The Best Thing We Did… Was Leave It Alone

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:01]Yes. Are you ready to go for our walk? I got my shorts on and my walking shoes.

[00:00:06]Let's see how you've done. You haven't touched your dinner. I made you chicken levers today.

[00:00:12]All right. Well, maybe you'll be hungry when we get back. Come on.

[00:00:17]It's time for our walk.

[00:00:21]Man, it cooled down. It was uh 85°.

[00:00:25]I guess I better shut my toolbox.

[00:00:30]85 degrees today, but there's no humidity whatsoever.

[00:00:36]I've been out here a little bit now. Is that a road runner?

[00:00:40]It's a quail. What the hell is that?

[00:00:47]Yeah, there's the mullen.

[00:00:54]It's looking good. I got the trails all weed eated down. Come on. You coming?

[00:01:00]These people are going to lose their attention span if we don't get going on this walk. Here we go. Well, apparently we've got a couple of feral cats living around here and one of them's been hanging out over by the bird feeder. And well, I found a bunch of feathers. So, you know how that cat is feeding itself. Yeah. Anyway, I thought I'd take a walk and do a non-political type video today and talk about I don't know what that was.

[00:01:34]Everything that's going on in the world today. What are we supposed to do?

[00:01:40]Man, there ain't much you can do except for just keep on living the way you're living.

[00:01:45]That's about it. I try not to worry.

[00:01:49]Even though I make there's all kinds of crap jumping out at me today. Even though I make videos on political stuff and this and all these problems, you know, you just look got to live your life. If you spend your entire day worrying about what's going on in the news, man, that's, you know, it's not worth it. It really isn't. So that's why I like this, man. I can come out and I can do my walks and feed my birds and listen to the listen to the uh the birds singing and it's my own little world out here.

[00:02:31]And almost bought a rocking chair today.

[00:02:34]I think I'm going to go back Monday and get it. They got them that match those and they're $199 or two for 300, but I don't need two. But it's tempting.

[00:02:49]You're going to get two for 300 or one for $1.99.

[00:02:55]But I only need one. I can only sit in one at one time and there's no reason to have two.

[00:03:01]Yeah. Got this all weed eated down.

[00:03:04]Looking good. Where is this one? Come on.

[00:03:10]Just a walking vlog today, guys. But in the end, about all we can do is just live live your life and not worry about what's going on five states away. Uh it doesn't do any good. Yes, we should be concerned about things that are going on in the country, but you know, there's been a lot of changes in the last couple of years and the years before that weren't necessarily great ones, but we're all still living and you got to make the best of it. That's what I try to do.

[00:03:50]What is that?

[00:03:53]Never mind. I I'm not very focused today, I guess. There's Miss Lily. She's proud of her yard. I got out there and got everything trimmed up in there and got her yard mowed and every little nook and cranny weed eated.

[00:04:09]Yeah. Oh, here's Miss Ty's ball, but I don't see a Miss Telly. Sorry to spin y'all around that quick. I don't know where she disappeared to. Anyway, there's a cat that's been living right up in here.

[00:04:25]I've been noticing feathers here and there. Boy, these birds are just wiping me out on this seed. There's a little rabbit. It knows I'm here.

[00:04:37]Yeah, there's a couple of them. That cat's been living in here. I'm not really going to interfere with what it's doing. There's thousands of birds and well, it's got to live and I damn sure ain't going to feed it. That's one thing about cats. other, you know, a dog isn't too good about surviving on its own. Although Melly, if you remember Melly, she disappeared for five, six months.

[00:05:06]And then somebody found her and called me.

[00:05:10]And you know, before she came here, she lived out on the streets for a couple of years, so she learned how to survive.

[00:05:18]But for the most part, a cat is built for it. Now, when I ran the dog shelter, they would catch feral cats. They would trap them and they would bring them in.

[00:05:29]Well, we're not set up, we weren't set up for for cats, and they were feral cats. And unless you get a feral cat, when it's a small kitten, there's not much hope of taming it. So, I would just take the feral cats as soon as they left and I'd take them back in the woods and let them go cuz you can never return them in. Otherwise, they would have had to been euthanized. You can never turn something wild into something tame once it's been wild. Don't matter what people say. Now, I have had I'm not sure if this was wild or not, but when I lived in Fort Worth, Texas, I was sitting on the porch one day and it was hot, man. It was too hot to be inside. I was in a travel uh like a single wide trailer and I'm sitting on the porch, you know, it's still hot, but it's hotter inside and a raccoon jumps up on the porch and jumps in my lap.

[00:06:30]And I'm like, whoa. Sitting there, I didn't know what to do. First, I thought it was cuz it was dark. First, I thought it was a cat, but it was a fullgrown raccoon. And the only thing I could figure was this raccoon had probably been raised by somebody.

[00:06:46]And I never saw it again. That was the And it just sat there and it looked at me for a minute and I'm this I'm like, I'm not moving. I said, dude, what are you doing? It looked at me and it sniffed around a little bit and stood up on its hind legs and then it jumped off and hung out on the porch for a while.

