Do deer eat grass?
No particular reason to ask, except for thinking of the story after reading Ricki's post. Well, there's also the fact that I've a genteel sufficiency* of God's Own Brew.
So the story is that some gummint (I think it was) biologist came to Red Bluff or environs to give a talk on managing deer herds. This was back in the 1950s, possibly the 1940s, I was never certain of the timeframe. The scientist/expert/whatever made some comment that "deer don't eat grass".
Grandpa stood up and said something along the lines of, "Well, I've seen deer out on the plain a long way from trees. Out in the middle of the grass. The deer were there, the grass was there, and the deer had their heads down, and if they weren't eating grass, what were they doing?"
Heh. Grandpa. God Love Him.
*Genteel sufficiency** - Another family story I may tell some time. Remind me, though, to keep kicking myself (as I have done for so many years) at not having captured all these family stories on tape of Mom and Dad and Auntie and Grandpa and Uncle Jack telling them. I don't retell them well.
**Just learned that the phrase may have originally been from Rudyard Kipling's Kim, after reading HH - shades of serendipilipity!
Iz out!
2 months ago
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*grumble* A few things I learned when living on a farm and raising cattle during my high school years in Southern Oregon:
1) Deer will go over a fence.
2) Elk will go THROUGH a fence.
3) Any hole big enough for an Elk to get IN is also big enough for a cow to get OUT.
4) Usually when it's raining.
5) At 5 AM.
6) On a school morning.
7) I love to eat elk.
Yes, deer will eat grass. Deer will eat anything that's green and not actually poisonous. However, for reasons known only to Loki, they simply adore the kind of ornamental shrubbery that yuppyscum use for suburban landscaping (and pay through the nose for).
Thus did deer become known in some suburbs as "hoofed rats."
"hoofed rats"
*Chuckle*
They are the prime movers for changing tofuistas into hunters.
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