Saved a Fawn today ====

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2014/07/23 13:02:53 (permalink)

Saved a Fawn today ====

8am and I am walking our 2 acres pasture fence looking for any damage. Suddenly I hear the cry of a whitetail fawn. As I approach the crying I see and hear an adult female slowly leaving the immediate area and "whistling" as if saying "follow me" .. I knew better than to do that since I still heard the fawn crying. Suddenly I spotted the poor thing. It had it's left hind leg caught in the neighbor's pasture fence and could not escape. It tried harder and harder to run as I approached, but it was definitely not going anywhere with that left leg caught. I slowly approached saw where the wires had the leg tightly bound and slipped a finger in and slowly pull as hard as I could to unhook the wire from around the leg, there was no blood or any damage that I could see.  As the wire started to bend the fawn quit crying for its Mom. It must have realized I was setting it free, one more pull on the wire and the leg was free. The fawn took off bounding across our pasture and into the woods. Within 2 minutes I heard the female snort and what I thought was a foot stomping on the ground where the fawn ran into the woods. ..., I guess she was saying THANK YOU ....   great experience .. Fawn will (I guess) never really know how lucky it was to cry out.... It would have died for sure as tight as the wire was around that leg and as hard as it was pulling when I first saw it... GOOD START TO A GOOD DAY !!!!
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    Fisherlady2
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/23 14:27:46 (permalink)
    Glad you found it when you did! Nice to start off the day with something positive for sure!
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/23 14:33:46 (permalink)
    Good job doc.


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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/23 15:35:47 (permalink)
    Good deal Doc.

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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/23 17:11:25 (permalink)
    thanks guys.... it was fun and exciting to do it ....  the neighbor found a fawn(dead) stuck in the same fence a couple years ago... it is not the kind of fence I would ever use to fence in a pasture. She has cows in part of it and the part where the deer cross from the woods and get caught is almost all broken down... it's that type of fence 6 feet high and has all those 4 inch squares... more suitable for sheep or goats IMHO....
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/23 22:39:42 (permalink)
     What the antis will never understand about  Hunters is how we care for nature.
     Well done Doc.
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/24 09:09:29 (permalink)
    What a great experience.
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/24 15:33:27 (permalink)
    Good job Doc - always good to help out our wildlife populations.  
     
    Along with what r3g3 said, my 10 year old son is really into hunting now with the Mentored Youth program and has no problems with killing deer or being with me on duck hunts.  We had a nest of barn swallows in our old, dilapidated barn this summer and one of the little ones fell/was pushed out.  He was so concerned about that thing - we took it in, warmed it, and tried to feed it and took it to a wild bird recovery center at his insistence.  
     
    But you better not let the PGC hear about this - they'll be mad that you didn't kill an antlerless deer while you had the chance 
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/07/26 14:50:35 (permalink)
    r3g3
     What the antis will never understand about  Hunters is how we care for nature.
     Well done Doc.


    What they really, really don't understand is that come late fall, we have no issues with harvesting (kill, whatever) that same deer.

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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/11/10 23:59:16 (permalink)
    Good job!
    Had to feel good seeing that fawn released.
     
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    Re: Saved a Fawn today ==== 2014/11/13 09:44:09 (permalink)
    Great Job Doc ! You can't hear my applause but it's there.....
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