fawn rescue

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anyone seen this? awwwww

http://www.wimp.com/fawnrescued/

You'll want to see this one (4 min) Thanks Fire Rescue . . . . .


Really cute!

On the morning of May 18, 2011, my wife noticed a deer in our yard that appeared to be frantically looking for something in the rocks that form a wall on our property line in Brush Prairie, WA.

When we first went out with our neighbors, we didn't see anything, but the deer wouldn't leave our yard. We went back to our house and watched; after a few minutes the deer came back.

We went out to the area the deer was concentrating on and could hear a baby fawn crying in the rocks. We moved some of the rocks and smaller
boulders and saw a baby fawn's face in the rocks. He had apparently fallen in one of the gaps and was now trapped. The larger boulders were too heavy to move, and we didn't want the rocks cave in on the baby deer.

We called our Clark County Fire District 3. The B Shift team came out; they were able to move the larger rocks out of the way with the Jaws of Life enough to be able to reach in a pull the baby fawn out and reunite it with its momma. The fawn, maybe stuck in there most of the night, quickly went to nurse its momma.

One of our neighbors took some video clips of the fire department's rescue. I edited the clips into this short clip. After sharing it with some friends they thought that it was just too cute not to share with more people; my neighbor agreed to let me upload it.





3:57 minutes



http://WWW.wimp.Com/fawnrescued/


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[Azraele]

D'awwwww.

 

[JTsyo]

Guess it's good practice for the fire department.

 

[brblx]

'just gotta tweak this rock a little more...little more pressure on the ram, jim!

....annnd....yep, we crushed it to death'

 

[Eos]

Is parental rejection by animals after human contact a myth?

I wonder if the animal is confused by what's going on. Especially the doe.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[JTsyo]

Is parental rejection by animals after human contact a myth?

I wonder if the animal is confused by what's going on. Especially the doe.

Think that's for birds and their nests.

 

[Texashiker]

That is a pretty awesome video.

 

[SandEagle]

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i hate you. this has rooined my morning.

 

[Linflas]

Is parental rejection by animals after human contact a myth?

I wonder if the animal is confused by what's going on. Especially the doe.

Yes it is a myth. Straight from a former wildlife hotline volunteer "if a bird falls from a nest and you re-nest it the mother will not abandon it because you touched it....if a fledgeling is hopping around you should only put it in a secure spot away from cats 'cause although it appears to be alone it really isn't, also bunnies are left unattended for hours at a time". A lot of times babies that appear to be abandoned really aren't and in cases where a human needs to step in and help it won't stop the parent from taking care of them.

 

[ViviTheMage]

niice

 

[Jeff7]

Yes it is a myth. Straight from a former wildlife hotline volunteer "if a bird falls from a nest and you re-nest it the mother will not abandon it because you touched it....if a fledgeling is hopping around you should only put it in a secure spot away from cats 'cause although it appears to be alone it really isn't, also bunnies are left unattended for hours at a time". A lot of times babies that appear to be abandoned really aren't and in cases where a human needs to step in and help it won't stop the parent from taking care of them.

And I think that some birds don't really have much of a sense of smell. It probably depends on the kind of bird. I'd expect something like a vulture to have a good sense of smell, for homing in on a delectably rancid meal.

 

[Nintendesert]

I was waiting for the BANG! at least that's what Disney taught me.

 

[Miramonti]

Haven't finished the vid yet, looks like they're cutting it in pieces to remove from under rocks.

 

[JTsyo]

Haven't finished the vid yet, looks like they're cutting it in pieces to remove from under rocks.

Jaws of life