Deer Living in Chicago East Lakeview

Just hanging out in the neighborhood. Looks like she has set down roots and had some kids. She has been here for about a week so far. Appears she has been decimating my neighbors flower beds :)

Looks like this video and more info has been posted in a # of other places.
https://chicago.everyblock.com/announcements/jun10-deer-lakeview-4017727/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/14/deer-starts-family-in-boy_n_876757.html

I heard from friends and coworkers that it was shown on ABC 7 and NBC 5 news in Chicago but I didn't see it. Nobody contacted me - that would have been kind of cool

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Pets & Animals

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• Deer
• Lakeview
• Chicago
• mother
• deer
• fawn
• boystown
• briar
• orchard
• belmont
• halsted
• broadway

[iamnotgreg]

Well the neighbors are reporting they saw the city capture one fawn this morning at 11am. I imagine they caught the other without issue. As to how they went about capturing the mother I don't know.

I wonder how many 10s of thousands of dollars they sunk into sub-committees and steering committees and deer action committees and 3 levels of consultants, lawyers, lobbyists and multiple deep containment teams (of which they probably only used one but paid all of them). Let's hope the deer are ok.

[iamnotgreg]

Saw an email last night around 11pm that the mother Doe is limping around and appears to be hurt. :(

[iamnotgreg]

I have heard from friends and coworkers that ABC 7 and NBC 5 in Chicago showed this on tv last night - nobody from there contacted me and let me know (which is lame, if they had I would have watched) ... Oh well. So much for my 15 minutes eh? At least Izzy is famous :)

[leekaygraphics]

Thx 4 vid! I thought it was a twitter hoax until seeing this.

[iamnotgreg]

@leekaygraphics this is on twitter now?

[lokeey]

when is hunting season begin? :D kidding. they need to tranq her and move her to the woods or she's going to end up dead soon.

[iamnotgreg]

@lokeey She has two fawns (I thought deer had one at a time?) I imagine that's part of the reason they don't want to do anything. I imagine tranquilizing them and moving them would be expensive and possibly cause more harm than good.

[MrSrcati]

lol

[MayAngelQt]

I just moved into the neighborhood on wednesday and as we were throwing out the trash, a neighbor approached us telling us about the deer and her fawns. We were in awe. It's sad that they had to be moved but it's definitely for their own safety.

[leekaygraphics]

@iamnotgreg yes, I got to your vid earlier today via a RT w/ link, there are still similar tweets there, I just checked a minute ago

[mfy773]

Last week, I saw 2 deer at loyola beach in rogers park.