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An hr ago I was in my room with my Macaw parked on my chest, I was on the computer when I got asked to come out in the front yard, theres a fawn stuck in the neighbors cattle gate.
The guy from the roofing company saw the front half of the fawn sticking between the 10' long cattle gate & the post its mounted on & he had asked to get me to come out & help it. I met him when he was here a wk or so ago. He did take a dog blanket he had in his truck & covered its head to try & calm it down. The fawn is only a few wks old & it wedged itself in that 6" space & the ends of the heavy wire punctured its side just at where the stomach starts & the ribs end. It had rubbed a hand sized raw spot & it had 2 1/8' wires sticking into its side. I had to push the side of it in & pull the wires out & bend them 180*, then take an industrial-sized crescent wrench & back the 2) nuts off of the hinge mounts & beat them back thru the post while Dustin the roofer lifted & pulled the heavy gate away from the post. Me beating on the mounts sent the poor thing into a panic ( which is why the first thing I did was to get the wires that punctured its side out of it so no more serious or fatal damage got done when it started panicking while we were trying to free it . Damn glad its not my first time doin a deer or fawn rescue ) and as soon as it felt a release in pressure it got its rear hips thru & took off for the pine thicked 20yds away. I wasn't in a position where I could have grabbed it to inspect the damage further to see how bad it really was.
I didn't take pics bc when I got out to it, & I saw the situation that baby was in, to just stand there like an ass & take pics at it stuck, injured, & scared, was NOT the right thing to do.
I know that it didn't go very far before it laid down waiting for momma to show back up. There are a few does with fawns on the property regularly, one doe has 2 fawns.
I just hope that no intestines got punctured & that momma shows up to protect it before the Yotes show up for an easy snack.
Soooo that was fun, now its back to the computer, my bird & my coffee.
The guy from the roofing company saw the front half of the fawn sticking between the 10' long cattle gate & the post its mounted on & he had asked to get me to come out & help it. I met him when he was here a wk or so ago. He did take a dog blanket he had in his truck & covered its head to try & calm it down. The fawn is only a few wks old & it wedged itself in that 6" space & the ends of the heavy wire punctured its side just at where the stomach starts & the ribs end. It had rubbed a hand sized raw spot & it had 2 1/8' wires sticking into its side. I had to push the side of it in & pull the wires out & bend them 180*, then take an industrial-sized crescent wrench & back the 2) nuts off of the hinge mounts & beat them back thru the post while Dustin the roofer lifted & pulled the heavy gate away from the post. Me beating on the mounts sent the poor thing into a panic ( which is why the first thing I did was to get the wires that punctured its side out of it so no more serious or fatal damage got done when it started panicking while we were trying to free it . Damn glad its not my first time doin a deer or fawn rescue ) and as soon as it felt a release in pressure it got its rear hips thru & took off for the pine thicked 20yds away. I wasn't in a position where I could have grabbed it to inspect the damage further to see how bad it really was.
I didn't take pics bc when I got out to it, & I saw the situation that baby was in, to just stand there like an ass & take pics at it stuck, injured, & scared, was NOT the right thing to do.
I know that it didn't go very far before it laid down waiting for momma to show back up. There are a few does with fawns on the property regularly, one doe has 2 fawns.
I just hope that no intestines got punctured & that momma shows up to protect it before the Yotes show up for an easy snack.
Soooo that was fun, now its back to the computer, my bird & my coffee.