Mom: 'You're Not Going to Get That ... On a Video Game'

Dina Johnson took her 9-year-old son, Benjy, on his first deer hunt near Livonia the other day, intent not only on bagging a large animal to fill their freezer with venison, but also on reinforcing some important hunter ethics.

One of the first deer they encountered in the woods near Livonia was a doe, and a smallish one at that, not suitable as a meat animal.

“I teach him that we don’t just shoot whatever we see,” Johnson told MLive.

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What happened next was like something out of a Disney movie, making even more remote the possibility that particular deer would wind up in the Johnson freezer.

Apparently unconcerned by the presence of humans in woods that were full of humans with the Michigan deer season in full swing, the doe came close enough that Benjy could reach out and touch it.

Johnson was on high alert, her first priority keeping her son safe.

“You see plenty of videos of deer being aggressive to people, so you never knew how this deer would respond,” she said.

As it turned out, the doe was as gentle as a lamb.

She sniffed. She appeared to pose. She utterly charmed.

“You’re not going to get that sitting at home playing on a video game,” Johnson said.

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