Deer Correy

By Correy’s Dad

Fall of 2008, Correy & I were up camping at Baker Campground in the Stanislaus National Forest. We had just gotten up there about 8am, fall was in the air, and it was cold & breezy. We had just unloaded our gear from the van & were preparing to set up our tent. Standing behind Correy was a fawn deer, I told Correy the deer is behind him & he just said, “Oh right Dad!”, as he slowly turned around less than 3 feet behind him the fawn just stood there looking at him. We know you are not supposed to feed the animals, but, heck, we feed the boys!
Correy took an apple & handed it to the deer, he looked at Correy like, is that all you got & dropped it on the ground.
We took out a chocolate covered granola bar, healthy too & gave it to the deer; he took it then threw it on the ground & gave us that I want something more look!
Correy opened a loaf of bread, as fast as he could get a piece of bread out; the deer snatched it from his hand, gobbling it up. Correy went to give him another one, before he could grab a slice from the bag, the deer tried to grab the whole loaf. We gave him 1 more slice & resumed setting up camp. The entire time we were setting up camp the deer followed us closely about 3 feet behind us at any given time.
After setting up camp, we set out to find firewood, when we left the deer was still standing there watching us leave, he was probably thinking of ripping off our food once we left!
We returned in about an hour with a van full of wood, only to now find 2 fawn deer waiting in camp for us. He went & got his buddy. We didn’t feed them anymore; we unloaded the wood & went fishing. When we returned the deer were gone & so was the apple & granola bar that was left on the ground. We never saw them again. We slept at night with one eye open waiting to be mugged by the deer!