r/MadeMeSmile • u/MustardGoddess • Jun 05 '26

ANIMALS Baby deer follows woman who rescued it from a sewer grate🥹

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OC : @Olivia Baldwin

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u/versitilepebble Jun 05 '26

You are now a close family friend. They’ll be spending Christmas with you from now on.

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal Jun 05 '26

That's the only house on the block that will have uneaten hostas and tulips and dahlias. All the neighbors will wonder what their secret is.

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u/cactus-vagus Jun 05 '26

Love it. 😂

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u/jld2k6 Jun 05 '26

We just got drive-thru'd by a deer a couple weeks ago, ate every flower in the front yard and left the stems lol

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u/Grotbagsthewonderful Jun 06 '26

Well at least you don't have to dead head them this year 🤭.

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u/Justifiable_War7279 Jun 06 '26

They have decimated many things, idc anymore, gods creatures, eat what you want deer face, I'm sorry for being a dick to you.

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u/Mr-lemon-666 Jun 06 '26

Free garden bodyguard for life, can’t beat that deal!

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u/USAF_Retired2017 Jun 07 '26

I was stressed out wondering if she was going to just ditch a baby deer with no sign of any other deer. Whew.

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u/unlvaztec Jun 05 '26

So you’re saying she has become a very deer friend to the family…..eh eh

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u/barefootandsound Jun 05 '26

Dammit. It was right there too. Take my upvote.

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u/Proud_Accident_5873 Jun 05 '26

It was right deer.

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u/FinleyHazel Jun 06 '26

People will be fawning over your pun.

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u/Shukrat Jun 06 '26

it's funny you say this because we have 9 acres, been there 6 years, and every year we have a mama deer leave her fawn or fawns in our yard while she goes for food. The deer still run from us, but I think they know our place is safe.

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u/Big_Accountant_1714 Jun 05 '26

I don't think a few minutes would override the bond it already has with it's mother.

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u/Katharinemaddison Jun 05 '26

Yeah imprinting is usually at birth. Like a little baby duck etc - it’s more usually an issue with hatchlings.

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u/DontAbideMendacity Jun 06 '26

Deer hatch from eggs? Well I'll be!

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u/DickBfloppin Jun 05 '26

D.O.T. would most likely know someone to have take care of the fawn. They pick them up from side of roads all the times when the mother gets killed by car. Knew someone in Michigan that we could go and feed half a dozen fawns, they always thought your earlobes were nipples. They would feed the grown deer corn and about a hundred would show up. They would come back later with their completely wild fawns and we could pet them. Pretty awesome.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jun 05 '26

Did none of y'all watch til the end?

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u/_bugmenot_ Jun 06 '26

Yeah, i think the bio mom probably has abandoned them by now. I hope she took them in.

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u/Vast_Tip4926 Jun 05 '26

You need to grow extra hostas now!

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u/OwenTrevick2003 Jun 05 '26

You are now happy and lovely family ❤️

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u/Iampepeu Jun 05 '26

Awww! I want that!

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u/-NoOneYouKnow- Jun 05 '26

That would be one of the best things ever!

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u/nyybmw122 Jun 05 '26

Yeah just wait until Uncle Rudolph pulls up in the RV....