He Only Wanted To Pet It

[pastafreak]

But the feeling wasn't mutual 🤔😉

Almost qualified for a Darwin Award

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13028771/animal-lover-tried-pet-turns-stag.html#reader-comments

[Barmaid]

What an absolute tool.  Wild animals (even in a deer park) are not generally terribly cuddly.

[wolf63]

They are well-armed,  it could have killed him.

I wanted to pet the Wolves at the safari park - but even I had more sense than to try it.

I don't know about Toby but I know that Merlin could change from loving getting petted to trying to kill me in seconds.

 

 

[wolf63]

Barmaid, am I right in remembering that your pet Tiger stalked Deer?

[Canary42]

Some folk are really dumb.

[barry1010]

Whenever I see a deer I think of Fenton.  It's etched permanently in to memory.

Fenton's owner was as stupid as this chap.

[Canary42]

Certainly a candidate for TTT's TWAU menagerie

[jno]

ah, poor Feeeentooon

Stag dos are not all they're cut out to be

 

[Canary42]

I seem to recall a guy in China some years ago was severely mauled when he got into a panda enclosure to embrace "such a cuddly looking creature".   Never judge a book by its cover.

[Peter Pedant]

e British Deer Society says those wanting to visit herds of the wild animal.....

no surely the BDS said - - dear dear dear

[Barmaid]

It is entirely possible that he did, Wolf, although I do not remember due to the fact that he would stalk anything (I do recall him stalking a buzzard, a peacock and a fox) and indeed caught all manner of things that he should not really have messed with.

There was a muntjac in our garden at the weekend.  The girls were quite bemused.  Although I do think one of them was trying to work out how she might haul it through the cat-flap because it might make tasty elevensies.

[anneasquith]

That person was very lucky, .

maybe time to put him on house arrest to keep him alive .

[pastafreak]

Iconic...

[wolf63]

Barmaid, if they hunt as a team you find some strange animals in the house.

Pasta, I remember comments on YouTube slating this guy for letting his dog run free, having no control etc.

But even with the best-trained animal, this sort of thing happens.  It is funny and scary at the same time.

[Ken4155]

Bet he needs a new pair of trousers - and i'm not talking holes made by the stags antlers.

[Barmaid]

Wolf, even as a team this pair are woeful.   They are very cute, but one of them is not very bright.  The other tends to look at her with an expression that says "For goodness sake, you idiot, it hadn't seen me until you thundered along".  They are very very good at catching leaves and feathers.  We get the odd mouse or rat (and one snake), but mainly leaves and feathers!

[Arksided]

Even whoever was filming it has a little laugh at the end. 

As for the OP... apart from being thick as a brick he obviously can't read the article says they were plenty of warning notices about.

[wolf63]

I hope that they remain close as they get older.  They are strange animals.

[jno]

it does happen, wolf

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/dec/16/audreygillan1

Something very similar happened in Zimbabwe a couple of years earlier: I was there. Two chaps left their tent in the middle of the night  because they heard a noise. They survived, and told me the next morning it had just been me snoring.

I was tempted to eat them anyway.

[jno]

sorry, that was actually for anneasquith

[anneasquith]

🤗