Oxymoron alert: The Disapproving Fawn

by Meg on August 16, 2009

She’s fawning! She’s disapproving! Fawning! Disapproving! She frightens and confuses me!

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Typical chick, Jaclyn S.!

{ 40 comments }

1 Malinki 08.16.09 at 12:14 pm

D’oh!

2 pitu 08.16.09 at 12:21 pm

Ooh she so soft and purty! I wants to snorgle her :)

3 chanpon 08.16.09 at 12:27 pm

Baby deer!! Born with brows to rival Max Maven.

4 Theresa 08.16.09 at 12:28 pm

I think she has a little halo.

5 winston 08.16.09 at 12:35 pm

so cute

6 Pheas 08.16.09 at 12:46 pm

Bucking the trend, eh?

7 debg 08.16.09 at 12:47 pm

I think she’s just pensive. No, there’s no clever pun here.

8 victoreia 08.16.09 at 12:53 pm

Bambi!

9 Metz 08.16.09 at 1:04 pm

WOW! Whatever it is that you did, you best be getting that super big “I’m sorry” boquet from the florist!

10 slythwolf 08.16.09 at 1:08 pm

It looks to me like she’s telling me I’m going to get it later for interrupting her nap.

11 Theresa 08.16.09 at 1:17 pm

Fawns have very beepable noses.

12 edward 08.16.09 at 1:17 pm

I think she reminds me of my garden birds, hedgehogs and badgers. They seem to be saying ‘Bring me things! Nice things, that I want to eat! Now! Get a move on!’

13 Keith Handy 08.16.09 at 1:38 pm

“Typical chick”? But she’s NOT A CHICK… now you need to show us a DISAPPROVING CHICK! And not the kind with the boobies (seeing as how I can find those elsewhere)!!

14 Saffron 08.16.09 at 1:55 pm

Good call, Theresa…that is a beepable nose!!

Hard to tell if it is disapproval, wry amusement or a pause to reflect on the place of the deer in the cosmos…..I was way too distracted by the those ears that are calling out to be nibbled.

15 Valerius 08.16.09 at 2:13 pm

Ah, that classic “stop sticking a camera in my face, you dork” look.

16 Teresa 08.16.09 at 2:29 pm

More, “Wait until my mom gets here” :twisted: “Then you will be running for your life.” :twisted:

17 Von Zeppelin 08.16.09 at 2:34 pm

I like the wrinkle immediately behind the schnozz. As to the expression, I agree with Slythwolf. Not so much disapproval as sleepy annoyance.

18 Charlie 08.16.09 at 3:02 pm

Been hanging around with bunnies too much! I knew that Thumper was a bad influence *nods sagely*

19 ~~Silk 08.16.09 at 3:22 pm

Actually, that’s a “he”. You can tell by the spots. Girl spots are random except on either side of the spine. Boy spots tend to be in neat rows on the sides, too.

20 260Oakley 08.16.09 at 3:22 pm

Fugitive fawn is pissed off ’cause he knows he’s been spotted.

21 thefelinepunk 08.16.09 at 3:27 pm

Aw, but what pretty blue eyes!

22 kittyadventures 08.16.09 at 3:47 pm

LOL I was just gonna say it is a he but not because of the spots but because of the horn buds. LOLOL

Leave it to the peeps to have eagle eyes.
At any rate this little fawn is shooting the photographer with some major disapproval… giving bunnies everywhere a disapproval run for their money!

23 kibblenibble 08.16.09 at 4:11 pm

Thank you, ~~Silk, I did not know that! Almost every day I learn something new here. Plus, I get my laughs, and most of all, my Qte! :-)

24 Melissa H. 08.16.09 at 4:27 pm

I wonder if she lost her mother and was raised by a cat. I get that look several times a day from my cats. “Would you just go away, stupid human?”

25 Carol 08.16.09 at 4:42 pm

Glad someone else noticed she was a he.
Once in high school, a friend of mine’s father was hunting (EEEEEEEKKK!!) and accidentally killed a mama doe. He felt so bad for the fawn that he brought it home. I went to visit the friend, and sat out on his patio in the back yard where the fawn was staying. I waited a long time, and eventually my patience was paid off by her curiosity. She edged up to me where I sat on the ground with my legs stretched out in front of me (barefooted.) and sniffed my toes. Before I knew it, she had started licking my toes. And she licked ALL of them! For a long time!! I was thrilled. And tickled. Really!

26 Michael Claymore 08.16.09 at 4:48 pm

What a world! Even Bambii’s a cynic!

27 Jim March 08.16.09 at 5:25 pm

I could tell it was a “he” from the tiny bud of a horn visible!

28 Patito Gigante 08.16.09 at 5:59 pm

It does not have time for this.

29 Leslie (NTA) 08.16.09 at 5:59 pm

Carol — nice story; you evidently have a gentle, soothing manner. There are few folks around who are patient & quiet enough to allow an animal to decided he/she’s willing to check out us silly bipeds. Sometimes I’ve managed to convince a feral cat, to tame me (aka I sat still & quiet long enough without approaching the cat, for it to decide that it might be worth investigating me).
The major hurdle, has always been THE OTHER BIPEDS who felt they MUST immediately approach & begin to touch the cat; who immediately scampered off in disgust & then (cat) mistrusted me for another day and a half.

30 Leslie (NTA) 08.16.09 at 6:08 pm

oops — PS: 1) I made a typo above (decide) rather than (decided) Mea culpa.

2) Don’t get my intent wrong: I *like* peeps.
Bipeds are really skilled at things like trading Monty Python punchlines, pushing us on a swing, etc. It was just that — on these other occasions — numerous people all were very clueless in terms of “Will the cat run away if I approach” & such sensitivities.

31 SixFootJen 08.16.09 at 6:48 pm

She’s fawning! She’s disapproving! She’s fawning!

“She’s my daughter! She’s my sister! She’s my daughter! She’s my sister!”

32 Megs 08.16.09 at 8:20 pm

of course she’s disapproving, her leetle horns are coming in! That must hurt.

33 victoreia 08.16.09 at 10:25 pm

“Stupid humans and their flashing thingys!”

34 Lucas 08.17.09 at 6:42 am

She’s all “if you don’t know what’s wrong, I’m not going to tell you!”

35 Derby 08.17.09 at 10:50 am

You call THAT a disapproval?? You’ve got a lot to learn, kid!

36 occula 08.17.09 at 2:22 pm

Holy David Gilmour eyebrow!

37 anastasia 08.17.09 at 6:14 pm

ugh. im drowning in my own nosicle wetnesssss!

38 anastasia 08.17.09 at 6:14 pm

is that how you even spell it?

39 Raidell 08.17.09 at 10:24 pm

Very adorable fawn. Personally, his eyebrows (or early horns?) look to me like a vaguely surprised Vulcan. To me anyway.

;)

40 kdean965 09.02.09 at 8:35 am

And in that case do?

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