Pawpaw Trees and Deer Damage

This morning after we went for a run we came back and looked around the yard a little. 

Some of what we saw: 

The first of the raspberries are ripening, 

The Elberta peach tree has been tossing some of its fruit onto the lawn,

As usual there's a complement of large turds in our yard from an unkind neighbor's dog,

The rootstock of the dead grafted American persimmon tree is sending up three or four shoots,

The lawn needs cutting this Saturday,

The Wells pawpaw tree is growing a surprising number (and size) of fruit,

The bonsai citrus trees (outside for the summer) are dropping some leaves, allergic to the sun,

The claret cup cacti (planted from cuttings) are still green and sitting quietly inert,

and

The Mango pawpaw has been bitten, repeatedly, by the mule deer that have been lounging and loitering in our neighborhood's yards this spring.

You can shoot bullets off the pawpaw's resume: not bothered by pests, not bothered by deer, delicious fruit full of divine custard, large leaves that turn bright yellow in the fall, just the right quotient of quirkiness, etc.

It looks great on paper (or a computer screen, since that's where you're more likely to read its resume), but sometimes it doesn't live up to what you read on its resume.

I'm hoping the mule deer (I'll bet it's one of those two young bucks we've been seeing in spots and places) has a stomach ache that's bad enough to disrupt a week of lounging and loitering.