Appears to be a piebald. 1%-2% of deer, they say. I've only seen one and I've seen lots of deer. When they grow up
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
This was a huge mistake. NEVER interact with a new born deer. As has been stated, the mother leaves them where they are and get her scent away from the area. The mother WILL come back in a few hours. Happened to me this summer. Ran across a baby that probably wasn’t 15 minutes old. Couldn’t even stand yet.
Instincts make you want to help the baby but what you are doing is the exact opposite. I left and a few hours later I saw both the mom and the baby cross my front yard. Nature at work...
https://www.wildlifecenter.org/baby-deer
I read about this story on another site a while ago. After some comments with criticism along the same lines, a wildlife rehab specialist* posted and mentioned something about the ears being curled, which meant that the fawn was badly dehydrated. It seems that the “idiot” most likely did the right thing in this case.
* may have been a person from the place where the fawn was brought to be rehabbed?
I had about the same thing happen to me. I was mowing the grass in our ponderosa pine seed orchard using a three-point hitch flail mower. I heard an awful racket from the mower and stopped to find out I had ground up a fawn whose mamma said, “Stay put no matter what!” After awhile, I continued on my way and not five minutes later, I looked down to see another one disappearing under the rear tire. I quickly stopped, backed up, and low and behold, the little guy staggered to his feet. He then seemed to think the tractor was his mother and got between the tractor and mower and wouldn’t leave. It took quite a bit of doing to get him moved away and out to where his anxious mother could take over.
OMG so sad.
I’m sorry.
Anyone who knows wildlife could plainly see the little thing was in dire straits.
The lady saved its life.
DEFINITELY saved its life.
The fawn’s mother had not and was not coming back.’
It had been alone at least two days, probably more.
Hand raised venison?
“... I called the rescue people... found not only that that fawn but its twin...”
And this is why I LOVE Salamander! :)
I’ll ping!
Need some happy 😊
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Appears to be a piebald. 1%-2% of deer, they say. I've only seen one and I've seen lots of deer. When they grow up
Exactly right. Mamas always plop the newborn somewhere, go off galavanting with some studly buck, then come back and pick up the baby.
I had Mama Doe plop one down by a quiet, out-of-the way corner of our garage three years ago. She came back and got baby.
Then baby turned into a voracious eater like Mom & Dad and enjoyed our smorgasbord garden just like all of its relatives.
“Dime a dozen” is right...more like “dime a four dozen.” The city finally culled the herd last year which helped, but last spring they were back to doing what they do — spitting out the babies.
What a wonderful ending to the story. The mom may have been shot by hunters if it’s deer season
Quite possible. For those saying the woman should’ve left the fawn alone, she wasn’t the one who went after it. The baby was starving and disoriented and crying out for help. Something did obviously happen to the mother, because she never came back for her baby. Had the woman not gone back to check to see if the fawn had been found by her mother, it would’ve been dead within a day or so.
So for the last several years, when he calls the dog in from being outside.....there's his buddy, right behind.
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