Aarrr, after this clip, Dickens started humping it....

Not cute, just a stupid woman who cannot see this fawn is utterly terrified.
Deer are prey species and that fawn has met its worst nightmare, to it her pet is a wolf looking for lunch.

What is wrong with you Americans ? It was quite clear the the fawn was not playing, except to the dozy tart who was doing the filming...I despair of you lot at times.

The fawn was not playing it was defending itself. It never once attempted to follow the dog when the dog moved away, as would have been the case if it was playing. It was jumping at the dog when the dog was near enough to be a threat and the tail wagging was obviously fear. No blame on the dog - just it's insensitive owner.

I'm inclined to agree about this not being so cute. I think people are projecting dog body language onto the fawn.

After a few seconds watching, I realized that the fawn didn't look like it was playing back. It looked like a DOG would look if it was playing (wiggling its tail and charging), but not like a fawn.

I think it was defending itself - standing its ground and then when the dog would "attack", it would defend back. I'm guessing it didn't run away b/c it was too late for that - it knew the "predator" would just chase it and get it. (I'm surprised its mother wasn't around - I've never seen a deer that young in the wild w/out its mother very close by.)

I know it's super cute and people get upset when you burst their bubble with cute animal videos, but I don't think this is being correctly interpreted as dog and fawn "playing together". The dog certainly didn't have malicious intentions, but the fawn did not necessarily know that.

Any real deer experts want to weigh in?

This is not a video of a dog playing with a fawn, this is a video of a dog behaving as a preditor worrying prey. Bambi the cute fawn wasn't actually playing at all, it was swinging its rump around and keeping his little sharp hooves in strike readiness, that fawn wasn't lunging and playing, it was lunging and striking and the dog was circling circling the entire time. Its rediculous for anyone to actually belive this was a playful video, if it were little Bambi would be bouncing after the dog while it went to mark his territory on the electric post.
If you believe otherwise, you need to review this video and watch the fawn 'playing'. Poor little mite.

I don't find this cute at all. The poor little thing must have been exhausted. What a very silly woman to stand filming this and not just get her dog back under control. And I say this as a dog owner and lover.

Watching this it is hard to believe the dog is actually a carnivore. ( Domestic dogs can actually survive without meat...) But such is the nature of domesticity & thousands of years of human interaction.
The dog simply wants to ;play & the fawn does not know any fear.