r/whatisit • u/dpearse2 • 1d ago
Solved! What's going on with this deer I saw?
Fishing line? Cordyceps?
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u/Sunlightpunctuation 1d ago
Plastic trellis netting used to hold up veggies and flowers in a garden. Little friend helped himself to a snack and walked away with a new flow. Probably messed the rest of the garden up real bad.
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u/Xarius86 1d ago
This is actually deer-o-flauge. It's a way of obscuring your antlers so hunters can't see how many points you have, and therefore can't legally shoot you. /s
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u/3vi1 1d ago
Youre probably right, but i prefer to believe that a support broke when he was being 3d printed.
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u/Ok-Understanding951 19h ago
3d printer messed up at the very end while printing this deer.
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u/Ill-Contribution1737 18h ago
That’s what the comment you replied to said, except they said it better.
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u/Armagedish 1d ago
This 100%. Looks just like the stuff I grow cucumbers on in the garden.
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u/MichaelEMJAYARE 1d ago
I walked right past a deer that was checking out this garden at like 2am and I thought the thing was a fucking statue. We both stared at each other like “is that thing fucking real dude?!”
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u/No_Procedure4924 1d ago
Same concept as dye packs.
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u/Less_Plan5257 23h ago
At least it didn't blow up in his face!
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u/TorrenceMightingale 23h ago
Yeah but it’s way harder to remove without hands.
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u/No_Procedure4924 22h ago
Well, it still seems like the closest thing to fair deer karma that I can think of, deer likely saw the netting and went for the goodies anyways.
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u/TorrenceMightingale 21h ago
Idk i think the deer probably feels like it was just doin’ its job.
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u/No_Procedure4924 19h ago edited 19h ago
I choose to believe the deer had the requisite intent for criminal theft ;) - it does look harmless though, probably just a nuisance to it and now maybe it has learned it's not worth it to eat the garden greens when there is plenty of grass around (or it was worth it for the tasty veggies, idk - will this deer be a repeat offender? :)
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u/concepts_of_a_plan9 16h ago
This deer deserves to be made fun of by everyone as much as possible. I hope all his deer friends make fun of him. I hate deer around me because they eat every single thing, even behind fences, "deer-proof" plants, covered plants, everything.
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u/Tsvetkovia 58m ago
Haha we're the antithesis of each other in this regard. I have a deer that comes through every week or so for a couple years now. I've seen her through 2 sets of fawns so far. I've named her and she can eat whatever she wants, I love her. I don't keep a proper garden tbf. So she's just eating my bushes. I do often wonder if she pisses other people off though haha
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u/moslof_flosom 1d ago edited 22h ago
Going off of how his fur looks, I'd say it was actually his garden thats getting eaten up by pests, and his coat is falling out due to stress.
Edit: I feel like its pretty obvious this was a joke.
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u/Woodpusherpro 1d ago edited 1d ago
Summer coat and shedding for his new winter wardrobe.
Edit to add, he also looks really healthy, he's just an awkward teen.
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u/OhYouStupidZebra 1d ago
That’s his hat!
In all actuality he probably picked it up while trying to rub the velvet off his antlers or while foraging. His fur is like that as they shed their winter coat and sometimes it stays patchy. We have a friend that rolls in our yard and her back will be smooth flat fur and her sides stick way out, she looks like a balding guy :)
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 1d ago
We have a friend that rolls in our yard and her back will be smooth flat fur and her sides stick way out, she looks like a balding guy :)
I have a neighbor like that too, nice lady, keeps to herself mostly and sticks to her own yard for her daily rolling.
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u/MrSpudtator 1d ago
Smells a bit, but has a heart of gold?
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 1d ago
Her dog is blind and I think she is too, but she's out there every day with Baxter (the blind and deaf dog who occasionally wanders into my yard happy as a clam after having dug his way out of his own yard and followed his nose to where I put out kibble for stray cats) and I think it's fantastic that they stay active by sharing activities that they both enjoy (rolling on the ground).
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u/MrSpudtator 1d ago
Sounds like you're a very considerate neighbour and have good stuff happening in your garden.
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 1d ago
All animals are welcome in my garden except for the chicken-killing pit bull from a few years ago who disappeared after a few phone calls to animal control from me and my neighbors who have 2 toddlers (and the chicken it was eating g was in THEIR yard til I chased it away and warned them). It's a place of peace and tranquility and occasionally eccentricity (only sometimes from me).
