonzoGal 09.25.06 at 6:41 pm

Bambi-ette is all like, “Man, I am hangin’ with these dudes, they’re like the Shaqs of the deer world!”

Geez louise, it’s not even as big as that horse’s head!!!

6 smokeyJoee 09.25.06 at 6:41 pm

*sigh*

where’s mom?

7 AuntieMame 09.25.06 at 6:44 pm

Adorable!

Adeerable?

8 Ttoby89 09.25.06 at 6:45 pm

I swear… I always know EXACTLY what voice you mean for the little critters, even when you don’t specify. “Git… out the way”, all doleful and hickish horse.

And “I shall mimic your grazing pattern!” is clearly Ralph Wiggum’s voice.

9 ariel 09.25.06 at 6:46 pm

daaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!
and i heart ranger rick.

10 seth 09.25.06 at 6:46 pm

best. cuteroverload picture. ever.

11 Grace 09.25.06 at 6:47 pm

where’s mom indeed? Bambi looks like s/he went up to the horses because s/he confused them for mom.

12 Rich Fader 09.25.06 at 6:48 pm

“…got milk?”

13 bonbons 09.25.06 at 6:48 pm

aww!!! it’s so teeny next to the big horses XDDD

14 ceebs 09.25.06 at 6:51 pm

Aw, the last pic it looks like horseh is being very motherly and protective of lil Bambeh. Like, you stick with me, babe, with your knobbely knees.

15 ruk 09.25.06 at 7:00 pm

GAAAAH so cute, my tummy fell outta my office chair.

16 Mel 09.25.06 at 7:02 pm

Oh this so made up for the hamporn. I feel clean again.

17 Kris, in New England 09.25.06 at 7:04 pm

I’ve seen this series before and the fawn’s mom is just offscreen. If I remember it correctly, the fawn and mom grazed with the horses everyday. No one is lost and no fawns were harmed in the making of these photogs.

Just TOO sweet though.

18 jaypo 09.25.06 at 7:04 pm

my heart just disploded.

Hi, ariel–nice to see you again!

19 StormCat 09.25.06 at 7:05 pm

You wanna know where Mom’s at?!

She’s over there in those trees having a coronary!!! She’s trying to figure out how in the WORLD she’s gonna get her kid back with those huge horses standing around!!! Sheepers…

Makes me all teary-eyed looking at them…

20 karen 09.25.06 at 7:08 pm

i’m melting……

21 Diem 09.25.06 at 7:15 pm

oooooooohhhhhhhh! Toooo Cuuuuuute!

So very teeny tiny!

22 A thinker 09.25.06 at 7:17 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW!!!

[deep breath, pause to avert coma]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Wow. I have now COverloaded. I seriously think this is the cutest thing ever posted. I’m going to need that doctor, too.

23 CB 09.25.06 at 7:19 pm

Thanks, Kris. I was wondering what happened to the doe; i feared the little dude was orphaned. I’m glad he’s just enjoying haning out with the cool crowd!

24 Redzilla 09.25.06 at 7:21 pm

Since this is a girl horse, I think she’s thinking: “Dang, I wisht mine came out this small. That wouldn’t hardly be any work at all.”

25 Lauri 09.25.06 at 7:25 pm

*joins the chorus*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Such a wunnerfuls wittle bebe.

26 ceebs 09.25.06 at 7:31 pm

Does anyone else see the big white rabbit in in the bushes in the background? Or shall I just call him Harvey?

27 Robbie 09.25.06 at 7:44 pm

Okay, that did it…I’m cute overloaded. My head is swelling, it’s rolling from side to side, it tumbled onto the floor!

What a precious little baby and what nice whinnies! Great pics!

28 Lauri 09.25.06 at 7:45 pm

We sure can see the spot pattern on that baby! Is it a boy or girl, AmyH???
*wink*
Just joshin’ wid ya!!!

29 StormCat 09.25.06 at 7:48 pm

Ceebs – Um, I think that’s a rock…Either that or it’s a REALLY big rabbit…

*eyes Ceebs carefully*

*big grin*

30 Lisa 09.25.06 at 7:51 pm

“I’ve seen this series before and the fawn’s mom is just offscreen. If I remember it correctly, the fawn and mom grazed with the horses everyday. No one is lost and no fawns were harmed in the making of these photogs.”

