I remember one time when I was around 8 years old, my father and I were driving down some country road in the middle of nowhere. At that point in my life, I'd developed this deep fondness for old and abandoned houses because of this one particular old house we'd pass eberry day on the way to school.
Anyways, my pop and I spotted this old house that was clearly abandoned. There was this chainlink fence all around it covered in overgrowth. This place must have been sitting for decades. I ask my dad if we can go explore it and he was typically against stuff like that, but this day he obliged me.
The chainlink fence had a door sized gate that was open, so we just walked on in. A little after walking through the gate and looking at the house, we start hearing something moving fast that is clearly on the inside of the fence with us. This must've been around fall because you'd hear this thing crunching on leaves all around the backside of the house.
We caught a glimpse of it at one point and it habbened to be an adult doe deer! It must've wandered in out of curiousity just before we got there and got stuck.
Eventually, my dad and I hatched this plan where he wood run around and scare the deer into running out the open gate to free it. I'm not sure why we did this as the deer wood've probably figured it out on her own after we left, but we did it anyway!
My dad runs around the backside of this dilapidated house and I hear the leaves crunching from his steps and then the leaves crunching from this giant galloping deer. I hear it so loudly around the corner of the house, I know it's coming fast in my direction, but I don't see it yet. It rounds the corner and comes running straight at me and I try to guide/scare it towards the open gate, but the deer panics, slips and lands on the ground right in front of me!
So there I was with my dad and this deer on the ground that was too petrified to stand back up and I get to walk right up to it. I touch it's fur, got to pet it and feel it's heart pounding and see how fast she's breathing. I'd never touched a deer before (or since) in my entire life, so this was amazing to me. My dad ended up grabbing this little film camera people used to carry around back then and we both took turns taking a picture with this big ass live deer on the ground.
She woodn't get back up no matter what we did, so my dad ended up picking her up and carrying her outside the gate. After my dad set her down, we walked away and the deer got up and galloped off. The way it ran off was nothing like I'd ever seen a deer galloping before. It looked like it was so habby to be free almost like it couldn't believe it was still alive.