[00:07:06]I highly doubt it was born wild. I'm thinking it was probably somebody's pet, but really there was no other place around there. But how'd I get off on that tangent? I don't know. But all we can do is just really live and do the best we can.

[00:07:27]Yes.

[00:07:31]You're ready to go play ball, aren't you?

[00:07:35]Yeah, she's a real good girl.

[00:07:38]What did she do the other night? Oh, yeah. About 2 in the morning, she started. This was night four last. She started barking like you wouldn't believe. Well, that there's two feral cats. One one I always see over here and it's probably a kitten. It's not very old. Well, it gets underneath the shed over here and I don't know what it is.

[00:08:03]All of a sudden, Tilly is the property manager.

[00:08:07]Yeah. And if you seen the short, this happened probably a few days before that.

[00:08:14]There was a baby deer over there.

[00:08:18]He's just a baby, Kelly.

[00:08:21]He doesn't know what to do. Come here, little guy.

[00:08:25]Well, he's just a little guy.

[00:08:27]Stop.

[00:08:30]Stop. Get out of there, Tilly. He's Get out of here.

[00:08:34]Look at him. He's just Man, he's tiny.

[00:08:37]He's just born. Come on. Get Let's leave him alone, Tilly. Leave him alone. He's just a baby.

[00:08:43]Telly, come on. Good girl. Good girl.

[00:08:46]Come on. Good girl. Tell my daddy. Come on. Come on. I thought it was a coyote when I first came out here, but it ain't. Now, what deer do is they'll once they they get their babies uh the fawns bedded down for the night, they go they go away from the where the where the fawn is because they don't want the scent of them giving away the position for the baby. For whatever reason, this baby got out of its bed.

[00:09:17]Usually, they'll find tall grass and make a little spot. And for whatever reason, this baby fawn, which probably wasn't very old, probably a month old, got out of its bed and had wandered over by the gate to the pasture here. And she was barking and barking. And I got I knew I knew when I heard that bark that it was a wild animal or something or somebody. So, I grabbed something and grabbed a flashlight and I went out and shining the flashlight where Tilly's barking and I see two big ears. So, I'm thinking it's a coyote. So, I get the thing I'm carrying and I'm starting to work my way over there and then I see it's not a coyote that it's a fawn and it's just looking at Tilly. Now, what they do is they'll freeze. It's by instinct when they're in danger they freeze because it was too it was too young to run away.

[00:10:16]And so I got Tilly calmed down. I walked up to this baby fawn. I I shouldn't have done this. But I I petted it on the head because I wanted to show this one that it was uh it was no threat. And the thing just sat there and let me pet it for a second. And then I had to once once I did that, she seen that that thing wasn't a threat. And I I said, "Come on, Tilly." And she walked away from it. And I guess it went back to its bed or the mother came because that's one thing you have to watch for. The mother, even though it wasn't there, it was probably within hearing distance.

[00:10:55]And as long as the baby fawn wasn't injured or it didn't look hungry, which it didn't. It looked full and it wasn't injured, uh, you leave them alone.

[00:11:07]There's really not much you can do with them. We We rescued one up in Minnesota once that the mother got hit by a car and it didn't it it also had been hit in the head. It didn't survive very long.

[00:11:20]But you leave wild animals alone and that's what I did. And obviously it it probably went back to the bed. You know that my only worry was there was a lot of coyotes over there and I didn't want to keep it standing there. So I got Tilly away from it and off we went.

[00:11:43]Where's your ball?

[00:11:45]Find your ball. Oh, she's got it.

[00:11:50]She loves It's too hot, Telly, right now. It's about 85 degrees. We're not going to be throwing no ball. She loves this one.

[00:11:58]All right.

[00:12:01]But it's too hot.

[00:12:03]Yeah.

[00:12:06]Bring it here.

[00:12:13]What are you doing? Oh, you're so silly.

[00:12:16]And you're showing off for the camera.

[00:12:18]There you are with your big belly. Just come on down over here and eat your supper. Come on. I don't think these people want to see you anymore.

[00:12:29]She just a She's still a puppy. She's four.

[00:12:33]Still a puppy to me.

[00:12:36]Come on, Ty. I guess that's all the eching I'm going to do for the day. But I forgot about the the fawn. I I did put up a short when that happened, but I never explained the whole deal, but I don't intervene. Now, if I'd have seen maybe that fawn was uh injured or something, I would have I might have helped it, but you know what what I'd have probably done was called the game warden. The game warden would have probably come and they know more what to do. I found a when I was working at the ranch, there was a red tailed hawk that I seen on the shore of the creek and it was injured. I could see it was injured. So, I called the game warden and he came out and captured it and took it to the whatever they do with them. They don't ever tell you. But anytime you see wild animals, especially uh babies like that, leave them alone.

[00:13:29]Let mother nature take its course. uh even if they're not going to survive, you know, there's not a lot you can do.

[00:13:37]And when we start interfering with wild animals, it's you have to know that living out like this. Um you know, that's just that's the way it is. Even though it don't sound the nice thing to do, sometimes you got to leave it alone.

[00:13:57]You all right? Tell them happy trails. Happy trails.