Baby Deer around Exeter - please drive with care!

4 Jul 2005

Prob applies to lots of other dogging locations as well...
Visited our local hot spot late last night on the way home. Please will people take more care and not drive so fast they can't stop if a deer or other animal runs out in front of them!
There was a baby deer in road, it's mother ran away as I approched & pulled over to move it (even a baby deer is quite large and a traffic hazard). It was well and truly splattered and dead but the blood was very fresh and the stench was intense! There had been another dead deer on the verge 1/4 mile back up the road so I guess that its the time of year when the roe are born.
Please folks remember there babys are about and slow down if your out! These deer can appear out of the undergrowth without warning...

4 Jul 2005

ell mate we hit the one in the middle of the road about 9, it was already dead a great shame and it made an awful mess, but if i may suggest, you did say it yourself they dart out of the woods at a mad pace, slowing down will indeed help, but i am sorry but we would not swerve to miss one and perhaps cause an accident a shame to see though but thats life i guess. On the note of you know where we are getting miffed with the constant driving around by single guys, Shell must make a fortune in petrol out of single guys? may we suggest let a couple settle first and then have a discreet look.