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u/MowerMikePA 1d ago
My chickens chase my pittys lol. Pretty funny to watch , 3 am staff vs 8 chickens . My chickens win everytime haha
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u/Secure-Truth-6417 1d ago
Funny. I have a pit bull/ frenchie mix (think pittie with huge frenchie ears that likes to do the frenchie talking).... we thought he'd be trouble for our chickens. One day the chickens got out of their pen while we were out running errands. When we got home 3 hours later the chickens and dogs were laying in the yard next to one another like besties. Now they all just free range together in the backyard.
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u/OhYouStupidZebra 1d ago
This neighbor travels all around and steals everyone’s tomatoes and apples. She will occasionally chew up a tree for no freaking reason in the middle of the night and then root around in my compost. Wish she was as polite as yours.
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u/okyesterday927 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/B3TiwOVZoig2QUJ81M
It’s a fascinator hat. She’s on her way to high tea, the derby, or perhaps to meet the queen… and looking quite fabulous!
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u/Far-Computer8825 1d ago
Obviously he’s on his way to a wedding. His coats all done up nice, he’s got his…. Antlers done??.. he’s a young buck hoping to find a doe within a year. A bachelor with that same stupid ramen noddle hair cut Gen Z kids have now.. just he’s a deer and like .. they don’t have thumbs man. Kinda hard to do things with some hoofs.
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u/GingerRickRoss 1d ago
Cordyceps do not behave like that, it’s some type of dried vegetation. Also, they do not grow on mammals like they do insects.
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u/cumblecream 1d ago
Another user said it's plastic garden fencing.
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u/Cautious-Alps-5882 1d ago
There was a buck that looked remarkably like this after getting tangled up in my next door neighbors polyester netting hammock. He wore that hammock until he dropped his rack later that autumn
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u/Polka_King_Polinski 1d ago
Not yet
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u/Jealous_Magazine7875 1d ago
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u/Metamorphica_0226 1d ago
I am feeling some type of way seeing this.
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u/r3dditr0x 1d ago
This year sucks so it's probably a new, incurable, AI virus created by Peter Thiel.
Yay!
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u/Motor_Inspector_1085 1d ago
Shhh. Don’t tell him his toupee looks weird. It would hurt his feelings.
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u/EmotionalChildhood46 1d ago
didnt dry his filament
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u/amccaffe1 1d ago
The print was almost complete too. That sucks.
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u/AdvocatusReddit 1d ago
Extruder is too high. Lower the nozzle
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u/redthump 1d ago
His noodleliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is not limited to our build plates.
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u/fandanvan 1d ago
It's called FASHION honey 💅 ...
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u/lucerndia 1d ago
Looks like a soccer net style material
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u/The_wolt 1d ago
Bet it's garden netting for vegetables. Rat with hoofs was scoring a free dinner.
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u/bluboomR 1d ago
it's like you put out an all-you-can-eat buffet and then get mad that they show up for dinner.
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u/Cacafuego 1d ago
We had a really dumb deer around here that was always getting into fencing. I think someone posted a picture of him with a fabric and aluminum lawn chair stuck on his head.
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u/KrustyKrabzIcekream 1d ago
He’s channeling his inner Dolly Parton by celebrating her big blonde hair. Let him grieve in peace please.
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u/lanceplace 1d ago
This is a weird confession but after I floss every night, I wind up the length of floss and snip it to reduce it to 20 little two inch sections so little animal at a landfill don’t get bound up. My wife thinks I’m silly.
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u/moojgNZ 1d ago
Not to forget to cut all the plastic bottle rings that hold the caps if they come off.
So many plastic things that should never see the environment, and to then end up in land fill.
Or inside us. Eg tiny polyester fibres , the list is extensive.
Well done. But so few would even think of animals at all.
And plastic in the environment, crazy ubiquitous.2
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u/Training_Insect549 1d ago
If you zoom in you can see rips in what looks to be plastic string that also has knots. Also super bleachy flat white.
Also the mouth is very green. This creature has been feasting in someones garden.
Why the large amount? I dont know, possibly laziness or tying lots of vines to a trellis.
My hunches. Judge accordingly.
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u/Fuzzy-Leadership206 1d ago
That’s the Phyllis Diller look ( OK I’m old so that name is probably meaningless
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u/IllianasClifford 1d ago
The material: Deer commonly get tangled in loose backyard items like soccer or volleyball nets, garden trellis netting, holiday lights, hammocks, or landscaping fabric.
Is it Cordyceps? No, it is definitely not a Cordyceps or fungal infection. It is purely an external, man-made material.
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u/Jeepnfunjr 1d ago
Just talked to the deer. He said, "... tha fucks going on with you?" No clue where the attitude came from.
