This morning at about 11:00 I went outside and noticed a female white-tail deer right between my pasture and the neighbor's, about 100 feet away from me. I didn't think much of it as we have deer all over the place and it is not uncommon to see them during the day.
About a half hour later the doe was back, and she seemed stressed. Then Rusty (my horse) started blowing and acting alarmed. I saw a tiny little baby fawn fall out of the tall grass and into the horse pasture. I didnt want anything to happen to it but I didnt want to touch it either.
I heard hoofbeats and I looked to see Rusty racing towards the fawn, the momma deer took off, fearing for her own safety. I ran out into the pasture and screamed at him, but he didn't stop. A known small animal chaser I knew if he reached the fawn he would kill it. I ran as fast as I could and reached the fawn just as he did. I didnt want to touch it but he lifted his hoof to stomp it so I had no choice, I snatched the tiny baby from beneath him and chased him off.
With a tiny fawn in my arms I walked from the pasture and out of danger. I didn't see the momma deer anywhere. The little baby was a buck and had the prettiest little head and the biggest blue eyes I had ever seen (I don't know if the eyes were supposed to be blue but they were).
Momma came back several times but each time I tried to return the baby she took off. I even tried to leave it by itself where I could see it but she still wouldn't come get it. I was afraid that if she smelled people on the little buck she would either abandon or even worse, kill him.
I was thinking of where I had put the numbers for the wildlife rehabilitator when the momma came back again. The baby began to call and the momma came closer. I took him out to the woods again and backed off, way off. This time the momma walked all the way up to the baby without taking off. I watched nervously, hoping she would take him back and not kill him. Gee I wish I didn't have to touch him!
She bagan to talk to him and lick him, I breathed a big sigh of releif. I sat and watched momma and baby wander off in the woods until I couldn't see them anymore.
