She's no fool...

The boys didn't know it but I've had a doe coming to the back yard gate and eating melons that I toss out to her...She's really rather tame and every time I put a melon or veggie on the otherside of the back gate she comes running...Fred saw her this morning and said hey look at this doe...I started laughing and said she's waiting for her breakfast. I then explained to Fred what I had been doing. I cut up a melon and took it outside to her and Fred was in shock. I've never tried for a photo because she is rather shy and if I don't turn and come back towards the backdoor she leaves rather quickly. Today I asked Fred on his way home from town to pick up some sweet corn from one of our local farmers.

I was on the back porch cleaning it and threw the tip of a cob over the fence and there stood the doe, I was laughing. She is no fool and loves the free offerings. She even chases the chickens away too. I always looked for her after she's eaten and never saw her. I couldn't understand how she got to the back gate so quickly, so after throwing her plenty of pieces of sweet corn I went back out with the camera...I saw her lying down just on the edge of the pasture, chewing her cud and watching the house...She's definitely no fool...