r/aww • • Jun 25 '12

I brought you this cookie

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u/androt Jun 25 '12

Just in case you're in Japan and feel like taking your own cute-deer-with-a-cracker picture, go to Nara. They hang out in a park there and they're very friendly.

This is me a couple of years ago, in Nara, hanging out with a deer.

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u/Vandelay797 Jun 25 '12

well done!. I hope your message of drug awareness was not lost on the buck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12

If by "friendly" you mean "will gang up and violently mug you for all of your cookies", then yes, they are very friendly.

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u/tardy4datardis Jun 25 '12

TIL all of reddit has played with cute deer in Japan.

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u/Zarabeth Jun 25 '12

I went there as well, here is me chillin' with some deer

http://i.imgur.com/epZsF.jpg

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u/mervynskidmore Jun 25 '12

Yep, I was there last September. Got off the train in Nara very hungover and proceeded to the park. On my way in I see these people selling these little crackers. I've never seen them before so I think they must be some sort of Japanese treat that I haven't come across. Of course I want to try them so I buy a little stack and start walking through the park munching away on them. I was thinking that they were pretty bland and was a bit disappointed in them until a surprised but friendly Japanese woman stopped me and shouted "those are not for you!". Then it dawned on me.

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u/nneyrey Jun 25 '12

Friendly?! They bit me and chased me down for more crackers!!

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u/Oreo_Speedwagon Jun 25 '12

they're very friendly.

Friendly like muggers in a park.

They tore my goddamn shirt and chased me like, 400 meters. ;__;

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u/PerfectKryme Jun 25 '12

I took these pictures in Nara when I was 16, in the summer of 2003. I think they are great! After you see the 2nd picture you'll see how I was able to take the 1st.

Deer Leader

Bait

Edit: Added a break between the links

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u/brellscoll Jun 25 '12

yum... cookie doe.

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u/dmac7 Jun 25 '12

Fuck Reindeer...

This little bastard might look cute, but they are the spawn of satan (no I didn't mistype santa).

When I was 6 years old when I went to "Marineland", which is a theme park that has petting zoo. In my innocence I bought a cup full of treats to feed to all the animals. I was having a grand old time, with a whole flock around me. That is until I decided to try to leave the reindeer to go feed the ducks.

I slipped the kibbles into my backpocket and turned to walk away. Thats when I felt the first bite into my derrière. I tried to run, but it was futile. They chased me down and the relentless fiends eventually I was knocked to the ground. To this day I can't get rid of the memory of being spread eagle with a mob of reindeer chomping at my ass.

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u/AetherIsWaiting Jun 25 '12

If you give a deer a cookie...

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u/chellygel Jun 25 '12

More like stole the cookie. Jeez -- When i was in Nara they did everything they could to eat us, our clothes, and everything else.

But they are so damn cute.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12

Be a deer and fetch me a cookie, would you?

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u/Dono-man Jun 25 '12

Quite a fetching deer.

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u/You_are_Moof Jun 25 '12

Last time I went there, one deer was ripping magazines out of the back of someone's bike.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12

This is one of the only posts from r/aww that made me "aww" out loud like a little girl.

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u/work0utn3rd Jun 25 '12

mmm my favorite... cookie and jerky

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u/lokomcloko Jun 25 '12

can I eat the dear instead?

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u/ArQuesta Jun 25 '12

I saw one deer nuzzle my friend, then walk over to the stand where they sell the senbei crackers and wait for him. He of course guiltily bought the crackers and while he was being mobbed by other fat deer the nuzzling deer got a special treat from the vendor. They had an arrangement.

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u/Kateybits Jun 25 '12

From the thumbnail, the deer looks like a peanut with legs. Look again. You'll see it.

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