BEND, Ore. (AP) — A Bend, Ore., woman says three deer attacked her barking dog in her small fenced yard, leaving the animal with head wounds and a punctured chest.
Tiffany Rounds says she’s used to seeing deer in central Oregon but had never seen them in her backyard before. Her small dog Daisy clearly thought that was inappropriate and went flying out the door, barking.
As Rounds told KTVZ on Monday, the six-point buck and two does “immediately started beating her on with their hooves, and then the buck comes and tries to get her with his antlers.”
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Steven George says that whether it’s a dog or a coyote, deer are reacting to a predator that could hurt or even kill them “and so they’re going to be fairly defensive.”
Rounds says her vet expects Daisy to make a full recovery from last Thursday’s encounter.
