Dogs best friend

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A lady found the fawn under her step (they think the doe might have been hit by a car) .. her Ridge Back dog is helping look after it. The family named the fawn Bella. Once she has regained her strength (she was not in good shape when the family found her) they are going to send her to some friends who (in the past) raised two orphan deer and released them to the wild. Right now she is being bottle fed. Their dog (Hogan) has basically taken over. The fawn even shares his bed.
 

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Nice doggy.The hard facts are that if the fawn becomes acustomed to people it would lose it's fear of humans,not a good thing for a deer.It could survive in the wild if it were released in a timely manner,in an area less inhabited and relativly free from large predaters.

Deer become domesticated very easily.I've told the story of a yearling that was bottle fed in Knox county Ohio.It stayed with the sheep,never jumped the relatively low fence.
During hunting season they put an orange vest thing on it so there wouldn't be a dumb mistake made by some over eager hunter.I saw it with my own eyes.As far as I know the deer was never shot at by a hunter but how the story ended I haven't a clue.
 
How long was it sitting outside for? I have seen it twice where fawns sat on my property all day,the mother came back in the evening to get them. I believe it is common for the mother to leave the young behind while they go off to forage.

Those are some great pics.
 
There was an article in the paper recently where a minature shetland pony (full grown is about the size of an average dog) was "adopted" by soem dogs after its mother died while givign birth. The pony learnt to fetch sticks, bark at the postman and roll over to have its tummy tickled!
 
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