Deer Walks Into Store To Check Their Goods, Comes Back Later With Her Kids
It’s a busy time of year for many shops with Christmas just around the corner. This small gift shop in Fort Collins, Colorado got some rather unexpected customers however.
Lori Jones was working her usual shift at the shop, part of the Horsetooth Inn and RV Park, when a young doe casually walked in as if on a mission to pick out some gifts for her family. “It was hilarious,” Lori told The Dodo. “She was looking at the sunglasses and the chips. I was laughing so hard.”
Having perused the goods on offer, the doe was lured out of the store by Lori using something tasty. But that wasn’t to be the end of it. “About 30 minutes later, here comes the deer again with her whole family.”
Well raised as they are, the children waited outside patiently. “They were just looking in the doorway like, ‘Can we come in too?’ I said, No! It was so funny.”
Eventually Lori managed to lure the curious family away from her store, but not before snapping some incredible close up pics with her phone. While there is plenty of wildlife around this beautiful area at the foot of the Rockies with mountain lions, bighorn sheep, deer and raccoons amongst others, this was an unusually close encounter!
(h/t: The Dodo)
A small gift shop in Fort Collins, Colorado got some unexpected guests recently
Image credits: Lori Jones
A young doe casually walked in as if on a mission to pick out some gifts for her family
Image credits: Lori Jones
“She was looking at the sunglasses and the chips. I was laughing so hard”
Image credits: Lori Jones
“About 30 minutes later, here comes the deer again with her whole family”
Image credits: Lori Jones
“They were just looking in the doorway like, ‘Can we come in too?’ I said, No! It was so funny”
Image credits: Lori Jones
Eventually Lori managed to lure the curious family away from her store, but not before snapping some incredible close up pics
Image credits: Lori Jones
While there is plenty of wildlife around this beautiful area, this was an unusually close encounter!
Image credits: Horsetooth Inn and RV Park
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Share on FacebookHave to admit, I was thinking the same thing myself. ;)
Load More Replies...I live right by there and sadly the people in that area (not the store) feed the deer so they are too tame. Animal control keeps issuing warnings but to no avail. It is dangerous for the deer, can cause the spread of diseases between the deer and is against the law in Colorado. The deer are naturally curious but this happened because the deer have become too tame from being fed. Cute but that is the rest of the story.
If only humans didn't multiply like cockroaches the deers and all the rest of forest animals could live in peace.
Load More Replies...Why am I always so negative and worry about them now? I hope they don't think all humans are this nice, for their own sake. This is lovely and I would have fainted with excitement had this happened to me. They are so cute and cheeky. Sigh.
How cool is this?! I would've taken a bazillion pics and then passed out from excitement! You are one LUCKY lady to have this happen to you. Wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with the world! :)
So cute! It reminds me of the way koalas sometimes wander into shops/down the street/into emergency rooms in Australia.
I love the pictures. I live in Maine in "the sticks" and the other morning I was having a coffee and watching the news when I heard a thump outside. I spit my coffee all over the table when I looked and two feet away was a deer looking in my window.
I live on Fort Carson - also in Colorado - and as I was driving to a meeting last Sunday morning, a three young does walked casually across a neighborhood road right in front of me. Just as if they were walking home from church! I love the intimacy with nature we enjoy here. <3
awww so cute! I would have let them come in and live with me, but thats just me
Were I the shop owner, I would just keep them in as long as I can and try to become friends with them. How cute they are❤
I would have started cutting up apples to give to them. Surely they would have come back for more since they are used to being fed.
Load More Replies...I live in a place with lots of deer. Yep, they carry disease in the form of ticks which may carry one of the rickettsial illnesses (and Dopethrone, you don't have to hunt them to pick up a tick), but I still think them one of the prettiest and most graceful of animals.
What's with all the downvotes for the people saying not to feed them, myself included?
You are so right. Wild animals should never be fed by humans. It's dangerous for everyone
Load More Replies...As it is wonderful to see a wild animal up close, everyone should be cautious, because it is stilla wild animal. Pictures are lovely tho :)))
Humans are more dangerous than any wild animal still living on this blue planet. Animals don't make chemical weapons, don't dump the garbage where it pleases them, don't destroy everyday hundreds of football fields of rainforests to plant palm trees for their horrible food oil, don't make H bombs, and any they are the first to wiped out by the supreme stupid egocentered naked humans.
Load More Replies...Not enough to keep the door closed apparently! Luckily the animal was chill so they could enjoy the cuteness of it all XD
Wow, thats magical. I love animals and i would cry i think if this happened to me. Its a wonderful experience. I hope she treasures it.
When you prop your door open and have food in there, it's not by chance they come inside.
I'd have closed business for the day and had a deer party.... this only ever happened ONCE you lucky bastard.
Although never expected, in Colorado that's not too surprising. Alas, at least it's not a nude jogger.
I think I would love to live there, animals are so innocent, unlike humans !!