Stone rolled off my heart; I thought the little one had lost his momma.

Ah cuteness!

31 Renee 09.25.06 at 7:54 pm

AWWWWWW! :)

I hope it goes back to it’s mommy soon! She’s probably kind of confused by the situation! Like she looks everywhere for her kid, only to find him/her with the horses next door.

“I don’t know why you insist on hanging out with those HORSES! They’re just TROUBLE! Do you hear me? Don’t you EVER wander out of my sight again!”

32 ariel 09.25.06 at 7:59 pm

hidey-ho, jaypo!
i also made an appearance as the siren on pirate day.
; >)

33 Theo 09.25.06 at 8:01 pm

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
…aan.

[pained whinnying]
[bleat-let]

34 chibi 09.25.06 at 8:11 pm

awww…this looks just like my grandparents’ ranch in Texas. sigh…

35 Aubrey 09.25.06 at 8:25 pm

Glau-fawna – a debilitating eye condition found in bebeh fawns; symptoms include a specific type of near-sightedness leading to examples of inter-species grazing.

36 Christabean 09.25.06 at 8:25 pm

So adorable! Thank you to Kris for reassuring us about mommy deer, now I can enjoy the cuteness 100 percent!

37 Reanne 09.25.06 at 8:28 pm

Could your commentary play-by-play on these pictures be ANY funnier, madam? I think we need to get together for BLTs and snarky conversation. Love you!

38 mariser 09.25.06 at 8:34 pm

…is all “I shall mimic your grazing pattern!”

sounds like something Jack Black would say.
were he a fawn.
mighty unlikely, methinks.

39 Denita TwoDragons 09.25.06 at 8:36 pm

Yup, that looks like Texas Hill Country, right down to the live oak and elm trees in the background. Gorgeous equines, too!

Man, I gotta go sponge my heart out of my sandals now… *grin*

–TwoDragons

40 Sabba 09.25.06 at 8:41 pm

AH! Awww, frank you for posting some ponies, Meg! That’s tewtally what I needed today. Someone in one of my online equine groups posted this series a while back. I’d almost forgotten about it! EEE!

41 ceebs 09.25.06 at 9:06 pm

Now that you mention it, it reminds me of my uncle’s (former) ranch near Houston. Pecan trees & horses they had. Only time I ever saw an armadillo (well, a live one) while I was living in TX.

42 Rachel 09.25.06 at 9:19 pm

That is one cute and TINY fawn! http://www.animalcameras.com

43 vicky 09.25.06 at 9:24 pm

Teeeeny fawn, or really big ponies?

O.o

44 Renee 09.25.06 at 9:51 pm

So sweeeeeeeeet!!! Itty bitty fawn and really dang big horses!
Total overload!

45 brownamazon 09.25.06 at 9:56 pm

I’m not usually one to scream the PS word… but soemthing about the proportions here looks off. I’m around horses every day; we often see deer and their fawns grazing nearby. Something in that last shot isn’t right.. I’m just saying, is all. But hey, if it makes you go awwwww, no harm. (*Runs away to escape the torches and pitchforks).

46 lurkertype 09.25.06 at 10:15 pm

Teeeeny tiny fawn and horsies all “whatever”! Eeee!

47 Jenni 09.25.06 at 10:38 pm

awwwwww
what else can I say?

48 mariser 09.25.06 at 10:41 pm
49 ElfOwl 09.25.06 at 10:42 pm

I’ll put in another vote for gotta-be-the-Hill-Countreeee.

*Is homesick*

50 Lauri 09.25.06 at 10:47 pm

Sounds good to me, mariser!
Those bebes are sooo tiny!

51 Lauri 09.25.06 at 10:47 pm

hey, ariel, you were the siren on pirate day?
Good job, girl!

*borrows mariser’s golf clap* :D

52 Mary 09.25.06 at 10:48 pm

According to Key deer info. the does are only about 2ft. at shoulder. Seems like a fawn would truly be this size.. but they would not be in Texas but instead in Florida keys (hence the name).

