over the yrs I have been Lucky enough to touch a lot of WILD deer while hunting, been a bunch of yrs now, but back in the 80's when PA had a ZIllion deer it seemed, , wasn't that hard to get up close and personal with them
when I was a kid, I spent all the time I could in the outdoors, walking hiking or riding my dirt bikes
in one area middle of NO where I ran across a doe, she had a scab on both sides of here kill zone, behind shoulder, like a bullet went in and thru and out other side and it healed up
she used to ran after me on my dirt bike, and if I would stop she would come right up to me, it was crazy
SO every day all summer long, me and that doe, ran around some small coal backs, I rode up and down
and she would let me pet her and all that, was like a stray dog
never knew why she did it till today, but I remember it well
the following hunting season she went MIA< so figured she got shot
over the yrs I have helped out a few orphaned animals, from bears to smaller things
so I have been able to pet a wide range of wild critters
but I prefer them to be wild as nature intended
making them into pets, I see just leading to them getting killed faster!
Good intentions can go backwards fast!