Around two weeks ago when the weather was so strange and we had a couple of days with “orange sky”, Buddy had a scary encounter.  In the morning when Logan and I just came down after waking up, I was distracted with the orange sky and just opened the backdoor to let Buddy out.  But as soon as I closed the door, I noticed there was a huge deer with large antlers up on our backyard hill.  The following events happened so quickly.  Buddy and the deer had a stare down; next I saw Buddy tensed up and braced himself, then the deer jumped down from the hill.  Buddy got knocked down onto the ground and the deer was over Buddy.  By then I had been screaming and running out hoping to break up the fight; when I was just a couple feet from them, the deer decided to run away.  Buddy hurried up to his feet, dashed around due to the adrenaline, and fortunately he did not chase after the deer.  I would not know what to do if he did.  We then quickly took Buddy inside the house to exam him and calm him down.  We noticed a small droplet of blood on the carpet but otherwise Buddy was ok.  This was a very scary and close encounter; I had nightmares just thinking about a worse outcome.  Now Logan is super protective and worried about Buddy going out to the backyard on his own; Logan also has a different feeling about the deer visiting our backyard.