Pet / Captive Roe deer.

I hand reared a fallow doe inside the house the pellets from the back end went much of a problem it was the fact that when weaned it wanted to eat everything curtains tea towels and a particular favourite was to swallow your shoe laces until she reached the shoe and then bring them up again covered in her last meal. Still got her eleven years later but outside in a small park and she will still take a milk bottle if you have one around for lambs etc.
 
I’m sure in one of Priors books he recounted about a pet roe buck losing its fawn buttons in his leg! Absolute dynamite in the rut apparently.

Leigh McNally of Torridon had a pet hind that lived to a ripe old age. Plenty food and not being out in the elements must do wonders for their heath.
Quite a few reds been kept as pets even stags while they can become aggressive in the rut and should be approached with care they don't seem to be as bad as roe
bucks which are positively lethal.
 
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