Doe wearing an orange vest

I'm sitting in my stand yesterday afternoon and out walks a doe in an orange vest! I think I've gone crazy and shake my head. She's still there! I can't quiet grasp what I'm actually seeing and I know my husband and friends will not believe me so I've got to get pictures for proof! My camera is an old cheap one so sorry for the bad pictures. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen and one of the most exciting hunting experiences I've ever had!!!!
She walks out about 150 yards away and slowly moves around. She keeps looking over her shoulder in the woods. Soon a really nice shooter buck steps out and is following her. I think I want to take him but I don't want to disturb this once in a life time event I'm watching. So I sit and watch and try to take pictures as they begin their chase across the field, turn around, run back, turn again and run full speed across the field again and out of sight. It was awesome to watch!!! I assume she is someone's pet and I hope she finds her way home!




You can see her on the right and the buck on the left behind mesquites, sorry its hard to find them

He steps out from the mesquite and stops and looks at me. Sorry it's blurry

The chase begins


They turn around and head back

That's the last picture I took. I think I wanted to focus on the show and not my camera
I hope y'all can see enough to enjoy it too !

Thats funny. Got to not shoot her for creativity

Hunter orange huh? Dang those deer are getting smarter!

Or was it attempted suicide by hunter?

Great, I'm wearing camouflage and most likely will get shot, while she gets a free pass.

That is awesome! Great job on resisting to shoot. I may have had to shoot the "shooter buck" but Sometimes you get more satisfaction out of just observing.

Cool photos Pink, I'm guilty of putting orange collars on a couple of tame does on our old farm Don't know if I could have coaxed a full vest on though

Nice pictures

The rut must be really on in your area - the deer have taken to wearing lingerie! I picture some little old lady going to a lot of trouble getting that thing on her "pet" right outside her back door.

Cute pic and comments..we had a pet for 3 years that came into camp..We kept a wide orange collar on her..All you had to do is rattle a FRITO bag and she would come a running and stick her nose in and eat them..

Awesome experience. Thanks for sharing it and taking pictures!!!!! Not sure if I would have believed it without the pics to prove it.

Last Sunday while sitting in the blind my husband and I were going back and forth on the weirdest thing we could possibly see while sitting in the blind. I tossed out Harambe. He suggested a unicorn. But not even with my imagination could I have thought of a doe wearing an orange vest. That is such an awesome story and experience.

Very cool story, Pink and glad you got pics. I hope no one shoots her.

Thanks everyone! Glad you all liked it! It was a very neat and rare sight! That's all we've been talking about and now everyone here wants to see her Funny thing is she is not on any game cam pics. If she shows up I will let y'all know.

I know you can buy vests for livestock down to dog size.



Thanks for sharing this, good to know someone cares about their yard deer!

Hey Ranch Dog, is that an Albino deer? A HF or LF?

Cool story Pink. Thanks for sharing pics. Hope whom ever's pet it is survives the season.

We have some friends that have a pet doe that wears an orange vest during hunting season. Always has her fawn or fawns at their house raises them and the fawns go off. Daisy the doe never leaves except during the rut and she may be gone for days at a time.
Cool that you got that pic, I would imagine that it was a surprise!

That's a story that'll go in for years. Too funny!

I had one wearing an orange bandana around its neck on a place near Aledo I hunted year before last. I was afraid it was MORE likely to get shot.

if it is a hunter attempting suicide he's gonna get more than he bargained for when that buck catches him!!!

I've seen it all now.

I've ran across a couple of deer in the woods wearing collars, but never a vest. That must be one tame deer to get that vest on it.

That is too cool. Got to be a neighbor's pet.

You just never know what your gonna see in the great outdoors. Thanks for sharing.

Grew up in upstate NY, farm I hunted on had rescued a button buck in 1978, he became part of the farm family, wore a big orange collar during hunting season because he would go into rut and there was no containing him. Not friendly at all during the rut, so I will not call him a pet. He grew to be an 8 point, he died naturally a few years after I joined the service. Wish we had trial cameras in use back then to get photos. He ran around looking like one of Santa's Reindeer, a very fond memory.

In the late 80s, we had a yearling 4-point buck whose antlers had been painted fluorescent orange. One of the strangest things that I ever saw while hunting. We figured it was a neighbor's pet deer. I have never seen a deer with a vest before. Definitely a first.

Kind of odd, don't know what I'd do. Something I'm surprised no one else has brought up... It's illegal to have a 'pet' deer in Texas.

We had one we put a collar on, she came around for 4 years! I moved down the road and told the new owner, he said she still comes to the feeder. Very cool pics.

We had a collared doe that hung around our place a lot. She has this favorite feeder that she hung out at and we got into a habit of spinning some corn out every time she was there. She got so used to that, that if you walked right on by and got into the stand she'd walk up to the base of the ladder and just stare at you as if she was saying "hey a$$hole, push the test button"

Being a pet, she'd probably be fork tender

not many cats roaming your neighborhood I bet!

Neat pics, im sure she is someones so called pet! TPWD doesn't like it! keep deer in captivity
they frown on, im sure some buck will find love some day there!

I have 3 that come up to the barn just about every night now, old tortillas, bread, pancakes are
the favorites......

Cats are safe.......but I do love some poodles & noodles.

That's pretty cool, thanks for posting!!

WINNER!



This is what happens when you wake up one morning and you're not mad at the deer anymore!

Good story & neat photos...