As far as we can tell, it was left next to our front yard by its mother shortly after being born, after which the mother (for some reason) took off. The fawn then wandered into a grove of trees and stayed there for the rest of the day.
Friday (June 5) was already the day of my mom's and my niece McKenna's birthdays, so it seemed like a fitting occasion for a new birth.Shortly after the fawn appeared, we called animal control to see if they had any advice for us on caring for it. They told us that mother deer will typically disown their babies if they pick up any trace of human odor, so it was important that we not touch or get too close to the baby.
The little fawn didn't do much but sleep or look around for most of the time, but it was a pretty cute little thing to look at. Jessica, Jenna, and Luke came over to look at it, as did a few of our neighbors. Biz named it "Petey" if it was a boy, and "Lilly" if it was a girl. We never did find out the fawn's gender, but the more important issue is that you never disagree with Biz, ever. Jeff will back me up here.
By approximately 9:30 p.m., under cover of darkness, we found that Petey was gone. Presumably, its mother returned to retrieve it.
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that's a much better story then the one that was in the news here recently.. newborn moose was chased into someone's yard by some dogs that had been let loose to run.. mom never showed up, was never found/seen.. these folks were told to shoot the baby moose.. but they called the zoo instead.. zoo took it in and found a home for it at another zoo somewhere down in the lower 48..
all we ever get wandering through our yard are really big moose.. and an occasional procupine.. (those things are HUGE)
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