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Re: Featured Forum Thread: Animal Rescue
It's a bit late for this one to be helped, but thought I would share the story for reference because it was a mistake I learned from. It happened about 20 years ago, actually.
While driving on a country road a mother Doe and her fawn tried crossing right in front of me, and though I swerved to miss mom, the bumper grazed her fawn and it went down in the road. Mom ran to a safe distance watching her baby - it looked like a leg was broken perhaps - or, maybe it just needed time to readjust, but I had 3 very young sons in my vehicle and did not have time nor facilities to help it in any way. Everyone else just kept driving by of course.
The fawn was kicking and thrashing around on the road so I dragged it off to the side and hog tied it with some rope I had in the trunk, leaving the fawn safely in the ditch. Raced home, only about 2 miles, dropped off the children, called animal control and told them what happened. I offered to take care of the fawn if needed since we lived right in their neighborhood. Mama might be okay with it. They told me at that time they didn't work with deer and I should call local police - they would know what to do.
I called the local Sheriff who sent a deputy to meet me back where I left the fawn. Mama was still there in the distance watching. The deputy told me they don't do anything with deer and the thing was hopeless, he would have to shoot it. I said no! I'll take it home or something, it is not that bad off. He told me no, it is on a state road and he would handle it and I should go home to my children.
Not knowing what else to do, I drove home looking in the rear view mirror watching him shoot that fawn right in front of its mother.
Today I still don't know what the correct handling was for that situation. I did what I was told but it didn't feel right to me. I mean, people shoot deer all the time so what's a fawn worth. What would be the right thing to do. Something to learn more about.
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