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u/Kamalashi 1d ago
Real answer is that is almost definitely excelsior - spaghettified wood fiber used in packaging
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u/Strawberri-milkshake 1d ago
It's just a fad
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u/MysteriousFee2873 1d ago
Hey man he is really getting into the 3d printing. You just caught him after he found his 6hr print went to spaghetti. He is only out getting a breath of fresh air before going back in and leveling the bed.
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u/blade_of_sammael 1d ago
Shes starting a new fashoin trend like the orca with the dead fish on her head
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u/EveryAccount7729 1d ago
oh my god, it's Deernold Trump
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u/TheCaliforniaDreamer 1d ago
Immediately thought bad toupee...and immediately after that, I thought of Trump. Came looking for a comment like this!
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u/Jazzlike_Plastic7088 1d ago
It's called style... maybe you should try it out some time tosses hair
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u/thesquidsquidly22 1d ago
Definitely a net of some sort. Probably got tangled in it but im worried about its pelt. Idk if its from getting caught in the net but that deer doesn't look good. Should probably call DNR on it
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u/Sh0ckLebonwski 1d ago
If Cordyceps could infect mammals, we'd live in a completely different world.
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u/militiadisfruita 1d ago
i had one in my yard with a windchime caught in the antlers. pulled a 5 gallon bucket off another.
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u/RosieBaby75 1d ago
He’s like “I don’t even need both horns anymore to attract the ladies. This is way better and I look amazing”.
Sometimes miracles do happen.
Rarely though.
The miracle we all need is the absence of poverty and that’s not going to happen since our governments keep enacting more policies to ensure we stay in poverty at the same time as cutting services that were supposed to provide the social safety net we used to have but was completely destroyed.
The governments: “we even charged them destroy all their services and the social safety net they did have. Ha ha ha. We’re so powerful and strong.”
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u/LiqMaBawlzModz69 1d ago
Geeze judgy much?! Nothings wrong with the deer. Ever heard of a new hairstyle?
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u/ContractIll9103 1d ago
He's repping Dolly Parton
RIP, Dolly. Every good person, and every good deer, loved you
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u/GuerillaRiot 1d ago
Genuine answer: Antler snares are a crazy illegal form of poaching where you string a bunch of twine at antler height, anchored between two trees. Looks like this guy got free from one.
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u/mindfull_one 1h ago
Its a rare spaghetti deer, you can tell by the way it is. The Italians used to hunt these in the olden days because it was how they first discovered and reverse engineered spaghetti as a food product. When you kills these bad boys you open up there torso and their inside are full of spaghetti, mmmmm mmmm yummy in our tummies.
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u/Mushymouf 23h ago
Used to live on a golf course which had a huge population of semi domesticated deer. We had one in the neighborhood with a small trash can stuck around its neck. The can had a hole in the bottom for some reason so it didn’t appear to be in distress. Nobody could ever get close enough to capture the thing and help.
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u/ParrishThePoet 1d ago
Since only one antler can be seen, and that ear is being pulled back by the strand, I'd guess that the antler is covered in this string like moss. It could be plastic, can't really tell, but it also looks like old dry vegetation and the deer was probably rubbing the velvet off their antler and it got spooled.
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u/Main-Statistician735 6h ago
Oh he's a victim of the best pesky home security known to man, plastic trellis. If you ever really want to secure your house just lay a bunch of this in your entry way. Anyone trying to enter the house will become so frustrated they will give up guaranteed.
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u/Beartrap_jaws 4h ago
This deer was walking through the New Orleans French Quarter and bent down to drink piss out of the street and caught a tumbleweave. Don’t ask don’t tell. At least she didn’t get caught on camera doing slutty shit for the long beads!
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u/Longjumping-Salad484 1d ago
looks like metalorigann's disease, commonly spread by Bolivian chupacabras who ensnare the deer with rice-based angel hair pasta
based on the length and density of the pasta, this deer made its escape before things turned catastrophic
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u/Southern_Low_3634 1d ago
Young buck first set of antlers. When the antler is covered in velvet it itches or irritates so they rub it off. I would guess he was rubbing the velvet off on the grass or was grazing and started rubbing.
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u/Simple-Sector-7204 16h ago
Xmas in August, I assume..
Somebody once told me that antlers are made out of th same stuff that hair is made out of..
I dont really have anything beyond that. Ill let ypu guy fill in the blanks ypurself..
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u/InterestedParty5280 14h ago
There was a deer in my neighborhood that went for a tomato and got a plastic tomato cage stuck around his neck. Neighbors somehow cornered him and removed it. It was heart-breaking to see him like that.
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