Comments by "😊 Erin Thor" (@Erin-Thor) on "We Love Animals"
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@ingeabrahamsen4684 — All I know is from being at, around, in National Parks for years is when ever a nice well meaning tourist brings in a fawn, their first question to them is “Do you remember exactly where you found it?” Their standing instruction is simple, take it back. Usually the ranger goes with them to make a note of where the fawn is to check on it the next few days. They will look it over, give it goats milk if they have any, and return it for the doe to find. Does leave their fawns at first light, and return at dusk, knowing that their best protection is to be quiet and unseen. They have no scent save the human touch which usually (not always) will not attract predators. The does will return to where they left their fawn for several days afterwards. Does get hit by cars, yes, but that’s a lot rarer than you might think. Just because we see a cute friendly hungry fawn does not mean it has been abandoned. Usually in fact the does will bolt at the first sight of humans to lead us away from their fawn thinking we are a predator. We have good intentions, but fawns have been raised just fine for millennia, the need for our intervention is very rare. Not joking, research anything I said and you will see it well documented. And yes, I was one of those wide eyed tourists once who found a deer and was educated by a ranger. I get the want to help, but our best advice is to check in on it, feed it water or goats milk, and LEAVE IT where it was, checking back for a few days. If it is there after a few days, great, adopt it. If it isn’t… don’t panic, Doe’s smell us and will move the fawn to protect it.
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