The comment section on the various uploads of this video has cynical types saying that this wasn’t a dog saving a deer, it was a dog retrieving, as in hunting, a deer for its master.
I dunno.
I think Storm saved the deer and then got overly excited.
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The dog is a Retreiver. It was just as confused as the viewers of the video as to what it was doing, saving or hunting.
Agree with you, Fur. The dog pawing at the deer was more “okay, you get up now!” If he was out to do him harm, he’d have just grabbed him by the neck and shook as hard as he could.
Um, it’s a deer. They’ll make more.
Save
Retrievers have been bred to be Man’s best friend for so many generations that they don’t even know what they’re doing when it comes to their basic instincts.
I’d say “confused” is the best description.
Either way, the deer got saved!
He was saving the Fawn. Not hunting baby deer.
Retrieving, saving, then confused and playing. How about if the owner puts down the phone and grabs his dog by the collar is my thought?
Soft mouthed retrievers don’t kill birds that are shot by their owners, if I shoot a bird that isn’t mortally wounded and it falls and a well trained dog brings that bird to me, it will still be alive and I have to ring its neck. Sometimes birds are knocked unconscious and wake up after they are brought back and are in my game pouch. So no, storm was not hunting and trying to kill the fawn. Storm was retrieving and when the fawn got up and ran it confused the dog.
I had a black lab that early in its life sustained a severe cut from a cutter of a rooster pheasant, that dog, unfortunately never unlearned that and would always put the death chomp on a pheasant. I assure you that if Storm was looking for supper that deers neck would have been broken in the water.
get up and run, I’ll bring you back so you can run again, I love fetch.
Acting like a cat, keeping the deer for later play.
I have decided the question should be: Where is the mother?
Two choices
A. Dead or recovering from a recent opioid high
B. Bambi’s mommy was shot by the mean police trying to flee after being stopped for questioning while walking in the park after dark,
I have a Golden that retrieved a scoter all on his own after chasing it around in the bay. He immediately retrieved it and dropped it at my feet, and I grabbed him by the collar and the duck flopped back in the bay and swam off. I’m thinking it couldn’t fly because it was molting.
Their retrievers, not hunters. My dog was hard wired for it. I never trained him to do that.
Hmmm, fawn, tastes like veal.
First I ‘m not sure that the fawn needed saving. Not sure why the fawn was in the water. Two large unleashed dogs on beach? Fawn appeared to try to stand until Storm’s instincts kicked in and he grabbed it before it could scamper away. Irresponsible of owner to continue recording, unless he is a wildlife photographer with the work ethic of allowing nature to run its course, like lions eating zebras. Finally did the fawn go into shock and dies.
Doe! Instead of passing the buck, we are fawning over this dog named Storm.
Good boy, Storm!