To consider a Muntjac Deer for a pet?

[cultkid]

Huge garden
Yes I'm just back from Centre Parcs
Really want a pair of them

We have loads, odd little buggers. Mistook one for a very large rabbit once. Same white arse...

I'll tell you what are weird lil creatures - maras. Half deer, half rabbity looking things. They roam in Newquay Zoo. They would work in a large garden.

ChilliMayo constant crap every where though ..

I'd like a couple of raccoons, I love their wee bandit faces!!

They will destroy your garden (bitter experience, from wild muntjac)

Never seen one but the noise it makes on that video sounds just like one of my toddlers when he wants something. He’s bad enough, don’t fancy a garden full of that noise too 😂

We used to have a herd of them (not actually have they just lived in the grounds of our block of flats) when we were semi-posh. They were lovely. Always used to make me squeal when I'd look out of the kitchen window to see one trotting up the drive - and we lived in the middle of a city then!

They can be dangerous and have attacked dogs and people.

I think they look gentle and lovely but I would not consider them as a pet unless they can roam free over several acres and you don't mind the damage they cause to trees and birds.

I didn't know they would eat all my flowers
Didn't think about that. And I didn't know they made noise, I didn't hear them at centreparcs

@MaryShelley1818 they were at Elevedon

Maybe I am being really unreasonable

@Bunnybigears I also want a couple of meerkats...

Someone I am honestly not lying I went to a school in another country and they stole a penguin on a school trip. He went about 5 years before me. Honestly

But, they are delicious

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Just waiting for all hell to break loose after this! 😆

Adding a Fennec fox to my mini zoo too

@cultkid I always thought the penguin from the zoo thing was an urban myth 😆

We get one in our garden sometimes. It destroys it. It also makes the noise from hell. It is just horrendous.
For the noise alone you do not want one. Your neighbours dont either!

I don't like my neighbours though

Get them. Very useful if you have unexpected dinner guests. (Perhaps best not to give them names.)

I like the fallow deer as well
I would eat venison but not my pets

Although I'm not sure I fancy them now I've heard how noisy they are and my husband would go nuts if they ate his beloved plants

I want a Pangolin (or 10).

Just look at them!💗

They are also an invasive species that are causing lots of problems for native deer. They are fairly good escape artists so wouldnt remain in a garden for long!

Also you need a license, which are becoming harder to get. Currently by EU law you arent allowed to release them to the wild so for example if a wild one is taken to a vet, the vet cant then return it to the wild. Imagine how strict it would be if it left your garden!

This reminds me of the thread in December where the OP's sister was getting mini pigs for her children for Xmas. Wonder how that ended up.

Doe it, OP 😇

We live in a woodland where muntjac are a-plenty. The noise. My god the noise! When they’re going off on one of an evening, you could be forgiven that a zombie apocalypse had begun.

Also you need a license, which are becoming harder to get. Currently by EU law you arent allowed to release them to the wild so for example if a wild one is taken to a vet, the vet cant then return it to the wild. Imagine how strict it would be if it left your garden!

Actually and injured Muntjac is no longer allowed to be treated they have to be destroyed as they are classed as an invasive pest by DEFRA