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Hey brokensword, have you never seen the tiny deer they grow in Florida? I think if you hit and kill one with your car, you get a hefty fine, besides a dented car! They are the same size. Never knew there were such tiny miniature sized deer.
Hi CE. I’m in Florida right now visiting my daughter and her family. I’ll have to look for some of those tiny deer! Right now I’m being kept company by Stella the dog!
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We have those tiny deer over on Assateague island, they call the sika deer. Females are about 70lbs, males about 90 lbs. 2 foot high at the shoulder. They do allow limited hunting of the really cute lil things.
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I thought that's what they might be but I thought Silka deer kept the spots for life. I didn't notice spots on @CometKeith 's deer. Maybe more than one variety of Silka? @addy1

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I saw a pair of baby sika's they were so darn tiny and cute.


MD sika deer:

They are shorter in stature -- adults stand about 2 ½ feet at the rump. Their coat tends to be reddish brown during summer months, and dark brown to black in color during winter. Even as adults they have white spots, mainly running parallel down their back. Stags generally have a dark, shaggy mane running down their neck, and their antlers are narrow and sweep backwards rather than forwards like the white-tail's antlers. A 6-point stag is a trophy, with 8-pointers being extremely rare. Finally, unlike white-tailed deer that raise their tail like a flag when alarmed, sika deer have a round white rump patch that flares outward when they are excited or alarmed.
 
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Hmmm…. Just listened to a nice song about fish pond fish!! It made me think of my fish pond friends! The first lyric is swimming with my fish pond fish. Anyone ever do that? Lol
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I wade with them all of the time, they nibble on your feet and legs, it tickles! A good time to net one they swim right up to you.
 

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Used to go in and they do nibble a lot! Now I don't really need to as I use a long pole to dip out stuff and have ropes tied to the pumps and pre-filter setup. If anything drops in I snag it out w/a hook thingy. I'm not sure if going in there is good for us or not. So just to be safe I don't go in and besides that we don't get that warm here and the water is always kinda chilly. No walk in area for mine either. It's deep and have to jump right in!
 
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Used to go in and they do nibble a lot! Now I don't really need to as I use a long pole to dip out stuff and have ropes tied to the pumps and pre-filter setup. If anything drops in I snag it out w/a hook thingy. I'm not sure if going in there is good for us or not. So just to be safe I don't go in and besides that we don't get that warm here and the water is always kinda chilly. No walk in area for mine either. It's deep and have to jump right in!
So I miss my fish this winter. Everything lately reminds me of my pond.….Just finished watching on Apple TV “The Shrink Next Door”. So the main character has a Koi pond. He talks to his fish a lot…. I guess I do that too! He even calls them “hey guys“ I do that too! He also named them and calls them by their names… I DON’T DO THAT!!!
 

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He talks to his fish a lot…. I guess I do that too! He even calls them “hey guys“ I do that too! He also named them and calls them by their names… I DON’T DO THAT!!!
lol i don't do any of that! never name a fish, it will be the next one to disappear.
 
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lol i don't do any of that! never name a fish, it will be the next one to disappear.

Yes. I think I gave names to my fish when I first started ponding but it was too sad when I lost one so I stopped naming him. There is a scene in the movie where he buries one of his Koi because it died from ich. Overall it’s a good movie and based on a true story where a psychologist takes financial advantage of his client that lasted 27 years. The thing that bothered me the most is his Koi never really grew in the 10-20 years that he had them! The people that made the movie should have used some bigger koi for the later scenes!
 

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