Posted on 12/15/2020 7:41:00 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj
Newborn deer loses sight of mama, finds human mama to adopt him.
Video, 3 minutes & 17 seconds
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So, is she keeping the deer?
Thank God he didn’t die of Corona
No. Turned him over to a specialized animal rescue group for fawns and they raised him to the age he could be safely released back to the wild.
I lived in the country, these thing were a dime a dozen and bumped into them often in late spring early summer.
The mother will park them and the go off and never loose sight of them, she was/is somewhere.
I have run into them in the woods covered in the thicket or underbrush in a field and gotten very close to almost trip over them. Go back in a few hours and she moves them
The mother parks them to keep the predators away because as long a they have their spots they have no scent and a predator(or me) will walk by and not smell them and the mother knows this.
The mother will not abandon them and be near always unless she gets eaten or hit by a car.
Woman is an idiot
Thank you for sharing this.
Awwwwww
Gotta disagree.
She did good.
It was far too feeble when moving and seemed to be very weak from hunger.
It takes a LOT for a fawn to run up to a human and start to try and suckle their leg.
Plus, it’s a paint fawn so its mom may have been albino.
They do not fare well in the wild.
We have lots of them here and they usually are the first to get hit by cars because their vision sucks.
Couple years ago a doe was hit at the bottom of the mountain.
The next day, I saw a tiny fawn along the road, across from where she was laying.
I called the rescue people and they came out to catch it and found not only that fawn but its twin, hiding in brush, nearly starved.
Hey, over here.
:)
These “Dodo” videos are very cute, but a lot of the time we get the treat of hearing the liberal thought process stated out loud and why they know what is best for all creatures great and small. Like you said the vast majority of the time the fawns are not actually abandoned and the mother is somewhere nearby. I don't know that she always has them in sight but she will be back if physically able... it is their instinct.
We have deer behind our house all of the time and you are right that the fawns are pretty good about staying completely still while they are hiding in the bushes. Occasionally we have a lot of coyotes around and they are very capable of killing a doe. That could easily have happened in this case and the fawn got hungry enough to break its cover.
You’re right. Sometimes reality is more important than good intentions.
mmmmmm, veal...lol
They are SO good at staying put, *no matter what*, sometimes it ends in tragedy.
My dad broke his back every spring, planting the correct and most beneficial crops for the deer that lived on his land.
One spring, he was disking the field in preparation for planting a particular deer clover and he ran over a fawn who simply stayed put like it was supposed to.
I’d only ever seen my dad cry twice, until that day.
He was an avid hunter and took several deer every season but that little fawn broke his heart.
It was so torn up he had to kill it.
He didn’t hunt that year, at all.
I hope the fawn thrives and goes on to be released to live its life.
Most fawns don’t drop in the Fall or Winter.
It was released, which they showed at the end of the video.
Watch the video. She was aware of the possibilities and tried to let nature be nature. Likely saved its life.
Well said BB. I have had the same experiences up here.
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