A man stalked by a deer in Saanich Sunday while walking his dog says he did nothing to attract the animal's attention -- it simply began stalking him.
Romeo Strasbourg says he was at Borden and Cumberland when he felt like there was something behind him, and when he turned he saw a doe about 3 feet behind.
His partly deaf and blind multi-maltipoo then realized there was a deer there and started growling. Then the doe started getting even closer.
" So I started yelling at it and waving my arms and it went away a little bit. And as we walked she kept coming closer, and I kept doping the same thing over and over again. At one point as I come off Cumberland it turns to Cedar Hill I walked up to someone's house thinking it would keep away from me, but she walked right up to me again."
Strasbourg says he was prepared to start throwing rocks, but the deer finally went away. He says he won't be walking his dog in the area for a few weeks.
In a different incident Sunday a Gordon Head man had to use a baseball bat to scare an aggressive deer that kept coming into his yard to go after his dog.
Saanich police are warning anyone living in areas where deer are present to be aware deer can be become aggressive as they are protecting their fawns right now.