NWR: New Pet

aprovencher21

So we discovered an abandoned fawn!  Her name is Bella and she's thankfully thriving on goat's milk.  She's about a week and half old and is just one of the cutest things I've ever seen.  Between her, my three dogs, school and wedding planning I'm going a little bonkers!  Thought I'd share some pictures!

My brother with Bella


Bella!

PsyDet 2155

awwww so precious! that's so kind of you to take her in and nuture her

september's bride

Oh my...what a sweet little baby. What will you end up doing with her once she's older?

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]Oh my...what a sweet little baby. What will you end up doing with her once she's older?
Posted by september's bride[/QUOTE]

We found her on my parent's land.  They have about 40 acres where there is a huge herd of deer that just got spoiled being fed and protected from hunters.  When she's an adult we'll see if she'll figure out how to go with the herd or we'll create a pasture for her.  Either way she'll be fed and looked after.

jasmineh7777

Do you have a local fish and game? They would probably be better equipped to take care of her. It is very sweet of you guys to take her in, but can you legally keep her as a pet where you live?
This happened at my Grandma's farm once, the mother was shot by a hunter. Fish and game raised the baby and I believe reintroduced her later on.

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]Do you have a local fish and game? They would probably be better equipped to take care of her. It is very sweet of you guys to take her in, but can you legally keep her as a pet where you live? This happened at my Grandma's farm once, the mother was shot by a hunter. Fish and game raised the baby and I believe reintroduced her later on.
Posted by jasmineh7777[/QUOTE]

She'll be reintroduced later on.  Also, this is the second fawn we've raised (last one was brought to us by the vet).  Local fish and game would rather have us raising her and having her live on our land.

ricksang

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: NWR: New Pet : We found her on my parent's land.  They have about 40 acres where there is a huge herd of deer that just got spoiled being fed and protected from hunters.  When she's an adult we'll see if she'll figure out how to go with the herd or we'll create a pasture for her.  Either way she'll be fed and looked after.
Posted by aprovencher21[/QUOTE]

I like this idea!

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: NWR: New Pet : I like this idea!
Posted by ricksang[/QUOTE]

=) Thanks.....I like your sig picture.  I'm addicted to Charlaine Harris's books....

jasmineh7777

That's really neat. What a huge amount of work. Are you having to feed her throughout the night?

september's bride

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: NWR: New Pet : We found her on my parent's land.  They have about 40 acres where there is a huge herd of deer that just got spoiled being fed and protected from hunters.  When she's an adult we'll see if she'll figure out how to go with the herd or we'll create a pasture for her.  Either way she'll be fed and looked after.
Posted by aprovencher21[/QUOTE]
That's awesome! I think it will be great to be there while she grows up and to see her (hopefully) get reintroduced to a herd. Even if she doesn't do that, her very own pasture will be a pretty sweet deal just the same. :)

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]That's really neat. What a huge amount of work. Are you having to feed her throughout the night?
Posted by jasmineh7777[/QUOTE]

She gets a bottle every 2-3 hours.  So I do get up frequently throughout the night with her.  The nice thing is that my dogs actually sleep around her so she isn't lonely.  Animals are simply amazing.

Moneypenny424

This is amazing!  Can we get a pic of the dogs and fawn sleeping together?  This is so sweet of you--what a cute little fawn!

brookelynpaisley

Want! Add that to my list of babies I want: elephant, otter, deer, human, dolphin, possum.

jasmineh7777

You want a human brookelyn. Eww. :P

I second this puppy/fawn picture!

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]This is amazing!  Can we get a pic of the dogs and fawn sleeping together?  This is so sweet of you--what a cute little fawn!
Posted by Moneypenny424[/QUOTE]

I'll try hard to get the photo! My dogs like to pose for the camera and disrupt Bella (she's still skittish) but I'll see what I can do.

We have a habit of taking in baby animals.  Last year was another fawn Bambi (I know such an original name) and a robin named Breeze.  We have the space, resources (I breed mini dachshunds so I have a nursery set up and all of the supplies) and usually the time so I don't mind. 

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]Want! Add that to my list of babies I want: elephant, otter, deer, human, dolphin, possum.
Posted by brookelynpaisley[/QUOTE]

I so want a calf, baby fox, baby skunk (this may actually happen sometime soon as long as I have the time to properly research skunk litter box training), elephant, and killer whale.

Sometime I'd like to squeeze in having some human babies.

nda_roxybabe

I want her!

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]I want her!
Posted by nda_roxybabe[/QUOTE]

I'm up again and she just spit up goat's milk all over me and in my hair.  It's times like this I'm almost willing to share her.  Then she gets adorable and I want to squeeze her to pieces.

aggiebug

how do you know she was abandoned?

aprovencher21

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[QUOTE]how do you know she was abandoned?
Posted by aggiebug[/QUOTE]

Typically you don't touch a fawn that's been left alone in the grass because after giving birth a doe will get up and deliver the placenta as far from the fawn as possible (to avoid attracting predators).  With Bella we checked in for five hours to see if the mom returned (which is much much longer than a mother would leave a new fawn).  Also, there was no sign of the mother having bedded down near Bella and she had the beginnings of fly larvae growing in her coat (what happens when newborns aren't groomed by their moms).  She also was exceedingly weak from not being fed.