Well, this animal is not so odd, really, but still, it's way out of place.

This morning while walking my dog, she suddenly raced forward growling kind of puzzled like. I thought it was going to be a bear that she was growling at but she was not displaying her typical outrage. At the corner she stopped and peered in.

When I reached her, there at the foot of the (outdoor) stairs lay a deer. Head up, watching us, and not obviously in pain but immobile.

I checked the dog to her position and stood there for a bit wondering what a deer was doing out of the forest and in town. A deer is not like the ubiquitous bear looking for food. I told her to go back to the woods as soon as she could, then went on, wondering what my responsibility was.

When I came back a half hour later she was gone. I hope she isn't injured. Like gnu's kitten (It was you, gnu, wasn't it?) I prefer to think of her as back in the woods browsing with her tail switching contentedly.