Whereever or whatever, this is a wonderful picture. Thanks to the sender-inner and c.o.!

53 Jessica 09.25.06 at 10:49 pm

Oh my gosh!!! Must rip out eyeballs before cuteness gives me a heart attack!!!

54 Theo 09.25.06 at 10:51 pm

Lauri — the Bunny Creme kryptonite didn’t give it away, for you??

55 mariser 09.25.06 at 10:53 pm

I’m confushizzled.
I thought bunneh cremes were *Aubrey*’s weakness. they are ariel’s/siren’s?

56 Netherland Dwarf rabbit, owner!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 09.25.06 at 11:18 pm

I’m quite fawn d (fond) of this series of deer (dear)horse pics!!

57 Theo 09.25.06 at 11:19 pm

Well… they’re not Ariel’s *exclusive* domain. Unless she’s getting royalties I don’t know about.

58 Whit 09.25.06 at 11:26 pm

Oh good god, that is the cutest picture i have ever seen here. my favorite.

59 ceebs 09.25.06 at 11:34 pm

BrownA, I don’t know about the deer but I have a sneaking suspicion that giant wabbit in the background was photoshopped.
;-)

60 Theo 09.25.06 at 11:38 pm

CEEBS! HARVEY IS REAL!!

61 Aubrey 09.26.06 at 12:06 am

Mariser:

I have no weakness.

62 Allison 09.26.06 at 12:12 am

Bestest EVAR!!

63 mariser 09.26.06 at 12:24 am

Aub, a thousand pardons, madam.
my mistake. a most regrettable one.
[leaves, hat in hand]

64 Lauri 09.26.06 at 12:32 am

ROFL….ah, CO hits the heights again.

And, I don’t know what the hoot bunny creme kryptonite was…oh …it’s coming back to me….

(singsong) Someone hasn’t been paying attention….*points at self*

65 Honey 09.26.06 at 12:37 am

To me, that looks like, “Are you my mama?”
So adorable!

66 useta hada kitteh 09.26.06 at 3:06 am

The wabbit is a wock! It’s a wock wabbit, I tell you!

The baby deer just wanted to fawn-d out all about its new neigh-bor. That’s all.

And the wabbit is a wock!

67 Aubrey 09.26.06 at 3:11 am

“[leaves, hat in hand]“

Somehow, Mariser, I picture you walking away carrying a 17th c. hat, billowing feathers and all. This image makes me happy. Therefore you may live. The Bunneh Creme Assassins have been called off.

68 E. Collison 09.26.06 at 3:16 am

Grreat sequence + captions!

69 emily 09.26.06 at 3:39 am

AAWWWWWWWWWWWW
its a cute little bambi
:)

70 caitlin 09.26.06 at 5:23 am

oh wow… I MISS RANGER RICK.

71 Shannon L. 09.26.06 at 6:38 am

phew! glad to hear that “mom” was nearby. last time a fawn that little was wandering around by us all alone, there was some rehabbing that needed to be done.

Too adorable!!!
Like really.
Stop it.

I really like the size comparison between the two hoof-ed aminals. Makes each other look doubly big/small.

72 pheral 09.26.06 at 8:52 am

mwahaha. FAAAAAAAAAA!

aawn.

That surely is adorabiggle. And i’m glad i’ve come back to find lots of new entries to hide the ones below, because i’ve not visited since the day of that post with the disgusting pig-nose-licking fiasco, which made me feel sick. :(

73 MegW 09.26.06 at 11:38 am

…I am so glad I didn’t put sugar in my coffee. My sweettooth is going to ache for a week.

On the other hand, my roommate’s reaction to my automatic “squeeeeeeeeeee!!!!” was wonderfully entertaining.

Somebody, quick, offer up some wall posters of this for sale!!!!

74 Donna 09.26.06 at 1:16 pm

Cute cute cute! Cutest little baby ever!

