Could my german shepherd take down a deer?

I have an almost year old german shepherd, about 140 to 150 pounds, who always came home with a full stomach and one day he came home with a lung of a deer. We live out in the country and I was wondering if he took down the deer? He also had scratches on his head and a cut on his tail.





http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss160/Rafa11/king12.jpgCould my german shepherd take down a deer?
I'm trying to imagine my girl taking town a deer but no...Can't really imagine it. Not a fully grown deer anyway, perhaps a baby one.





It's possible he came across something eating a deer and fought them off then decided to have a snack.





Or maybe the deer was road kill?





PS why is he allowed to wander? Even in the countryside?Could my german shepherd take down a deer?
No genuine GSD weighs that much. The maximum height allowed for a second-class male is 66cm/26';, and the weight limit is 40kg/88 lbs. A first-class male has to be smaller.





How do you know it was a DEER's lung?


Even a fawn ought to be able to out-run a solo GSD (especially such a hefty thunder-footed one!) - wolves hunt in packs, test the herd for fitness, then take turns to work the selected sick ELDERLY deer or orphan fawn in a circle until it is exhausted - remember?


Which makes farm livestock a MUCH more likely source of his ';always came home with a full stomach';.





But whatever he had - on that occasion and previous ones - you sure aren't doing anything GOOD for the breed's reputation by letting him find his own food.


Nor are you doing anything responsible for HIS safety - safety from tick-borne diseases, safety from bullets, safety from poison-baits.


Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_F鈥?/a>


';In GSDs'; as of 1967
Its hard to imagine a German Shepherd that big being able to take down a deer. The breed was meant to be about 65-85lbs. At 140 lbs he is at least 55lbs overweight. That is huge. I doubt at that size he could run fast enough to catch the deer. Even if he could, i can't see him taking down the deer on his own.





He most likely came across the carcass, or perhaps, someone had cleaned a deer and left that behind. Or it was roadkill.





Does it not concern you that you have no idea what your dog is ingesting or where your dog is roaming?





Add- Looking at the pic, he looks about the same size as my 85lbs GSD
Your dog could have taken down the deer or another dog could have and well your dog just stumbled across a free meal. My old dog bear a german shepherd mix use to play dead and kill groundhogs, he was a tough little guy, then he would eat them. Some dogs do it and some dont. Just make sure your dog has his rabies shots!
Anything over 120 pounds could take down a dear, so yes. But it could also be a different animal that it could be attacking.
He would be able to take it down, if he could catch it. Most likely, the deer was already dead and the scratches were unrelated.
A much smaller dog than yours can take down a deer. The problem is your dog isn't likely to catch one as long as there isn't a lot of snow on the ground.
maybe it was a baby dear or roadkill. I thing he could bring one down though.