I'm so afraid of hitting one on my bike and have had a couple of close calls...including almost falling off a bridge over a train track. I yell at them and brace for impact. Last time I was meeting a car on a country road and I thought the car was going to hit the doe and spatter her into me and then the other deer in the bushes jumped out into the mix, too.

There's always one in the bushes.

They're not all cute Bambis, either. A couple of weeks ago I had to suture a dog, a small beagle, that had been attacked by a doe. I expect she was guarding her fawn. Neighbors of the dogs owner chased the deer away. She was lacerated and bruised all over.