:)

75 Tiberia 09.26.06 at 1:58 pm

For those who think these photos might be ’shopped…well, maybe the horses are huge (19 hand!) Texas warmbloods?? Ain’t everything bigger in Texas? Hee! Yeah, ok, whatever…still the spotted baby is adorable, and the horses are gorgeous.

76 Miya 09.26.06 at 2:16 pm

“are you my mommy?”

awwww this is absolutely adorable! I’ve heard of animals “adopting” other ones, and it seems these horses really don’t mind the little deer’s presence. Wonder where the mommy is….

77 zelda 09.26.06 at 2:41 pm

SAWEEEET.
And OMG, RANGER RICK! I got Ranger Rick magazine for years when I was kid, and my entire bedroom was plastered with pictures from the mag. That, plus a huge poster of Secretariat.

78 Aoife 09.26.06 at 4:05 pm

The cuteness is giving me heart palpitations. Oh, I want to kiss that baby!!

79 A thinker 09.26.06 at 4:18 pm

…I want to kiss the horsies.

80 Subhangi 09.26.06 at 5:08 pm

AIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!

HORSIES!!!

Bebeh fawn!!!

I just had a near-life experience.

81 Nobody 09.26.06 at 7:29 pm

Very young baby deer are just tiny as can be. Most people don’t see them because they haven’t started following the mom yet.

here is an image of a fawn that supposedly weighed only 3 pounds: http://www.fellowmortals.org/gallery/Fawn.JPG

Its from wisconsin, so it must be a white tail.

82 Denise in Nebraska 09.26.06 at 10:35 pm

So, does anyone remember the beloved children’s book “Are you my mother”? In this classic animated tale, a little bird who has just hatched out of its egg and whose mother is not around (she’s off gathering food, or something) goes from animal to animal, asking if each one could possibly be its mother. The little baby is clearly confused, as it approaches a cow, a dog, and finally a giant bulldozer that sees the baby bird and finally plops it back in its nest, where it does (as happy endings go) meet its own mother. These photos remind me of this storyline! Where is this fawn’s mother?!?!?! *hands on hips and scowly face here* Cute, though! :^)

83 R. Moore 09.27.06 at 4:15 am

Denise – I loved that book! And though I didn’t think of it, I was going to say that the poor little deer is probably saying, “I am a horsey. This is my mom.”

And for those wondering where the BIOLOGICAL mother is, does will often leave fawns in meadows with tall grass or other sheltered areas while they look for food. That’s why a) fawns have spots (mimic light patterns in grass or dappled light of forests), and b) hunters go for bucks even when hunting for meat. Apparently killing an adult is fine, but orphaning a baby is not.

84 Aoife 09.27.06 at 2:40 pm

Denise, that was one of my favorite books when I was very young! In retrospect, I realize my parents had amazing patience because I made them read that book to me over and over and over and …

85 Melinda 09.27.06 at 4:30 pm

We have a farm near by that has a deer living with cows. He is over a year old now, developing antlers and still stays there grazin’ in the grass! The cows are saying “We thought he was a skinny cow but he has no udder and has stuff growning out of his head!”

86 fawn lust 09.27.06 at 5:09 pm

i love these! (obv.)

87 Miette 09.28.06 at 1:07 pm

*packs picnic basket* it’s not too hot to picnic in the hill country anymore!!! anyone care to join me?
Oh, I want to go where the grasses will grow,
where teh deer an the horsies graaayze.
Where seldom is hoid, a discouraging woid,
and teh skies are not cloudy all day

88 Dana 09.30.06 at 2:02 am

Too cute for words…
horses can be so wonderful
and kind.
Totally brings out the awwww in me…and warms the cockles of my heart! ;)

89 tiffany diamonds 11.01.06 at 10:41 pm

this is cute and all but isnt it a bit dangerous?

90 Traci 11.27.06 at 5:10 pm

Just saw this today and thought I would make a comment. I actually know the man that took these pics and let me tell you; he wouldn’t know how to OPEN photoshop nevermind alter the pics. ;) The pics were taken at Camp Rusk which aside from the Pecan trees is known for it’s horse retirement. I first went there when I was helping a friend take her old mare there. Yes, it is in Texas btw; here’s the website: http://www.camprusk.com

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