The only living thing on this planet that is dangerous, filthy, has wiped out more species, has through centuries destroyed the rainforests, the oceans, seas, has wasted the water we all living things need, guess what they aren't deers, the most dreadful animal on this earth, the humans.
DPunk UK I love deer. They mosey past my window when I'm on my laptop, but, deer ticks cause Lyme disease
Humans destroy more living things then ticks. Proof that where animals lived and sometimes still do it is not a natural habitat for humanity
Load More Replies...I would have given those deer a years worth of food for being so awesome.
I'd leave some carrots for them, even though I know you're not supposed to feed or touch wild life
LET THEM IN!!! :) :) I would leave out some blankets, water etc. Maybe a pair of sunglasses as well.
Don't feed wild animals! She came back with her whole family because food was given. She went back and was like "Yo...I found food!" They will come back and bring their Buck boyfriends and they get very aggressive. They aren't your friends. They are wild animals and they will get aggressive with you.
Have to admit, I was thinking the same thing myself. ;)
Load More Replies...I live right by there and sadly the people in that area (not the store) feed the deer so they are too tame. Animal control keeps issuing warnings but to no avail. It is dangerous for the deer, can cause the spread of diseases between the deer and is against the law in Colorado. The deer are naturally curious but this happened because the deer have become too tame from being fed. Cute but that is the rest of the story.
If only humans didn't multiply like cockroaches the deers and all the rest of forest animals could live in peace.
Load More Replies...Why am I always so negative and worry about them now? I hope they don't think all humans are this nice, for their own sake. This is lovely and I would have fainted with excitement had this happened to me. They are so cute and cheeky. Sigh.
How cool is this?! I would've taken a bazillion pics and then passed out from excitement! You are one LUCKY lady to have this happen to you. Wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with the world! :)
So cute! It reminds me of the way koalas sometimes wander into shops/down the street/into emergency rooms in Australia.
I love the pictures. I live in Maine in "the sticks" and the other morning I was having a coffee and watching the news when I heard a thump outside. I spit my coffee all over the table when I looked and two feet away was a deer looking in my window.
I live on Fort Carson - also in Colorado - and as I was driving to a meeting last Sunday morning, a three young does walked casually across a neighborhood road right in front of me. Just as if they were walking home from church! I love the intimacy with nature we enjoy here. <3
awww so cute! I would have let them come in and live with me, but thats just me
Were I the shop owner, I would just keep them in as long as I can and try to become friends with them. How cute they are❤
I would have started cutting up apples to give to them. Surely they would have come back for more since they are used to being fed.
Load More Replies...I live in a place with lots of deer. Yep, they carry disease in the form of ticks which may carry one of the rickettsial illnesses (and Dopethrone, you don't have to hunt them to pick up a tick), but I still think them one of the prettiest and most graceful of animals.
What's with all the downvotes for the people saying not to feed them, myself included?
You are so right. Wild animals should never be fed by humans. It's dangerous for everyone
Load More Replies...As it is wonderful to see a wild animal up close, everyone should be cautious, because it is stilla wild animal. Pictures are lovely tho :)))
Humans are more dangerous than any wild animal still living on this blue planet. Animals don't make chemical weapons, don't dump the garbage where it pleases them, don't destroy everyday hundreds of football fields of rainforests to plant palm trees for their horrible food oil, don't make H bombs, and any they are the first to wiped out by the supreme stupid egocentered naked humans.
Load More Replies...Not enough to keep the door closed apparently! Luckily the animal was chill so they could enjoy the cuteness of it all XD
Wow, thats magical. I love animals and i would cry i think if this happened to me. Its a wonderful experience. I hope she treasures it.
When you prop your door open and have food in there, it's not by chance they come inside.
I'd have closed business for the day and had a deer party.... this only ever happened ONCE you lucky bastard.
Although never expected, in Colorado that's not too surprising. Alas, at least it's not a nude jogger.
I think I would love to live there, animals are so innocent, unlike humans !!
The only living thing on this planet that is dangerous, filthy, has wiped out more species, has through centuries destroyed the rainforests, the oceans, seas, has wasted the water we all living things need, guess what they aren't deers, the most dreadful animal on this earth, the humans.
DPunk UK I love deer. They mosey past my window when I'm on my laptop, but, deer ticks cause Lyme disease
Humans destroy more living things then ticks. Proof that where animals lived and sometimes still do it is not a natural habitat for humanity
Load More Replies...I would have given those deer a years worth of food for being so awesome.
I'd leave some carrots for them, even though I know you're not supposed to feed or touch wild life
LET THEM IN!!! :) :) I would leave out some blankets, water etc. Maybe a pair of sunglasses as well.
Don't feed wild animals! She came back with her whole family because food was given. She went back and was like "Yo...I found food!" They will come back and bring their Buck boyfriends and they get very aggressive. They aren't your friends. They are wild animals and they will get aggressive with you.
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