We have a fair amount of deer around the house here. They are pretty good at figuring things out too. We feed the half wild cats on top of a bunch of pallets near the barn...mainly so the dogs(actually just one) cn't eat their food. Looked out there one morning and there was one of them ol deer...both feet up on those pallets just a chowing down on that there cat food. Other than feeding the birds(those nasty insistent little snots) the only thing I feed the coyotes is lead