About eight years ago, this time of year, I got up and let my German Shepherd and Border Collie out with me. I had my boxers and a t-shirt on, and a cup of coffee. I was on my way down the driveway to get the paper.
The Shepherd jumped a doe in the bushes, she beat the heck out of him in my front yard. Even ran up to the poor Border Collie and kicked her in the head. The doe ran off, the Shepherd took off after her, and she came back and took him again in round two.
Meanwhile I'm yelling and swearing at the doe, woke my wife up, she opens the front door and distracts the doe. I actually had to stare that deer down before she'd leave the property, and then chase her off with an axe handle after I got the dogs in.
Both of the dogs were about ten years old at the time, would of been a different story if it had happenned a few years earlier. I called the game wardens and they said she'd most likely had a fawn somewhere on the property.