Most of us are quite amazed when we have a run in with a wild animal. For the most part, we see them at a distance and it is very rare for us to actually interact with them on a personal basis. Every once in a while, however, we may come nose to nose with wildlife and it can either be a frightening experience or perhaps even an amazing experience. When the people who worked at a convenience store came across a local white-tailed deer, they realized that it was a very special encounter.
When you visit the gift shop and convenience store in Horsetooth Inn and RV Park, you are among friends. This park is at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado. Although everybody can come into the store, there is an exception in place thanks to what happened a week ago. A wild doe had come into the store, obviously to do a little shopping. Lori Jones was working at the store when the visit occurred.
Lori has seen her fair share of wildlife in the area but this is the first time one had wandered into the store.
It seems as if the doe poked her head inside, walked through the door and decided to look around.
“It was hilarious,” Lori said. “She was looking at the sunglasses and the chips. I was laughing so hard.”
It seems as if this deer is well known in the area and she often passes by to graze. She’s never approached the store owner in the past.
Lori realized that letting the deer in the store was not necessarily the best idea so she used peanut butter to get the doe moving back toward the woods.
It wasn’t the last time that she would see that deer. She was doing more inventory in the office and when she came back, the deer had returned with the entire family.
“I walked out and there she was with her twins and a lone buck that she nursed,” Lori told FOX News. “I just used my phone to snap the pics.”
The two younger deer stood by but the older sibling was ready to walk in and take a look around. Lori decided that she had to draw the line.
“They were just looking in the doorway like, ‘Can we come in too?’ I said, ‘No,’” Lori told The Dodo. “It was so funny.”
She didn’t want them to grow accustomed to coming into the store so she lured them back outside using more peanut butter.
“It was just a lovely thing to see,” Jones said. “The population of wildlife here is just astounding. We have mountain lions, bighorn sheep, deer, raccoons — you name it. They have to fend for themselves. That’s nature. But I think they’re all wonderful.”