Nope, those are not reindeer... they are deer. Wait, What?? Really, deer??
I think I need to give some of my background with deer. First, I think that they have some secret "in" with body shops or car companies- they can do some serious damage. When I was 17 I hit my first deer with my car, hello new radiator. When I was 19 I hit my second deer with my car, actually that time technically the deer hit me, but thats another story. Insurance paid for it (after my deductible of course), but about $575 in damage to the car. My parents, siblings, relatives, and friends have almost all either hit a deer at some point with a car or have come VERY close to it. It is engrained in your brain to constantly keep a look out for deer when you are driving.
Second, I have spend my entire life watching my mom, and others be so incredibly frustrated trying to make the yard look nice with flowers and plants only for the deer to come up the night after she plants them and mow them down like it was their job to landscape the flowerbeds. The vegetable garden with the electric fence around it was pretty serious business and they still got in once in a while. Fences, sprays, research on plants that they don't "like"... none of it has ever worked very well. Actually, I think that they let some plants grow making you think that you have won, but really they were just waiting for the buds to grow and for you to get your hopes up that you finally beat the deer and were going to have a plant with a pretty flower on it. Wrong. Mowed down yet again. As a bystander where my biggest wild animal problem is a sneaky armadillo digging holes in my grass but leaves my garden alone, it is pretty funny to hear the attempts and failures of the deer prevention- and there have been some pretty clever attempts over the years.
That leads me to this... Why would you want a deer decoration in your yard that is not only a DEER, but is motorized as well to pretend to be eating the grass!! I have spent a good chunk of my life avoiding and trying to get rid of the dang things and now every 3rd house has these "angelic creatures" munching away at the grass. I have to admit, at first glance I may have jumped once or twice thinking that I saw "eyes" and called out "DEER!" or that they are about to jump out in front of my car at any second!! It's just so strange!! Is it a southern thing or just the new cool decoration. Personally, deer decorations will never be included in our display- it's like staging a blind date for the real deer encouraging them to come on in and get comfortable in my front yard!
